Border Security Failures, Election Integrity, and Government Accountability

Kim Monson examined critical threats to American freedom on Jan. 13, 2023, featuring discussions on border security failures enabling human trafficking, the real threats to democracy beyond Jan. 6, and groundbreaking election integrity technology. Frederick Douglass’s words opened the show: “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”

Border Policies Enabling Modern-Day Slavery

Start listening at 17:34 – Hour 1

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, joined Kim to discuss her New York Post article “Biden’s Border Policies Facilitate Shocking Modern-Day Slavery.” Vaughn explained how chaos at the border enables both sex trafficking and forced labor trafficking. Migrants pay down payments to smuggling organizations, then are connected with criminal networks in the United States that force them to work in low-wage jobs for pittance wages while living in squalid conditions.

Vaughn described minors being put into domestic servitude, working in factories making auto parts for major car companies like Kia and Hyundai, and cases of children not being enrolled in school. She contrasted legal immigration practices of the past with today’s criminal smuggling operations, noting that President Biden inherited the most secure border in U.S. history but now faces a mass migration crisis with 7,000 or 8,000 people crossing illegally each day.

“I’ve seen cases of migrants working in restaurants from 7 a.m. to 11 at night for like $3 an hour, living packed together in squalid apartments and told that, you know, they have to do this to pay off the debt, which in reality will never be paid.”

— Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies

Vaughn explained that the Trump administration’s DNA testing program successfully deterred fake families at the border but was discontinued by the Biden administration. She emphasized that Americans in communities ultimately have to deal with the consequences of failed border policies.

Cell Phone Tracking and Election Integrity

Start listening at 69:57 – Hour 2

Greg Phillips, co-founder of True the Vote, explained the groundbreaking cell phone tracking technology featured in the documentary “2000 Mules.” His team purchased 10 trillion cell phone pings from Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, then used geospatial analysis to identify individuals visiting ballot drop boxes 10 or more times. Phillips explained that phones have four to eight unique device IDs that are stamped with location, altitude, and time, creating a pattern of life that can be analyzed.

This same technology is used by the U.S. military and was employed by the FBI to investigate Jan. 6 protesters. Phillips announced True the Vote’s new device launching the following week that would protect patriots, families, law enforcement and judges from being tracked. He emphasized that election integrity work represents the plight of the patriot in a representative republic, requiring eternal vigilance to maintain free and fair elections.

“Your phones have anywhere from four to eight unique device IDs. And those IDs are stamped, if you’re on an app like the Weather app or Facebook, whatever, you name it, there’s 360,000 apps that gather this information. and they send out signals at varying degrees. So the weather app might send out a signal every two seconds. There are other apps that send them out every 50 seconds. But what’s in that signal is your unique device ID, who you are. It stamps where you are on the earth, how high above the earth you are, so the altitude, but it also stamps the time.”

— Greg Phillips, Co-founder, True the Vote

Phillips discussed how Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life damaged election integrity in 2020, and revealed another $100 million was invested in 2022 despite promises to stop. He expressed optimism about the new House rules changes achieved through the Speaker fight, calling it a moment when “America worked” through representative republican processes.

Financial Planning and Tax Efficiency

Start listening at 61:31 – Hour 2

Mary Alpers from Three Points Financial discussed increased IRA contribution limits for 2023 and changes to required minimum distribution ages. The maximum limits for IRAs and Roths increased to $6,500 for those under 50 and $7,500 for those over 50. The 401k contribution limits increased from $20,500 to $22,500 if under 50, and up to $30,000 if over 50. The required minimum distribution age for IRAs moved from 72 to 73 for those born in 1951 or later.

“Obviously, the more, you know, saving more, earning more, and spending less will always help you, especially in inflationary times, because we are feeling that and you see that. But there are some positives. And so we work with what is allowed, and we try to find the positives.”

— Mary Alpers, Co-owner, Three Points Financial

Collusion Between Government and Big Tech

Start listening at 32:43 – Hour 1

Dr. Brian Joondeph, a writer for American Thinker, discussed his article “There Certainly Was an Insurrection, But Not by Trump.” He argued that collusion between government and big tech, FBI attempts to influence elections, and suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story constitute a more significant threat to democracy than the Jan. 6 protests. Dr. Joondeph noted that Trump called for peaceful and patriotic voices to be heard at the Capitol, words the Jan. 6 committee omitted from their proceedings.

Capitol Police opened doors and ushered people in, and the FBI admitted to embedding informants in the protests. The discussion also covered the Biden classified documents scandal. Dr. Joondeph highlighted key distinctions: Trump as president had declassification authority while Biden as vice president did not, and Trump’s documents were in a locked room guarded by Secret Service while Biden’s were in a garage and at a college facility.

“We’re still tied up in court on that particular case. But once that once that’s over and the story begins to emerge, Los Angeles County just this week after dropping some of the initial charges, got actually got into the three three hundred terabytes of data that they came in contact with during the arrest. that story’s not even over. So you’re going to start to see some of these little kingdoms begin to, or fiefdoms begin to crumble a little bit here.”

— Dr. Brian Joondeph, Writer, American Thinker

Dr. Joondeph suggested the timing of the classified documents revelations, coming after the midterms, might indicate a Democrat party effort to replace Biden for 2024. He expressed hope that the new Republican House would begin holding investigations and shining light on wrongdoing.