
This July, we’re ripping the mask off government overreach. For 31 days straight, we’ll expose the abuses of power, the bloated bureaucracy, and the creeping tyranny that threatens your liberty every single day. From endless wars to crushing taxes and surveillance-state tactics, it’s time to face the truth: the government isn’t here to protect you—it’s here to control you. Are you ready to break the chains? Join us as we count down and call out the tyranny strangling America, one day at a time.
Number 31: The Minimum Wage
The minimum wage has been used as a tool to buy votes, under the guise of providing a “living wage.” However, what politicians don’t tell you is that every time the minimum wage increases, available job openings for entry level, or low skill positions decrease. Minimum wage laws make large businesses contract, and hurt small businesses even more, who can’t afford to pay wages to hire desperately needed help for start-ups that have razor thin profits, or aren’t even breaking even. Laws passed to impact wages in big cities with high costs of living are forced upon businesses in small towns that can’t possibly afford to pay them. They do not discriminate, they simply mandate.
Number 30: ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)
ESG and the forced adoption of artificial and short-sighted changes led by political and societal activists infringe on the ability of everyday people to live, save, plan and create. When governments try to tackle environmental or social issues (which is hypocritical, as governments are the largest polluters), they use a punishing approach that rarely, if ever, solves the problem before it’s naturally been replaced with a better option. However, these punishments are long lasting, and devastating to emergent economies, as well as crushing to businesses reliant on older systems that are working to evolve.
Number 29: NATO
Washington politicians claim NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is a “defensive alliance,” utilized to keep the peace. However, history proves it has only fanned the flames of conflict and aggression. NATO endangers Americans at home, embroiling us in foreign conflicts with no benefit (and great financial burden), while costing the lives of U.S. soldiers abroad in undeclared wars. It’s time to stop the war machine and abolish NATO.
Number 28: Encroachment on Parental Rights
- Rights of families, and the existence of family units are under threat from a government bent on becoming the new patriarch. This means dividing families through unjust laws, subsidizing broken families through perverse incentives that keep them in socioeconomic stasis, and pitting family members against each other. Strong individuals are often formed through strong families. Strong families make strong communities that are resilient, independent, and supportive of each other.
Number 27: The Justice System
The U.S. Justice System is a broken, two-tiered failure. The average American unwittingly commits three felonies a day, under criminal laws which punish someone who has not infringed upon the physical body or outer property rights of another, or who has not made an imminent threat of physical harm with impending action. With the elimination of victimless crime laws, police would be fully focused on crimes with actual victims, such as robbery, rape, fraud, and murder. These crimes DO infringe on people’s bodies and property rights, and should rightfully be addressed in law. Not only will this make our society safer, it will keep families together.
Number 26: Foreign Aid
Foreign Aid has been sold to the American population as both a humanitarian necessity, and also as a conduit to better relations with nations abroad in order to bring peace and prosperity at home. The truth, as recently exposed by the numerous scandals, regime change operations, and lost or misappropriated funds in USAID, has proven otherwise. When U.S. foreign aid isn’t detrimentally impacting foreign economies and people, it’s being used to fund bombing campaigns by foreign governments. For every penny spent (and for which U.S. citizens have no say) there is an equal chance of funding food, or endangering our population by funding yet another failed regime change. End all foreign aid for good.
Number 25: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to be a boon for humanity by making breakthroughs in science, medicine, space travel and endless other industries infinitely more possible. It also has the potential to “get out of the box” of our making and enslave humanity. However, enslavement via AI may not need a robot revolution. Governments worldwide are already utilizing AI to curate what we read and respond to, to censor content, to track our movements, to monitor our expenses, and much more. We do not demand that AI research and evolution be stopped, but that government usage of these tools be severely limited, and with deep oversight.
Number 24: DEI / Discrimination Policy and Hate Speech Legislation
DEI was sold as a concept pursuing equality, but what has instead permeated government, academia, and corporate HR departments is an abusive application of Marxism matched with racism. DEI undermines meritocracy in exchange for failed pursuits of equity, damaging every institution and industry it touches. The application of DEI became precedent as dictated by the previous administration, and similar to hate speech legislation, was weaponized and expanded in its definition to target individuals for persecution. End DEI. End Hate Speech Legislation.
Number 23: AIPAC
The United States undertook an act of war against Iran just weeks ago, against the wishes and interests of the American people, because of the influence of foreign governments on our supposed representatives in Congress. AIPAC wields an unacceptable amount of influence over U.S. policy decisions on behalf of Israel. Not only in matters of war, but in matters of our taxes spent and allocated abroad, and domestically in threats to our First Amendment rights, via proposed bills to fine, or jail, our citizens for daring to voice opposition to Israeli actions or policy. Captive representatives “of the people” mean we have no representation at all.
Number 22: Weaponized Banking & Deplatforming
The weaponization of banking and information services has already been evidenced in numerous ways, ensnaring the likes of Alex Jones, Nigel Farage, the Canadian Truckers protest, and even President Donald Trump. While public outrage has beaten the beast back into its cage somewhat (with several banking institutions rescinding lending or banking policies targeting individuals who partook in unpopular speech, or purchased firearms) there still exists the strong inclination for government actors to pressure financial and service entities to attack their political and cultural enemies. Diversification of banking and finance through cryptocurrency, and blockchain-based information systems, must be adopted to protect our freedom to trade, bank and broadcast.
Number 21: Propaganda
Propaganda has become an ever-present part of everyday life, insidiously worming its way into everything we consume. As witnessed during the Covid pandemic, governments the world over conspired with “fact checkers” to lie to the public, misrepresenting basic science, research and evidence. We are routinely lied into wars, by cheering media and academics, while paid operatives attack dissent on social platforms. Propaganda has warped our world, and in the social era, is as great a danger as it was in the days of Operation Mockingbird.
Number 20: Captured Media
While propaganda takes on many forms, none is as effective at reaching specific sectors of the population as Captured Media: corporate / mainstream media outlets that purport to be neutral entities that are, in fact, working hand-in-hand with the government. “News” outlets, which are trusted more by older generational groups, have routinely been captured and embedded by intelligence agencies, which feed stories, provide sources, and as recently revealed by the audit of USAID, are funded in the millions by the U.S. Government. There is no mention of these conflicts of interest, there are no footnotes or “sponsored by” messages. Just the facade of truth, as manufactured by U.S. intelligence.
Number 19: Regulations
The Regulatory State both strangles established businesses, while also driving new and emerging businesses out of industries they should be challenging. Regulations are a punishment handed down by the State, almost always created by activists or lobbyists. Regulations are estimated to have a negative impact on U.S. businesses that exceeds $2T per year, with an additional 20% cost to businesses with 50 employees or fewer. Why? Because large firms leverage cronyism on Capitol Hill to create onerous and expensive regulatory compliance to slow or drive competitors out of the industry. End the Regulatory State.
Number 18: Inflation
Inflation is the secret tax that politicians adore, typically added in small “acceptable” increments to Keynesian economists, that slowly robs populations of their purchasing power and personal financial stability.
The Federal Reserve allows this assault on the currency, in order to fund wars, foreign nations, welfare programs, and a massive ever-expanding army of corporate government workers with allegiance to the system that sustains them, all while undermining our ability to spend, save, and plan for the future.
Number 17: Government Education
The U.S. education system is dominated by state-run, and federally managed power brokers who are beholden to unionized ideologues that have no interest or incentive to let new ideas, customized solutions or threats to their power exist.
No sane person would demand less choice, especially when it comes to the future for their children. No sane person would demand continued failure, yet that’s exactly what the federal public schools system has delivered.
The brightest future for America’s children lies at the end of an endless prism of educational choices, not a factory churning out one low standard of failure.
Number 16: Domestic Spying
The 4th Amendment of the Constitution exists to protect the population from unreasonable search or seizure by the U.S. Government. Yet, this has been violated countless times and exposed publicly in 2013 by Edward Snowden during the Obama Administration, with its PRISM program, which illegally collected data from millions of innocent and unknowing Americans.
FISA courts rubber-stamp secret surveillance with no warrant, conscience or oversight, at a rate of over 99%, and Section 702 (a remnant of the Patriot Act) continues to be renewed in violation of every U.S. citizen’s basic rights by both major political parties. If you are surveilled, you are not free. You are always a suspect. You can be taken at any time.
Number 15: Assault on Property Rights
All human rights exist within the context of property rights, and the incessant drum of governmental assaults against those rights has become deafening. Whether it is your home being threatened via taxation, the removal of your ability to protect yourself and your family, control of what enters your body, or having your assets forcibly removed, property rights have become a secondhand concept under our current system. Property rights are human rights and must be protected at all costs.
Number 14: The War on Drugs
The War on Drugs is a war on all of us. Drug offenses are the leading cause of arrest in the United States, with over 1 million arrests in 2020 for possession alone. Some 2.5 million people are incarcerated in the U.S. for drug crimes, which is 1-in-5 people in the prison population. The War on Drugs has also specifically been used to target minorities and break up civil rights groups, while violating the basic 4th and 5th Amendment rights of millions. And in the deepest of ironies, the WoD is utilized by those in power to underwrite illegal actions and curry favor with criminal factions, circumventing the checks on government aggression. End the War on Drugs.
Number 13: The Welfare State
The Welfare State presents threats on many levels. The Welfare State, in regards to the poor, has failed miserably, maintaining poverty levels despite exponential spending, while presenting a gilded cage to those embedded in it, who maintain more benefits in broken families than they do in reconciliation. The Welfare State architects consistently expand its scope, to the extent that 1 in 3 Americans receives some sort of government handout. The other, perhaps even darker side of the Welfare State is that of corporate welfare, or cronyism, that hampers economic growth, excuses failure (“Too Big to Fail”), and confuses the masses as to what actual capitalism is vs. crony capitalism. Individual Welfare was handled by private charity and communities for decades. It should be again. Corporate Welfare is a blight on America and should be abolished in every form.
Number 12: Fiat Currency
Throughout the history of civilization, failing empires have relied on the ability to decouple currency from any tangible measure to fund expansion, debt, and mismanagement. The United States is no different. Not only does fiat currency remove responsible economics from governance, it also removes public and market consent or input into the value of their goods and efforts. It destroys saving and investment, and rewards short-term gain for bankers and politicians for long-term punishment of the population, which is passed down to generations to come. To prevent the decline of our nation and the liberty that comes with it, fiat currency must be ended.
Number 11: Crony Capitalism
“Capitalism” is used as a pejorative in large part because the uneducated confuse what is in reality Crony Capitalism, with the universal good that is uncaptured Capitalism.
Capitalism lifts people out of poverty, fosters innovation, and brings about abundance and prosperity. Crony Capitalism, the system under which the U.S. and other supposedly “free market” nations operate, where regulatory capture and lobbyist control of industries vastly alter opportunities and outcomes, provides the exact opposite.
Crony Capitalism must be rooted out and eradicated at all levels. Not only for the evil it does in the market, but for the evil it presents to the progress and appreciation of true Capitalism.
Number 10: Second Amendment Rights Under Attack
Guns are not a problem in America. Culture, over-reliance on police, and barriers to gun ownership for non-violent persons are problems. Americans, in decades past, had more households with guns than today, and mass gun violence was lower. Gun ownership is not the problem.
Yet we see continued assaults on the 2nd Amendment, and the reason is clear: a disarmed populace is easy to control. Look to Europe, Australia, and China, where authoritarian governments have disarmed the people, then jailed them for wrongthink, and placed them in camps because they didn’t vaccinate during the Covid-19 lockdowns, among other injustices.
Freedom is never a given. Words on paper assuring rights and restrictions on government pale in comparison to a population with the ability to fight for their personal and property rights, and to keep their government in check.
Number 9: Lack of Due Process
Due Process is another supposed right promised to Americans in the Constitution that has been violated throughout generations. McCarthyism during the Red Scare, Obama’s declaration that “enemy combatants” at home or abroad could be detained and held without trial (and U.S. citizens murdered during the War on Terror), abuses of U.S. FISA courts to surveil and imprison, and the detention and deportation of immigrants in 2025… the list goes on.
If a State can arrest, spy upon, detain, deny hearings or trial, and murder the people within its reach, it is tyranny, not governance.
Number 8: The Two Party System
In Orwell’s cautionary novel 1984, the world is dominated by separate powers constantly at war. They alter why, what, and who, but are always at odds and pitting the Earth’s populace against one another. To pretend that the two-party system, which dominates the U.S., functions in any other way is to deny reality.
Americans are publicly entranced by shows of conflict between the GOP and DNC on surface issues. At the same time, the greatest assaults on liberty and stability proceed with no resistance from either. They conspire to make third-party access to debates, ballots, media, and other functions of what many inaccurately refer to as a “democracy” virtually impossible to attain.
And every few years, we’re treated to a desperate call to arms because “This is the most important election of our lifetime,” as dictated by the two-party elite, and thus voting for anyone else would be suicide. Actual suicide for America is the two-party system, and they have proven it time and time again.
Number 7: The Deep State / Embedded Bureaucracy
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” This adequately describes the underbelly of government, which is the Deep State and embedded bureaucracy, that remains virtually unchanged despite figureheads rotating in and out.
These functionaries have their own plans, ambitions, and defenses against removal, as evidenced by the new infamous “Russiagate” scandal that showcased the potency of the Deep State to derail entire presidencies.
The rot at the root of government begins with an embedded bureaucracy, which, above all, exists to perpetuate itself, with little regard for the damage it causes to the nation as a whole or its population.
Number 6: Executive Power
Congress, with very few exceptions, is rife with cowards, sycophants and captured representatives who have been content to bleed the control they are supposed to wield away into expansion of presidential powers.
Executive Powers have been expanded, abused, and forgiven by opportunistic members of the two-party system, content to destroy checks on power in the name of short-term gains. Executive Power has been used to murder, declare war, imprison citizens, raise havoc in economies and much more, with little appetite shown by Congress to rein in the madness that a President can exhibit.
A nation on the brink of totalitarian rule is a nation with no checks on its ruler.
Number 5: The Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve, like all central banks throughout world history, exists to prop up the interests of empire, bankers, and politicians at the detriment of the population through the printing of fiat currency outside of the Constitution or transparent oversight.
As Dr. Ron Paul famously said to inspire a generation, we must “End the Fed,” to end the robbery of U.S. citizens that funds war, cronyism, foreign intervention, debt, tax slavery, and the constantly bloating army of government workers and programs.
It is not only through the printing of money that the Federal Reserve assaults the population, but also through the manipulation of interest rates, creating ripple effects in virtually every aspect of our economy, advantaging lenders while crippling the rest.
To start America back on the path to prosperity, we must End the Fed.
Number 4: Taxation
In 1913, U.S. citizens were formally conscripted to pay federal income taxes with the creation of the 16th Amendment, a “Declaration of War” by Taxation upon the population. This act, combined with the creation of the Federal Reserve, would enable the smallest government to quickly become the largest in the world, based on theft from its working populace.
To say that taxation is the government’s primary operating measure for compliance is an understatement. The population is extorted, then threatened with imprisonment for noncompliance, by virtue of the State’s monopoly on violence.
Taxes not directly stolen are applied through sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, sin taxes, and so on, in too many varieties of abuse to properly count. And yet, it is never enough. Taxation is extortion. Taxation is theft. The State’s addiction to taxation is a universal harm that crushes individuals while drastically speeding the downfall of America.
Number 3: The War State / Military Industrial Complex
The evils of taxation and central banking (The Fed) exist to prop up the interests of the military-industrial complex. The first tax in the U.S. was to pay for war, and the ongoing pillaging of American wages, as well as the debasement of the Dollar, are at the whims of the War State.
America was founded on the principle of non-intervention, the eschewing of temptations to enter foreign conflicts, and for trade and commerce to be the calling card of the nation. However, as that foundation led to prosperity, corruption in the political class, infiltration by bankers and military contractors, and the hunger for empire dictated a new policy of constant war.
Not only is war expensive, but it is utilized as both a cudgel of fear on the masses to gain compliance and acceptance of thievery, as a tool of propaganda, as a tool of mass censorship, and as an excuse to tread with heavy and unretreating steps on the rights we are supposedly assured of.
Number 2: Threats to Free Speech / Censorship
The 1st Amendment and its guarantee of free speech is the most vital of all rights. Free markets, free thinking, and free association all depend on the freedom to speak and interact openly. Free speech is the most dangerous of all rights to those in power, and those who aspire to be, because of these facts.
Governments the world over attempt to control speech, openly, secretly, and through persuasion in order to control and dominate populations. But the threat of government censorship is equalled by the base urges of factions within the citizenry who understand that to win their arguments, there must be no dissent, nor debate.
The heckler’s veto, use of fear or “safety” to inspire government crackdowns on speech, and pressure on 3rd parties outside of government to bend the knee to authoritarian control are all prominent in our society, and ever-present dangers.
Free people must have free speech if they are to stay free.
Number 1: Government Debt
Government Debt is a multi-generational curse, imposed by unscrupulous political actors on a population that has been misled into believing it is a fleeting issue. Divided, the $37 trillion U.S. federal debt translates to roughly $108,000 per person. Every citizen is saddled with debt that exceeds the mean national income by $40,000, and it grows larger by the second.
Debt undermines the stability of a nation, the future of its people, and drives countries to war. War is the great equalizer for debt, and has been utilized countless times to default and reset global debts while sacrificing the population on the altar of self-interested elites. It is a tool that will be used again.
Debt is the destruction of freedom, prosperity, and security.
U.S. citizens must refuse to die in the service of a debt that is not ours, and refuse to live in service of that debt as well