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I’m Still Thankful

You might assume, if anyone has a right to look at this Thanksgiving Day as an occasion to be less thankful about life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and all things related to our country . . . it would be ‘yours truly,’ The Pragmatic Constitutionalist. Consider the following:

In March of 2020, local and state government officials declared me and my profession as “non-essential,” and as a result I’d have to sit on the wage-earning sidelines for a few weeks while they flattened some theoretical curve meant to prevent our healthcare systems from being overwhelmed by this new Chinese virus unleashed upon the world. It was an inconvenience with some financial pain, but easily overcome. As we know, “two weeks” was quickly extended to two months . . . then, 15 months. For almost a year and a half, my “non-essential” status as a live performance musician meant that virtually every venue in my region of the country was disallowed from hosting events with an audience size necessary to make the event profitable to all parties and vendors involved. In fact, it was less of a financial bleed to just remain closed, rather than bear the expense of staffing-up for 25% bureaucratically-allowable crowd sizes. Now that most of those restrictions are lifted, many venues are implementing draconian and non-science-based vaccine requirements. Those government agencies which took away my livelihood have since coerced and colluded with private business through regulatory pressures and a campaign of fear-mongering and hysteria that now results in my primary business only operating at about one-third of our pre-COVID revenues. December, which is traditionally my biggest month of the year — performing for corporate holiday events, and such — is a virtually empty calendar. Corporations who normally hold big parties and galas for their employees are not willing to take on the “risk” of holding a “super-spreader” holiday event.

Despite the personally devastating financial consequences of these bureaucratic lockdowns and fear campaigns, I’m thankful I did not become an addict of the emergency government subsidies, handouts, and endless unemployment checks. In fact, being self-employed for most of the last 4 decades, I didn’t even qualify for most of the government programs. For the others, I didn’t even apply. Instead, for the first time in the history of my writing and journalistic endeavors, I made the decision to monetize those efforts to help offset my lifelong career’s losses. It’s difficult enough earning a decent living as a working musician. Doing so as a writer? Well . . . let’s just say it’s been a slow grind. Nevertheless, last October I made the decision to move TPC to the captain’s seat of my life’s journey, and my musical career to the co-pilot’s chair.

In 2021 came the largest PsyOp campaign in human history. A coordinated international effort to inject the entire planet with an experimental, rushed-to-market, under-tested, failing cadre of chemical injections for which health authorities had to redefine the word “vaccine” in order to sell it to the public. All this for the purpose of fighting an alleged “pandemic” which is 99.7% survivable as an average across all age groups and health conditions. That’s 99.7% survivable IF you even become infected. As we know, from the emerging scientific data — and as with all viruses — a certain percentage of people just never become infected, making the actual lethality of this particular virus, and threat to the world’s population, on the order of less than 0.1%. Yet, because of government collusion with Big Tech and Big Media, half the planet is convinced that without 100% of the population jabbed, this is an “existential” threat to the survivability of the human species. Mass hysteria, mass psychosis, mass compliance, mass tyranny . . . all achieved . . . under one of the smallest threats to our lives and health in the history of the world.

By contrast, over 3% of the world’s population died by causes directly related to World War II. In those days, Americans were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice FOR freedom. Today, Americans have become convinced they must sacrifice freedom itself, for the most minuscule mathematical of threats.

Have people died from this virus? Yes. Is it dangerous? Yes, to some. Was it worth trading away our liberties and the Bill of Rights to fight this threat? Absolutely not. Your friends, family members, neighbors, countrymen, and most of the world bought into the biggest, most successful disinformation campaign in the history of mankind, but I’m thankful my own health remains intact and I haven’t had to yield to the vax requirements. I got the CommieVirus this fall, my own immune system won that battle, and I’m now prepared for the bigger war ahead.

While The Great Reset forces were just beginning their campaign against worldwide human liberty, something else happened that changed my life. I witnessed what happened in Washington DC on January 6th, first hand, and took in those events with my own camera. I reported on those events with great detail. I’ve since analyzed what happened that day with an objective, open mind. I first reported what I saw based on the limited intake of my own eyes. I then expanded, even changed some of my perspectives, based on the hours spent reviewing my own video footage, as well as the thousands of hours of other videos I’ve seen from January 6th. I’ve since interviewed people directly and indirectly involved, as well as digging deeper into the reporting from other investigators. I now know nothing is at it seems related to January 6th. In fact, I wrote sometime immediately thereafter, “I will no longer believe anything I don’t see with my own eyes . . . even then, consult the video tape.”

Bad things happened that day. Reprehensible things. Crimes were committed. A micro-fraction of the hundreds-of-thousands who arrived in DC that day came prepared for mayhem and violence. A few others, with no such intention were caught up in the moment and committed illegal acts. Many of those, possessing no premeditated, nefarious intent, were drawn in by a myriad of “agents provocateur” who themselves came prepared for just such activity to stir up emotions and call individuals to violence and property destruction. I’m thankful their efforts did not work on me. I held to my own prior-stated intention to cover the events of January 6th as an independent observer, and then to report back to my readership that which I witnessed in a journalistic fashion. I never anticipated, nor was I in anyway informed or prepared for that which I would see, but I followed the story as it developed and where it went. For so doing — in exercise of my 1st Amendment rights — my own freedom is now threatened by the very hidden forces that were likely guiding and orchestrating the events that unfolded that day.

Sometime in early 2022 I will be forced to stand before a court and enter a plea for charges of which I’m not guilty, in the least. I did no “parading” that day. I silently and unobtrusively filmed what was happening around me. I did not “interfere with the function of government” that day. I never assaulted any law enforcement officer, never attempted to cross a police barricade, never damaged any property, never breached any secure doorway or window, and never so much as verbally harassed any Capitol Police or DC Metro Police officer. I never joined in any crowd chant, didn’t wear any Trump paraphernalia, and had no flag to wave. I carried no weapons . . . only a camera, tripod, microphone, extra battery pack, cables, and water bottles. I most certainly DID NOT engage in any conspiracy involving “interstate racketeering.” I’ve never been involved with or ever had any known associations with members of The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, III Percenters, or any militia group — left or right wing. International news agencies and documentarians contacted me about my videos. I didn’t reach out to them. They called me. I did not cross state lines on January 5th with the intention of “profiting from illegal activities.” I did what any journalist or member of the press would do. I followed a developing story, captured the scenes on a camera, wrote about them, and then certain news agencies considered my information worthy of purchase and licensing. Something that happens everyday, in every corner of the planet . . . and sometimes behind enemy lines, without the sanction or permission of government.

As an independent member of the “Fourth Estate,” my camera and my pen behaved exactly as intended, to hold the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial “estates” accountable for their own actions. Unlike the Fourth “Branch” — mainstream media and Big Tech — which now acts as nothing more than a “branch” and mouthpiece of the current governmental power players.

But . . . I saw things I wasn’t suppose to see. I wrote words that do not fit the approved narrative of the current presidential administration and their appointees in the Department of Justice. I’ve learned and reported things about the government’s own involvement leading up to the events of January 6th which they do not want me saying or further expounding upon. I’ve drawn conclusions and stated opinions — all protected by the 1st Amendment — that some deem need silenced.

I will not be silent. Period. I will fight . . . not only their prosecution of my voice, but of their attacks on the very foundations of all our liberties. It’s a rather poignant irony that the current assault on 1st Amendment liberties is coming from the very Capitol Building in which our government was founded to protect those liberties. Literally, (and I use that word with specific purpose), a government whose only moral purpose was established to protect the god-given, inalienable rights of its citizens.

So . . . I’m still thankful for many things, especially the existing remnants of the Bill of Rights that afford me the opportunity to write this article and to use my pen and our justice system to fight back against tyranny, political persecution, oath-breaking government agents and bureaucrats, and the immorality of an overreaching and too-large federal government. I told my readers, many months ago . . . once you rob a man of his livelihood, there’s nothing left but for the perpetrators of that act to “reap the whirlwind” of their victim’s convictions. My convictions are strong, and I’m thankful for the founding principles of this country which now afford me the opportunity to fight back. And . . . fight I will.

I'm thankful for all those friends who are helping me in this upcoming fight. I'm thankful for the media persons interested in helping tell this story. I'm thankful for those joining my legal team. I'm thankful for the phone call Tuesday evening with Senator Ron Johnson, who has offered his help with my case. This list of whom I am thankful for is growing, daily.

I’m also thankful for all of you who’ve followed my writings and political analyses these past years. I’m especially thankful for your encouragement and support these last few weeks. It truly means the world to me. An understatement I have no adequate words with which to more properly convey.

Thank you. 🙏

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To those federal agents now monitoring all my output, I encourage you to also check your own convictions. Those which led you to public service in the first place. Will you honor your oath to defend the Constitution, or will you simply defend your paychecks and federal pensions? These are the times in which we live, and the time in which you need to make that grave moral choice. I hope you choose according to the better angels of your nature.

“. . . and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions -- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually -- to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed . . .” - from George Washington’s proclamation on October 3, 1789, designating a national day of thanks.

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Dem poll greeter in Western NC expresses her frustrations with FEMA to me and then says, “I’m kinda discouraged to see the number of Latinos and young people that are voting for the Republicans.”

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In-depth and, at times, explosive interview with @KyleSeraphin drops on @BlazeTV and http://youtube.com/@BlazeNewsTonight tomorrow morning.

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This was an interesting - and primarily non-J6-related - discussion with Dan Newman this morning. We spent quite a bit of time discussing this new "weaponization of rape as a tool of war" in the Hamas/Israel conflict. We also cover a couple of other things, including a teaser of something else I'm going to be looking at in my upcoming visit to the Capitol CCTV viewing room.

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TNN Live Today, w/ Dan Newman

Dan and I spent quite a bit of time today discussing the coming 'Big Story," as well as the recent Stephen Horn case and conviction.

TNN Live Today, w/ Dan Newman
This Morning on TNN Live!

If you haven't noticed, this is a pretty big news day, and Dan and I get into a lot of it. Definitely worth a listen. I especially express my frustrations with the do-nothing GOP, when so much CAN be done right now, about so MUCH that is going on.

This Morning on TNN Live!

I’m hoping someone in this community can help me. I was violently assaulted in a bathroom in Macon, GA in December of 2021. After informing the CEO of my company they were violating labor law I was sent to Macon, GA to do someone else’s work. While there a patron followed me to the bathroom and hit me with something hard enough to shatter my jaw on the left side into several pieces and completely fracture my jawbone on the right side. I woke up in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. And despite bleeding from my mouth and with bruises on my face consistent with blunt force trauma the ER did an x-ray of my chest and put me back in the waiting room. After waiting for hours without being seen, and not knowing the extent of my injuries, I got an Uber back to the hotel where I was staying. I worked for two more days and then came home. I went to the VA hospital where they did a CT scan and transferred me to Duke University hospital where I had a plate installed on each side of my face and had my jaws wired ...

It's Friday.., and it's not cynical...

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Steve probably already knows about this, but since his story is my story - I quit FB when they suppressed his channel, and followed him everywhere until he abandoned us like an Elon babymama - I hope he submits it.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/big-tech-censorship-ftc-chairman-announces-investigation-asks/

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Bull City Syndicate - 23 Years, and Done
New beginnings and the end of an era as I retire my bands

On December 8, 2023, Bull City Syndicate (BCS) played its final show. We went out with a bang, performing a top-shelf corporate holiday event to 700 enthusiastic attendees. Appropriately, in the city of the band’s birth — Durham, NC — The Bull City. I considered booking a final public show, but after much thought, I decided to retire the band in a more low-key, less public manner. 

In November of 2000, I answered an ad from an established local band then known as Soul Kitchen & The Bull City Horns. (SK) I’d spent a year getting my trumpet chops back into shape after a decade in the music business, managing other artists. I did not intend to do anything in SK other than return to my first love: just playing the trumpet. I didn’t want to manage the band and certainly had no interest in ownership. I just wanted to play again. Money didn’t matter. And in those days, even as one of the premier club bands in the Raleigh/Durham market, my share of earnings from a 9-piece horn band rarely covered my bar tab.

For many months after joining Soul Kitchen, I managed to avoid being involved in the business of the band. When asked by band members what I did for a living, I always lied and gave them a different story each time. (I remember once telling them I was in the CIA. Ha!) Finally, after a Sunday night rehearsal, drinking and smoking on the back deck of our original drummer’s house (Dave Wilkins), Dave suddenly demanded, “Baker. What the f—k do you do for a living?”

“You really want to know?”

“Yes!”

“I manage bands for a living.”

“WHAT!? Why don’t you manage this band?”

“I don’t want to. I just want to play trumpet.”

At the next week’s rehearsal, Dave handed me a manilla folder that represented the totality of the band’s “business.”

“You’re in charge now,” said Dave. 

(Sigh.)

Bull City Syndicate opening for Eddie Money in 2008

From that point forward, things began to change quickly for SK. First began a radical updating of our set list designed to draw more people to our shows and more dollars for the band. I began to pursue more private events and larger public shows. Some of the original band members were not happy about the extra demands and work required to make the move from a fun club band to a serious special event band, and we began to replace members. With the band growing in popularity, we were able to attract even more versatile and better-trained musicians. We went from being a really good band to a great "horn band," packing out every live performance and fielding requests for those higher-paying private events.

We then began to spin off a few side projects. The first of those was our pop-jazz 4-piece called Cafe Mars. Then, in 2006, we launched an aggressive recording project led by award-winning local producer John Custer. After six months in the studio, “You Make Me Feel” was released in 2007. An album paying tribute to North Carolina songwriters, and for which I’m really proud of the final product. Especially the original tunes written for the album by Custer himself. It was because of that album that Soul Kitchen & The Bull City Horns became Bull City Syndicate. (There were 17 other bands named Soul Kitchen at the time, and with an album containing original music, we didn’t want to deal with any trademark issues.)

Durham Herald Sun Magazine feature in 2008

When the economy began to tank in the summer of 2008 and into 2009, so many local music venues didn’t survive or cut their live music budgets drastically, and private event buyers were forced to hire smaller bands and DJs. Bull City Syndicate made the decision to add a female lead singer to the line-up — as that was a requirement of so many private event and wedding buyers. Our 9-piece “all dude” band became a 10-piece outfit, and the additional female lead remained a feature of the band for its remaining years.

Anyone managing a 10-piece band knows that turnover is going to happen — even when there’s no drama or interpersonal issues. People move away, change jobs, etc. Life happens. But, somewhere around 2010, there was a particular tumult that caused five of our members to leave, and suddenly, with no remaining original members, Bull City Syndicate became “my” band. We were able to fill the missing spots quickly, and the band really took off. No longer led by a “committee,” I was able to take the band to the next level, particularly as a private event and festival band.

Bull City Syndicate Christmas show in Raleigh, NC - 2016

There were many highlights through my time with both incarnations of the band: SK and BCS. My very first gig with SK was an opening date for Kool & The Gang. Our last such brush with greatness was when Dolly Parton joined us onstage performing her classic hit, “Jolene.”

We were honored to be the headlining entertainment for the last two NC Governor’s Inaugural Balls. We performed for some of the largest companies and charities in America: SAS, Glaxo, AT&T, American Heart Association, and too many others to list. We traveled throughout the Mid-Atlantic region for shows — as far north as Maryland and even down to Florida.

Our first spin-off, Cafe Mars, eventually became a 6-piece version of the band called BCS Express. Then, 10 years ago, we added a “yacht rock” version of the band called Captain & The Keels. (C&K) The same line-up as BCS, doing the smooth rock hits from ’75 to ’85, with appropriate foolish costumes.

Captain & The Keels in Hampton, VA - 2016

In 2018 came my most fun spin-off. A David Bowie Tribute act called The American Bowie Experience. (ABX) With that group, we moved our bassist, Randy Ines, over to keys (because of his virtuoso piano chops), and brought my son Duncan in on bass guitar. (Bowie’s son is also named Duncan. Just a coincidence.) Despite the growing popularity and demand for ABX, that band didn’t survive the COVID-19 pandemic after a year and a half of lockdowns. It was everything I could do just to get BCS back to work.

American Bowie Experience at House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC - 2019

The aftermath of the pandemic was the beginning of the end for BCS. My life began to change drastically. For more than 25 years I’d been a hobbyist political writer and commentator. My writing chops began to take shape in the early days of the Internet. AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy eventually became MySpace. MySpace became Facebook, where my online following really began to take off. 

In early 2020 — long after the four versions of the band had become my full-time job and main source of income — “Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve” became two months of COVID lockdowns, and none of the band projects were allowed to do live performances. It was then that I decided to monetize my writing “hobby,” moving that to the captain’s seat of my endeavors and BCS and its spinoffs to the co-pilot’s seat. By 2022 and into 2023, my journalistic efforts were being rewarded with significant media attention, and my travels were keeping me away from the band and its needs with increasing frequency. 

In the summer of 2023, I was approached by Dallas-based Blaze Media to become a contributing writer. I was now splitting most of my time between D.C. and Dallas, and the bands’ bookings were suffering. With that came the hard decision that ultimately led me to retire from the BCS and C&K brands, make the total life transition and reinvention to a full-time writer and investigative journalist for The Blaze.

An appearance on The Glenn Beck Show in 2023

I’ve been doing music in one form or the other for over 50 years. At 19 years old, I was traveling the world playing trumpet. In the 80s, I was working for churches doing music and promoting contemporary Christian music concerts with the biggest names in that industry. Into the 90s, I became manager to national acts touring around the world — which caused me to put my horns in the closet for about 10 years. By 1999, I just wanted to play music again, and I answered that ad to join Soul Kitchen & The Bull City Horns.

Obviously, this telling is the very short version of that 23-year experience, and what became such a significant part of my life. There were hard times and bad times, but mostly wonderful times with all the guys and gals I was honored to perform with. We played for near-empty rooms and for as many as 40,000 at festivals. We shared the stage with famous artists and many of the best local musicians and bands. I will always cherish every moment.

BCS Express in Cary, NC - 2013

I want to express my heartfelt thanks and admiration to all the fantastic musicians who made those 23 years unforgettable. And to the fans who continued to show up for our infrequent club shows in the last couple of years. Many who’d been coming to see us for over 20 years!

At our final Durham show on December 8, I stepped off the stage a few times just to watch and soak it in. After the last song, and when we began the final tear-down and load-out of the gear, one of the guys said to me, “You know you’re going to miss this.”

Yes . . . I am.

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A Brief Summary of My Personal January 6 Story Timeline (Then ’til Now)
Mainly For Newer Followers, Not Yet Up-to-Speed on My Work

A more detailed account of my day on January 6, 2021, can be found here:

https://thepragmaticconstitutionalist.locals.com/post/3897816/what-i-saw-on-january-6th-in-washington-dc


 

-On Dec. 21, 2020 — two days after Trump announced his own "wild" J6 rally at The Ellipse in D.C. — I posted this announcement to my social media accounts:

“Regardless of how you feel about the election results, this might be a spectacle worth observing up close and personal. (I'm predisposed to believe this crowd will not riot, loot, and burn the city.) I might begin my northeast run on this date, in DC. Anyone else going? #tpcroadtrip2021”

Well . . . they didn't "burn the city."

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-In my email newsletter that went out on January 4, 2021, I made the following comment:

“I am headed to DC on Wednesday. Why? Not because I think a crowd of any size is going to force government into a real investigation of the election results, but because the “powers that be” on all sides of the political equation need to see WE THE PEOPLE in force, letting them know that WE ARE WATCHING. WE are engaged! WE are not going to lay down to any level of tyranny — whether it comes from the right or the left, the Democrats or the GOP. I’m also hoping to document on video anything “special” that might happen, and perhaps get a few interviews from a variety of voices.”

-By “special” . . . it was rumored there would be some big announcement on the election controversy, (a release of The Kraken, maybe), about which I hoped to get comments from members of the crowd. There was nothing special announced from the stage, by Trump or any of the others. The “special” came later . . . unexpectedly.

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-I arrived at the Washington Monument at about 9:30 am on January 6, and spent the next three hours watching the crowd grow to an enormous size — documenting it on video.

-Trump took the stage almost an hour later than announced, at 11:57 pm. His “warm-up” acts were ‘meh,’ and his speech was equally ‘meh.’ Because of the cold, windy conditions, the poor audio, and wanting to get ahead of the throng that was scheduled to march on the Capitol for the other events, I left the Washington Monument lawn about halfway through Trump’s speech and began a brisk walk toward the Capitol Building . . . along with thousands of others already peeling off from Trump's speech.

-I arrived at the Reflection Pool on the west side of the Capitol at about 1:15 pm, where I was hearing police sirens and what sounded like explosions. From there, I could see smoke and the arrival of DC Metro PD (MPD) units pouring down the steps toward the west terrace. I made the decision to sprint up to the terrace, where I turned on my camera at 1:19 pm, and for almost an hour filmed the violence and surging crowds in that area.

-Just after 2:00 pm I began to notice signs of Capitol Police (USCP) withdrawal. Shortly thereafter, there was a sudden surge of protestors up the stairs underneath the scaffolding on the northwest side of the terrace. Hundreds of protestors were now in unrestricted movement up those stairs, so I followed.

-At approximately 2:21 pm I followed hundreds of protestors through what some call the “Senate Wing door.” This, I would later learn, was the site of the first breach of the building. I did not see the breach, as it occurred at approximately 2:13 pm, while I was still on the lower terrace.

-For almost 40 minutes I captured scenes inside the Capitol Building, before exiting at about 2:59 pm, at the exact location where FBI tactical unit medics were trying to save Ashli Babbit’s life. Just over one minute after I exited through the South door, I filmed Babbitt’s extraction through that doorway, while the D.C. Fire EMT crew still worked feverishly on her lifeless body.

Screenshot from my video - January 6, 2021 - of Ashli Babbitt being evacuated from
the Capitol Building by D.C. Fire Department emergency medical techs.

-Shortly thereafter, I gave a couple of interviews to local media, found a restroom and a sandwich, then returned to the Capitol to witness the arrival of the Army and Air Force National Guards finalize the clearing of the entire Capitol grounds. I then returned to my hotel in Arlington sometime after 7:30 pm.

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-For the next five days I began frame by frame review of my videos, and then started writing my first story about the event, which was posted on January 13, 2021:

https://thepragmaticconstitutionalist.locals.com/post/3897816/what-i-saw-on-january-6th-in-washington-dc

-On February 24, 2021, I published my second story about J6:

https://thepragmaticconstitutionalist.locals.com/post/3897816/what-i-saw-on-january-6th-in-washington-dc

-As I’ve pointed out many times, I got a few things wrong in my earliest analyses. I’ve tried to correct those over the following months and years as new evidence has presented itself. But, those two articles remain as written — errors included.

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-Because I engaged in no violence, property damage, chanting, singing, carried no flags, and wore no political messages on my clothing . . . as the months wore on I began to think maybe I was going to have the same respect as so many other journalists who were not being rounded up in the J6 dragnet. But, on the morning of July 22, 2021, I received a phone call from FBI Special Agent Gerrit Doss. After he asked me for a voluntary interview, I immediately turned that over to my local attorney, and they worked together with all our schedules to arrange a date for the interview.

-The first attempt at scheduling the FBI interview was aborted on-site, on the morning of August 5, 2021. The reason given — after my attorney and I had already arrived at their Cary, NC filed office — was that they could not interview me, “because of my press status,” until after they received a letter of approval from the U.S. Attorney General’s office.

-My attorney worked with an assistant USAG, they negotiated a proffer agreement for the interview, and it was rescheduled for October 18, 2021. I was interviewed for two full hours, under the agreement that nothing I said in the interview could be used against me — should charges be made against me — in court . . . unless I perjured myself. (That didn’t happen.)

-On November 17, 2021, my attorney received an email from Assistant U.S. Attorney Anita Eve — out of Philadelphia — stating, “Your client will be charged within the week.”

-On Monday morning of Thanksgiving week — November 22, 2021 — we sent out approximately 200 press releases to all manner of media sources, stating that I — an independent journalist — was about to be prosecuted for nothing more than the act of “journalism” on January 6.

-At approximately 1:00 pm that same day, AUSA Eve sent my attorney a copy of that press release, stating, “We’re not happy about this.” He responded, asking, “Are you saying my client should forego his 1st Amendment right because he is being persecuted by the federal government?" There were a couple of other exchanges between my attorney and the AUSA before she went silent. I assumed that was because of the Thanksgiving holiday.

-My phone began to ring from interested media sources, wishing to cover my story.

-On Tuesday evening — November 23 — I received a call from Senator Ron Johnson (WI), asking me how he could help. As the minority leader of a Senate J6 investigative committee, he put me in touch with his investigators.

-On Wednesday morning — November 24 — I was contacted by an attorney who practices criminal law in D.C., who happened to be a federal prosecutor for more than 20 years. After a three-hour phone call, I engaged his services.

-On Monday — November 29 — my new attorney reached out to AUSA Eve by both email and phone, and she never responded. We never heard from her or the FBI again . . . until yesterday — August 5, 2023 — more than 20 months later, when my Raleigh attorney received a call from the FBI notifying him that they had “service of process” for me.

-This turns out to be a Grand Jury subpoena, requesting my January 6 videos. My attorney received that on Monday. We have been able to determine the DOJ has reopened its investigation into my January 6 activities. I volunteered to give those to the FBI during my interview in October of ’21, but they never followed up and requested them. The most unfortunate fact is . . . grand juries are not convened to investigate misdemeanor crimes. For unknown reasons, they are apparently considering a felony recommendation to the grand jury. As of this writing, that is all we know.

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-Since January 6, 2021, as well as the time since my threatened prosecution, I have been very active in investigating many aspects related to January 6. Something I never expected to be engaged in. I have broken original stories, developed Capitol Police whistleblowers, met with Congress Members, and engaged with congressional staffers and investigators. All of that has been well documented in my blogs.

-In the fall of 2022, I covered every day of the first, nine-week-long Oath Keepers trial, at the District Courthouse in D.C.

-I’ve been interviewed for my work by innumerable media sources — large and small — from Tucker Carlson on Fox News, to reporters with both NBC and the New York Times, to smaller podcasters. I’ve also collaborated on several stories with The Epoch Times, and have been one of a small hand full of journalists who’ve been given access to that “41,000 hours of J6 video” by Speaker McCarthy’s staff. I am just now entering into a “contributor” relationship with Blaze Media.

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As I said in the beginning, this is an abbreviated overview of my personal “January 6 story.” I have no idea what the government’s renewed interest is in me or my videos. The only “crime” I committed on January 6 — technically speaking — is to have entered a restricted building. But, so did some 80 to 100 other journalists who have not been charged with any crimes. We all simply followed the story where the story went that day.

It would be easy to speculate that I might be being singled out because I haven’t conformed to the “preferred narrative,” or because of the sensitivity of certain stories I’m currently working on. I simply have no idea, so can’t really go there. Not at least until I see the subpoena on Monday, and we can get some questions answered about the status of my case . . . which went from “Your client will be charged within the week” to total silence from the DOJ for more than a year and a half.

Some say there are “no coincidences” in this particular game . . . but we’ll know more on Monday.

Stay tuned . . .

Steve

P.S. I have no idea what they're looking for in my videos. What's so special, that it requires a Grand Jury subpoena? All the good stuff is already posted online:

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Tweetstorm Rollout on Secret U.S. Army SpecOps Deployed on January 6
Having no name, this top secret group is referred to as “the activity,” “the unit,” or “orange”

THREAD: Two and 1/2 years ago, in my 2nd article about #Jan6, (Feb. 24, 2021), I revealed a “very high probability that both [Army] ’Special Forces’ operatives and U.S. Marshalls were mixed in with the crowd that entered the Capitol Building.”

https://thepragmaticconstitutionalist.locals.com/post/3842175/who-was-up-the-chain-on-january-6

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10 months later (Jan. 3, 2022) Newsweek confirmed my sourcing with a story headlined, “Secret Commandos with Shoot-to-Kill Authority Were at the Capitol.” saying, “The role that the military played in this highly classified operation is still unknown.”

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-secret-commandos-shoot-kill-authority-were-capitol-1661330

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I have quietly investigated this discovery ever since and eventually revealed my knowledge of a SpecOps group deployed on J6 to be a top-secret SIGINT group from Ft. Belvoir, just outside D.C. (I have no info if this is the same group Newsweek reported.)

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I have long been aware of a current member of this “unit” deployed to the Capitol on J6. Late in 2022, I was introduced to a retired member of the same SpecOps group. In short, he was highly impressed with my knowledge of that unit, as they officially . . . “do not exist.”

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They may not officially “exist,” but in 2007, British author @MickWSmith revealed the existence and history of this U.S. Army SpecOps group in his book, “Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team”

https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Elite-Completely-Americas-Operations-dp-1250006473/dp/1250006473/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Unlike the SEALS or Delta Force, this secretive Army team does not have a name. Only their specific operations are given a name, and they are otherwise generally referred to as “the activity,” “the unit,” or “orange.”

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My source, who is a retired member of “the unit” does not believe his former group could possibly have been used for any purpose on J6, as it is outside the operational protocols of their mission. Namely, when he was a member, they would never be used for domestic operations.

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Also, he says they would never have been “seconded” to @FBI. They have a specific chain of command within the Army hierarchy and are only ever seconded to the CIA in overseas ops. That said, he has been retired from “the unit” for almost a decade.

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In my recent interactions with congressional members and staff, I have been informed that they are aware the “the unit” was operational in some capacity on J6, but have been unable to get answers from @DeptofDefense, specifically because they “do not officially exist.”

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In recent weeks, trying to get more information, I’ve read another team of special ‘intel’ investigators into my research on this subject. Our most recent discovery is that they have been able to identify another current member of “the unit” who was at the Capitol on J6.

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Before I go any further in this narrative, I'll emphasize that I've never implied “the unit” was deployed on J6 for nefarious purposes. In my 1st story, I theorized that they were simply there to “take care of business” should protestors get out of hand, using lethal weapons.

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That established, their presence and deployment raises serious questions. Why are military forces being deployed in violation of posse comitatus law? Is it common practice for @DeptofDefense to allow military SpecOps to be used at domestic protest events?

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More importantly, if this is not common, and was a one-off operation . . . having “the unit” seconded to @FBI on J6 . . . WHY? What did they know, requiring “the unit's” presence at the Capitol, and what was “the unit’s” “posture” on J6?

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We are seeking more information, and answers to those questions, but do not expect to receive those directly from @FBI, @CapitolPolice, (if they even knew), or from @DeptofDefense. But, you may be asking why I’m talking about this without having all the facts nailed down.

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My @FBI whistleblowing friends, @KyleSeraphin and @RealStevefriend have advised me that “daylight” is not only the “best disinfectant,” but also the best “protection” when one is hovering this close over the target. 

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I don’t have the same covering as that afforded a reliable MSM journalist - as when @FBI had Newsweek’s @warkin release a one-year anniversary CYA story about their deployment of every 3-letter agencies’ tactical teams and military commandos with “shoot to kill” orders on J6.

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So . . . I’m letting @FBI and @DeptofDefense know that I’ve now read three other friendly journalists, a team of think tank investigators, and several congressional staffers into the details of this story. “Whacking” me, to stop my work, will probably be counterproductive.

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But, they are welcome to reach out to me and answer my questions. (I also have more.) I’m certain they already have my number. 

Stay tuned. More on this, and even more important J6 stories are in the pipeline. 

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On Twitter, (or, X):

https://twitter.com/TPC4USA/status/1686907274692861952

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