Game On!

Hello Linda,

This first month of 2025 has been quite a rollercoaster! Tragedies like the fires in California and plane crashes back-to-back in DC and Philadelphia, along with the joyous occasion of President Trump's inauguration, have kept our emotions bouncing up and down intensely. Our new President isn’t wasting any time exercising the authority of his office and flexing his muscles with tariffs and deportations.

Many of us, I believe, are optimistically anticipating significant changes for the better in the administration of our government. At the same time, the legacy media is continuing to stir up the emotions of the far left by predicting a totalitarian dictatorship that will erase our rights and put Trump’s “enemies” in camps. I read yesterday that young women are having sterilization procedures because they are so fearful that President Trump will eliminate contraception and abortion. What? Furthermore, it is reported that members of the LGBTQXYZ community are afraid for their lives. Again, WHAT?

President Trump is attempting to reacquaint Americans with common sense and its necessary application in running this country. For far too long, at least several decades, the United States has been at the mercy of faceless, unelected bureaucrats who truly hold the reins. They, along with the cooperation of many self-serving, long-time members of Congress, have managed to drive the U.S. to its knees financially while lining their personal pockets by collaborating with untold numbers of lobbyists and special interest groups.

I have said before that it is a misnomer to refer to the DC bureaucracy as a “swamp.” A swamp is a well-balanced, natural, ecologically sound body that functions as God intended when not interfered with. What we have in DC is more akin to a septic tank that occasionally requires a thorough cleaning out. It’s well past time for a clean-out, so let’s get it done!

I look forward to major improvements in our government's operations. Will some people be displaced, unemployed, reassigned, or summarily fired? Yes! And it can’t happen soon enough. President Trump only has four years to implement a tremendous amount of change. Patriots who support what will happen need to be louder than all the malcontents who want to play the victim game. For every letter to the editor that cries “Foul!” about every non-essential program that is killed, we need to see two letters to the editor supporting the efforts to get our government back on the right track.

So I say, “Game On!” Let’s all work to support the efforts of President Trump and his Cabinet so that this time, his term will be not just a successful one but also a time of the rebirth of the United States of America! 

By Linda Sauer

What is World War III really being fought over and why?

We hear a lot in the conservative media about the dangers of socialism, communism, Islamism and so many other “isms.”

But World War III, which is already well underway in my opinion, is not being fought over ideologies. It’s being fought over energy and natural resources. I’m not saying ideology is unimportant. It is. But he who controls the world’s resources will be free to impose whatever ideology he wants.

Washington and London, which make up the heart of the Western liberal world order, have reached the point of such moral rot that they think it’s admirable and virtuous to redefine God-created genders. They think it’s appropriate to unleash deviant transvestites on innocent school children. To enforce this sick cultural ethos, the leaders of this world order must gain control of the world’s resources and ration them back to the nations based on their compliance with their putrid socio-political values, which include radical pro-abortion policies, continuous mRNA injections for all from birth to death, rapid digitization of everything including human beings, and an obsession with all things LGBTQ.

Montana News: Follow and Act

The legislators are in session, the crazies are still here, it's no time to relax.

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Constitutional Expert Critiques Montana Supreme Court: ‘Totally Off the Rails’

"Hardly Qualifies as Being a Court at All"

A constitutional expert criticized the Montana Supreme Court for its judicial activism.

“This is not an ordinary case of judicial activism. This is a court that is totally off the rails, unlike anything I've ever seen in the United States before,” Rob Natelson said. Natelson spoke to The Montana Chronicles in his personal capacity on December 28, 2024.

He added that the Montana Supreme Court “hardly qualifies as being a court at all.”

Natelson said that anyone who isn’t a “hardcore leftist has to realize that this poses a risk to democracy” and the “rule of law.”

The Montana Supreme Court has come under fire from conservatives for its recent decisions. In 2024, it ruled in favor of the youth plaintiffs suing Montana over climate change. Also, in the same year, the state Supreme Court struck down laws dealing with election integrity, abortion and gender transition treatments for minors.

“The court has assumed a level of control over Montana policy that makes it a virtual oligarchy,” he said.

The Governor Responds

Well, well, well… Two days after the publication of our last newsletter in which I reported that there had been no response to my letter to Governor Gianforte, I got a response. Here it is:

Dear Linda,

Thank you for reaching out to my office about concerns about illegal immigration, including the reports that Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan drug cartel, has been detected in Montana.

Since Joe Biden took office, we’ve seen a historic surge of illegal immigration. Violent, drug-peddling thugs have taken full advantage of Biden’s open-border policy and his feckless enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws. While I’ve been briefed on the presence of Tren de Aragua in Montana, I remain unsatisfied with the lack of cooperation between the Biden administration and states in securing our southern border.

From the moment I took office in 2021, we’ve prioritized the safety of Montanans in the face of Biden’s failed leadership. We’ve passed laws to ban sanctuary cities and strengthen penalties for drug traffickers. I’ve also ordered the Montana National Guard to support efforts from fellow Republican governors to secure our southern border, including those in Texas to stop the flow of illegal immigration at its source. While we’ve taken strong and swift actions to secure the border, we need a partner in the federal government who sees this threat for what it is, a threat to our national security.

I’m optimistic with the recent election and a change in leadership, we will finally have a willing partner to assist us in stopping the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs and rooting out criminals who endanger our communities. I am looking forward to working with President Donald Trump and his appointees to secure the border because you and I both know: a country without borders isn’t a country at all.

Thank you for reaching out to me. Hearing from you helps me better serve you and better understand your perspective. I will continue to rely on your views as I lead Montana, which is my great honor. My door is always open. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me for anything.

Sincerely,

Greg Gianforte

Governor

I remain dissatisfied with our Governor. The letter was most likely written by a staffer and does not respond at all to my recommendation that he pick up the phone and call Tom Homan to offer Montana to be a shining example of how a state works in 100% cooperation with ICE, Homeland Security, and any other agencies required to cleanse our state of illegal immigrants. 

Rather than looking forward “to working with President Donald Trump and his appointees to secure the border” he should be stepping forward and offering cooperation NOW. If you agree, please write to the Governor and urge him to be proactive. Please share any responses you receive.

by Linda Sauer

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Is It Just Me ... Or Are There a Helluva Lot of Elephants in the Native American Kitchen?

Let me start by saying I was raised being told I was one-quarter Native American. My Mother, who looked the part, told us her Mother was one hundred percent Native American, Iroquois tribe. Is it true? I don't know. We kids always doubted it. But then, one day, Ancestry, the online genealogy site, sent me a discovery.

They told me I was in the line of Princess Powhatan, the daughter of Chief Powhatan of the Powhatan tribe. Growing up, I knew Powhatan from the town on the Ohio River, where we played their high school basketball team. How about those apples? Of course, all that meant nothing to me beyond fun childhood memories until 2000, when we moved to Montana. We bought a house on a mountain at the bottom of Flathead Lake in Lake County, which began my education about the Native American Reservation. 

My wife and I went to a Thanksgiving Dinner at a local church. We met a couple who sat across from us. They were friendly people. My wife commented that it was a nice dinner, to which the man replied, as he got up and left, "until you people came here." His wife apologized and explained that he was a tribal member and was referring to white people, not us personally. That should make us feel better.

A year later, I was invited to speak at a local high school about my book, Dead Center, a story of my time in Vietnam. A friend said, "Keep in mind that high school is over half Native American." I thought, "Why should that matter?" I was at the high school for the day, speaking to different classes and cycling through the library. I got the message: In all classes, the Native American students either sat under their tables with their backs to me or sat in the hallway talking. The teachers shrugged. I quit mentioning I might be Native American.

Those unfortunate events and a few others led me to dig deeper. Which led me to discover what to me is the Native American Heist. Let me point out that the Native American people aren't benefiting from the heist; they are being used by the cabal leading the scam.

The proverbial 'Elephant in the Kitchen' refers to something blatantly obvious that no one wants to discuss. I'll explain to you by asking a few obvious questions that deserve answers. Each of these questions refers to an elephant we need to discuss.

1. Our Land: Whose land is America? The cold, hard truth is that when this nation was founded, the advance of nations was settled by conquest. Context is everything. The Native Americans, here when we arrived, were not a nation but hundreds of disparate tribes surviving as best they could while fighting each other for territory. They lost the war, and that is how the conflict was resolved. Why is this an issue over two hundred years after the fact? The land belongs to the American people, of which they are a part. Question: Why is any single group of people permitted to claim land?
2. Their Sovereignty: Sovereignty refers to a governing body's supreme authority or power to govern itself without external interference. Tribal sovereignty means the inherent authority of Native American tribes to govern themselves. Today, we're faced with 574 federally recognized tribes in 35 of our 50 states, with 274 in Alaska. Montana now has 12 tribes, with seven being federally recognized. So, our nation has 574 groups pretending to be sovereign within our borders. Why do I say pretending? Because without the never-ending money coming from state and federal governments, they have no government. No one begrudges anyone's right to preserve their heritage, but don't do it on the backs of the public; their tribal leadership loathes. Question: Why do we allow any sovereignty within our sovereign nation? 
3. The Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs: The 2025 budget to support those 574 tribes is $2.9 billion, and they employ 4,139 employees. This excludes state expenditures or employees in the 35 states with federal tribes. How many Native Americans are there in these tribes? The truth is, no one knows. The tribes keep track, not the federal government. The best estimate is around 3.3 million. The smallest recognized tribe is the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians in California, with 16 members. Yet, the tax dollars keep flowing. Question: Why do we have a Bureau of Indian Affairs? We don't have a Bureau of Black or White or Hispanic Affairs. Why?
4. Their Special Deals: Here in Montana, we live with special deals cut with the tribes, some even running counter to our State constitution. Take the Water Compact Our Governor and Senators gave the water rights to half the Big Sky to one tribe, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai, who estimate they have 5,000 to 5,500 members living on or near the reservation. Our government leaders didn't just 'give' them the water rights to the detriment of thousands of Montana citizens; they paid them $2.1 billion along with it. Why can tribes give to political campaigns and not report it? They also gave them the National Bison range. Why? And they 'sold' them the Kerr Dam, which they bought with the money we 'gave them. Who does that?

There are so many elephants in the Native kitchen that they're hard to count. 

• Why can they discriminate in hiring when mere mortals cannot? 
• Why are we still paying and paying and paying after countless agreements were made to end the gravy train? 
• Why are their polling places on sovereign reservations without government oversight? 
• Why are tribes not subject to federal audits of the billions of dollars provided? 

A short ride through any reservation will show firsthand that all that money flowing down to tribal governments isn't flowing out to the tribal people. The tribal people are victims not of the federal government but of their own governments.

These are just questions that deserve answers. 

One last question … why are Native Americans exempt from assimilating like we expect every other citizen in America to do?

Why?

.by Ed Kugler

Montana Citizens Action Group

I am pleased to introduce our readers to a new section in Last Chance Patriot. Each month, I will prepare an update on the work performed by a great group of patriots operating under MTCAG (Montana Citizens Action Group). 

The group started in 2023 when we came together to raise awareness of Flathead Lake's unprecedentedly low water level. We held many well-attended regional presentations and set up a website, Save Flathead Lake. We also gave presentations advising citizens on effectively objecting to the Water Compact through the Montana Water Court. 

We remain committed to raising awareness about the threats to our water resources throughout Montana, emphasizing NW Montana, which is most seriously affected by the implementation of the Water Compact. I will continue to update you on "water issues," but this month, I want to tell you about the new project that MTCAG is undertaking.

The new project has been undertaken because we have become painfully aware that most Montanans are simply ignorant about the history of Federal Indian Policy: how it came to pass, what the intentions were, what the consequences of the misguided policy are, what it costs the American Taxpayer every year, and most importantly, why it continues to fail to deliver anything tangible to the average tribal member.

MTCAG is starting the project by attempting to educate our government representatives (both State and Federal) and DOGE about Federal Indian Policy. We will demonstrate to them that the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget needs to be closely studied to uncover the waste, bloat, and misuse of taxpayer dollars that have continued to increase under every Administration over the past many decades. 

Initially, we will send a letter and a copy of Elaine Willman's book American Tribal Tyranny to select elected officials and Elon Musk at DOGE. We will attempt to begin a dialogue with these people to encourage their attention to this critical issue.

I highly recommend that our readers get a copy of American Tribal Tyranny: it is available on Amazon in paperback for $16.00 and on Kindle for $10.00. Meanwhile, I am including below the text of a letter that Elaine Willman wrote to President Trump as he began his first term in 2019. The letter is in the book, along with tons of supporting information. The letter is also included at the bottom of this newsletter.

If any of you want to join our effort by writing to your state and federal reps, governor, attorney general, etc., the following link will provide you an easy way to access many of the addresses that you might need: http://saveflatheadlake.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Governement-officials-addresses.pdf. 

by Linda Sauer

A Letter to President Trump

Regarding Tribal Government

Honorable Donald J. Trump

President of the United States

White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington D.C., 20006

September 17, 2019

ASSERTION: Since its origins in the 1830’s (judicial, legislative, administrative) all of Federal Indian Policy is: 1) entirely unconstitutional; 2) denies full American citizens enrolled in tribal governments their 14th Amendment protections and civil rights; 3) compels forced reparations in perpetuity upon American taxpayers to annually subsidize all basic needs and services of 573 tribal governments; and 4) permits tax-exempt tribal casinos and other tribal enterprises to undermine the marketplace of the tax-paying economy in thousands of communities across the nation.

Dear President Trump:

I have attached a brief professional statement supportive of the contents of this letter. Below is a cursory chronology that describes the increasing spread of tribalism as a governing system replacing our Republic form of government in America, and supports the assertion noted above.

• 1830 - Chief Justice James Marshall issued three Indian-related rulings known as the Marshall Trilogy in 1830. With no support found in the U.S. Constitution, Marshall instead drew from international law to declare that the federal government has a “trust” relationship with its individual, dependent ward Indians. The Judiciary was the impetus for the origins of the federal trust relationship. In compliance with the Judiciary, Congress and the Executive Branch forged the Bureau of Indian Affairs and began the incremental expansion of tribalism as a governing system in the United States increasingly expanding for two centuries.
• 1871 - The first half of the 1800s brought the formation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, congressional statutes and administrative laws, managing Indian treaties, annual subsidies, and peacekeeping needs.
• 1887 - Congress implemented efforts from the 1870s through 1924 to bring American Indians to full and equal citizenship with all other citizens, by ending the reservation system, tribal governments, and allowing Indians to be individual landowners and full citizens of their respective states.
• 1924 - Congress passed the Snyder Act of 194 making all American Indians full citizens.
• 1934 - An avowed and self-proclaimed Communist, John Collier, became Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and persuaded Congress to pass the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934. This created separate communal tribal governments and created dual citizenship that denies enrolled tribal members their 14th Amendment and Civil Rights. IRA has been an intentional and incremetal deterrent for individual tribal civil rights and ownership of land.
• 1968 - Congress passed the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA) to provide tribal members with civil rights but failed to provide any enforcement process for aggrieved tribal members. For over fifty years Congress has assumed that tribal members have civil rights under ICRA, but the reality is, lacking enforcement mechanism, tribal members have nothing.
• 1978 - Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) transferring full parental authority from tribal parent to the tribal government. The benign intent was to preserve culture, but the reality for tribal families is that ICWA is often used as a weapon to punish or otherwise influence tribal families at risk of the tribal government taking their children – sometimes forever. The stated purpose and implementation of the ICWA is “the best interest of the tribe” and not “the best interest of a child.” ICWA, drug addiction and suicides have been completely devastating to family units within Indian reservations.
• 1988 - Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) to provide tribes with economic self-sufficiency and ultimately offset and reduce annual federal subsidies. These tax-exempt gaming profits are ‘free money’ to tribes, since federal subsidies continue to annually fund all basic services of 574 tribal governments. Casino funds are used to acquire land, hire lobbyists and fund candidate campaigns.
• 2000 - vfcFederal Election Commission Advisory Opinion (FEC -AO 2000-05) authorized tribal governments to financially and directly participate in funding political parties, incumbents or candidates. No other American governments may do so. But 574 tribal governments monetize America’s elections while being exempt from most federal and state decisions made by legislators that tribes elect.
• 2012 - Congress passed the HEARTH Act under the Obama administration, allowing tribal governments to long-term lease federal Indian ‘trust’ lands to middle eastern countries for up to 75 years, without BIA oversight or approval. Note: that in 1904, Secretary of Interior A.B. Fall required all major dams, water and energy systems in Western states to be located on or near Indian reservations. The HEARTH Act affords opportunity for adversaries of this country close proximity to the nation’s energy system and power grids on lands receiving little or no state or local observation or oversight.
• 2014 - Accelerating tribal involvement in the nation’s power grid, Congress passed the Indian Energy Policy Act authorizing multi-billions of dollars for tribal governments to acquire major power infrastructure by a government that: 1) has no duty to the customer base, and 2) is protected by “sovereign immunity” from liability to the American people.

The original 1830 ‘trust’ relationship was intended to be with individual Indians, but for perhaps expediency, Congress and federal agencies worked exclusively with tribal governments, unfortunately to the detriment of the tribal members they serve. 

Nationally, this massive issue impacting America is a best kept secret as most federal, state and local decisions are made in private communications with elected officials, administrators and tribal leaders. Minimal to no public hearing or input from tribal members and the general public occurs. Yet the enormity of the annual financial burden upon taxpayers and increasing loss of lands within states no longer served by a republic form of government quietly expands, year after year.

All of this can be viewed as forced reparations in perpetuity that saddles innocent American taxpayers annually with the sins of yesterday, long since and abundantly compensated for over two centuries by such unconstitutional largesse – going to governments never contemplated in our country’s Constitution.

I remain so deeply grateful for your election as our President in 2016, and eagerly look forward to your reelection in 2020. In your second term, my belief is that you alone can persuade your colleagues in the Executive Branch and members of Congress to restore the United States to One Nation Under God, and make the following requests:

1. To Make and Keep America Great, end the spread of tribalism as an unconstitutional governing system in the United States by restoring the United States to “One Nation under God”;
2. End Federal Indian policy and the existence of 574 ‘quasi-sovereign’, separate nations within the United States;
3. Rescind FEC Advisory Opinion 2000-05, eliminating any tribal government funding of elections and candidates (this action should be taken immediately, prior to the 2020 election);
4. Restore full citizenship to enrolled tribal members, including their civil rights and the 14th Amendment;
5. Return all land held in title by the United States in “trust” for tribal governments to tribes, and transfer jurisdiction of such land to the respective states;
6. And establish a reasonable time certain by which all tribal governments and Indian reservations are terminated.

Very Sincerely Yours,

Elaine D. Willman

Ronan, Montana