As the Left grows ever more flagrant, radical, and tyrannical, the Republican Party at the federal level remains as feckless as ever.  It will fall to red states, therefore, to push back against the emerging socialist tyranny.  The absurd hair on fire roll-out of leftist outrage regarding the modest election integrity law passed in Georgia in 2021 was, at the time, an example of leftist ascendancy and dominance over the nation and our institutions.  Not only does the Left control the media, academia, Hollywood, professional sports, and Big Tech, but add to the list, the federal bureaucracy, Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, all of whom now worship at the church of “wokeness.”  As dysfunctional and corrupt as they may be, it is the Left that governs our institutions, culture, and nation. 

This came alongside the Covid fascism that paralyzed the nation, destroyed jobs and the economy, and attacked basic rights and civil liberties.  They robbed us of the right to walk and breathe without physical encumbrances such as a mask, send our children to school, maintain our businesses and jobs, or attend church: all of it, mind you, for a lie, for none of the Covid measures had any impact on the trajectory of the virus.  Covid, indeed, gave the Left the excuse it needed to clamp down on a passive people that has forgotten its legacy of liberty and independence.   

We recall the destruction of our cities by the Black Lives Matter movement and Antifa, in the summer of 2020 post George Floyd, against which the federal government did nothing.  We note the weaponization of our federal bureaucracy, including the FBI, DOJ, IRS, ATF, and others.  Our borders are open, criminals are set free, and “transgenderism” dominates the public discourse.  At the national level, we are hopelessly fractured, and the federal government will neither protect us nor deliver us.  Rather, it is the federal government that most threatens us. 

There are, however, 28 states where republicans control both houses of the legislature, or nearly 60% of the states, some overwhelmingly so.  Twenty-two of those states enjoy the “trifecta” that includes the governors.  Given the failure of the Republican party nationally, and the domination of our institutions by the Left, it falls to these solidly red states to defend the rule of law, our constitutional system, and our pre-political God-given, inalienable rights.  Herewith, a list of measures that red states should undertake to reclaim lost ground against the relentless power of the Left, Covid-fascism, and useless RINOs that we may preserve the nation, or some part of it, our values, and our way of life.

I would propose the following: 

1. State legislatures shall call themselves into session at will, particularly when confronted with a tyrannical governor.  Many state legislatures are part time, which befits the principle of limited government, something conservatives would generally approve of.  In the context of unrelenting Covid fascism, and other manifestations of tyranny, including in red states by Republican governors, and encroachments by the federal government, it is paramount that this be amended.
2. The state shall limit executive orders for emergency powers by governors to a single event and for not more than ten days.  Extensions or further such orders shall require legislative approval.
3. The state shall declare and uphold the right of its citizens to freely assemble, worship (including in churches and homes), engage in free speech, to walk and breathe freely without encumbrance such as the wearing of masks, and to buy and sell and otherwise engage in commerce.
4. The state shall limit school closures to ten days.  Further extensions shall require legislative approval.
5. The state shall end all mask and vaccine mandates.  It shall declare vaccination passports illegal including when imposed by the federal government, corporations, local governments or boards, or other entities. When the state ends mask mandates, it shall render illegal for individual counties, cities, and towns to continue such mandates or pass their own mandates.
6. The state shall abolish all sweeping, universal powers of health departments at the state and county level. It shall be illegal for state or county health departments and directors to issue sweeping or universal mandates, force schools or businesses to close, or require the wearing of masks or other physical encumbrances, or impose quarantines. They may provide standard immunizations, public education, and guidelines, but shall have no authority to issue mandates, impose quarantines, or force universal closures of schools, businesses, houses of worship, including churches, temples, or homes, any private or public enterprise, or any category of business such as restaurants, bars, salons, movie theaters, gyms, or other.  They shall have no authority to ban gatherings at social, cultural, religious, or sporting events, or to force schools, houses of worship, or other gathering places to close or impose mask or other mandates.  Health departments may carry out standard inspections of restaurants and other facilities as prescribed by law, and target a specific business entity if negligent based on established protocols, but no authority beyond that.  Health directors are not mini-dictators.  They are paid employees of the county and state, serve at the pleasure of the public and its elected representatives, and readily terminated at the discretion of the state and county and their elected officers. 
7. The state shall scrutinize all federal executive orders, regulations, and laws.  Any or some of them deemed unlawful and unconstitutional shall be nullified and declared null and void.
8. The state shall declare itself a sanctuary state for the Constitution, particularly the 1st and 2nd amendments, but its entirety. The citizens of the state and its government embrace freedom of assembly, worship, speech, and the press, freedom to petition the government, and to buy and sell, freedom from executive orders and sweeping mandates, federal, or otherwise, including: mask mandates, vaccine mandates and passports, quarantines, and school and business closures, and general shutdowns.  The state shall defend the right to bear arms, and freedom from unwarranted search and seizure.
9. The state shall refuse all so called “asylum” or “refugee” cases, shall refuse all such resettlement efforts in the state, as virtually none of so-called “refugees” are refugees by any definition but rather economic migrants that entered the nation illegally.  They, rather, abuse the refugee/asylum system, as do many so-called charity/religious based organizations, law firms, and open-borders or other politicized advocacy groups.  Refugee/asylum is intended for truly persecuted minorities, not those laboring under generalized poverty or crime in a particular country or area, which affects much of the world.  They are not refugees and should not be accorded refugee status or resettled here.
10. The state shall refuse the resettlement of illegal aliens, in general, to support or educate them in anyway, provide health care, other than emergency interventions, whether they declare themselves refugees or not.  They will have no access to education, jobs, or any public programs. They will be prosecuted for trespassing, identity theft, human, sex, and drug trafficking, illegal entry, driving under the influence, theft, assault and battery, rape, murder, and other crimes they may commit. They will be incentivized to return to their countries or, when possible, or necessary, deported.  The state may send them to Democrat states that covet them.  Red states on our southern border shall prevent such individuals from entering, or, failing that, deport them back to Mexico.  Given the lawless behavior of the federal government in failing to enforce federal immigration law, defend our sovereignty, secure our border, and protect Americans, the individual states shall themselves enforce the law and protect their borders, territory, and citizens. 
11. The state shall end the teaching of racist theories including critical race theory, and the “1619 Project,” (among others), which is a baseless, ahistorical, and polemical attack on the nation and its history, deliberately demeaning of the founding of the nation and its founding principles, and rejected as partisan, racist, militant, considered inaccurate by respected historians and intellectuals on both sides of the political spectrum, and other anti-American propaganda, of any kind, in any publicly funded schools, universities, or colleges. 
12. The state shall defund schools, colleges, and universities, libraries, and school and college boards, that indoctrinate students in leftist/Marxist/critical theories, race, legal, gender, queer, or otherwise, or encourage hatred of a particular race, religion, sex or sexual orientation, and hatred of America, the American founding, and our founding principles. The state shall end all programming, bureaucracies, departments, clubs, and funding for so-called “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” “Social Justice,” “Critical Race Theory,” radical feminism, “intersectionality,” the “LGBTQIA+” agenda (including “Pride Month,” and other such programs), the transgender agenda, “transitioning care,” including all medical and surgical treatments for “transitioning,” including grooming or sexualizing children in any way, including “Drag Queen Story Hour,” and any other such programs that are damaging to children.  This will include all initiatives that seek to undermine the foundational knowledge of the biological reality of the two sexes, man and woman, the sexual binary, the traditional roles, values, and qualities of the two sexes, the traditional understanding of marriage as the union of a man and woman or that degrade a particular sex or disparage traditional marriage, and including all related programs, departments, and bureaucracies.  The state shall outlaw all gender-transitioning treatment for children. 
13. The state shall promote a voucher program that provides families with the resources to select the best schools for their children and to depart the public-school system, if they so choose.  The state will support the right of parents to involve themselves in the education of their children, the curricula, books, videos, films, programs, clubs, and methods that are used at schools, by teachers, and other officials.  Parents and guardians shall have the right to interact with teachers and other school administrators, and at school board and other meetings, including the right to challenge any such didactic items or tools when appropriate.  The state shall encourage and actively support schools, colleges, universities, faculty, educational boards, curriculum advisors, superintendents, libraries, and educational departments, public or private, to educate, foster, and cultivate patriotism, assimilation, civics, nationalism, love of country, knowledge and appreciation of our unique history, loyalty to America and the glories of the founders, the founding, and our founding principles.  It shall encourage and promote the transmission of knowledge of the wonders of Western and European civilization, it’s long and complex history and its remarkable achievements, including the most advanced science, technology, medicine, music, art, literature, among many other areas, its emphasis on human freedom and flourishing, human rights, and democracy, culminating in the formation of our own nation, founded as it is on liberty and the Western tradition.  In that vein, the state will support reinstituting school prayer, faith, the teaching of the Bible, and biblical values, and to promote and incentivize in varying ways traditional marriage, two-parent nuclear families, and proper, wholesome, classical education of children, and the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty. This is encouraged with an appreciation and understanding that it is upon this foundation of traditional marriage, the nuclear family, faith, religion, and civic virtue that American and Western Civilization are based.
14. The state shall treat each citizen as an individual, equal before the law, regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.  There shall be no consideration of race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, or sexual orientation in matters of law enforcement, criminal or civil justice, government benefits, admissions, hiring, contracts, or set asides.  There shall be no quotas or preferential treatment based on race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. The state shall support, promote, and maintain high standards and a “color blind” meritocracy with no regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, or sexual orientation, nor “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” nor “social justice,” nor “racial justice,” nor “intersectionality,” nor any program or ideology that divides the people by race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
15. The state shall restore the integrity of election laws so we may never again see electoral fraud as occurred in battleground states on November 3, 2020.  Such measures shall include the following: Eliminate mail in ballots. Absentee ballots, applied for in advance, with explanation and proof of identity for disabled, military, and those living overseas are acceptable.  End same day registration and motor-voter registration.  Ban computer systems.  Return to paper ballots, hand counted.  Require proof of citizenship.  Limit early voting to two weeks or abolish it all together, in which case there would be a single election “day,” not “season,” with the day off. Update voter rolls regularly. Eliminate from the rolls all who have left the state, live elsewhere, or who have died. Abolish “drop boxes.” Require photo ID. 
16. The state shall pass anti-bullying legislation directed against any company, advocacy group, sports entity, league, or otherwise, professional or otherwise, and individual athletes or celebrities that disrespect our nation and flag or threaten to boycott a red state for passing a legitimate law regarding, for example, religious freedom, protecting children, students, and the general public against depredations by the Left with civilization-destroying ideas and policies such as transgenderism or critical race theory, and other intrusions on a lawful, open polity, and, of course, ensuring the integrity of our elections.  The state shall ban such entities from future and existing state contracts, tax breaks, set asides, anti-trust, or other protections, and further work, business, funding, investments, or other dealings with and by the state.
17. The state shall consider banning companies, athletes, sports leagues and entities, professional or otherwise, that maintain commercial or other relations with the slave empire of China from future and existing state contracts, tax breaks, set asides, anti-trust or other protections, and further work, business, investment, funding, investments, or other dealings with and by the state.
18. Attorneys General of red states, state and district attorneys shall aggressively litigate against leftist, globalist, anti-American corporations including “Big Tech” companies, and other corporations that infringe on the rights of their state’s citizens such as the enforcement of speech codes, censorship of conservatives, “canceling” individuals who espouse conservative or traditional beliefs, and otherwise prohibiting normal, free, and open exchange.  Big Tech companies that deplatform, silence, cancel, ban, shadow-ban, filter, or demonetize individuals, websites, groups or organizations for expressing opinions they disapprove of, such as conservative or traditionalist positions, shall be fined, penalized, litigated against, including anti-trust litigation. States shall regulate such entities as utilities, no different than phone companies, or radio and TV networks, for the right given them to use the public “space” and public “airwaves,” and pursue punitive actions and litigation when they deny access to their platforms or curate content for political reasons. Similarly, they shall pursue litigation or other measures against any and all corporations that engage in boycotts and other threats or intimidation against the state. The state will not support, provide contracts or engage in business with, give favorable tax treatment or invest state funds in corporations that are “woke,” promote leftist, racialist, identarian, transgender, and other, divisive, anti-family, anti-Christian, anti-American ideologies, or that promote or invest based on “ESG” (“Environment Social and Governance) parameters.
19. The state shall pass “Right to Try” Legislation that allows eligible patients to have access to investigational drugs or medicines that are safe and therapeutic particularly for life threatening conditions but not necessarily approved by the FDA or other regulatory agencies or boards, often for political or economic reasons. 
20. The state shall pass legislation protecting the right of doctors to prescribe and patients to use medicines for “off label” purposes, a very common practice for many years until recently.  In the Covid era, despite much experience and data demonstrating efficacy of various medicines and supplements, this became highly politicized and prohibited.  This included safe, inexpensive, commonly used therapeutics found effective in the treatment of Covid, such as Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, Zithromax, Doxycycline, aspirin, steroids, nebulizers, Vitamin D3, Zinc, Quercetin, Elderberry, among others.  State medical boards shall have no authority to discipline or threaten in anyway physicians who engage in such efforts, respecting the primacy of informed consent and the patient-doctor relationship over dictates from politicized boards or other agencies.  Pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies and pharmacists shall similarly honor such prescriptions and recommendations by healthcare providers.  The state in consultation with appropriate medical advisors, shall consider declaring many such medicines with proven, long-term records of safety and efficacy as “over the counter” and available without a doctor’s prescription, particularly during emergency or pandemic conditions.
21. The state and the various counties, cities, and towns, through its law enforcement officials and criminal justice system shall enforce the law.  Criminals, particularly violent criminals, those engaging in murder, rape, violence of any kind, harassment, intimidation, abuse, extortion, assault and battery, robbery, armed or otherwise, those engaged in unlawful violent protest, looting, and destruction of private or state property, interference with normal commerce and traffic, pedestrian or vehicular, incitement of violence and insurrection, terrorism, the use and sale of illicit drugs, those unlawfully encamped on public streets, thoroughfares, and places, shall be prosecuted, held, tried, treated medically as needed, and jailed for their crimes.  Law enforcement officials, district attorneys, courts, and judges shall be supported in their efforts to maintain law and order and preserve the peace.  The state shall vigorously support the rights of victims of crime and to protect them from criminals.
22. Red states and counties shall interpose against federal tyranny of all kinds, including a politicized, weaponized FBI, Department of Justice, IRS, ATF, and all other federal bureaucracies and their officers that engage in lawless, unwarranted, unconstitutional, political behavior, against legitimate, lawful citizens exercising their constitutional rights.  Such actions shall include unlawful intrusions, home invasions, raids, search and seizures, confiscations of private property, intimidation, threats, arrests, and imprisonment of the free citizens of our state for manifestly political purposes. The state and county shall use the state police, state guard, local law enforcement, and Sheriff’s departments to protect the rights and liberties of its citizens.  The state attorney general, state and local magistrates and attorneys, and state and local law enforcement shall likewise protect citizens from lawless, unconstitutional federal behavior including nullifying such orders, laws, policies, actions as well as preventing, interceding, disrupting, and, when necessary, arresting, jailing, and prosecuting federal agents that attempt to execute said unlawful, unconstitutional, malign political interventions, through legal, forceful, invasive, investigative, or threatening measures, or otherwise.  Red states shall refuse extradition of politically targeted individuals.  They shall arrange a legal defense fund for those citizens unfairly prosecuted and provide pro-bono defense where possible.  They shall aggressively prosecute agitators and protesters who violate the law especially when violent, intrusive, intimidating, threatening, or destructive.  Attorneys General, state prosecutors and magistrates shall consider indicting Democrats/Leftists, and others, throughout the nation who have broken state law. 
23. As conservatives cannot receive a fair trial in “blue” jurisdictions, red states, where possible, shall require that cases involving conservatives be tried outside blue jurisdictions (within their states) to ensure the VI amendment guarantee of a trial by a jury of one’s “peers” is protected.  Red states shall require trials be held outside major cities within their state(s) to provide a more evenhanded jury pool of independent-minded individuals for criminal (political) cases. The state and counties shall defend the Bill of Rights for its citizens in its entirety, with particular emphasis regarding such matters onthe 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th amendments, but each and every one of them, and the Constitution.
24. Red States shall defund, oppose, legislate against the so-called “Green,” “Global Warming,” or “Climate Change” agenda, which is a fraudulent, anti-human, anti-science, Marxist enterprise intended to destroy the American way of life, imposed by government/corporate entities, elites, radical environmentalists, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and international/globalist bodies.  The State shall support the exploration and development of proven, reliable, inexpensive, environmentally sound energy sources and technologies including fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, oil), fracking, and nuclear energy.  The state shall oppose subsidies and mandates for electric vehicles, solar panels, windmills, “carbon capture,” “net zero,” greenhouse emissions standards, “carbon neutrality,” and other radical, bogus, and unscientific policies, programs, and ineffective technologies.  The state shall support the combustion engine, and gasoline driven vehicles, stoves, as well as the incandescent lightbulb, and other such useful, as well as emerging, innovative products that free citizens may choose.
25. Make Red States Red Again.

Each Red State shall coordinate its efforts with other Red States that pro-America forces may

present a united front against the Marxist Left. But each Red State shall begin protecting its own citizens first against the encroachments of the federal government, local government and boards, and the tyrannical Left, and its appendages in the media, private sector, other “blue” states and jurisdictions, NGOs, and in the private sector. We must fight against the autocracy of the Left, the biomedical pharmaceutical complex, the federal bureaucracy and state and local bureaucracies, the globalist American empire and its emerging “gulag” system, the “regime,” the technocracy, the globalist-military, security and surveillance apparatus (in particular, the weaponized FBI, DOJ, EPA, ATF, IRS, and other federal agencies that have become politicized), and their various appendages in governments, media, the private sector, local, regional, national, and international leftist organizations, and sundry international bodies and NGOs who have abused the country and employed Covid fascism and other related forms of tyranny and censorship, to pursue political goals. We will oppose conditions and policies that render the US less free and place us on a trajectory to a form of government more akin to North Korea, Cuba, or Communist China, or worse, rather than a free Constitutional Republic.  We are well passed the time of reclaiming lost ground and demanding our God-given rights as free Americans.  It is essential that conservatives wield political power, help friends and allies, and defeat and penalize our enemies, as the Left does, countering their aggressive and malign behavior.

Herewith is our Red-State manifesto, a rallying cry to Red States and their citizens to galvanize each, according to his station, to preserve what is left of the nation, in parts of the nation where the founding and founding principles still hold sway.  This we so declare. 

“He has erected a multitude of new Offices and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.” 

See this publication in Western Journal Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

April 19, 2021 Updated: April 19, 2023