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On July 18, 2024, Travis Morrell, Daniel Turner, Karen Levine, and Leslie Manookian joined the show. Morrell details how 150 medical students overturned a physician vote against pediatric gender interventions, exposing WPATH’s influence on medical training and the urgent need for Protect Kids Colorado’s ballot initiatives Turner analyzes the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling ending 40 years of bureaucratic overreach, connecting regulatory abuse from the EPA to.

Supreme Court Ruling Strips Power from Unelected Bureaucrats

Start listening at 34:18 – Hour 1

Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of Power the Future, breaks down the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Chevron deference doctrine. For over four decades, federal agencies wielded interpretive authority over vague congressional language, allowing unelected bureaucrats to create rules on everything from air quality standards to restaurant mask requirements. Turner explains that energy companies could never operate in an environment where tomorrow a bureaucrat come and says this is now the new rule and you have to shut down.

The ruling forces Congress to clarify ambiguous laws rather than delegating interpretation to agencies like the EPA or CDC. Turner connects this directly to the COVID-era chaos where Dr. Fauci mandated six-foot distancing rules later admitted to be fabricated. He recalls then-Senator Barack Obama’s 2007 promise to bankrupt coal mines through regulatory harassment rather than legislation, calling it a really vicious way to look at government and a really cowardly way to govern.

“This is not just about oil and gas and coal. Think about this applied to so many other industries. Most recently, think about it to COVID, where suddenly there’s a rule that says, if you walk into this restaurant, you must wear a mask. Well, I never saw a law passed upon that.”

Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director, Power the Future

Medical Students Hijack Vote on Child Gender Procedures

Start listening at 19:40 – Hour 1

Dr. Travis Morrell reveals how over 150 medical students brigaded a Colorado Medical Society vote on gender-affirming care for minors. Morrell had submitted a policy labeling puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for children as mutilation based on evidence, not ideology. Initially, most voting physicians agreed with him, but a last-minute flood of student votes reversed the outcome.

Morrell traces the problem to WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which he describes as an activist organization making consensus-based recommendations rather than following scientific evidence. The Cass Review from the UK has since validated his concerns about the lack of rigorous evidence supporting pediatric gender interventions. Morrell urges listeners to support Protect Kids Colorado’s ballot initiatives requiring parental notification when schools socially transition children.

“What was a surprise was that just in the last few days of voting, more than 150 medical students kind of piled on or brigaded the vote. And actually, it ended up not passing. So that was disappointing, I think, from the standpoint of protecting kids and practicing evidence-based medicine.”

Dr. Travis Morrell, Protect Kids Colorado

Mom-and-Pop Landlords Flee Colorado’s Hostile Policies

Start listening at 65:34 – Hour 2

Karen Levine, RE/MAX award-winning realtor, explains how tenant-landlord legislation is driving small investors out of Colorado’s rental market. Levine shares her personal strategy of building wealth through rental properties, which funded her stepdaughter’s college education. However, successive laws stripping property owner rights have made the investment model increasingly untenable for individual investors.

As mom-and-pop landlords sell, institutional Wall Street investors swoop in to purchase properties at scale. Levine notes that subsidized apartment developments receive streamlined approvals and financial incentives unavailable to individual property owners. Despite these headwinds, she reports encouraging signs in the market with price reductions creating buyer opportunities and interest rates improving slightly.

“And personally, that was our strategy in buying a couple of single-family homes and a couple of townhome condominiums for the ability to have tenants that paid the rents, which then bought us the property.”

Karen Levine, RE/MAX Realtor

Ninth Circuit Delivers Historic Blow to Vaccine Mandates

Start listening at 74:51 – Hour 2

Leslie Manookian, founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund, announces a landmark victory against the Los Angeles Unified School District’s COVID vaccine mandate. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the CDC’s claims of safe and effective deserve no automatic deference, directly challenging 119 years of Jacobson v. Massachusetts precedent used to justify vaccine mandates.

Manookian details how LAUSD twice manipulated court jurisdiction by rescinding mandates when challenged, only to reinstate them after cases were dismissed. This time, the court saw through the tactic, writing that LAUSD should receive no benefit of the doubt. The ruling establishes controlling law across nine western states: medical interventions benefiting only the recipient cannot be mandated. Attorneys nationwide call it a legal earthquake.

“Safe and effective for what? And then they wrote that CDC doesn’t deserve, like they’re not just going to take CDC at its word. CDC does not just deserve deference just because it’s CDC.”

Leslie Manookian, Founder, Health Freedom Defense Fund