Right to Repair Battles John Deere as Election Integrity Probes Intensify

As the Trump administration advances its first-week agenda, election integrity advocate Peter Bernegger revealed that investigating the 2020 election and cleaning voter rolls nationwide ranks among the administration’s top priorities. Meanwhile, agricultural engineer Kevin Kinney and right to repair advocate Gay Gordon-Byrne exposed how John Deere has transformed from a tractor company into a software company with kill-switch control over American agriculture.

Colorado Legislative Analysis

Wendy Warner, Secretary of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, analyzed several bills moving through the legislature. Senate Bill 25-003, the semi-automatic firearms ban, passed committee on a 3-2 party-line vote. Start listening at 16:00 – Hour 1

“Every single legislative session, they come up with something more. This one’s pretty big. It prohibits the manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase of specified automatic firearms, and it literally prevents Coloradans from their right that’s given in the Constitution of the United States to keep and bear firearms.”

Wendy Warner

Warner also criticized the legislature’s abuse of the safety clause to prevent citizen petitions and highlighted Representative Stephanie Luck’s House Bill 25-1069, which would require early publication of bills to increase stakeholder participation.

Election Integrity and Trump’s Priorities

Peter Bernegger, founder of the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, provided updates on the Colorado voter rolls lawsuit filed before the November 2024 election. The lawsuit remains pending as negotiations continue with Colorado’s lead attorney Dan Baumann. Start listening at 29:45 – Hour 1

“I know for a fact in the top five of his list to investigate, one of them is the Russian collusion hoax. However, on that list also is to expose the six swing states of them stealing the 2020 presidential election.”

Peter Bernegger

Bernegger explained how election observers in Milwaukee, Green Bay, Wayne County, Delaware County, and Fulton County helped prevent ballot fraud on November 5th by monitoring central counting locations. He claimed absentee ballot counts dropped from 170,000 in 2020 to 108,000 in 2024 at Milwaukee’s central count because observers stopped fraudulent ballots from being introduced.

“I was told by a person high up in the Trump team that 50 percent of the Democrats in the U.S. Congress had their races stolen. 50 percent.”

Peter Bernegger

Right to Repair and John Deere’s Control

Nebraska ag engineer Kevin Kinney, who wrote the first right to repair bill for Nebraska in 2015, joined with Gay Gordon-Byrne to discuss the FTC lawsuit against John Deere. The suit alleges Deere uses software locks to prevent farmers from repairing their own equipment. Start listening at 68:55 – Hour 2

“Your grandfather’s company is a tractor company. It’s evolved into what they call themselves now a software company. So you’re basically dealing with big tech headed 1,000 miles an hour towards artificial intelligence and robotic farming.”

Kevin Kinney

Kinney warned that John Deere possesses a kill switch for agriculture, pointing to the Ukraine incident where Russians stole tractors that were remotely disabled. Gordon-Byrne noted Colorado passed right to repair legislation effective January 2024, but Deere has not complied and farmers fear filing complaints. Start listening at 75:03 – Hour 2

“The bills that we’ve been filing are really just promoting competition. Because it used to be you could fix your own stuff, you could hire a local mechanic, or you could hire the dealership. And now there’s nothing in the middle.”

Gay Gordon-Byrne

Egg Prices and Legislative Battles

State Representative Ryan Gonzalez of District 50 reported his bill to repeal the cage-free egg mandate was killed in committee 8-5, with Democrats attributing rising egg prices solely to bird flu. Start listening at 102:02 – Hour 2

“TABOR is the hill I am willing to die on. It is my non-negotiable. A lot of these progressives hate it. In fact, in finance committee the other day, we were talking about tax credit bills and the majority on the committee attacked TABOR, saying that we had an outdated, antiquated system.”

Ryan Gonzalez

Gonzalez announced upcoming bills to repeal the 10-cent bag fee and to sunset regulatory agency rulemaking authority, returning that power to the legislature.