I’m not going to eulogize Ms. Parton. She was amazing, and if you think differently, well… you’re wrong. So I bring to you, Dolly’s first performance of Coat of Many Colors, from Jan. 13, 1970:
I’ve been a Dolly fan for years, and more than her music, I have loved her attitude. She understood how to give someone a hand up rather than a handout. And that’s what I remember her for. Rest easy on your bed of comfortable cotton, Ms. Parton. We miss you already.
This summer has been a ridiculously busy one, and real life kind of slapped us all in the face. Between car issues, truck issues, injuries, illnesses… we just haven’t been on here. And that needs to change. I’m going to be making a huge effort, though please excuse any hiccups between now and the end of September.
I’m going to throw some quick stuff together and hopefully I’ll manage to get my writing back in gear.
To give you a quick rundown of my summer, I spent early summer dealing with some minor but negative health things, and then went right into New Hampshire Renaissance Faire. I want to say, that was the most difficult and yet most satisfying year ever. We managed to raise over $147,000 for the NH Food Bank and over $97,000 for Rockford NH Meals on Wheels. All that by doing a fair that everyone loves anyhow. đ It’s my most important charity event of the year, and I give it everything I’ve got.
Because I gave it everything, I then missed a couple of events I’d intended on attending. I was just … spent. But I did 9 library gigs this spring and summer, I believe, and that was a real record for me. I love doing 18th century library gigs, but wow, that was a lot. I moved from those into Maine Ren, which was a full 3 weekends this year. You might not think that sounds like much, but it’s four days (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon) of hard labor for each weekend of fair. I managed to do something to my foot and ankle, so I missed yet another event after that one, so that I could take care of myself.
From there, I moved into Fort events, which are a little easier for me. I’ve made the sad but necessary decision to step away from my French F&I group, the Pequawket Alliance. I just don’t have enough time to do stuff with them. I’ll still see everyone when they come to the Fort, though, so it’s not an entire goodbye. Still, it was sad.
And then I missed the event I love doing every year, Hillsboro History Alive, because the truck’s alternator died. I was packed and ready to go, and then we fizzled. So I spent last weekend at home, sleeping and reading. I’m ashamed by just how much I needed that.
I have a handful more events this year. New library gigs may arrive, and I also have Auburn Duck Race Day (Sat. Sept. 12, 10am to 3pm, Auburn Village on Hooksett Rd, Auburn NH), the Timeline event at the Fort (Sept 26/27), Mayflower Market Days (Oct 17/18, in Plympton, MA), and the Hammond Castle Ren Faire days (Nov 7/8).
With more time on my hands, I’m sitting down to get caught up on my writing, which was sadly neglected since May. I’m working apace on my latest vampire novel, with a hope of getting it out for the xmas rush. That would be nice. đ
I’ll leave you with a little bit of the Working Man’s Blues:
This post is from a FB group called Collective Evolution. I’m sharing it here because it says a LOT.
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I ran across this one in a queue of music that Google/YouTube curated for me. I must say, I have become a big fan of Inappropriate Jazz, which is advertised as “edgy angry woman singing.” I admit, I would not want to listen to the entire album in one sitting, but dispersed throughout my day, it’s a fucking pleasure. Heh…
So many people have told me what a lady should and shouldn’t do, over the years. I got tired of it, stopped listening entirely, and simply focused on being the best PERSON I could be. It wasn’t until my early 40s that the idea of being a lady came up again. I’m still not sold on it, but there are moments when I dress “as a lady” and behave myself with a modicum of politeness because it’s appropriate to the time. I suppose in those moments, I could be called a lady.
In any case, this song makes me smile.
Meat Loaf performs National Anthem at 1994 All-Star Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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USS Constitution underway in Boston harbor and firing its guns in salute
video – 00:00:20 –Â https://www.facebook.com/
This Is Why Some Want Your Guns
https://bearingarms.com/
…What we need to understand, though, is that while this is just one rando on Reddit, where anyone can post anything, it represents what a lot of people would like to do. Is it any wonder that these same people want to inflict gun control on the rest of the country? See, while right now, small-town America can generally handle itself just fine from a rampaging mob, the reason most people won’t bring up a “suggestion” like this is that the rural communities have the guns to fight back, even in states like California or New York. Removing the guns from the equation is critical, especially as most people live in the cities, so even if they’re not part of this so-called revolution, they’re not going to be the ones impacted directly. They think that guns lead to the crime they see in their communities, so they support gun control with the misperception that it is a benefit to society………….
âCitizen Vigilanteâ is the wake-up call Western civilization needs
https://www.americanthinker.
The movie is not just a low-budget sleeper hit; it is the rare pop-cultural touchstone in an age of fading cinematic relevance. Citizen Vigilante has emerged as the independent cinematic juggernaut of 2026, packing a brutal punch for woke, self-destructive Westerners.
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Why the Media Won’t Touch a Movie That Multiple Millions Are Watching – “Citizen Vigilante” Shakes Up Europe
https://jackcashill.substack.
The primary good in this film is its in-your-face message to European authorities. Citizen Vigilante has put them on notice that tens of millions of their frustrated citizens are ready for vigilante justice…widely banned throughout Europe, Elon Musk has made Citizen Vigilante available for free through X. Some 20 million people watched in the first 24 hours alone. Said Musk to his critics, âMurderous migrants beheading innocent people in their hometown is whatâs making people angry, not âsocial mediaâ!â
video – 00:02:00 –Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?
(Schadenfreude – jlr)
Liberal Town Elects All Muslim City Council, They Were Shocked by What Happened Next – YouTube
Hamtramck, Michigan, where pro-LGBTQ liberals experienced suicidal empathy firsthand after the all-Muslim city council voted to ban Pride flags from being flown on city buildings.
video – 00:03:14 –Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?
âThe Viewâ keeps spreading half-truths about the Karmelo Anthony case â and Sunny Hostin is leading the charge
https://www.theblaze.com/
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Mob Shouting ‘Free Karmelo’ Violently Assaults ‘The Smallest White Girl They Could Find,’
https://www.westernjournal.
US Strikes Iran In Retaliation To Hormuz Ship Attack
https://www.zerohedge.com/
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Tehran Retaliates Against Bahrain, Kuwait After US Bombing Campaign Along Iranian Coast
https://www.zerohedge.com/
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Iranâs Shipping War Intensifies: Oil Tanker Hit Days After Cargo Ship Attack
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
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Iran Widens War: Strikes Bahrain and Kuwait, Threatens to Choke Off Strait of Hormuz
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
And That’s the Truth
https://michaelsmith.substack.
The DSA is within striking distance of Obama’s fundamental transformation – but they can be stopped.
he only use the Democrat Socialists of America had for the Democrats was ballot access, but to accomplish their stated goals of the destruction of capitalism and Western Civilization, they still need the Democrats to do the things they have openly promised and are currently discussing.
To wit:
Take control of Congress and in 2028, the presidency, then
Pass a national wealth tax
Pass laws to censor the crap out of everything they donât like and some that they do
Reopen the border and end deportations
Pack the Supreme Court and start undoing the rulings they donât like
End the Electoral College and make presidential elections a national referendum
Eliminate the Senate (or at least deep six the filibuster if they take control)
Add DC and Puerto Rico as states
Prosecute conservatives and Christians
Restart USAID to get the gravy train to their international partners restart
The Swamp’s Got Another Bright Idea, and It Could End Up Hosing Every American Who Drives
https://www.westernjournal.
Congress wants to add another bill to the pile: a new federal annual vehicle registration fee.
Gavin Newsom Calls for ‘National Billionaires Tax’ to Trigger ‘Economic Reset’
https://www.westernjournal.
DHS Delivers Bad News for 300,000 Haitians in the US: ‘It’s Closing Time’
https://www.westernjournal.
Itâs closing time, they donât have to go home, but they canât stay here
For the New York Times, Pregnancy Is Now Right-Wing Extremism
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
New York Times Kvetches That Pregnancy Is a MAGA Fashion Statement
(If the left thinks pregnancy is right-wing extermism and fail to reproduce – I don’t see a down side to that – jlr)
Fewer than 1 in 5 Dems feel proud to be American ahead of 250th birthday â compared to 2 in 3 of Republicans
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
Soros Leads 2026 Midterm Donations with STAGGERING $102.8 Million to Democrats
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
Talaricoâs Own Party Just Handed Ken Paxton His Best Campaign Ad of 2026
https://dailyheadlines.com/
Ben Flores meant to defend James Talarico at the Texas Democrat Convention. Instead he handed Ken Paxton the best 30-second ad of the cycle.
What Happened
Ben Flores, the Texas Democrat nominee for Land Commissioner, told the crowd at the Texas Democrat Convention in Corpus Christi that in solidarity with Senate nominee James Talarico, Democratic Texas Land Commissioner candidate Ben Flores: “Next time they say that James is trans â weâre all trans! When they say James is gay tofu eating vegan â weâre all gay tofu eating vegans! And when they say James is going to hell â weâll say weâre all going to hell!â
Why It Matters
The speech went viral instantly, handing Ken Paxtonâs campaign a ready-made ad while two new polls show Paxton pulling ahead of Talarico in what was supposed to be a competitive Senate race.
Bottom Line
Talarico has also called God ânon-binary,â referred to women as âneighbors with a uterus,â scrubbed âtrans kidsâ language from his website mid-campaign, and denied being vegan while his own campaign proudly declared itself a ânon-meat campaign.â
video – 00:00:27 –Â https://x.com/FoxNews/status/
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Anti-James Talarico Ad – Texas Senate 2026 – Lone Star Liberty PAC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
UK orders homeowners to remove AC units during heatwave due to concerns about climate change
https://notthebee.com/article/
U.S. Returning to a Gold-Backed Dollar? (an ad for selling you gold – but it may have some good information over all – YMMV – jlr)
https://harvardgoldgroup.com/
Why Would the U.S. Want a Partial Gold-Backed Dollar?
It would create an immediate currency and debt reset without war
It would restore world confidence in the dollar as the worldâs most premier reserve currency, securing and extending our world power position
It would effectively inflate away a large part of our 38.5 trillion in debt, mitigating debt concerns while maintaining some monetary flexibility
Mamdaniâs Unprecedented NYC Rent Freeze
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
The rent is frozen. So is your landlord’s ability to fix your appliances or do any upgrades. And when the conditions quickly deteriorate, Zohran will use it as a justification to seize private property. Welcome to the ‘warmth of collectivism,’ New York.
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Mamdani Wonât Enforce SCOTUS Ruling on Deportation
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
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Abdul El-Sayed Urged Mass Release of Prisoners and Touted ‘Decarceration’ Policies in Bizarre Webinar Where He Chatted Up Murderer and Rapist
https://freebeacon.substack.
The Democratic Senate hopeful expressed support for a mass release of prisoners and the dismantling of the ‘carceral state’
The Supreme Court puts border judges back in their lane
https://www.theblaze.com/
The Supreme Courtâs two immigration decisions issued last week mark an important turning point â not simply because they uphold significant Trump administration immigration policies, but because they reaffirm a more fundamental constitutional principle: Immigration policy belongs primarily to the political branches, not the judiciary.
What Caused This GOP Rep to Tear Into Jamie Raskin
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
Whatâs painfully clear again is that Democrats prioritize the rights and needs of illegal aliens over American citizens.
video – 00:01:51 –Â https://twitter.com/i/status/
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video – 00:00:52 –Â https://twitter.com/i/status/
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Oh, So Dr. Fauci’s Pardon From Joe Biden Is Not ‘Bulletproof’?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
Democrat Civil War Has Begun
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
Establishment Democrats are alarmed by the rapid rise of Zohran Mamdani and his DSA posse and are starting to speak up.
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Trump Jokes “I’d Be The Greatest Communist In History” As Democratic Elites Panic Over Socialist Hijack
https://www.zerohedge.com/
A series of high-profile Democrats and party strategists this week sounded the alarm that socialists have hijacked the Democratic Party, with radical left-wing revolutionaries increasingly gaining power not just in local elections across the country, but most notably in far-left-controlled New York City.
(Schadenfreudian giggle – jlr)
pic –Â https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/
Democrats are absolutely terrified when the unofficial spokesperson of the DSA, Hasan Piker, calls for his followers to kill capitalists: “Yeah, kill them! Kill those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the streets. Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist blood, dude.”
(When people tell you who they are and what they want, in plain words, BELEIVE THEM – If they say that they want you DEAD – BELEIVE THEM – jlr)
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Democrats Have a âDINOâ Problem
https://amac.us/newsline/
The Democrat establishment is rightly at DEFCON 1 â and the threat isnât from Republicans, but rather a growing band of openly socialist candidates promising to wreck the party from the inside and build something far more radical in its place. These are the DINOs â Democrats-in-Name-Only.
HOO and BOY: You HAVE to See This MORONIC Rant From Tammy Duckworth About Voter ID to Believe It (WATCH)
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/
Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth: âIf you have a different name on your birth certificate than is on your drivers license, you CANNOT vote, and so for the 69 MILLION American WOMEN who took their husbandâs names, you cannot vote. That birth certificate is not valid. By the way, military IDs will not be valid for you to be able to vote, neither will your REAL IDâŚSo you have to go in with a passport that matches your current ID, and you know how hard it is to get a passport? Number one, itâs expensive and number two, theres such a backlog in the State Department, some people are waiting 3-6 months to get a passport. And so, think about the 69 million American women who married and took their husbandâs name, you can no longer vote under the #SAVEActâŚand in order to have housing for young people whoâŚdonât see home ownership as being something that they can achieve, heâs going to hold women who are married and took their husbandâs name hostage.â
video – 00:01:03 –Â https://twitter.com/i/status/
Supreme Court Just Ruled 5-4 on Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
The Court held that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United State, which means they are considered citizens under the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
Roberts was joined by Sotomayor, Karan, Barrett, and Jackson
(itâs going to take a Constitutional Amendment and a legal movement to achieve it, to strike the Fourteenth Amendmentâs framing of the issue. – jlr)
(just another reason for TEXIT – jlr)
Iran exits World Cup and AP reaches for the tissues
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
Iran has been eliminated from the World Cup in heartbreaking fashion, narrowly failing to advance past the group stage in a politically charged tournament where the team played its matches amid tight restrictions imposed by the United States.
Armed Man With Flamethrowers Stopped Outside High Point Church
https://www.
An alert congregant and an off-duty officer stopped a heavily armed man carrying a notebook of church and school addresses before he could act in High Point, North Carolina.
How a McDonald’s men’s room perfectly captures blue-state decline
https://www.theblaze.com/
Vermont’s sad transformation from old New England treasure to bleak sci-fi dystopia.
Iranian Clerics Call for Trump and Netanyahuâs Assassination: âSEND THEM TO HELLâ
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
According to their most religious clerics, it is an Islamic âdeligious dutyâ to kill US president and Israeli PM.
This is Islam.
A major Iranian newspaper ran a front page with Mr Trumpâs face in the crosshairs of a rifle scope beneath the banner headline âRevenge is certainâ.
Director Muslim American Society: âAs a Muslim, my lifeâs mission is to fight the US Government, US Army and ICE until my last breathâŚ. the reason for my existence.â
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
video – 00:01:06 –Â https://x.com/mcucolo57/
(When people tell you who they are and what they want, in plain words, BELEIVE THEM – If they say that they want you DEAD – BELEIVE THEM – jlr)
( IRAN & Co have been chanting “Dath to America” for decades – it is NOT just a slogan – it is what they want – every man, woman, and child in Amreica dead, or subserviant to Islam – there is no negotiating with religious fanatics willing to kill their own children in order to kill Americans – jlr
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Jihadi says: âI have a 7-month-old baby, and Iâm willing to put explosives on him and send him to Tel Avivâ
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
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Muslim Migrant Hacks Family To Death With Meat Cleaver
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
And still the West keeps importing Muslims.
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Israel Uncovers 82-Foot-Deep Terror Tunnel Near Jerusalem Crossing
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
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6 DEAD IN GERMANY MASS SHOOTING: Muslim Opens Fire on Youth Facility for Pregnant Women and Young Mothers near Hamburg
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
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‘No American flags’: Calls for remigration intensify after latest Muslim demonstration in Dearborn, Michigan
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
…Dearborn Michigan just went maximum Islam, flooding the streets and making clear they’re here to conquer, not assimilate.
Here are the states that REFUSE to participate in Trumpâs Great American State Fair
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Hawaii is reportedly declining to participate as well.
First they came for the thermostats
https://www.collapselife.com/
The war on air conditioning is about whether ordinary people can still expect comfort, safety, and abundance.
Supreme Court Rules on Mail-In Ballots Received After Election Day
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
SCOTUS ruled 5-4 that Mississippi mail-in ballots can be received 5 days AFTER Election Day as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
Usual suspects: Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the 5-4 majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and three liberal justices
22 States are blocking the Trump Admin from inspecting SNAP â ALL DEMOCRATS
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
22 States are blocking the Trump Admin from inspecting SNAP. All 22 have Dem governors. All 22 know there is massive SNAP fraud in their states. Dems protect fraud because fraud is how the Dems gain power……..And stay in power.
Clarence Thomas Irks MSNOW Reporter by Laughing Off Questions at Capitol
https://www.westernjournal.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Really Worried Judges Might Actually Apply Second Amendment In Gun Cases
https://www.westernjournal.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson complained in a dissent released Thursday that the Supreme Court applying the Second Amendment involves throwing out unconstitutional gun laws
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todays giggle
Karen Completely Loses it When Police Refuse to Treat Her Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
TEXAS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Texas Nationalist Movement – A peaceful, lawful movement to put Texas independence to a vote of the people.
The Texian Brief
A weekly letter from Daniel Miller ¡ June 26, 2026 ¡ 6 min read
Two weeks ago, at the Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston, this movement crossed a line ten years in the making. The dust has settled now, and I want to tell you what it actually meant.
A decade ago, the party establishment stacked the committee and gaveled us down to keep Texas independence from ever reaching the convention floor. This year, they had nothing left to stack and nothing left to gavel. The independence planks we wrote are in the platform, and the people who signed our pledge are inside the party now, not locked out of it.
Let me show you how far that ran. Plus a couple of things since then that say the ground is still moving.
Ten years ago they gaveled us down. This year it was settled.
We came to the convention this year, and for the first time the establishment had no trick left to keep independence off the floor. It was already in the platform.
Why it matters: Here’s what that distance means. A decade ago, we brought independence resolutions from counties all across Texas, and the party bosses reached for the only power they had left. They stacked the committee. They gaveled the vote down. They kept the question off the floor and told the press we were a curiosity. This year, the delegates kept both independence planks we wrote, word for word. Texas First Pledge signers now hold the chair, the vice chair, and seats on the committee that runs the party. Our booth was one of the busiest in the hall. The fringe doesn’t run the building.
– Both planks stayed word for word. The independence plank still calls on the Legislature to pass the referendum bill we’ve pushed for years.
– The new party chair and the new vice chair both signed the Texas First Pledge.
– A decade ago they treated us as a problem to manage. This year, TEXIT wasn’t even the most controversial thing in the room.
The New York Times took independence seriously. Then a historian reached for the question.
The New York Times ran a long feature this month on Americans who want out. Their Pacific Northwest bureau chief walked through the movements: Cascadia in the Northwest, Greater Idaho, Alberta’s coming referendum, organizers in Texas and California and New Mexico. Her read was plain. The conversation is real now, it crosses the old left-right line, and the people in it feel unrepresented enough to talk openly about redrawing the map. A paper of record treating that as a live question is its own kind of news.
The better moment came from outside the movement. Brion McClanahan is a historian of the Constitution and the president of the Abbeville Institute. He spent the better part of an hour on his show working through the Times piece, paragraph by paragraph. And when he reached for the cleanest way to frame the whole debate, he reached for a question I’ve been asking for years. His words: “everything you know now, would you join the United States today? Most people say no. So why are we suffering? Why are we tolerating it? It’s the question.”
He called it the question. The definite article. On his own.
What this means: I didn’t put that in his mouth. He walked through movements all across the spectrum and decided mine was the one that cuts to the center. When people outside the movement start borrowing your frame to think, the fringe label stops meaning much. You’re setting the terms.
The founders wanted hard money. An independent Texas would finish the job.
Here’s a part of the case people forget. For generations after the founding, the dollar was the strongest long-term currency on earth, with almost no inflation. Then Washington started pulling the silver out of the coins, and finally cut the last tie to gold for good.
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The founders would have seen it coming. Washington, in the middle of the Revolution, wrote that a wagon load of paper money would barely buy a wagon load of provisions. Jefferson, the man who wrote the Declaration, called paper money the ghost of money, not money itself. They had lived through the collapse of the Continental, and they wanted a currency that held its value.
That history is a blueprint. Texas is already building toward sound money, with a state bullion depository and gold-backed instruments of its own. An independent Texas would finish what the founders started.
What this means: This is the pattern in everything we do. Build the independent Texas now, one piece at a time, so the vote is the last step instead of the first. The founders already drew up the money part.
Around the Republic
– The Texas First Pledge has a permanent home now at taketexasback.com. Type in your address and see whether the people who represent you have signed.
– We rebuilt the whole movement online, one home for the case for independence, at thetnm.org.
– On the latest Late Night Coffee Talk: the convention fallout, and a fight over data centers in Texas that’s just getting started.
They stacked it and gaveled us down to keep us out. Now the planks we wrote are in the platform, and the people who signed our pledge won seats inside the party. None of that happened because of me. It happened because Texans like you decided to be counted, and kept deciding it. So decide it again.
Ten years ago they called us a curiosity. Since the convention, a historian who has never been part of this movement called my question the question, on a show built around thinking for yourself. A poll didn’t move. The ground did. You already know the question. You already know your answer. The only thing left is to make sure Texas gets to give its answer at the ballot box. That’s the whole job now. Let’s go finish it.
Daniel Miller
President
Texas Nationalist Movement
P.S. Ten years ago they gaveled us down. This year our planks are in the platform. Imagine where the next ten go. I plan to be in the room when Texas votes.
Sometimes you think you know a musical artist, and then they throw you a curve ball. Alice Cooper was like that. He started out wanting to be the “worst band ever” and became popular. Then they did the 70s thing and went mainstream (that’s where this song comes in). And then shock rock became a thing, and he found his complete groove. I hope you enjoy. This is one of my favorite Cooper songs, and it never got air play because it’s not “scary” Coop stuff.
Stamp of Absurdity
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
But just looking at the zero dollars makes you realize how idiotic the NFA is in our world of Instant Background Checks. – – – NFA Must Go.
(The left is winning among the sheeple – jlr)
‘Alarming violence’ leads community to cancel Fourth of July celebration ahead of America’s 250th anniversary
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
a rash of “teen takeovers” have plagued various communities around the country over the last several months…With one culprit claiming that “we was bored!” hundreds of teens rampaged a Bronx mall and even fought with police in a planned “takeover” on Presidents’ Day in February.
(This is what the ablity to commit crimes with our any consequences at all, let alomne meaningful consequences, results in – jlr)
Notes from the edge of civilization: June 21, 2026 – – Iran as infrastructure; Britain’s dystopia; celebrating Dads.
https://www.collapselife.com/
Iran: The Goal Was Always Economic Reintegration, Not Containment
Predictive programming: when fiction stops being fiction – a discussion about how the clues are everywhere, if you choose to notice them.
No matter how tight the economic times are, apparently even the most squeezed consumers can still find change under the cushions for Dad.
Juneteenth CARNAGE â Media Stays Silent!
https://republicandaily.org/
At least 12 people were shot when an SUV rolled up on a Juneteenth street gathering and opened fire…Across the broader Chicago area during that Juneteenth weekend, at least 75 people were shot in 51 separate incidents, with 13 killed.[1] That tally comes from Chicago Police Department data reported by local media, not activists or politicians.[1] When violence is that frequent, one mass shooting can blur into the next. That blur helps national talking heads push their favorite narrative but makes it harder for local families to get the specific truth about what happened on their block.
(“Media stays silent” = it’s just Black on Black crime = business as usual, nothing to see here, we’re movin on to something we can use to fan the flames – jlr)
Leftists (Democrats) Arrested For Ripping Up, Vandalizing Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
Bring back flogging
https://disaffectedpod.
No one is âready for this,â but that means it needs to be pushed and talked about until people give in and have a serious conversation.
Bring back flogging. Painful, humiliating, public flogging.
California Implements âGay Certification Programâ For Utility Contracts
https://amac.us/newsline/
At this point, readers are likely asking, âHow can any of this be legal?â The answer: itâs not â on multiple fronts.
Judge stops effort to keep taxpayer-funded food stamps from buying soda
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, issued her opinion on Monday, which denied that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had the authority to make such cuts from the program.
Judge Sides With Rioters, Says Safety Fence Around Federal Building Tramples Their Free Speech
https://twitchy.com/brettt/
The government put up fencing in April to protect against rioters and further damage to the building, but plaintiffs claimed that the presence of the fence tramples on their free speech rights…The fencing was recently installed in response to ongoing violent riots carried out by Antifa and aligned anarchist groups since June 2025.
Israel Uncovers Massive Tunnel Network in Southern Lebanon
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
Why arenât gas prices falling? Trump wants answers.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
President Donald Trump has instructed the Department of Justice to probe oil companies for not reducing their rates in line with falling costs.
PCUSAâs Next Culture-War Fight: Monogamy vs. Polyamory
https://pjmedia.com/chris-
Mainline Protestantism keeps finding new ways to negotiate with the culture instead of submitting to Scripture. Now the PCUSA is staring down a debate over monogamy, polyamory, and whether biblical marriage is just another outdated ârelationship model.â
The Pandemic That Never Ended
https://michaelsmith.substack.
The new socialists are selling therapy, not economics. Their promises are emotionally satisfying but intellectually vacant, offering moral absolution instead of practical answers…A society governed by emotionally damaged people who refuse to examine the causes of their own distress will eventually make emotionally damaged political decisions.
History suggests that rarely ends well.
House Advances Bipartisan Bill to Make Tech Giants Pay AI Data Center Power Costs
https://www.westernjournal.
The Ratepayer Protection Act, H.R. 9340, would authorize states to charge companies building data centers the full cost of new power generation to support the electricity-gobbling centers and transmission upgrades.
Supreme Court Delivers Massive Victory for Trump’s Immigration Agenda
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in favor of the Trump administrationâs decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Syria and Haiti. In a six-to-three decision, the justices found that the TPS statute bars judicial review of non-constitutional claims and that the plaintiffs’ equal protection challenge to the White Houseâs decision is unlikely to succeed on its merits.
Supreme Court Just Handed Down Another Second Amendment Win
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
…the Supreme Court ruled in Wolford v. Lopez that concealed carry permit holders cannot be barred on private property. Hawaii is one of the most anti-gun states in the country, and obtaining a permit is already a herculean task. This law essentially gutted the purpose of a carry permit, and the Court remedied that in a 6-3 decision. Under the old law, a carry permit holder would’ve been required to ask permission to enter a grocery store if he or she was carrying, for example. It was madness. Hawaii’s law that kneecapped carry holders was passed after the landmark 2022 Bruen decision, where the Court ruled the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right for citizens to carry handguns for self-defense outside the home
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SCOTUS Decides How Far States May Regulate Concealed Carry in Public
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Ketanji Brown Jackson melts down over SCOTUS ruling against Hawaii gun law: ‘The court’s objective is protecting guns’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
…Jackson was once again of a different mind than her conservative colleagues on the meaning of the “right to bear arms.”…her dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Jackson framed â in Orwellian fashion â Hawaii’s infringement on Americans’ constitutional rights as an effort to “protect the rights of its residents â both those who wish to carry guns and those who prefer that guns are not carried on their private property without their express permission.”…Jackson concluded her 32-page dissent with yet another attack on her colleagues, writing, “While purporting to constrain judges, the majority has unmasked the discretionary choices that lie beneath the courtâs decisions regarding which analogues are ‘vastly different’ … and whose historical experiences are worthy of inclusion.”
Jackson âwho repeatedly stressed that she still disagrees with the decision in Bruen, calling it a “grave mistake” â claimed that “the court’s objective is protecting guns, not consistently preserving any principle of law.”
In 6-3 Ruling, SCOTUS Upholds Trump Border Policy on Asylum Seekers
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
…the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that asylum seekers had ‘arrived in the United States’ when they stood on the Mexico side of the border and encountered a U.S. official. The Trump administration appealed that ruling, and today the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major win, ruling 6-3 to overturn the lower court’s decision.
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Supreme Court Hands Trump Two Major Immigration Victories on Asylum and Temporary Protected Status
https://istandforfreedom.com/
The notoriously liberal Ninth Circuit had blocked the policy, ruling that migrants standing on the Mexican side of the border had somehow âarrived inâ the United States… Justice Samuel Alito offered a dose of common sense the Ninth Circuit apparently needed: âA guest does not arrive in a house when he knocks on the front door.â
GOP Civil War Erupts On Two Fronts: Luna Freezes The House Floor, Trump Gets “Brother’d” By Cassidy In Senate Over SAVE Act
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and a band of House conservatives declared they would refuse to support any rule votes this week unless Senate Republicans finally moved the SAVE America Act – the proof-of-citizenship and voter ID bill that has passed the House multiple times but remains stuck in the upper chamber. Without a rule, the House can’t conduct normal business. Leadership blinked. The scheduled rule vote was pulled. The floor froze… Hours before a planned signing ceremony for the popular bipartisan housing bill (passed 358-32 in the House and 85-5 in the Senate), the president abruptly canceled it on Truth Social, declaring he would not sign the measure “until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.”…https://
Where Things Stand – As of mid-afternoon Wednesday:
1) The House is in procedural limbo, limited to suspension votes.
2) The housing bill signing is canceled.
3) Senate Republicans just sat through a venting session from an unhappy president.
4) A lame-duck senator (insultingly) called the Commander-in-Chief “brother” to his face.
In short, this is a collision of three different Republican power centers – House hardliners, Senate institutionalists, and a president who wants results now – all using the same bill as a weapon against each other.
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Get the Hell Outta Here”: Scott Presler Barred from SD Republican Dinner, Sparks Backlash Over SAVE Act Pressure
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John Thune Faces Censure Over Failure to Advance SAVE ActJohn Thune Faces Censure Over Failure to Advance SAVE Act
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
The South Dakota Republican Partyâs Resolutions Committee approved a censure resolution against Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who represents the state.
The West Fails To Understand That Iran Operates Religiously Not Pragmatically
https://www.americanthinker.
We view dealings with Iran from one election to another, whereas Iran views its wars as a global matter that affects everything and runs on a cosmic timetable.
Oil Prices Plummets
https://gellerreport.com/2026/
Oil was down 5% today and is now priced below the level it was on the day the Iran War started. Thatâs a dramatic turnaround, and precisely what President Trump expected and desired.
Fill It With Liberty
https://michaelsmith.substack.
Every political vacuum will be filled. The only question is whether we fill it with constitutional governmentâor someone else fills it with something far less fit to drink…If a political movement empties itself of constitutional principles, objective definitions, and intellectual discipline, something else will inevitably rush in to fill the space.
Citizen Vigilante: A Movie For Our Time
https://wilderwealthywise.com/
âRemember: I do this for you, until you learn to do it for yourself.â â Citizen Vigilante
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Exquisite Trolling
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
So, what does Elon Musk do? Streams it for free in X…They already hate him in Europe, so why not fuck with them Euro-weenies? This also solves the question of the reality of banning anything in this day and age.
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The migrant-killing vigilante film thatâs been banned in Germany
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Starring âcancelledâ Armie Hammer, the provocative new drama Citizen Vigilante asks whether cinema has become too afraid of political anger
The celebrity escape plan backfires as 2 iconic Trump haters just slunk back home
https://www.theblaze.com/
Rosie OâDonnell and Ellen DeGeneres are finding reasons to return to the United States despite fleeing after Trumpâs election.
Weekend Knowledge Dump- June 26, 2026
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A little humor…To start the week…22JUN26
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/
Liquor manufacturers have accepted the Governmentâs suggestion that the following warning labels be placed immediately on all varieties of alcohol
It is sometimes hard for me to understand just how far we’ve come in Second Amendment jurisprudence. I remember the time when there were legal battles and arguments about who did the right extend to.
On one side, there was a group of people saying that the right belonged to the militia. Since the right belonged to the militia, the only people or group of people that had standing to challenge on Second Amendment grounds were the militia. Since the only legal militia was the National Guard, under the control of the state, the only people who had standing to challenge a state law on Second Amendment grounds were the state.
In 2008 the Supreme Court smashed that argument to pieces. They applied their standard methods and stated it plainly: Dick Heller had the constitutional right to have a handgun in his home for self-defense in ready condition. Right?
Nope, the holding was broader than that.
478 F. 3d 370, affirmed.
This wasn’t an as-applied holding; this found that the D.C. law was unconstitutional.
But it was much more important that striking down several laws forbidding The People from having functional firearms in their homes changed how the lower courts (were supposed to) evaluate Second Amendment challenges.
This upset the gun grabbers, so they fought back. Many of the inferior courts said, “D.C. is a special case because it is a federally controlled area, not a state. The Second Amendment does not apply to the states.” Their stated reasoning for this was that the Supreme Court had never explicitly told them that the Second Amendment was a part of the Constitution and applied like everything else in the Constitution.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals actually said that since the Supreme Court had never said the Second Amendment was part of the Constitution, the state of Illinois did not have to respect it.
This led to McDonald, where the Supreme Court, once again, told the inferior courts, “Stop being jackasses; of course the Second Amendment applies to the states.”
These two cases advanced Second Amendment jurisprudence immensely. They opened the floodgates to a slew of Second Amendment challenges.
And there were actual advances in The People regaining some of their protected rights.
That is, until the inferior courts found a new hook. Interest balancing.
The inferior courts said, “We are too stupid to understand how to evaluate Second Amendment challenges as Heller told us. So we are going to look to First Amendment jurisprudence for guidence.”
While this might sound good on its face, it wasn’t when twisted by the states and inferior courts. First Amendment jurisprudence is littered with free speech exceptions. While the core protected rights are strongly protected, there is a lot of case law that gives rise to exceptions.
Consider political speech. Everybody knows you can get up on your soapbox and start yapping about anything political. But the courts have actually put limits on this. For example, they can restrict the time and place of such speech. You can’t set up your soapbox in the middle of an intersection. You can’t use a megaphone at midnight to make your speech.
The courts have gone further in limiting some types of speech. There are restrictions on certain topics at certain locations. You can’t show pornographic movies on the sidewalk outside a school. Even if that would be an acceptable location to give a political speech.
The gist was that there was a “core” protected right that had the strongest protections, and then there were other parts of the protected right that were not so strongly protected.
In First Amendment jurisprudence, the courts balanced how much the modern day regulation infringed on the “core” protected right and balanced it against the “good” of the modern day regulation.
In the inferior courts, they went to town with this exception process. When it came to Second Amendment challenges, the courts had three steps: 1) Is the plain text of the Second Amendment implicated? 2) How much does the modern regulation impede the core protected right? 3) What are the benefits of the modern infringement?
Being evil but not stupid, these inferior courts then bypassed the first question: Is the plain text implicated? If they were to answer this question in the negative, that would be a reason for appeals, and their decisions could be overturned on just that. If they said the plain text was implicated, then they have established a record that they could be held to later.
So they did the sidestep; they said, “Without making a determination, we accept that the modern day regulation does implicate the plain text of the Second Amendment.” They never said a single modern day infringement actually implicated the Second Amendment.
Having made that assumption, they then evaluated the infringement against the core protect right of armed self-defense within the home. This is similar to evaluating a rape by how much lube was being used. Yes, you have a right not to be raped, but they used a lot of lube so it didn’t hurt all that much.
Having decided how much it was hurting The People, they then looked at the government’s stated intentions, not the results, not what was actually happening, but on what the state said their intentions were. If those intentions were “good enough” when balanced against the pain The People were feeling, the courts ruled in favor of the state.
The reality was that the courts were working backwards. They wanted “the rape” to continue, so they looked at the government’s stated intention in passing the regulation, decided what level of scrutiny would survive that intention, and then justified that.
We were right back where we started from. The inferior courts in gun grabbing states were consistently (always, the Ninth Circuit Court en banc has never ruled against the state in a Second Amendment Challenge) finding for the state on interest balancing reasons.
In 2022, the Supreme Court issued their opinion in Bruen. Bruin took issue with the two-step shuffle. Justice Thomas wrote that the two step shuffle was one step too far and restated Heller’s core jurisprudence: When the plain text of the Second Amendment is implicated, the burden shifts to the government to prove that the modern regulation is a match for this Nation’s history and tradition of firearms regulation.
The holding in Bruen was that NYC’s may issue game was inconsistent with the Constitution. That part of the “core” protected rights of the Second Amendment was the ability to carry, to bear arms, outside the home.
The gun grabbers ran back to their corners and immediately put into place new laws to stop people from legally carrying. In some ways, the people of New York were worse off after Bruen than before. Before Bruen, if you were wealthy, connected, or lucky, you could get a permit to carry. Once you had that permit, you could carry in most places. After the Bruen tantrum, The People could get permits, but they couldn’t carry anyplace because every place they wanted to carry was off-limits, or the ability to get to a place where they could legally carry put them at risk of going through a prohibited location.
Consider a subject of New York state who has a permit to carry. They want to drive through NYC to get to some place. If they were to drive through Times Square, they would be in violation of one of the many locations where carry is prohibited.
As the governor of New York state said when asked where people could legally carry, “I don’t know, maybe some streets?”
The inferior courts were in a quandary; they had clear marching orders from their bosses, but that would require them to overturn most gun control laws. They had to do something.
They immediately pivoted to “We are to stupid to do our jobs.” Even though they have been through years of schooling on how to interpret and understand the laws of this Nation, even though they have studied case law for nearly a decade before being allowed to practice law, and even though most of them have some experience before being appointed to the bench, history was beyond them.
The legal profession is nearly 100% about interpreting the legal history of this Nation. How can a judge make a ruling on anything without looking to history? It could be the history of last week or of 250 years ago. If a judge is looking at a challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), they are looking at history from nearly 60 years ago when the Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed.
If they are looking at machine gun regulations, they are looking at laws from 1986. Before Heller and Bruen, the courts routinely looked at the Sullivan Act from 1911.
All of that is “Legal History” and that is all that Bruen demanded they do.
When that wasn’t making headway, they turned to sensitive places.
And still they were losing ground.
Under Joe Biden, the DoJ brought Rahimi to The Court. This was an attempt by the Biden DoJ to gut Bruen. The thinking was that Mr. Rahimi was a bad man doing bad things who deserved to be disarmed and incarcerated. We still won and Second Amendment Jurisprudence advanced again.
The important parts of Rahimi, for us, was that the Supreme Court clearly stated that any loss of Second Amendment protected rights could only be temporary. There is no such thing as a lifetime loss of gun rights. The second big thing was that to remove someone’s Second Amendment protected rights, the person must be adjudicated a danger to themselves or others.
This is actually a death knell for Red Flag laws. It hasn’t happened yet, but until you are adjudicated in a court of law with proper representation, you cannot lose your Second Amendment protected rights.
Because of Rahimi, there are hundreds of challenges to 18 U.S.C. §922(g)1, felon in possession. Some of these have made it to the Supreme Court and are waiting on final disposition; some have been rejected. But for every one that made it to that stage, I’m sure there are dozens that were resolved in an inferior court.
Which brings us to June, 2026. The Supreme Court has issued two new Second Amendment opinions.
The first was Hemani, another case with bad facts. Mr. Hemani is a bad man, in my opinion, but not in the opinion of the courts. He hasn’t been adjudicated of any violence. In fact, his charges were simply one count of violating 18 U.S.C. §922(g)3.
It shall be unlawful for any person â
to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.
Nothing about his terrorist-loving parents nor the fact that he is a dual citizen and also loves him some terrorists.
This was an as-applied opinion. It will be used to help other people who are accused under §922(g)3, but it doesn’t strike down §922(g)3 as is. We’ll have to wait to see how the government responds. The most likely change would be the removal of “unlawful user.”
As Hemani pointed out, tying the loss of Constitutionally protected rights to definitions under complete and arbitrary definitions by a federal agency is inconsistent with the Constitution.
But that is not the big part of Hemani. The important part was that it reaffirmed Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi as well as defining how to do regulation comparisons.
This is a big step forward. The inferior courts have a bad habit of saying “close enough” when it isn’t. It makes sense why this case was taken. It allowed The Court to issue an opinion focused on deriving analogous regulations from this Nation’s history and tradition of firearms regulations.
When the court issued Wolford v. Lopez, it was a win for people living under vampire rules. This is relief for millions of people. It didn’t sound like it was an important win for Second Amendment jurisprudence.
I was wrong. It is a huge win for us.
Whereas Hemani took on the “how” and the “why” of matching, Wolford v. Lopez takes on the inferior courts, pushing the historical analysis into the linguistic analysis for a Second Amendment challenge.
We know how to do a plain text analysis. The inferior courts have said they are too stupid to do so.
This is the takeaway. This is the step forward in Second Amendment jurisprudence. Stop pushing the historical analysis into the linguistic analysis. Is it an arm or does it relate to an arm? Are the people involved? Do the people wish to keep or bear the arm?
If the answer to these three questions is “yes” then the plain text of the Second Amendment is implicated.
There is almost nothing that removes a person from being a part of “the people”. As far as I can tell, the set of people that can be excluded are people who are in the U.S. illegally and those that are not within the U.S.
Keep and bear encompasses not only the possession and carrying of arms but also acquiring arms and all the things that make an arm useful or functional. While smokeless powder might not be a firearm, it is required for a modern firearm to function efficiently. Therefore, we have a protected right to acquire smokeless powder or ammunition in general.
We only have to look to Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. V. Minnesota to understand that even minor financial burdens infringe.
This leaves the question of “Is it an arm?”
If it is a firearm, then it is an arm. That means all platform bans are covered under the plain text of the Second Amendment.
But the term “arms” also includes those things that facilitate armed self-defense. That means everything from the firing pin and sling to ammo belts, clips and magazines.
This opinion is going to gut many of the current cases when the challengers start using Wolford v. Lopez to get the burden back on the state and to stop this game playing of the state claming “actually, that’s not an arm.”
There are moments I like being a lady. There are times I actually settle into a comfortable grandma moment. But let’s be honest, now… I’m not that way by nature. This song sings to my soul. đ
This opinion is great for the Second Amendment community and the country as a whole.
First, what is the “Holding”. The holding is the courts ruling in the case. This is the thing that is of interest to the parties directly involved. It is the guilty/not guilty part of the case.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a Per Curiam opinion on January 31st, 2025. They found that 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(3) was unconstitutional as applied to Mr. Hemani. Per Cuiam means that there were no oral arguments before the court as the court felt there was no need. They had enough information based on what had been filed with them. They may or may not have considered what the parities had to say or they could have just read what the lower court’s opinion was.
Regardless, they ruled that Mr. Hemani could not be charged under §922(g)3.
One of the interesting details of this case is that Mr. Hemani had no other charges against him. There was the sole count (information) that he had violated 18 U.S.C. §922(g)3. The government was arguing that his admiting to using pot several times a week and there being a gun in his home was enough to get him 15 years behind bars and the loss of his firearms rights.
The United States was not happy about this outcome. They appealed to the Supreme Court, and Certiorari was granted.
As a Second Amendment advocate this scared me. I, and others, were concerned that The Court would issue a weak opinion because Hemani is a bad man. Yeah, he is. His mother is worse and his father not much better. They are actively interacting with foreign bad actors. This is barely touched on in this opinion.
The Court continues to remind us that no right is absolute, but this opinion does a good job of explaining that “no right is absolute” requires the government to do the heavy lifting of text and historical tradition.
So what is the focus on this opinion and why do the liberals dislike the opinion they signed on to?
The focus is on how to determine if there is a match to this Nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation.
It starts by saying that it does not address if 1864 or 1791 is the proper date.
Why?
Because this is federal gun law. The only date possible is 1791 and The Court knows this. The Court explicitly states this does not answer that question but not why. It goes on to say it doesn’t matter because the government loses regardless of the year.
But the opinion starts by given a better definition of “text”. <q>To determine when the government infringes the Second Amendment, we begin by asking whether the Amendment’s terms cover the conduct in question.</q> This is a wider definition than “the text of the Second Amendment”. In Heller The Court defined “terms” this reference harkens back to the Heller decision.
We’ve defined these terms, use them. An important but subtle thing.
We move on to “require a historical twin” or “precise ⌠historical precursors”. And this is where it starts to get good.
Gorsuch explitcly states that while a historical regulation must match in “why” and “how”, these are not the limit on what must match. There are other features that might cause failure. The anti-gun people will try to twist this to mean that “how” and “why” don’t have to match if they find something else, but that’s not my reading of the line.
Be on the lookout for new arguments from the state (bad guys) arguing that some new simularity between today’s regulation and some past regulation make them the same. Look, both these laws talk about spitting; this means we can ban guns if you spit on the sidewalk.
Regardless, the rest of the opinion focuses heavily on how to compare a modern regulation’s “how” and “why” to this Nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation.
In the end, the holding is as applied to Mr. Hemeni. In reality, parts of §922(g)3 will change or have changed. Parts of the form 4473 will need to change. People being put in prison for smoking pot will stop. And the link of §922(g)3 to the Controlled Substances Act(CSA) is broken, forever.
The place where things get more interesting is in Justice Thomas’ concurance. First he agrees with everything the opinion has to say, but then he says that somebody really should question if §922(g) is consistent with the Constitution.
This is as big if not bigger than his concurance on a resent Per Curium where he said that it was time The Court started issuing Per Curium opinions to help regular people, not just criminals and not over trivial mistakes that make no difference in the outcome. He wrote this to address the fact that The Court will often grant cert and then issue a Per Curium when some technical issue happened at the appellate court or lower court. Frequently these Per Curiums change nothing in the final out come but do inform the inferior courts on how to act.
Here hs points out that Congress has been using the commerece clause to gather power where they are not authorized any. The original meaning of the clause was to make sure that the states were not messing with each others commerce. That goods made in one state could be sold in another without teriffs or other government busy body actions.
The Congress has created laws that punish people for making things for use by themselves because that means they are not buying from someone else (commerce) and that someone else could be out of state, therefore affecting interstate commerece. Seriously, there are laws on the books that are justified because making something yourself means you didn’t buy from some big out of state entity.
§922(g) can only exist because the firearm in question might have crossed state lines sometime in the past. You might have purchased it in your state, you might never have left your state, your gun might never have left your state, your gun might even have been manufactured in your state, but that gun might have been sold across state lines.
I expect to see someone file a case on these grounds in the near future. In this way, Thomas is very good at predicting the future.