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BlogJam had quite a time last week. The feature in which we profile bloggers kicked off a spirited discussion among feminist bloggers. We think that's pretty much died down, which means it's time for the next entries. This week, we're highlighting right-winger Erick Erickson of Redstate.com. To nominate bloggers for us to check out, e-mail [email protected] .

Blogs at: Redstate.com, erickerickson.org, and peachpundit.com, the latter a local Georgia blog

Under the name: Erick Erickson

Day job: Fulltime at Redstate, though he's a "recovering lawyer"

Hometown: Macon, Ga., for the past 12 years

Age: 32, born June 3, 1975

Started blogging: October 2003, during Arnold Schwarzenegger's race for governor of California. Erickson was regularly posting in comment sections and e-mailing his friends incessantly. They pushed back. "Have you ever heard of a blog? Go start your own," they told him. "Stop e-mailing."

Political leaning: "Conservative and then Republican ... I'm a small-government, social, fiscal conservative and in primaries vote conservative and then for general elections...side with the Republican Party." He paused and added, "Usually."

Killer posts: Recently, there was " An Open Declaration of War Against the House Republican Leadership," in which he launched an effort to get Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) booted from the Appropriations Committee because of his shady-looking land deals. (Erickson didn't want any Republican with a whiff of impropriety to be vulnerable to Democrats' furthering of the "culture of corruption" label.)

He's also proud of taking the side of a lesbian woman who was denied custody of a girl she was raising partly because of her sexual orientation. (The state put the girl in foster care instead.) "I actually got a lot of hell from my side for that one," he said. And then there was his effort to require Georgians to present photo ID in order to vote.

The idea, he said, was picked up by state lawmakers who asked Erickson to draft the legislation. It passed, but was struck down as unconstitutional. Erickson said Republican State Sen. Cecil Staton, who introduced the bill, now denies that the idea came from Redstate. "He's a good friend of mine, though," said Erickson.

Biggest blunder: During a 2006 Republican primary, he posted a video of congressional candidate Tramm Hudson saying that because he grew up in Alabama he knew that most "black people couldn't swim." Hudson "wound up getting crushed in the primary as a result," said Erickson.

His blunder wasn't in posting the video, Erickson said, but in not calling the campaign for comment first. "I thought it was a fair criticism," he said of those who charged he should have given Hudson a chance to respond.

Biggest dust-up: "That's easy. In August of 2005 I called Cindy Sheehan a 'media whore.' For two days the voice mailbox at my law firm crashed because...(it) was overflowing with people calling (and) demanding I be fired and people calling at home leaving death threats on the answering machine.

I had one guy who e-mailed and said that he wanted to come down to my house and told me specifically my address and would tie me up, slit off my eyelids, and then rape my wife and, at the time, unborn child, and then slit their throats like trout, and then let me go," he said.

Erickson retracted his charge when Sheehan walked out of the spotlight recently -- sort of. "I once called Cindy Sheehan a media whore. I should not have. Media whores are usually savvy. Cindy Sheehan is not. She's more a sad, pathetic little woman who lost her son in a war she does not understand for a cause she detests and is in desperate need of professional help, not the encouraging, enabling cheers and ovations of a group fixated on the hope of a crushed American empire," he wrote on his blog.

Blog philosophy: "I think blogs are more and more going to be weapons more than anything. I've never known a blog to significantly help anyone, but I have known plenty to significantly hurt people," he said. "I do think they will be used more and more by candidates...to conduct cheap, cost-effective rapid response to opponents and to the media."

Erickson is now a candidate for Macon City Council. He has no primary opponent.

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BlogJam had quite a time last week. The feature in which we profile bloggers kicked off a spirited discussion among feminist bloggers. We think that's pretty much died down, which means it's time for the next entries. This week, we're highlighting right-winger Erick Erickson of Redstate.com.

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Friend of the Treehouse John Spriopoulos attended the January 6th rally in Washington DC and provides this video report from the event.

As John notes, "This is the first in our series of "Spirit of America" reports featuring people from across the USA who came to Washington to express concerns about the election and the restrictions on the personal liberties."

"Despite the disappointing ending at the Capitol, both inside and out, we came away with stories reflecting the Spirit of America. Yes, we may be entering a Brave New World, but I'm comforted by the Rebel Alliance I know exists because I talked to them face to face from southern California to the Ellipse in DC."

There will be a few more reports from John as he assembles, edits and presents more interviews from the Washington DC event. Additionally, John shares with us his plan to keep reporting on stops as he travels back to California from DC. "On the way back across the country I'm going to resume the Let's Roll America tour with a twist. The focus: COVID Compliance and how it's wrecked the economy, lives and personal liberties. If you have any ideas, I'm all ears."

You can Also any CTH member who would like the opportunity to support John at his GoFundMe-Here, as well as GiveSendGo-Here meet up with John for his cross-country video segments can contact him via his email address: [email protected]

Given the intense media-spin from the disappointing end to the DC rally, an additional first-hand report on the events on January 6th is provided below:

First of all, this was not tens of thousands there was a minimum of 1.5 million and that is from my own observation and those of others I talked to and have been to previous DC monster events I will try to send some videos I took and you will be amazed.

It was totally beautiful and the people were beautiful and totally peaceful, They were upset that this election was clearly stolen with massive provable fraud. Trump did an excellent job of laying that out.

Now, were there some people in that crowd that were really upset, yes but I just can't imagine that any of them would be stupid enough to break into the building and be violent and totally destroy the positive impact of what was a truly peaceful protest.

For sure none of them would have gone in with a gun. As soon as I heard that there were gunshots I knew what was happening,

It was a clear form of a false flag operation.Deep state operators pretending to be Trump supporters making trouble so the anti-Trump media could portray the whole event as a violent radical group.

I am listening to the coverage now and this is sickening, there were no bombs or guns from any of our crowd. People have to understand that this battle is taking place in the media, the left totally control the media and they know exactly how to create this, If you have never seen

'Wag the Dog" What we are hearing and seeing now on the radio is "Wag the Dog" level fake news.

We are sitting here in the car getting angrier and angrier listening to how they are spinning this.

During the rally I had tears in my eyes most of the time thinking about what my father went through as a WW 2 prisoner of war. He barely survived that. So many Americans have sacrificed their lives to create the freest and most prosperous nation in the history of this planet.

Half way through the event I called my ex son in law thanking him for what he went through as a Navy Seal and left him a very emotional message thanking him for what he did. This was a love fest with grandmas and Grandpas and lots of children, It was totally a love fest of patriotic people expressing their deep love for their country and their President but frustrated over the election fraud. That is it.

Please tell everyone and share this email with everyone. We saw people that were clearly Antifa and BLM that were there to cause trouble. There is no way our people started this and there is no way they could get into that building if they didn't want them to get in. Clearly, they had this violence planned. They let the instigators in and those instigators may have been able to convince some Trump supporters to go in, that is possible.

It is my instinct, and those of us in our group, that this was a planned operation to destroy the positive impact of this event. These people in the deep state are evil and smart and they know exactly what they are doing. This does not surprise me at all.

I am so glad I went and can tell you and every American and the world that this was an epic event and totally peaceful and marred only by paid instigators with the help of the capital police because they could never have gotten in with out inside help. No Way

Please spread the truth please

Posted in 1st Amendment, Big Government, Christian Values, CTH Video Series, Election 2020, Ground Reports, media bias, Patriotism, Poland, President Trump, Uncategorized, USA, Voter Fraud

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Friend of the Treehouse John Spriopoulos attended the January 6th rally in Washington DC and provides this video report from the event. As John notes, "This is the first in our series of "Spirit of America" reports featuring people from across the USA who came to Washington to express concerns about the election and the restrictions on the personal liberties."

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