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Founder of the Rescue Michigan Coalition, beating the drum of grassroots leadership since 2008. Old Ron Pauler turned disaffected Trumpster. Freelance political consultant, grateful to be able to work exclusively for the good guys. Anti-war, anti-state, pro-freedom.

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Karamo's MIGOP Organization Releases Proposed "Constitution" – And It's As Marxist and Anti-Republican As Can Be

by Adam de Angeli      Posted March 3, 2024



After months of work behind the scenes, the Michigan Republican Party has released its proposed “Constitution” – but the Founding Fathers would roll in their graves to see this authoritarian travesty styled after their great work.

As Scott McMahan put it, it would “make the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Lenin.”

This document confirms what we have known all along: that the goal of Kristina Karamo's handlers and her followers is to convert the Michigan Republican Party into a dictatorial cult, one that would strip away the autonomy of every county and district committee. It is the most antithetical document to conservative values and principles ever written.

Digesting every nightmarish bit of the document is a lengthy undertaking (see our discussion as we read through it at the video above), but here are the key takeaways:

1) In Section 2.4, the “constitution” declares that it supersedes all county, district, and state bylaws, and elsewhere it grants the State Central Committee the power to overrule local organizations and even expel their own members and officers. (Prior to Kristina Karamo becoming state chairman, it was unheard of for the state party to even opine on local matters.)

2) In Section 2.7, it states that committee members have a “duty of loyalty” to “place the interests of the Michigan Republican Party and the delegates before any of their personal interests.”

This is a cult mentality if ever there was one: to put the organization above God, family, and every other personal obligation.

It goes on to specify that party bosses may remove members for “disloyalty,” of course.

3. In a convoluted attempt to mirror the Bill of Rights, the document includes a statement of “rights” which includes “the right of fair treatment without respect to the former political affiliation, or any discriminatory practices.”

This is an open invitation for hardcore leftists to sue the party for “discrimination.”

But perhaps the most ridiculous aspect of this “constitution” is its general construction, which features a footnote in its title, followed by five more in its preamble.

The footnotes assert that the Republican Party is immune to legal challenges and the “state chair” is the dictator of the party.

As attorney Matt Wilk said:

“This document is breathtaking in its stupidity. Their mockery of our actual Constitution and its principles is obvious and offensive. Tucked in every nook and cranny of this document is the concept of their Star Chamber of Kristina and her handlers deciding for every Republican in the state what to say, how to act and who to support. Everyone who had a hand in drafting this should be called to account.”

Indeed, after the so-called “Constitution” was released, Karamo's lieutenants immediately began damage control, claiming the document wasn't quite finalized for release, that this was a “discussion draft,” and so on.

But in fact, it was intended for adoption at the March 2, 2024 state convention, as noted on the end page, where they left room for people to proudly affix their signatures:



More importantly, the “Constitution” was developed over a long period of months – by a so-called “Committee of 17”:




View the cover letter here.

View the full “Constitution” here.

View the committee credits here.

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10 Adam, have you flipped your position on Karamos? I recall you vehemently supported her during the power transition. [Reply] john-p1 06/11/24  7:25 PM

How They Voted on Doubling County Commissioner Terms

by Adam de Angeli      Posted April 6, 2022

For no other purpose than to benefit the political class and make politicians less accountable to voters, the Michigan Legislature passed a law last year extending the terms of county commissioners from two years to four years.

This was a bill that slipped past our watch.

To prevent this happening in the future, sign up for Operation Watchdog and help us monitor legislation.

Here's the vote:

In the Senate, everyone voted yes except Republican Senators Tom Barrett, Ken Horn, Jim Runestad, and Jim Stamas.

In the House, everyone voted yes except these Republicans:

Berman, Carra, Damoose, Eisen, Fink, Frederick, Howell, Johnson, LaFave, Maddock, Makkanen, Meerman, Reilly, Rendon, VanWoerkom, Wakeman.

And these Democrats:

Aiyash, Brixie, Tyrone Carter, Cherry, Haadsma, Hood, Hope, LaGrand, Neeley, Rabhi, Shannon, Sowerby, Stone.

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Zuckerberg-Connected Nonprofit Helped Shift Michigan’s 2020 Voting Rules

by Adam de Angeli      Posted March 30, 2022

Via the Federalist:

A nonprofit connected to Mark Zuckerberg-funded groups worked with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to influence state elections ahead of 2020. The changes include getting the state to alter how it used absentee ballots without an act of the state legislature.

Documents exclusively obtained by The Federalist through an open records request show National Vote at Home Institute CEO Amber McReynolds working with Benson to change Michigan elections policy. NVAHI shares leadership ties with the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a group that shuttled money from Zuckerberg to government election agencies ahead of the 2020 election, as The Federalist previously reported. In several instances, NVAHI and CTCL worked together to influence the 2020 election.

The documents also show that the private organization funded by Facebook tycoon Zuckerberg exists to push states to adopt mass mail-in balloting of the kind that made chaos of the 2020 election.

Mail-in ballots are proven to be significantly more susceptible to fraud, as a bipartisan federal election integrity commission chaired by former President Jimmy Carter concluded in 2005. That’s because mail-in ballots provide more opportunities to influence, obtain, and traffic in ballots.

Read the rest of the full story here.

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GOP Must Promise Inquisitions, Not Meaningless Task Forces

by Adam de Angeli      Posted March 29, 2022

American Greatness:

The small cache of texts—29 total—shows Thomas expressing frustration at the election’s outcome. There is nothing sinister, and certainly nothing criminal, about the messages.

But like everything related to the events of January 6, the truth doesn’t matter. Doubt about the legitimacy of the 2020 election is considered a thoughtcrime and handled as such by Joe Biden’s Justice Department and Congress; CNN reported Monday afternoon that the January 6 select committee led by U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) now wants to interview Thomas. If she refuses—as she should—it’s highly likely the committee will issue a subpoena to compel her testimony, which it has done in numerous cases.

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Big Lies, Bigger Cowards

by Adam de Angeli      Posted January 6, 2022

The one-year “anniversary” of the events of January 6, 2021 – what could charitably be called a protest, cruelly called a riot, or falsely called an insurrection – will serve to remind us of the nature of our enemies, and perhaps even teach us a few things we didn’t know.

It’s a day of hysteria and propaganda. Every major Democrat politician and their supplicants in the mass media will spend today lying about the facts of that fateful day (as they have every other day of the past year, but more vociferously).

The biggest lie is that the protest was anything remotely akin to an insurrection.

Trump’s supporters in Washington genuinely believed the election was stolen, genuinely believed that their state legislatures had failed them, and genuinely believed that the court system had failed them.

Whether they were right or wrong isn’t the issue. They came to Washington to stand up for their President, and as even the Justice Department sheepishly admitted, none of them had any organization or plan for any sort of “insurrection.”

The attendant lie, critical to the media’s false narrative, was that Trump’s supporters killed a Capitol Police officer that day, Brian Sicknick.

It’s easy to forget this one, because it was debunked less than a month after that fateful day. But that makes it all the more pernicious, because the lie is still truth to millions of the media’s brainwashed victims.

The New York Times, citing two anonymous law enforcement officials, alleged that Sicknick died “from brain injuries he sustained after Trump loyalists who overtook the complex struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher.”

The entirety of the mass media parroted the lie for weeks, until it was exposed that the allegation was completely untrue and fabricated from whole cloth. The Times retracted the story.

By then it was far too late. Democrats had honored Sicknick in a rare Capitol Rotunda memorial ceremony to gin up hatred for Trump supporters before the second sham impeachment trial, and after Trump’s acquittal, Joe Biden lied, saying Sicknick died “protecting the Capitol from a riotous, violent mob.”

The only people killed that day were Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed woman shot to death by a Capitol Police officer, and possibly Rosanne Boyland, who witnesses say was bludgeoned to death by the police.

But to the brainwashed viewers of the mass media – which includes most liberals – January 6 was, as MSNBC told them, “worse than 9/11” – the worst terrorist attack on American soil, in which 3,000 Americans were killed.

As critical as it is that these lies be debunked at every opportunity, there’s another point that’s ever bigger:

Even if these terrible lies were true (and they are not), the legal double standard is appalling: Trump supporters, and only Trump supporters, are singled out for prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.

In the context of 2020, what happened on January 6th pales in comparison to numerous left-wing acts of “insurrection.”

These included hundreds of riots, in which at least 25 people were killed, more than a billion dollars of property was destroyed, and countless acts of arson, looting, and malicious destruction of property were perpetrated.

In Seattle, anarchists seized six city blocks, declared it an “autonomous zone” where laws did not apply, and held it for nearly a month. Five shootings occurred; two people were shot to death and one was left in critical condition.

In Portland, rioters carried out violence for over 100 days. Police buildings and cars were burned and vandalized. In Lansing, a police car was flipped over.

In Kenosha, rioters tried (but failed) to murder a teenager for interrupting their arson attacks; the teenager was charged with multiple murders and put on trial for defending his life.

And yet everywhere, we read that hardly any of the perpetrators of these crimes were prosecuted. Every day, journalist Andy Ngo’s Twitter feed during that summer of violence had a long list of stories: “So-and-so arrested for arson/destruction of property/assault & battery… charged with disorderly conduct… quickly released without bail.”

Of course, the history of leftist political terrorism in America goes back far further than 2020.

In 2020, Senator Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren invited thousands of liberal protesters to disrupt the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court.

When Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, rioters in “black bloc” garb burned cars, smashed windows, blocked checkpoint entrances, and assaulted police in Washington DC. This was after congressional Democrats fought unsuccessfully to block the count of Trump’s electoral votes.

Of course, these countless left-wing rioters never face the same criminal justice system as Trump’s supporters.

Just last week, a Portland rioter charged with assaulting police officers had a federal case dropped after completing 30 hours of community service.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Trump supporters, charged with such high crimes “civil disorder,” “disorderly conduct in a Capitol building,” and “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building” wither away in Washington gulags, denied bail and facing the full force of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The resounding message to Trump supporters (and anyone paying attention) is that overt, coordinated political terrorism by the Left is forgiven, pardoned, excused, and in every way possible minimized, while anyone on the Right who breaks the law in the slightest way will be jailed, prosecuted, libeled, slandered, and tormented by federal judges, prosecutors, and jailers.

And through it all, the overwhelming majority of Republicans will say nothing of this double standard.

If anything, they endorse and espouse the same talking points as radical leftists: a total divorce from moral reality.

No less than three times, including just yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz called the January 6th protests “terrorist attacks.”

“We are approaching a solemn anniversary this week. And it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol, where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrate incredible courage, incredible bravery, risk their lives for the Capitol,” Cruz said at a hearing yesterday.

This isn’t Lindsay Graham; Ted Cruz is a darling of the Tea Party. He was a popular 2016 presidential candidate, and rumored to be planning to run in 2024.

But if there’s any Republican who deserves our scorn on this solemn anniversary, it’s none other than President Trump himself.

Trump’s decision to cancel today’s news conference is just the latest in a full year of his failure to stand up for his supporters turned political prisoners.

On the rare occasion that Trump even mentions January 6, it’s all about himself. Thus last July 26, Trump issued a statement asking:


It’s not about his supporters being ensnared in this cruel, un-American prosecution. It’s about him and his election.

October 21, 2021, Trump issued a statement, reading in its entirety: “The insurrection took place on November 3, Election Day. January 6 was the Protest!”

This is Trump’s response to a full-blown media campaign to vilify him and his entire movement of supporters? A snarky one-liner?

Other than asking about who shot Ashli Babbitt, Trump has said nothing to defend the people whose lives were destroyed supporting him.

Which is all the more disgraceful because Trump’s own carelessness is what caused this in the first place.

In December 2020, I attended meetings begging people not to go to Washington on January 6 — because what happened was entirely predictable.

On January 4, 2021, I wrote this:


It was an easy prediction anyone familiar with the Left and the Deep State could have made. Certainly Trump and his advisors should have.

And then, on the day itself, Trump closed his speech by saying “So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol… so let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

But Trump didn’t walk down Pennsylvania Avenue with his supporters.

He went back to the White House.

Of course, that does not justify the sham impeachment that followed, because Trump broke no law. He never suggested anyone should break the law.

But his lack of culpability doesn’t mean Trump is blameless.

It was a leadership failure of colossal magnitude, and for a full year, Trump has said and done nothing to stand up for the people his lack of judgment put into harm’s way.

It’s time to say “enough is enough.”

We’ve spent six years defending Donald Trump.

When our time came, he didn’t defend us.

The Republicans who have, we can count on one hand.

Ron DeSantis. Matt Gaetz. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

If there are more, feel free to let me know.

(UPDATE 1/7/22: Readers apprised me to add Congressman Thomas Massie, raising the total to four.)

But that’s about it.

January 6 is a day to reflect on the unmitigated gall, hypocrisy, and dishonesty of the mass media; the lawlessness, ruthlessness, and barbarity of the radical Left and the Democrats who serve them; and the cucked cowardice of their Republican opposition.

We have a long way to go to take back our own party, much less our country.

We had better work hard this year.

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How To Run Effective Political Meetings

by Adam de Angeli      Posted January 3, 2022

A Grassroots Leadership Lecture on a critical and often-overlooked topic: How to hold meetings that engage your members and lead to effective political outcomes. A lot of groups out there are really just spinning their wheels. Watch this video and see whether your group meets these criteria of successful meetings.

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New Year's CHEERS to a Victorious 2022

by Adam de Angeli      Posted December 30, 2021

On December 30, 2021, Rescue Michigan capped off our first year with a marathon 7-hour livestream with a fantastic panel of guests. The conversation went everywhere from redistricting, to grassroots leadership, to Judge Michael Warren casually announcing he's running for the Michigan Supreme Court.



Featuring co-hosts Adam de Angeli, Shane Trejo, and Amber Harris, with special guests:

State Representative Steve Carra

State Representative John Reilly

State Board of Education Member Tom McMillin

Judge Michael Warren

State GOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock

State GOP Grassroots Vice-Chair Marian Sheridan

West Michigan Action Conservatives' Anna Timmer

Michigan Campaign for Liberty's Tony DeMott

Michigan Conservative Union's Linda Wildern

Pure Integrity for Michigan Elections' Patrice Johnson

UsAgainstMedia's John Clore

Defeating Communism PAC's David Dudenhoefer

Hillsdale County GOP officer Jon Smith

Foundation for Applied Conservative Leadership's Shawn Dow

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The Lynching of Kyle Rittenhouse

by Adam de Angeli      Posted November 14, 2021

In August 2020, riots erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin because police had non-fatally shot a man who, in the course of kidnapping his children from their mother, reached for a knife in his car while resisting arrest for a felony warrant.

In sworn testimony last week, police admitted that they were directed to do nothing to stop the arson, looting, and malicious destruction that beseiged the city. About $50 million of property was torched; 40 buildings were destroyed and another 100 damaged.

It was amidst that environment – the town he grew up in, beseiged by anarcho-fascist terrorists – that Kyle Rittenhouse went to Kenosha to protect the innocent city.

Kyle cleaned up graffiti throughout the day, and when the violence came, Kyle protected property, extinguished fires, and administered medical aid.

It was when Kyle extinguished a fire in a dumpster — that rioters were attempting to roll into a gas station — that one rioter, a convicted child rapist named Joseph Rosenbaum, told Kyle he would kill him when he got him alone.

And at the moment Kyle became separated for his friends, Rosenbaum chased Kyle until cornering him an alley. Then he screamed at Kyle, "F--- you" and lunged for his gun.

Only once Rosenbaum's hand was on the barrel did Kyle finally press the trigger.

Kyle immediately began running for the police when the mob chased after him. That was when Anthony Huber, a lifelong criminal whose history includes beating his sister, stabbing his brother, and kidnapping another man, hit him in the shoulder with a skateboard.

Kyle continued running, stumbled, and fell. Another rioter jump-kicked him in the face, and Huber went in with his skateboard. A split second before the skateboard's steel trucks would have crashed into Kyle's skull, Kyle discharged his rifle again.

Then another rioter, Gaige Grosskreutz, approached Kyle with a loaded Glock in hand. With Grosskreutz's gun (an illegal gun: he had a prior conviction for intoxicated use of a firearm) pointed directly at Kyle, Kyle fired once more, disabling the fourth assailant's arm, and at last made his way to safety among the police.

In every moment, Kyle Rittenhouse acted with pure innocence – and extraordinary discipline. It was his innocence that led him to protect Kenosha that day. He never once pointed his rifle at anyone until the moment he needed to fire, and then, did so with expert accuracy. Not one innocent bystander was harmed.

All of this was proven on countless videos recorded on the scene, and now corroborated by every eyewitness.

Instead of being venerated for the American hero he is, Kyle has been on trial these past two weeks for murder and related charges.

In the 14 months leading up to the trial, the mass media was waged a propaganda war to demonize Kyle. Why?

To poison the jury, to rile the mob in the event of an acquittal, to scar Kyle Rittenhouse for life, and to gin up civil war among the American people.

The campaign of endless lies was effective. Lies about Kyle flew across the Internet for the past year.

"The gun was illegal." False.
"Kyle took the gun across state lines." False.
"His mom should be in jail for driving him there." She didn't.
"Kyle had no connection to Kenosha." His dad lives there.

Fair-minded liberals on Twitter were surprised to learn the assailants were white, not black.

The lies about Kyle are shocking, and seemingly endless.

What's all of this really about?

What's really on trial isn't just Kyle.

It's the right to resist being lynched.

Watch: The Lynching of Kyle of Rittenhouse

Lynchings are something worse than murders. Participants boasted of them. The goal was to terrorize black Americans into total submission.

That is what the radical Left wants most of all.

They tried to destroy Kenosha. Kyle stood in their way, so they tried to murder him.

He stopped them, so they want him dead now more than ever.

They can't wait for the media to declare Kyle a murderer. They can't wait to accuse anyone who told the truth about Kyle of defending a murderer.

This is a good time, right now, to take stock of how the "right wing" media, supposedly on our side, is covering the case.

After saying almost nothing for a year, Kyle had a few good days in court (his own testimony was extremely brave, and compelling), and only then, once it looked like Kyle would be acquitted, did they begin speaking up.

Problem is, conservative media is still media: they don't get the full story and don't know what they're talking about.

Kyle's defense team have made errors of shocking magnitude. See the video above for the details.

I pray for Kyle's acquittal, or that the judge throws out the case.

But if, God forbid, Kyle is convicted, watch what conservative media does.

See who stands up and rages against this injustice. See who continues to trumpet "Free Kyle!"

And see who moves on and pretends it all never happened.

See if the NRA says anything about the right to self-defense being murdered by the mob.

See if the Federalist Society says anything about this perversion of justice.

See if your "law and order" Republicans speak out, or turn away in shame.

And realize what every patriot must do: speak out, and fight back.

The America we love is almost gone. Every day brings a new travesty.

Our country is controlled by sociopaths. This is no exaggeration.

If we aren't fighting with every spare moment to save our country, we're going to lose it.

Pray for Kyle.

And share his story.

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Let's Watch and Review "Special Assignment: Election Theft?"

by Adam de Angeli      Posted November 10, 2021

We have a new 2020 election documentary; this one's a tight 28 minutes. Adam de Angeli, Shane Trejo, and Amber Harris it together and talk about its facts and arguments.

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Grassroots Leadership Livestream with Anna Timmer and Amber Harris

by Adam de Angeli      Posted November 6, 2021

In our latest livestream, Rescue Michigan's Adam de Angeli interviews Anna Timmer, founder of West Michigan Action Conservatives, and Amber Harris, cofounder of Young America First Republicans and new Executive Director of the Oakland County GOP.



After a discussion of current events we delve into their programs, techniques, and successes of their respective organizations.

It's an insightful, can't-miss interview for anyone looking for fresh ideas for effective grassroots leadership.

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