Day One
It’s the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President of the United States, and I’m on a train to New York to film a series of educational videos about some of the bigger ideas emerging from Elon Musk’s DOGE Commission. I’ll have more to say about that in a minute.
Terry and I have made it a general habit of fleeing Washington, DC during presidential inaugurations, a tradition that started in 1993 with Bill Clinton. We went to Napa Valley for the first time and developed a taste for good wine that has proven quite expensive over the years. But still, sipping wine that day was far better than the chaos, militarized streets, and the political feeding frenzy unique to Washington, DC culture when so much power is up for grabs.
But this year we decided to come back from a work trip in Mexico City to be here, in the Belly of the Beast, with all the confusion and power plays, in hopes of finding new opportunities to help make the next four years better than the last. We attended a number of celebrations, including one hosted by Senator Rand Paul, and last night, RFK Jr.’s grand MAHA Ball. Terry and I can attest firsthand the sense of new hope in the Make America Healthy Again community of strange bedfellows, red-pilled comedians like Russell Brand and Rob Schneider, combined with a host of newly liberty-curious influencers formerly of the Left. New relationships were established, and plans for big collaborations made. Stay tuned.
Always the buzz kill, Joe Biden (or, I should say, whatever cabal of government apparatchiks has been calling his shots) issued a last-minute pardon for Anthony Fauci, MAHA nemesis and the central antagonist in our successful investigative series The Coverup. While this may let him personally off the hook for his crimes, accepting this preemptive pardon is an admission of guilt that apparently waives his right to plead the 5th. I spoke with Senator Paul, the new Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. He has plans. Our work at Free the People will continue to amplify Rand’s dogged determination to get to the truth and ensure that the wildly dangerous lab experiments covertly funded by Fauci and others will never happen again. The next episode of The Coverup featuring Rutgers University virologist Richard Ebright, which is scheduled to be released in the first week of February, will provide a well-documented roadmap of Fauci’s gain-of-function crimes. Just in time for potential hearings.
And finally, about our new series, Project DOGE. Our vision is to quickly produce a series of educational videos breaking down the bigger ideas being vetted by Elon, including various public conversations they have had on X with the budget-slashing GOAT Ron Paul. We need to debunk myths and make complex reform ideas more accessible and entertaining for a broad audience. This has to happen now because the trough-feeding vested interests and their attack dogs are already out in full force, spreading fear and predicting end-of-the-world scenarios. Our first targets: the Department of Education, Foreign Aid, the Surveillance State, Defense, Public Health, and the Federal Reserve. As they say, go big, or go home. And we’ll be partnering with our good friends at CiVL for distribution. If it interests you, we sure could use your financial support.
As a grizzled war-time libertarian with many battle scars to prove it, I’m hardly naïve about the challenges that lie ahead. But we are determined to expand the Overton window on what is possible. As we’ve said so many times before, popular opinion and the dominant cultural narrative will inevitably determine policy outcomes from outside the power plays and insider deals of official Washington. I hope you will consider supporting our efforts, and I’d love to get your feedback on what else we should be doing next, starting today, Day One.
