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Tyler O'Neil

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Apr 7

🚨'CROSSED THE RUBICON'

The legacy media seems not to have noticed, but the Colorado🏔️ House passed HB 1312 largely along party lines: 36 for, 20 against, and 9 absent.

Colorado Democrats not only held the vote on Sunday night but they also moved to end debate in a way @RepCaldwell says was premature.

Caldwell says Democrats stifled debate, and that would echo what they did last week...

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What does the bill do?🤔

“It’s codifying into law that if their ideology confuses your child, and you don’t affirm that delusion, you’re committing child abuse and can lose custody of your child,” Caldwell told me.

“We have now crossed the Rubicon of parental rights with this bill,” he added.

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When Caldwell asked whether parental rights groups had been allowed to weigh in on the legislation, a Democrat—Rep. Yara Zokaie—mocked the very idea.

“A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion,” she quipped last Tuesday.

Zokaie doubled down on the comparison on Friday, explicitly citing the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Apr 5

🚨BREAKING

Colorado state Rep. Yara Zokaie doubles down on comparing parental rights groups to the KKK, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Zokaie did so while defending a bill that would define "misgendering" and "deadnaming" as "coercive control" and would require courts to consider it in custody battles.😡

So, parents who don't want to trans their kids should have their kids removed from them, and if these parents team up to form a group, they'll be demonized as hateful like the KKK.

Got it.

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Zokaie had first compared parents groups to the KKK in a hearing on Tuesday.

She attempted to explain why parental rights groups had been excluded from discussions on HB 1312, the bill in question.

“A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion,” she quipped.

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Two House Republicans slammed Zokaie's remarks.

“Calling parental advocacy groups ‘hate groups’ is just their excuse to marginalize and ignore them while maintaining a pretense of moral superiority,” @COrepKdeGraaf told me.

@RepCaldwell said the comparison uses “inflammatory labels that are only meant to create division” and “dismisses the valid concerns of parents.”

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Mar 24

🚨FOLLOW THE MONEY💰

The Left is freaking out about President Trump ramping down the Department of Education. Dems say Trump has "declared war on America's students," but the move won't impact kids on the ground.

Who will it harm? Unions that bankroll Democrats and other left-leaning NGOs.

Here's a 🧵 explaining what may actually happen and why the Left can't handle it.

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dailysignal.com/2025/03/23/wha…

WHAT DOES THE DOE DO?🤔

Contrary to the Democrats' suggestions, the Department of Education doesn't actually run schools. Rather, it handles federal funding for schools and enforces certain rules like Title IX.

These functions can arguably be reassigned to other federal agencies, and other actions can be delegated to the states, which actually run public schools in this country.

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WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF DOE DISAPPEARS?

“Teacher unions benefit from access to a central place where they can advocate for programs that benefit them,” @Heritage's @JM_Butcher told me.

“Having access to a central office from which they can lobby for large sums is more cost-effective to them than 50 different states.”

Of course, the unions' power base "is in the states," and "surveys of state and local chapters find that they don’t always approve of what the national office is doing."

If the DOE goes the way of the do-do, it will be harder for national teachers unions to justify their national offices in D.C.

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Mar 7

🚨SURVEILLANCE, BLACKLISTING

Washington state has launched a “Domestic Extremism and Mass Violence Task Force,” which will recommend laws for the Legislature.

The problem? It's stacked with far-left groups, and not just any leftists, but key allies of the SPLC.

Critics warn that it is "self-evident" that this is "very dangerous to people of faith," and they fear that it may result in surveillance and blacklisting of conservatives in the Evergreen State.

Here's why their concerns are valid.

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1⃣WHO'S ON THE TASK FORCE?

The task force includes quite a few notable leftist groups and no conservatives who might provide some important balance.

Notable names include:

1⃣Western States Center, an affiliate of the SPLC, and Kate Bitz, who has endorsed the SPLC "hate map" (more on this in the next post)

2⃣American University's Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), the director of which also serves on an SPLC "hate" panel

3⃣ADL Center on Extremism, which has demonized critics of gender ideology

4⃣Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County, which carried water for the Paris Commune-style CHAZ insurrection

5⃣Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho.

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2⃣WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH SPLC?

So why do I keep harping on the Southern Poverty Law Center?

You see, the SPLC gained a reputation for monitoring and dismantling hate when it sued KKK groups into bankruptcy. Then it took that reputation and the "hate map" it uses to track the Klan and weaponized it against conservatives.

Today, the SPLC suggests mainstream conservative and Christian groups are a terror threat by putting them on the "hate map" with Klan chapters.

Do you support border security like @FAIRImmigration or @DAKDIS? You're an "anti-immigrant hate group."

Do you support religious freedom like @FRCdc, @ADFLegal, or @AFLC_FreedomLaw? You're an "anti-LGBTQ+ hate group."

Do you support parental rights like @Moms4Liberty or @DefendingEd? You're an "anti-government extremist."

Do you oppose sex changes for minors? Even groups of doctors like @donoharm and @segm_ebm are on the "hate map" now. Even an LGB group, @againstgrmrs, is considered an "anti-LGBTQ+ hate group" by the SPLC.

This all sounds like a joke, right? If only. You see, the Biden FBI cited the SPLC in that notorious anti-Catholic memo. SPLC leaders briefed the DOJ when they were adding Moms for Liberty to the "hate map." A terrorist shot up the Family Research Council in 2012, and he found his target by using the "hate map."

So, I decided to reach out to some of the "hate groups" in Washington state to hear what they think about this task force.

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Mar 6

🚨EXCLUSIVE

Do you remember @paytonmcnabb_, who got her face beat in by a man playing women’s volleyball?

Well, she also got kicked out of her sorority for *checks notes* confronting a man in the women’s restroom.

The Daily Signal is the first to break this news.

dailysignal.com/2025/03/06/was…

https://twitter.com/paytonmcnabb_/status/1786139675687518518

Here’s the incident that got her booted from the sorority. Who’s harassing whom here?!

https://twitter.com/paytonmcnabb_/status/1786139675687518518

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/1897327696495120759

And yes, this is the same Payton McNabb who was Trump’s honored guest Tuesday night

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/1897327696495120759

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Feb 16

🐙THE LEFT'S TENTACLES IN USAID

USAID wasn't just spending your tax dollars💰 to promote woke causes overseas, it also ties in to the Left's dark money and influence network that called the shots in the Biden administration.

USAID has funneled money to the Tides Foundation, sent cash to the same groups George Soros' Open Society Foundations was funding, and served as a revolving door—former USAID workers go to work at left-wing foundations and activist groups.

I have the receipts🧾 here.

dailysignal.com/2025/02/16/wok…

WHAT IS USAID?🤔

While the acronym suggests USAID is about aid, it’s really about soft power. John F. Kennedy established USAID as a tool to fight Soviet Communism abroad.

In recent years, the agency has promoted the classic woke causes:

1⃣critical race theory
2⃣climate alarmism
3⃣gender ideology
4⃣a preference for technocratic government

USAID spent:

1⃣$1.5M for DEI in Serbia's workplaces
2⃣$47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia
3⃣$2M for promoting s*x changes in Guatemala
4⃣$250M on a Climate Finance for Development Accelerator to help countries meet their climate goals in the Paris Agreement

These initiatives echo the spending of Hungarian American billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and that is no accident.

THE SOROS CONNECTION💰

The Open Society Foundations has bankrolled many of the leftist groups in the Woketopus, my term for the groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration.

Open Society claims not to receive funding from USAID or direct USAID's funding, but its ties to USAID are undeniable.

1⃣It funds the same projects (2 notable examples below)

2⃣Leaders met with former USAID Administrator Samantha Power

3⃣Soros foundations network listed USAID among its "donor parters" in 2001

4⃣An Open Society nonprofit sued USAID twice, with the cases reaching SCOTUS both times.

5⃣Many former USAID staff went to work at Open Society

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