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https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/10/21/dexter-taylor-speaks-out-from-prison-while-serving-10-years-for-exercising-second-amendment-rights-n2180885

Dexter Taylor Speaks Out From Prison While Serving 10 Years for Exercising Second Amendment Rights Dexter Taylor is a 52-year-old software engineer and father from Brooklyn, New York who is currently

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation letter accidentally reveals something much bigger than her own exit: our elections are controlled by party machines, not voters.

Read past the drama and you see the real admission — she’s leaving because she can’t survive her own party’s primary. Not because her district rejected her. Not because voters decided anything. Because the internal party machinery — donors, factions, consultants, party leadership — made her position untenable.

This happens in both parties.
The “Political Industrial Complex,” as she calls it, isn’t wrong — but she misses the most important part: the entire system is built around closed, taxpayer-funded party primaries that give private organizations control over who the public is even allowed to vote for.

Republicans and Democrats are private clubs.
Yet we spend billions in public dollars each cycle to run their internal loyalty contests.

If parties want primaries, they can pay for them. Hold them in a VFW hall. Use Zoom. Do whatever private organizations do.

But stop forcing taxpayers to bankroll a system that:

• Protects incumbents
• Punishes dissent
• Blocks independents and third parties
• Narrows voter choice before voters ever see a ballot
• Turns elections into cartel-controlled gatekeeping

Her resignation makes the problem obvious: representatives don’t fear the voters — they fear the party.

It’s time to abolish publicly funded primaries altogether. No more taxpayer money spent running closed elections for private political clubs.

American elections belong to the people, not the parties.

— Lars Mapstead

It’s easy to see inflation as just rising prices—but the real impact runs much deeper.

Over time, printing more money doesn’t just make things cost more. It chips away at the value of what families have worked hard to earn and save. And all the while, those closest to the levers of power tend to benefit.

This isn’t a new story. It’s a historical pattern—and one that young people rarely get the chance to explore.

That’s why more families are turning to resources that teach kids to understand the why behind what’s happening around them. When we learn the truth about inflation, we’re less likely to be manipulated by it.

Explore the history behind the headlines:
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“Life should be fair!”

Cool. While we’re at it, I’d like lions to go vegan and gravity to chill out.
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It's absolutely theft