On this January 17, 2023 broadcast, Kim Monson examines the consultant class profiting from perpetual Republican defeats in Colorado, celebrates the historic Read the Bill provision adopted by House Republicans, and exposes CDC manipulation tactics regarding vaccine safety data. Former Border Patrol agent Todd Watkins discusses the El Paso County GOP power struggle, Open the Books founder Adam Andrzejewski details the victory for legislative transparency, and Dr. Rachel Corbett reveals how public health agencies use limited hangout techniques to avoid accountability.
Continuing the conversation, Adam Andrzejewski, founder of Open the Books, celebrates a major transparency victory achieved through the 15-vote Speaker of the House battle. The 20 Republican holdouts successfully negotiated the inclusion of a 72-hour Read the Bill provision in the House rules package—the first time in congressional history such a requirement has been adopted.
Andrzejewski explains that Open the Books championed this reform for two years, gathering tens of thousands of petition signatures and making it a centerpiece of speeches from Capitol Hill to the Reagan Ranch. The provision is coupled with single-subject legislation requirements, ending the practice of massive omnibus bills dropped in the middle of the night with votes held before anyone can read them.
“People are sick and tired of the omnibus, minibus, you know, these massive thousands of pages spending bills dropped in the middle of the night. They vote on it the next day and nobody even knows what’s in these things. It’s terrible. The Republicans adopted this. They adopted it in their House rules package for the first time in history.”
— Adam Andrzejewski, Founder, Open the Books
Additional spending reforms include capping discretionary spending at 2022 levels and requiring corresponding spending cuts for any debt ceiling increase. Andrzejewski notes the national debt has risen from under $6 trillion at the start of the George W. Bush administration to over $31 trillion—a fivefold increase in 20 years.
In this segment, Todd Watkins, former U.S. Border Agent and 2022 El Paso County Sheriff candidate, joins Kim to expose how the consultant class profits from keeping Colorado Republicans in perpetual crisis. Watkins explains that grassroots conservatives have filled nearly 100 vacant precinct leader positions since the March 2022 caucus, reducing vacancies from over 200 to approximately 110 out of 646 total positions.
The establishment faction, calling themselves the Peak Republicans, has solicited state GOP chair Christie Burton Brown (KBB) to intervene in local party affairs. KBB has called a meeting for January 31st to potentially appoint an overseer for the February reorganizational meeting and determine the “legally valid list” of precinct committee persons—effectively threatening to disenfranchise nearly 100 newly appointed grassroots leaders.
“Just my own brief experience with Colorado politics, it is evident, it is really clear that being in a constant state of crisis with the party, with conservative values, has kept those lines of funding open. So as long as we’re losing, as long as it’s an imminent threat to our liberties, that’s how they seem to keep the funding going.”
— Todd Watkins, Former U.S. Border Agent
Watkins draws a parallel between the state party’s intervention and Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s removal of Tina Peters from her election duties in Mesa County, warning that allowing governing bodies to assume powers they don’t statutorily possess sets dangerous precedent.
In the second hour, Dr. Rachel Corbett of Roots Medical exposes how the CDC employs “limited hangout” tactics to maintain public trust while concealing the full scope of vaccine safety problems. She references political economist Toby Rogers’ analysis of the CDC’s Friday afternoon announcement before a long holiday weekend—a classic timing strategy for minimizing attention.
Corbett explains that the CDC compared stroke rates from days 0-21 post-vaccination to days 22-42, deliberately avoiding comparison with unvaccinated populations where the true safety signal would emerge. The analysis was limited to people 65 and older, ignoring concerning signals in younger populations including teenagers experiencing strokes.
“This is psychological warfare, is what this is. This is not a battle on the battleground. This is psychological warfare, and it’s so funny because I look, I have a lot of friends who you know, who are ex-military or you know, believe, and they they don’t see that this is a psychological battle. It’s a complete psychological battle.”
— Dr. Rachel Corbett, Roots Medical
As a practitioner trained in neurolinguistic programming, Corbett notes that NLP specialists internationally were among the first to recognize the psychological manipulation tactics being deployed. She urges listeners to support legal challenges through organizations like ICAN, Del Bigtree’s efforts, the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, and Health Freedom Defense Fund, emphasizing that these battles will ultimately be won in the courts.
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