Open Letter – Missouri Freedom Initiative

Sept. 14th News Letter

Sep 14, 2024 Patrick Holland

Happy Saturday gang. We’ll be live tonight at 7:30 PM Central on all the usual platforms. Twitter (X), Rumble, Odysee and You Tube.

I lack time for a proper email/newsletter today. However, let’s chat about Amendment 3, the Article 3 Institute and whatever else is on your mind tonight.

I have my grandson this weekend so he’ll be joining us tonight on the stream as well.

Hope to see you all tonight,

May God bless us all with good health and with wisdom and courage.

Yours for liberty,
Patrick Holland
Missouri Freedom Initiative
P.O. Box 343
Clever, Missouri 65631
patrick@mofree.org
https://mofree.org
https://odysee.com/@MissouriLibertyAlliance:1
https://rumble.com/c/c-3860337 https://odysee.com/@MissouriLibertyAlliance:1
https://twitter.com/MissouriLibert2

Happy Saturday gang! Unfortunately, there will be no live stream tonight. I am burning the midnight oil at one of my customer sites that was hit with a power surge and many electronic items are not working properly (if at all). It is a Sheriff’s office jail, so it’s a priority. It was a storm from last Saturday, so I can definitely tell you it is taking a lot of my time. I’ve done a show about a year ago with Sam Britton (Missouri Liberty Radio) talking a bit about electrical surge suppression. In the case of my customer, they were very well surge protected except in the ceiling of the jail control room where some maglock door control equipment was moved to by another vendor last fall. That was where the surge came from and it spread through the network via the Ethernet cable because the equipment in the ceiling was not surge protected and were also on the Ethernet network. Rather than get technical on how power spikes look for ground, I will tell you the surge protection I use at my house AND recommend for my customers.

Type 1: Isobars (Made by Tripp Lite). Here’s the link to Amazon’s Tripp Lite page. These are top quality surge suppressors. They are more expensive than other brands but I have used other (cheaper) brands before and been very disappointed. Shop around the internet and you can sometimes find Tripp Lite Isobars cheaper on other retailer’s web sites. The two outlet model that affixes to a regular wall outlet is my favorite. These are literally all over my house and in most cases, all over my customer sites as well.

Type 2: CyberPower Battery Backups: Here’s a link to Amazon’s CyberPower page. I have these battery backups at every computer in my house. These are not only surge protection, they have battery power and can keep your computer going while the power is out. It’s VERY nice if you are working on a long document and there is a sudden power surge or power outage. Sam Britton has recently partnered with a battery concern here is Missouri. I intend to meet with them. I prefer to do business with Missouri based companies whenever possible. All battery backups I use MUST be AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulation) and for some applications (televisions, audio equipment, and high-end computer servers) I use Pure Sine wave backups that are also AVR.

Having a customer site crippled by a power surge absolutely sucks. I am usually very stressed out from the time I am called and told “We just had a major storm roll through and had several minor power outages and now critical systems are down.” The stress continues until everything is back up and running – and sometimes it can take weeks to replace and/or repair systems that have been damaged. There are cases when surge damage is cumulative and items do not fail immediately. If you are a nerd like me, sometimes, on equipment with intermittent failures, you might open the item up and examine the capacitors and look for obvious damage and/or swelling of the capacitors. This is a sure sign there was heat damage (which is what power surges do to unprotected electronic equipment). Be very careful when examining capacitors installed on electronics, they DO contain voltage and must be discharged safely first.

Being a self-employed IT Consultant the past 22 years has been a great gig. I used to put up a video now and then about Internet security, surge suppression, Best Practices and explanation videos about how to fix the simple things on your computer yourself on our old channel “Truth Money and Freedom Podcast” back in 2018. Most of those videos were removed by You Tube (music “copyright” strikes on a non-monetized channel). I’ve also thought about doing videos of building/repairing guitars at some point (a hobby of mine) but time has never allowed for it. What we do in Missouri is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT and has always been my priority. I have many hobbies but time is short and saving our states is more important to me than documenting my hobbies.

Missouri First’s Ron Calzone announced a new organization on September 4^th. It is called the “Article 3 Institute.” You can see the website here. This is definitely the big news of the week and is much needed in Missouri. Rather than go into much detail now, we will DEFINTELY cover this next week on the live stream. This is a big deal folks, trust me. 😉

Unfortunately, this is all I can write for now…it’s time to go back to work. Thank you all for your patience with me.

May God bless us all with good health and with wisdom and courage.

Yours for liberty,
Patrick Holland
Missouri Freedom Initiative
P.O. Box 343
Clever, Missouri 65631
patrick@mofree.org
https://mofree.org
https://rumble.com/c/c-3860337 https://odysee.com/@MissouriLibertyAlliance:1
https://twitter.com/MissouriLibert2

News Letter Aug 31

Aug 31, 2024 Patrick Holland

Happy Saturday gang! Yes, we will be live tonight at 7:30PM Central time. We will be live on all the regular platforms. Twitter (X), Rumble, Odysee and You Tube. We will be gathering on Guilded again tonight (it’s still working) and will be moving to Signal soon (look for updates on that).

Ron Calzone will be joining us tonight to let us know what is happening with SAPA as it has officially been struck down by the 8^th Circuit Court. The opinion can be found here. For those who do not know who Ron Calzone is, he and Dave Roland penned the original Second Amendment Preservation Act in 2012-2013. We started this organization specifically to get SAPA over the finish line and joined the legislative effort in 2020 along with Ron Calzone (Missouri First), Aaron Dorr (Missouri Firearms Coalition) and MANY others. It was a massive group effort to get this done and we succeeded in 2021, complete with Governor Parson’s signature. In 2015, Michael Boldin with the Tenth Amendment Center predicted that if SAPA in its purest form was ever passed by a state, the Federal Government would fight it in the court citing the US Constitutional “Supremacy Clause.” We’ll discuss his accurate prediction tonight and how the court is knowingly distorting the clause to try to destroy SAPA or any other 10^th Amendment issue brought by states legislative efforts.

The Missouri Firearms Coalition is no doubt gearing up to defend SAPA on every front (including court and legislative options). Please consider a membership with them for as little as $35.00. They (MOFC) are Missouri specific. I am a member with them as well.

The Missouri Constitutional Money Act language is being worked on. Even before the general elections, the dynamic has changed for the general assembly. We will have new folks coming into office that will need to be educated on gold and silver (and free market solutions for transactions.) The newest version of the bill will look very much like the Senate perfected version of SB735. However, when it is ready, the preview of the bill will be posted front and center of our web site as other states are waiting for our language to help craft their own versions of the bill. This should be done within a week or two.

Citizens for Sound Money are working on legislation for other states and will continue their mission to lobby in states across the country to get gold/silver legal tender legislation passed. In fact, you can join Citizens for Sound Money as a pioneer member of the organization for as little as $25.00 per year. If you can afford it and feel called to do so, please consider a membership with Citizens for Sound Money. I became a member this week.

Sam Britton with Missouri Liberty Radio is still going strong with his new schedule (Wednesday nights 6:00 to 9:00PM Central).

John Williams with the Missouri Liberty Report is also alive and kicking. John can be found on You Tube and Rumble.

Live streams will continue weekly until the end of September. I have work projects that have been put off that I must now resume. Most likely, September 21 and 28 we will NOT be doing a live stream. Beyond that, approximately 1 week per month I will be in Minnesota working on my parent’s estate for approximately the next year (self-imposed deadline).

That’s all for now gang, hope to see you all tonight.

May God bless us all with good health and with wisdom and courage.

Yours for liberty,
Patrick Holland
Missouri Freedom Initiative
P.O. Box 343
Clever, Missouri 65631
patrick@mofree.org
https://mofree.org
https://rumble.com/c/c-3860337
https://odysee.com/@MissouriLibertyAlliance:1
https://twitter.com/MissouriLibert2

Live Stream Tonight, 7/13 7:30pm

Jul 13, 2024 Patrick Holland

Happy Friday gang. We will be doing a live stream tomorrow night at 7:30 PM Central. The usual platforms of Twitter (X), Rumble, Odysee and You Tube. If you have not seen the state gubernatorial debate yet, you can view the recording here.

Governor: Bill Eigel
Lt. Governor: Tim Baker
Attorney General: Uncertain
Secretary of State: Denny Hoskins
Treasurer: Lori Rook
29^th Senate District: Mike Moon
139^th House District: Bob Titus

This has already been a busy summer so far for me. Along with my regular grassroots activity, I am also heading into project time at work and my Dad is very sick and I am making visits to Minnesota. Things are a bit compressed for me right now but I am doing my very best to try to keep up. A voter guide is a top priority right now but getting the time to work on it is eluding me. I have noticed the same with other grassroots leaders across the state. I have received 18 emails asking for how I intend to vote, so tomorrow night, we’ll discuss that. For those who do not have the time to view the live stream, here are my personal picks for statewide (and my district) office.

There are reasons for my personal picks and we’ll discuss YOUR picks and reasons for your favorite candidates tomorrow night. The three most critical offices for moving Missouri back toward conservative principles in my opinion are governor, attorney general and secretary of state. Our current attorney general (Andrew Bailey) is spending time at fundraisers with current Lt. Governor Mike Kehoe, which does not impress me. Mike Kehoe is attracting BIG corporate donations which in turn becomes a war chest for advertising. Believe me, he needs it because many of us have not forgotten Kehoe’s pushing of the largest tax increase in Missouri’s history, the so called “gas tax” of 2021 which was deliberately structured to avoid the Hancock amendment – thereby passing the new tax increase without a vote of the people. Yes, Mike Kehoe did that and he is supposed to be conservative. Now we understand why many democrats support Mike Kehoe in the gubernatorial race – he is a RINO. If we are to clean up the corruption in Missouri, the RINOs and corporatists MUST be sent a STRONG message.

Grassroots leaders are chiming in with their picks for state offices. Bev Ehlen was recently criticized publicly by Scott Faughn for her picks. Bev is practically an institution for conservative grassroots in Missouri. She is always at the capital during the legislative session supporting conservative grassroots legislation. She works tirelessly with the central committees and with the GOP to try to clear out corruption too. What this means is simple. Scott Faughn has made it his business to attack the Missouri conservative grassroots (on behalf of the RINOs and corporatists). This makes sense because MANY politicians are feeling the grassroots backlash from SB727. It is politically difficult for someone who is running for Missouri statewide office to go after the grassroots the way Ben Baker did during the “school choice” bill. Scott first insinuated the conservative grassroots for taking liberal dark money in exchange for going after Dean Plocher for his many scandals back in 2023. That rumor persists in the Missouri legislature but only with the corporatists and RINOs. Make no mistake, there is a machine working here that is designed to derail grassroots efforts and conservative candidates by the RINOs. We saw it happen at the convention and we’re seeing it in real time with Scott Faughn. Scott recently told me on Twitter that I cannot be interviewed on his program because “people don’t care about me” and “I am not relevant.” I think if Scott is going to continue attacking the grassroots, someone from the conservative grassroots should be able to share their “thoughts” on Scott’s musings – live, on his show. This would give us a chance to ask him about his felony record and his possible connections to BIG Democrat financiers in the state and his never ending accusations attacking grassroots with what the RINOs are actually doing (a democrat tactic).

Our (mostly) structured visits to the capital and just plain talking to the folks in Jefferson City does give our organization a lot of insight as to what is actually going on in Jefferson City. We can see it in real time during the legislative session. If you are asked by someone, feel free to share who you are voting for and why. Your perspective matters, your experience matters and your witness to the shenanigans in Jefferson City matters. Just as when one is buying a car, the salesman is a worse witness than a mechanic. To get perspective of what is “under the hood” in Jefferson City and the candidates running for office, a grassroots activist is a great person to compare notes with.

Tomorrow (Saturday) morning, I am door knocking with push cards again for Senator Mike Moon. I will also be handing out push cards for Bill Eigel and Lori Rook. Details below. If anyone is interested in joining us, I’ll see you at 9:00AM at the Baked Bean Coffee Shop in Nixa, Missouri. If you have never done this before, there will be training and you can always partner up with someone who is a door knocking veteran. Donuts and coffee will be served before the door knocking starts. I am actually big on this. Before a primary, door knocking and putting up signs for a candidate are actually critical. Mike Moon is someone we MUST keep in the Senate and has the most constitutional vote history in the senate. This is why the RINOs are trying to primary him.

Tomorrow night, our live stream at 7:30 PM Central.

On Monday, July 15 in Ozark, the Missouri Republican Assembly are hosting a “Meet the Candidates” event that will feature live outdoor debates between candidates of the Senate and House districts that are in Ozark. I will definitely be there to support my Senator, Mike Moon. If you are in the area, I encourage you to come to this event.

Details coming soon for the door knocking event on July 27 in Clever Missouri. It’s officially a Bill Eigel door knock but I will also be handing out push cards for Mike Moon, Lori Rook & Denny Hoskins. If Bob Titus has push cards, I will distribute them as well.

I ask for prayers for my Dad. His heart is tired, he misses Mom.

May God bless us all with good health and with wisdom and courage.

Yours for liberty,

Patrick Holland
Missouri Freedom Initiative
P.O. Box 343
Clever, Missouri 65631
patrick@mofree.org
https://mofree.org
https://rumble.com/c/c-3860337
https://odysee.com/@MissouriLibertyAlliance:1
https://twitter.com/MissouriLibert2

Family Freedom Festival – Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6PM

Jul 1, 2024 Patrick Holland

Hey gang! I just wanted to reach out and remind everyone about Family Freedom Fest tomorrow night. If you are in the area, please consider attending. I will be there to support my friends Bill Eigel and Eric Burlison. I honestly have not made a decision on who I am voting for in the Attorney General race yet. I need to investigate PAC donations to both Andrew Bailey and Will Scharf before I make a final decision.

The door knocking event for Senator Mike Moon went REALLY well. Keep July 27 on your calendars for another door knock event in Clever, Missouri. More details next week. If you support a candidate in your area, a door knocking event will really help their efforts. Yard signs help tremendously during primary season as well. While the main stream media keeps saying we are breaking “high temperature” records across the country (we still have not broken the dust bowl temperature records from the 1930’s BTW) it is definitely getting warm out there. I think that’s because the Missouri political races for the primaries are heating up. J If Missouri is to have more freedom we’ll have to be selective on who we vote for.

I hope you all are well and I hope to see some of you tomorrow night. PLEASE RSVP so the organizers know how much food and drink to have prepared.

(P.S.) While I have asked two Democrat PACs about “Operation Strategic “D”, they claim to have never heard of it. Of interest to me, is that they did not deny its existence either when pressed. August 6^th is the primary. PLEASE vote early if you are not sure you can make time on August 6^th. The next live stream (July 13) We will be covering the candidates any many of us will announce who we are voting for and why.

May God bless us all with good health and with wisdom and courage.

Yours for liberty,
Patrick Holland
Missouri Freedom Initiative
P.O. Box 343
Clever, Missouri 65631
patrick@mofree.org
https://mofree.org
https://rumble.com/c/c-3860337
https://odysee.com/@MissouriLibertyAlliance:1
https://twitter.com/MissouriLibert2

June 28, MoFI Updates – Time Sensitive

Jun 28, 2024 Patrick Holland

Hey gang! It’s been a while AND it’s a Friday and there are some updates. So I thought I would e-mail everyone as early as possible.

Firstly, I am glad to be home. Although PorcFest in New Hampshire was incredibly fun (not to mention it was fun and rewarding to work with Daniel Diaz, Rob Kientz and the Citizens for Sound Money again) and the time flew by incredibly fast, I am glad to be home fighting on Missouri turf again. We have primaries coming up very soon and I need to get back to work on that. So for the updates…

On Saturday, the 29^th, we will not be doing a live stream. The original plan has changed (for me). On June 29^th, I was originally attending Tom Martz’s MOCON (Missouri Constitution) class. Well, Senator Mike Moon has a door knocking event that was scheduled for the same day and time. I called and spoke to Tom about this before I made any final decisions but Tom was OK with me door knocking for Moon instead of going to the Missouri Constitution class in Nixa, releasing me from my word to attend (Thank you Tom). To make matters MUCH better, Tom realized the conflict might cause some to choose to door knock for Senator Moon and has agreed to hold another class in Nixa at the same location after the primaries are over. When Tom said that, I renewed my promise to attend the next MOCON class in Nixa. The MOCON class on the 29^th is still a scheduled event, so those who made plans to attend can still take the class. I will be attending the next class in Nixa, already scheduled for Saturday, August 10^th – same time, same place. If you attend the class, please make a donation to Tom for the class if you can.

Door knocking:

Door knocking is probably the MOST effective way to get voters to the polls. Most candidates know this. It’s also a GREAT way to hone the skill of delivering a message quickly and effectively for a candidate. Some people may dread going out and talking to strangers about political candidates, house to house. I actually enjoy it and have always had fun (as many of you may have suspected). Details on this are included in the graphic. Senator Mike Moon has been under relentless political attack since he passed the S.A.F.E. Act in 2023 – protecting Missouri children from undue influence to change their gender chemically and/or physically until the age of 18 (adulthood). I have always been a supporter of Mike Moon in the Senate, even before redistricting when Eric Burlison was my Senator. Door knocking for Mike Moon is the least I can do for everything he has done and will do for Missouri. If you are interested, PLEASE join us to support the MOST Constitutional (by vote history) Senator that Missouri has. The Moon team will be providing push cards, yard signs, t-shirts and app access to know what doors to knock on to deliver Mike Moon’s message. Of course, Mike will be door knocking with us too. In case you are new to this list, please be aware, Mike Moon has been completely aligned with the Missouri Freedom Initiative’s activities since day 1. In fact, Moon was a HUGE supporter of SAPA and worked to get it over the finish line. Moon is not only a supporter of the Constitutional Money Act, he was the first co-sponsor of SB735. Senator Moon was also VERY supportive of our efforts to eliminate sales tax on food in 2022 and 2023. Mike Moon will be the primary sponsor in the Senate for the silver and gold bill in 2025. I do not support candidates as the founder of the Initiative, I do not wear Initiative t-shirts when door knocking in case any of you wondered about that. I am just Pat Holland when I support individual candidates.

The event begins at 9:00am when Senator Moon cooks breakfast for everyone who comes to knock on doors. Training is then provided along with all materials needed, questions answered…etc. Those who want additional training/support can group up with seasoned door knockers who are already working at this event, such as Mike Moon, Bob Titus, Luke Schrandt or myself. I, myself am planning a door knock event for Clever Missouri on the 27^th of July for Bill Eigel (which will also include push cards for Mike Moon and Bob Titus and possibly Lori Rook). More details soon. If you were planning on going to Tom’s MOCON class, if you want to door knock for Mike Moon instead, another class will be held AFTER the primaries, so you can still take Tom’s class in Nixa on August 10^th.

Senator Eigel in Springfield yesterday:

Gretchen Garrity posted a new Blog article about yesterday. Senator Eigel was in Springfield for a lunch time event campaign stop for S.W. Missouri grassroots leaders. Notable attendees included our friends Jodi Grace, Valerie Swearingen, Gretchen Garrity, Cary Wells and MANY others. One of the many reasons for stops like this is to make sure those who need yard signs, t-shirts, push cards…etc can get them. I do have 30 Eigel yard signs that I am delivering to the Prepared Homestead meeting this Sunday (30^th). I have requests for 19 signs there but we will have additional signs for those who want them. I will “reload” when I am out of signs. Folks in the Initiative that want yard signs for folks they are supporting should get them now…now is the time. If you need help getting yard signs for whomever you support, let me know I will be happy to guide you to who you need to contact. If you are in Rick Brattin’s district, help is needed there as the swamp is going all-out to try to replace him in the Missouri Senate (similar situation with Mike Moon).

Cary Wells wanted me to pass on to the Initiative an event at his Church for Will Scharf on July 7^th. Details in the graphic below. I cannot attend the event as I will be out of town.

UPDATE:

There will be no live stream tomorrow night (29^th) or on July 6^th. Next week, I will be going up to Minnesota. My dad is very sick and I need to spend time with him. In fact, if you are a person of Faith, please say a prayer for him. I will try to get another e-mail out on Wednesday of next week with more updates on everything that is going on.

Folks, these primaries are important. These primaries are how the folks in Missouri can change up the chess board to make sure representation is in the people’s favor, thereby helping to eliminate legislative obstacles later. I received MANY responses to my last e-mail asking folks who they intended to vote for in the gubernatorial race. Receiving about 300 emails from the e-mail list, two folks said they are not voting for Eigel, the rest are voting for Eigel. If we were a polling agency it would be big news but our e-mail list is only about 3K and most of us are conservative and active in Missouri politics/legislation.

I intend to talk to the core group of the Initiative to work on a Missouri voter guide for statewide office. In fact, some of the discussions have begun and I will try to get some help from a few other grassroots leaders. The target date for completion is July 20^th. This will be a clinical look at candidate funding and average donation size. This will help folks understand who is a grassroots candidate VS corporate candidates.

That’s all for now gang, I am running a tad late for work, so I will end it here. I thank ALL of you for participating in the process. Until next time…

May God bless us all with good health and with wisdom and courage.

Yours for liberty,

Patrick Holland

Missouri Freedom Initiative

P.O. Box 343

Clever, Missouri 65631

patrick@mofree.org

https://mofree.org

https://rumble.com/c/c-3860337

https://odysee.com/@MissouriLibertyAlliance:1

https://twitter.com/MissouriLibert2