“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires
in people’s minds.” –Samuel Adams
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April 15, 2025
The Beginning of the Awaking...
Lance Photos 4/15/2009
On April 15, 2009, a half a million people across America spontaneously rallied with the birth of the “Tea Party Movement”.
In North East Florida 5000 rallied at “The Landing” in Jacksonville. In St. Augustine 1000 rallied at the Castillo de San Marcos. The St. Augustine group would later form the Saint Augustine Tea Party. Its Town Criers are still on the job 16 years later.
“The Landing” would turn out to be the site of the first mega Trump Rally, in Florida. This occurred on October 24, 2015, with 20000 attending. Billy Tucker organized both the original 2009 Tea Party rally and the 2015 Trump rally. The Tea Party format, including Lee Greenwood, would become the signature of future Trump rallies. The Republican Neo-Cons were already at work on the future populist president.
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The Tea Party Movement in 2009 was about “Taxed Enough Already” (TEA). The Tea Party promoted small government, fiscal responsibility and the constitutional governance. With Obama’s election the Communist’s cultural war expanded. The populist movement expanded with the times to become what is now known as the America First Movement.Trump Rally below
Lance Thate Photo 2009 above
http://www.saintaugustineteaparty.org/pdf/Town%20Crier%20Committee%20Vol%205%20No%2001.pdf
A Celebration
We celebrate the 16th year anniversary of the movement that is restoring America to a woke free condition. CELEBRATE AWAKE!!
A Celebration
We celebrate the 16th year anniversary of the movement that is restoring America to a woke free condition. CELEBRATE AWAKE!!
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April 6, 2025
The State of the Two Party System
A popular opinion being presented by Republican politicians across social media is that the Democrat Party has been decimated and that the Republican Party is stronger than it has ever been.
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To become the 45th President, Trump had to defeat both political parties, something neither party has forgiven. So when the new MAGA Patriots joined the RECs in 2021, they found that they were not always welcome in many of Florida’s 67 local REC organizations. There are reports of numerous turbulent meetings with the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) stepping in to maintain order and control.
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In St. Johns County (SJC) for example, chaos erupted; security guards were deployed. This resulted in REC members being thrown out of meetings and members being denied access to meetings. The chaos prevailed for several years with several different REC Chairmen presiding. The chaotic meetings resulted in most of the newer REC members quitting the party early on. Those who stayed blamed the situation on the Chairman presiding at the time. MAGA holdouts failed to fully understand the nature of the grassroots “America First Movement” and the power structure of the Republican Party.
That power structure starts with 50 Republican state parties. Each state party franchises a local REC for each county in their state. The state parties also pick and send the people that form the Republican National Committee (RNC). RNC and the state parties are globalist in nature and are resisting the America First Grassroots Movement. The RPOF controls the money and makes the rules. The RPOF picks the national candidates and the principal local REC officers and Board members.
Instead of seeing the reality of the GOP power structure, the SJC-REC Patriots labored under the concept that “Grassroots Candidates” could win within the framework of the Republican Party. Grassroots is, by definition, that which is closest to the people—ALL THE PEOPLE, not just Republicans. Grassroots in a political party is an oxymoron.
Active SJC-REC members assert that the chaos had been eliminated. The SJC-REC broke records for calls to get the vote out for the recent special election on April 1, 2025.
That power structure starts with 50 Republican state parties. Each state party franchises a local REC for each county in their state. The state parties also pick and send the people that form the Republican National Committee (RNC). RNC and the state parties are globalist in nature and are resisting the America First Grassroots Movement. The RPOF controls the money and makes the rules. The RPOF picks the national candidates and the principal local REC officers and Board members.
Instead of seeing the reality of the GOP power structure, the SJC-REC Patriots labored under the concept that “Grassroots Candidates” could win within the framework of the Republican Party. Grassroots is, by definition, that which is closest to the people—ALL THE PEOPLE, not just Republicans. Grassroots in a political party is an oxymoron.
Active SJC-REC members assert that the chaos had been eliminated. The SJC-REC broke records for calls to get the vote out for the recent special election on April 1, 2025.
The reason for the SJC-REC's return to normalcy is due to the fact the true grassroots patriots returned to real grassroots’ status. The RPOF’s newly appointed Chairman, Denver Cook, along with the support of the local “Old Guard,” removed the unwanted precinct committeemen and committeewomen from the REC. Even after being removed from the REC under the most questionable circumstances, the ousted REC members still look to local reasons for their rejection. They blame Democrat infiltrators or the radical “Indivisibles” for their failure to reform the Republican Party. The RPOF does not want some populist nobodies to interfere with their globalist agenda and they just proved it on a small scale in SJC.
The discord at precinct level is symptomatic of a general rejection of the two party system that exists in America today. The GOP doesn’t understand that the 77.3 million votes cast were not for the Republican Party. They were for Donald J. Trump. The 45th President did not fully understand the nature of the Republican Party’s true agenda. The 47th President does. One only need look at the grassroots reform-minded people he has assembled around the Presidency. It is not politics as usual; it is a revolution. Both parties are failing because they are not in touch with the people. Perhaps it is the right time to institute the concept of citizen governance as the founding fathers envisioned.
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The discord at precinct level is symptomatic of a general rejection of the two party system that exists in America today. The GOP doesn’t understand that the 77.3 million votes cast were not for the Republican Party. They were for Donald J. Trump. The 45th President did not fully understand the nature of the Republican Party’s true agenda. The 47th President does. One only need look at the grassroots reform-minded people he has assembled around the Presidency. It is not politics as usual; it is a revolution. Both parties are failing because they are not in touch with the people. Perhaps it is the right time to institute the concept of citizen governance as the founding fathers envisioned.
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March 30, 2025
ANTI-TRUMP RALLIES
WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?
On February 17, 2025, several hundred anti-Trump protesters demonstrated at City Hall in St. Augustine, Florida. On March 4, 2025, an additional demonstration took place in front of the Castillo de San Marcos by the Communist faction of the Democrat Party which promoted continuing support for the Ukrainian war. Most recently, on March 26, 2025, another Communist Democrat anti-Trump event was held at the Castillo de San Marcos. Each of these events received media coverage on major Jacksonville TV channels. The coverage was highly manipulated in support of the Communist cause and promoted the Democrat candidate, Josh Weil, in the special election for the 6th congressional seat recently vacated by Republican, Micheal Waltz.
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The 1st and 6th congressional seats in Florida are having special elections on April 1, 2025. The balance of power in the House of Representatives is dangerously close. This has Florida Republicans concerned from Governor DeSantis down. There are reports that Democrats have raised 10 million dollars for Josh Weil’s campaign in the 6th District. The demonstrations and the favorable media exploitation raises the question, “What is the local Republican Executive Committee (REC) doing about the sizable protests in St. Augustine”? The answer to that question is, “Nothing.”
St. Augustine’s historic district has been the scene of political demonstrations going back to the civil rights era in the 1960s. With the advent of the Tea Party Movement in 2009 demonstrations ,rallies and protests have been prevalent in the historic district. The St. Augustine Tea Party (SATP) had been the prominent grassroots political player in St. Augustine long after other Tea Parties failed nationally. The newly re-elected SATP Board on July 11, 2023, changed the group’s focus shifting from Tea Party values and activities to Republican partisan politics. Within a month or two the SATP’s members stopped attending meetings. The SATP was a grassroots Tea Party which was not allied with any political party. The Tea Party members were just not interested in participating in partisan politics. Failure to hold the required annual meeting, on July 9, 2024, sealed the fate of the SATP. The SATP’s Town Criers have continued to function but at a reduced level. The source of younger Town Crier participants was from the open bimonthly SATP meetings. The SATP’s demise has left an unopposed opportunity for street activity for the “Marxist Left.”
The third and most recent demonstration, formed by the Democrat Party, was challenged by former SATP members and elements of a 3% group. A Jeep flying a Gadsden Flag and a Trump Flag made numerous trips past the Communist demonstrators. The driver made the following comment:
“From my view from the Jeep, we were completely outnumbered. I couldn't even see our guys in the crowd. At one point, a Communist attacked the Jeep. He faked being hit by the Jeep. He stepped directly in front of the Jeep. I was barely moving as I had slowed to a near stop in an attempt to pickup a passenger. The Communist placed his hands on my hood and then used his arms to push off. It could have looked like I hit him, but I didn't. Others were moving towards the Jeep, so I just kept moving. I have seen this technique before. Shortly after Trump’s election in 2016, something similar happened at the Plaza. It could have been the same guy. We were outnumbered. I estimated the crowd to be about 100 plus. We had 6 people resisting. To those who were pushing back, the words ‘Home of the Brave’ had meaning.”
St. Augustine’s historic district has been the scene of political demonstrations going back to the civil rights era in the 1960s. With the advent of the Tea Party Movement in 2009 demonstrations ,rallies and protests have been prevalent in the historic district. The St. Augustine Tea Party (SATP) had been the prominent grassroots political player in St. Augustine long after other Tea Parties failed nationally. The newly re-elected SATP Board on July 11, 2023, changed the group’s focus shifting from Tea Party values and activities to Republican partisan politics. Within a month or two the SATP’s members stopped attending meetings. The SATP was a grassroots Tea Party which was not allied with any political party. The Tea Party members were just not interested in participating in partisan politics. Failure to hold the required annual meeting, on July 9, 2024, sealed the fate of the SATP. The SATP’s Town Criers have continued to function but at a reduced level. The source of younger Town Crier participants was from the open bimonthly SATP meetings. The SATP’s demise has left an unopposed opportunity for street activity for the “Marxist Left.”
The third and most recent demonstration, formed by the Democrat Party, was challenged by former SATP members and elements of a 3% group. A Jeep flying a Gadsden Flag and a Trump Flag made numerous trips past the Communist demonstrators. The driver made the following comment:
“From my view from the Jeep, we were completely outnumbered. I couldn't even see our guys in the crowd. At one point, a Communist attacked the Jeep. He faked being hit by the Jeep. He stepped directly in front of the Jeep. I was barely moving as I had slowed to a near stop in an attempt to pickup a passenger. The Communist placed his hands on my hood and then used his arms to push off. It could have looked like I hit him, but I didn't. Others were moving towards the Jeep, so I just kept moving. I have seen this technique before. Shortly after Trump’s election in 2016, something similar happened at the Plaza. It could have been the same guy. We were outnumbered. I estimated the crowd to be about 100 plus. We had 6 people resisting. To those who were pushing back, the words ‘Home of the Brave’ had meaning.”
There were a few tourists around who were very supportive. However on the side streets the city's Communist population was apparent.
Doug Russo is a seasoned “Street Pastor” and protester. Our SATP Reporter was impressed with the skill shown by Russo in dealing with a hostile crowd who pushed and shoved, often using the National Park Rangers to protect his rights.
Where were the Republicans? Where were those who claimed to love America? Without public confrontation, Trump will be blind to the forces opposing him. Reports are that more of these anti-Trump rallies are planned across Florida and the country.
THERE WERE ONLY SIX PATRIOTS. WHERE WERE THE REST OF YOU? CHEERING TRUMP’S VICTORIES, NO DOUBT. TRUMP CANNOT DO IT WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT, AND THAT IS NOT CHEERING AT YOUR NEWS-MAX TV SCREEN.
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Doug Russo is a seasoned “Street Pastor” and protester. Our SATP Reporter was impressed with the skill shown by Russo in dealing with a hostile crowd who pushed and shoved, often using the National Park Rangers to protect his rights.
Where were the Republicans? Where were those who claimed to love America? Without public confrontation, Trump will be blind to the forces opposing him. Reports are that more of these anti-Trump rallies are planned across Florida and the country.
THERE WERE ONLY SIX PATRIOTS. WHERE WERE THE REST OF YOU? CHEERING TRUMP’S VICTORIES, NO DOUBT. TRUMP CANNOT DO IT WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT, AND THAT IS NOT CHEERING AT YOUR NEWS-MAX TV SCREEN.
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March 20, 2025
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
The acts were passed to clean up French working against the U.S. and creating unsafe conditions globally. THE UNITED STATES HAS NEVER BEEN IN A DECLARED STATE OF WAR WITH FRANCE! The "quasi-war", as the war with France was identified, was the same as the "WAR ON DRUGS", "THE KOREAN WAR", "THE VIETNAM WAR", "THE AFGHANISTAN WAR", "THE FIRST GULF WAR", "THE IRAQ WARS, "THE INVASIONS OF PANAMA AND GRENADA", and another dozen "wars" around the globe where the U.S. has had its soldiers fight and die on foreign soil. NONE OF THESE WERE WARS DECLARED BY CONGRESS. The general identification of all of these "wars" was a "police action". What POTUS is doing today is legal and within the act listed above, which was passed during what amounted to a police action, both inside and outside the jurisdictional boundaries of our nation. THE FEDERAL COURT HAS NO JURISDICTION AND THE PRESIDENT SHOULD IGNORE ANY ATTEMPT FOR THE JUDICIARY TO RESTRICT HIS POWER TO USE ANY LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DEFEND US FROM EVIL. Well done Mr. President! Carry on!
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March 15, 2025
DONALD J. TRUMP & THE STATE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
By Roderick T. Beaman
Donald J. Trump’s speech before Congress on March 4 was an abject lesson on the state of the current Democratic Party. A sweep of their assembled Representatives and Senators showed an assortment of angry, contemptuous, hate filled miscreants.
Not one applauded at anything, not even for Devarjay Daniel the boy who had battled brain cancer. He had wanted to be a cop and Trump had an honorary Secret Service membership conferred on him. Sean Curran, the director of the Secret Service who conferred the membership smiled and people who knew him said they had never seen him smile. It was a time to place politics aside but the Democrats didn’t budge. How does anyone justify that? Human beings don’t & the Democrats didn’t.
What was even worse were the commentators, exemplified by the insensate Niccolo Wallace with this wonderful statement. “I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer. But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters, and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide, and I hope he isn’t one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people." This is the type of garbage that we have to endure.
Anything such as that would have been unthinkable 25 years ago but Hillary’s characterization of her opponent’s supporters as ‘deplorables’ paved the way for this deterioration. Her opponent at that time was Donald J. Trump.
It was the first time in America history that a candidate attacked the opponent’s supporters! The idea of campaigns was to persuade them to switch their support. It ushered in this era and what we have now is its culmination.
Blue collar workers, who used to be a reliable mainstay of the Democratic Party, are no longer welcome in the party. They are despised.
As disgusted as I was at this, I was not really surprised which should raise even more questions. That is the level to which the Democrats have sunk. There’s very little below it but the Democrats are capable of reaching it.
William F. Buckley, Jr. was the chief architect of the post-war resurgence of conservatism in public forums in America. Progressivism had dominated intellectual debate for decades with government being our assumed salvation. It had resulted in Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Socialism but that didn’t matter to the intelligentsia. Buckley and others had the audacity to question that but it remains sacrosanct in our institutions especially, our schools. That is the root of the current state of the Democratic Party. They have no room for any doubt of their righteous status.
Buckley did break with libertarian godfather Murray Rothbard over foreign policy and he earned the ire of many on the Right, most notably Rothbard and The John Birch Society for his interventionist views. He had worked for two years as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency and I have not a shred of doubt that the CIA supplied him with seed money for founding National Review with its interventionist position.
But nevertheless, Buckley was an astute observer of the liberal mind and he once said that liberal intolerance isn’t just hostility to other opinions but astonishment that there even is another opinion. This is where the Democratic Party is today. They are the philosophic children of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc. and that includes their propensity to violence. It’s significant that that very few of them, if any, have unequivocally condemned the violence that has accompanied the election of Donald J. Trump. It’s highly unlikely that it will change anytime soon.
But progressives have been nothing, if not resourceful, when pursuing their goals. When they began their drive for homosexual marriage, they cited the ‘full faith & credit’ clause of The Constitution, that was long considered nearly unenforceable, to force other states where it was not legal to recognize marriages from states where it was. Now they accuse Pres. Trump of constitutional violations without citing precisely how.
It is wonderful that people are beginning to pay attention to The Constitution and everyone should actually read & discuss it. That should inevitably lead to questions about the current extent of the federal government. My own opinion is that the Tenth Amendment leaves no doubt that about 90% of the federal government should not exist. The Tenth Amendment has been ignored.
The Democratic Party now has nowhere to go. They are out of fresh ideas. America is as socialist as it is likely to ever be and Americans are asking some uncomfortable questions about that and even more uncomfortably why.
Their constituency is rioting and burning Teslas. That’s uncivilized but Democratic leaders say nothing, in tacit approval. Their judges are issuing orders to the executive in violation of the separation of powers. That’s unconstitutional.
Its leaders are lockstep in abortion rights with no limitations & forcing citizens, who consider it ‘tantamount to murder (Al Gore’s words)’, to finance it. That’s barbaric & immoral.
Now, they are turning on their own as exemplified by the opprobrium directed at their colleague, Chuck Schumer for endorsing a temporary budget agreement that will keep the government in operation. Nothing short of the complete devotion to the destruction of this country will satisfy them.
People are realizing that government is not the solution to our problems but rather is the problem. Government is the God of progressives. People do not accept that assumption.
The Democrats disseminate hatred, contempt, fear and discontent. They have no appreciation of what we have accomplished. They offer nothing of hope and joy for this life & have painted themselves into a corner of unprincipled nihilism, barbarism & despair. Those things don’t win elections.
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Donald J. Trump’s speech before Congress on March 4 was an abject lesson on the state of the current Democratic Party. A sweep of their assembled Representatives and Senators showed an assortment of angry, contemptuous, hate filled miscreants.
Not one applauded at anything, not even for Devarjay Daniel the boy who had battled brain cancer. He had wanted to be a cop and Trump had an honorary Secret Service membership conferred on him. Sean Curran, the director of the Secret Service who conferred the membership smiled and people who knew him said they had never seen him smile. It was a time to place politics aside but the Democrats didn’t budge. How does anyone justify that? Human beings don’t & the Democrats didn’t.
What was even worse were the commentators, exemplified by the insensate Niccolo Wallace with this wonderful statement. “I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer. But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters, and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide, and I hope he isn’t one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people." This is the type of garbage that we have to endure.
Anything such as that would have been unthinkable 25 years ago but Hillary’s characterization of her opponent’s supporters as ‘deplorables’ paved the way for this deterioration. Her opponent at that time was Donald J. Trump.
It was the first time in America history that a candidate attacked the opponent’s supporters! The idea of campaigns was to persuade them to switch their support. It ushered in this era and what we have now is its culmination.
Blue collar workers, who used to be a reliable mainstay of the Democratic Party, are no longer welcome in the party. They are despised.
As disgusted as I was at this, I was not really surprised which should raise even more questions. That is the level to which the Democrats have sunk. There’s very little below it but the Democrats are capable of reaching it.
William F. Buckley, Jr. was the chief architect of the post-war resurgence of conservatism in public forums in America. Progressivism had dominated intellectual debate for decades with government being our assumed salvation. It had resulted in Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Socialism but that didn’t matter to the intelligentsia. Buckley and others had the audacity to question that but it remains sacrosanct in our institutions especially, our schools. That is the root of the current state of the Democratic Party. They have no room for any doubt of their righteous status.
Buckley did break with libertarian godfather Murray Rothbard over foreign policy and he earned the ire of many on the Right, most notably Rothbard and The John Birch Society for his interventionist views. He had worked for two years as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency and I have not a shred of doubt that the CIA supplied him with seed money for founding National Review with its interventionist position.
But nevertheless, Buckley was an astute observer of the liberal mind and he once said that liberal intolerance isn’t just hostility to other opinions but astonishment that there even is another opinion. This is where the Democratic Party is today. They are the philosophic children of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc. and that includes their propensity to violence. It’s significant that that very few of them, if any, have unequivocally condemned the violence that has accompanied the election of Donald J. Trump. It’s highly unlikely that it will change anytime soon.
But progressives have been nothing, if not resourceful, when pursuing their goals. When they began their drive for homosexual marriage, they cited the ‘full faith & credit’ clause of The Constitution, that was long considered nearly unenforceable, to force other states where it was not legal to recognize marriages from states where it was. Now they accuse Pres. Trump of constitutional violations without citing precisely how.
It is wonderful that people are beginning to pay attention to The Constitution and everyone should actually read & discuss it. That should inevitably lead to questions about the current extent of the federal government. My own opinion is that the Tenth Amendment leaves no doubt that about 90% of the federal government should not exist. The Tenth Amendment has been ignored.
The Democratic Party now has nowhere to go. They are out of fresh ideas. America is as socialist as it is likely to ever be and Americans are asking some uncomfortable questions about that and even more uncomfortably why.
Their constituency is rioting and burning Teslas. That’s uncivilized but Democratic leaders say nothing, in tacit approval. Their judges are issuing orders to the executive in violation of the separation of powers. That’s unconstitutional.
Its leaders are lockstep in abortion rights with no limitations & forcing citizens, who consider it ‘tantamount to murder (Al Gore’s words)’, to finance it. That’s barbaric & immoral.
Now, they are turning on their own as exemplified by the opprobrium directed at their colleague, Chuck Schumer for endorsing a temporary budget agreement that will keep the government in operation. Nothing short of the complete devotion to the destruction of this country will satisfy them.
People are realizing that government is not the solution to our problems but rather is the problem. Government is the God of progressives. People do not accept that assumption.
The Democrats disseminate hatred, contempt, fear and discontent. They have no appreciation of what we have accomplished. They offer nothing of hope and joy for this life & have painted themselves into a corner of unprincipled nihilism, barbarism & despair. Those things don’t win elections.
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