Protecting the Dollar and Defending Constitutional Rights

On July 31, 2025, Kim Monson welcomes banker Jay Davidson to break down how Federal Reserve monetary policy has eroded the dollar’s purchasing power by 97 percent since 1913. Later, Second Syndicate co-founders Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins expose the accelerating assault on Second Amendment rights in Colorado and across the nation.

Federal Reserve Failures and Dollar Devaluation

Start listening at 22:57 – Hour 1

Jay Davidson, founder and CEO of First American State Bank, exposes the devastating consequences of the Federal Reserve’s 112-year failure to maintain the dollar’s purchasing power. Davidson traces the dollar’s 97 percent decline in value since the Fed’s 1913 creation, explaining how Richard Nixon’s 1971 decision to abandon the gold standard opened the floodgates to unlimited money printing.

The real damage, Davidson argues, came during the Obama administration when the Fed, under Chairman Ben Bernanke, launched quantitative easing. The program injected $9 trillion into an $18 trillion economy, a 50 percent increase in money supply that directly caused today’s persistent inflation. Davidson emphasizes that current high interest rates cannot solve this inflation because the root cause is excess dollars, not supply and demand imbalances.

Davidson connects federal monetary mismanagement to local debt crises, noting Denver’s proposed $935 million bond measure as an example of government at all levels saddling citizens with obligations they never approved. He calls on citizens to demand accountability and reject new debt at every level of government.

“For every dollar that’s printed in excess of that needed to liquefy the economy, to provide liquidity for the economy, that dollar devalues every other dollar in existence. And that’s the reason that we’re experiencing inflation today.”

Jay Davidson, Founder and CEO, First American State Bank

Second Amendment Under Siege in Colorado

Start listening at 69:41 – Hour 2

Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins, co-founders of the Second Syndicate, detail Colorado’s systematic erosion of gun rights that began in 2013 with magazine capacity restrictions and has escalated through three-day waiting periods and SB003’s effective semi-automatic ban. The new law requires three days of training, state fees, and a license to purchase common rifles like the AR-15.

Garcia exposes how Colorado’s $3 million Office of Gun Violence Prevention manipulates statistics, counting self-inflicted deaths as gun violence to inflate numbers and justify further restrictions. The office now partners with Let’s Talk About Guns to train doctors, teachers, and mental health professionals to report patients who own firearms, creating a surveillance apparatus under the guise of public health.

Collins points to the Manhattan shooting as evidence that strict gun laws fail. Despite New York’s near-total prohibition on AR-15s and body armor, a criminal obtained both and attacked a building housing NFL headquarters. Colorado now ranks second in violence and third in gun control, he notes, demonstrating that disarming law-abiding citizens empowers criminals rather than deterring them.

“The more laws we have infringing on the rights of the people to defend themselves, the more of a free-for-all it becomes to violent offenders.”

Alicia Garcia, Co-Founder, Second Syndicate

Local Government Overreach and Zoning Wars

Start listening at 05:37 – Hour 1

Karen Gordey, owner of Radiant Painting and Lighting and candidate for Lakewood City Council, sounds the alarm on a nationwide push to rewrite local zoning codes. She discovered buried in Lakewood’s 398-page zoning document provisions that would regulate porch sizes, planter dimensions, and home square footage, effectively turning city government into a mandatory homeowners association.

Gordey notes the push for high-density development without infrastructure to support it, threatening existing property rights through water shortages and parking elimination. The coordinated nature of these zoning changes across states from Colorado to Wisconsin to New Jersey suggests a national agenda rather than organic local policy evolution.

“Buried in the 398-page zoning code is they want to, the government essentially is becoming the HOA in that they want to limit things like the size of your front porch, the size of your planter. That’s not the proper role of government.”

Karen Gordey, Owner, Radiant Painting and Lighting