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PHOENIX — As an Arizona bill to block people from using government aid to buy soda headed to the governor’s desk in April, the nation’s top health official joined Arizona lawmakers in the state Capitol to celebrate its passage.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said to applause that the legislation was just the start and that he wanted to prevent federal funding from paying for other unhealthy foods.
“We’re not going to do that overnight,” Kennedy said. “We’re going to do that in the next four years.”
Those words of caution proved prescient when Arizona’s Democratic governor, Katie Hobbs, vetoed the bill a week later. Nevertheless, state legislation to restrict what low-income people can buy using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits is gaining momentum, boosted by Kennedy’s touting it as part of his “Make America Healthy Again” platform. At least 14 states have considered bills this year with similar SNAP restrictions on specific unhealthy foods such as candy, with Idaho and Utah passing such legislation as of mid-April.
Healthy food itself isn’t largely a partisan issue, and those who study nutrition tend to agree that reducing the amount of sugary food people eat is a good idea to avoid health consequences such as heart disease. But the question over the government’s role in deciding who can buy what has become political.
The organization largely behind SNAP restriction legislation is the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative policy think tank out of Florida, and its affiliated lobbying arm, which has used the name Opportunity Solutions Project.
FGA has worked for more than a decade to reshape the nation’s public assistance programs. That includes SNAP, which federal data shows helps an average of 42 million people afford food each month. It also advocates for ways to cut Medicaid, the federal-state program that connects 71 million people to subsidized health care, including efforts in Idaho and Montana this year.
FGA’s proposals often seek to limit who taps into that aid and the help they receive. Those backing the group’s mission say the goal is to save tax dollars and help people lift themselves out of poverty. Critics argue that FGA’s proposals are a backdoor way to cut off aid to people who need it and that making healthy food and health care more affordable is a better fix.
Now, FGA sees more room for change under the Trump administration and the Kennedy-led health department, calling 2025 a “window of opportunity for major reform,” according to its latest annual report.
A Vision for Limiting Government Benefits
Tarren Bragdon, a former Maine legislator, founded FGA in 2011 to promote policies to “free millions from government dependency and open the doors for them to chase their own American Dream,” he said in a statement on FGA’s website. The main foundation started out as a staff of three with about $60,000 in the bank. As of 2023, it had a budget of more than $15 million and a team of roughly 64, according to the latest available tax documents, and that’s not counting the lobbying arm.
The foundation got early funding from a grant from the State Policy Network, which has long backed right-leaning think tanks with ties to conservative activists including brothers Charles and David Koch.
FGA declined several interview requests for this article.
In recent years, the nonprofit helped draft a 2017 Mississippi law, the Jackson Free Press found, which intensified eligibility checks for public aid that made it more difficult for some applicants to qualify. It successfully pushed a 2023 effort in Idaho to impose work requirements for food benefits that health care advocates said led some recipients to lose access.
The same year, the group helped pass SNAP restrictions affecting eligibility in Iowa. Since those restrictions have taken effect, the Food Bank of Iowa has seen a record number of people show up at its pantries amid rising grocery prices and a scaling back of covid pandemic-era federal support, said Annette Hacker, a vice president at the nonprofit.
Part of the group’s strategy is to pass legislation state by state, with the idea that the crush of new laws will increase pressure on the federal government. For example, states can’t limit what food is purchased through SNAP without federal approval through a waiver process. And in the past, some of FGA’s efforts have stalled because states never got that approval.
Kennedy’s agenda now echoes some of FGA’s key messages, and he has said states can expect approval of their waivers. Meanwhile, congressional leaders are eyeing nationwide Medicaid cuts and work requirements, which FGA considers among its major issues. The foundation also has a connection working inside the administration: Its former policy director, Sam Adolphsen, was tapped to advise President Donald Trump on domestic matters.
“We’re excited to fight from Topeka to Washington, D.C., as opposed to Washington, D.C., to Topeka,” Roy Lenardson, FGA’s state government affairs director, told Kansas lawmakers in February when testifying in support of SNAP legislation there.
Shaping State Policies
In the states, FGA has become known as a conservative “thought leader,” said Brian Colby, vice president of public policy for Missouri Budget Project, a progressive nonprofit that provides analysis of state policy issues.
“Conservatives used to try to chop away at the federal budget,” Colby said. “These guys are doing it at the state level.”
In its 14 years, FGA has created a playbook to shape state policy discussions around public benefits behind the scenes. In Montana, retired Republican legislator Cary Smith, who worked with FGA, said not all of the think tank’s ideas split along party lines.
“They offer a buffet of options,” he said. “Their agenda is making government accountable; it’s in the name.”
He said besides drafting legislation, FGA provides talking points and data to help policymakers support their arguments. “They would go in and would say, ‘This is what Medicaid fraud is costing us,’” Smith said. “That would be the number you’d want to use in your bill.”In January, FGA released a memo for states to “stop taxpayer-funded junk food.” In February, Stateline reported that Wyoming Republican state Rep. Jacob Wasserburger said the group asked him to sponsor a SNAP restriction bill. The state sponsor of similar legislation in Missouri has repeated at least one of FGA’s talking points, as reported by the Missouri Independent. In Arizona, Republican Rep. Leo Biasiucci, who sponsored the SNAP legislation there, told KFF Health News FGA was behind that bill as well.
Opponents of such bills argue the proposals are not as simple as they sound. Amid debate on a SNAP bill in Montana, Kiera Condon, with the Montana Food Bank Network, testified the legislation would force grocery store workers to sort through what counts as soda or candy, “which could result in retailers not participating in SNAP at all.”
State lawmakers tabled the Montana bill in April.
Montana legislators also easily passed a bill to extend the state’s Medicaid expansion program even after FGA began publishing a series of papers that asserted the program was “breaking” Montana’s budget. FGA had presented data saying most Montanans on the program don’t work, which state data refutes.
Ed Bolen, who leads food aid strategies at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities think tank, said FGA has a pattern of proposing technical changes to existing laws and “unworkable work requirements” that cause people to lose benefits.
After working with policymakers in Kansas for a decade, FGA helped pass legislation that limited how long people can access cash assistance, added work requirements to SNAP, and banned the state from spending federal or state funds to promote public aid. Many of those changes came through 2015 legislation known as the “HOPE Act” drafted by FGA, The Washington Post reported.
Analysis from Kansas Appleseed, an advocacy organization for low-income Kansans, found the SNAP caseload sharply declined after the bill was enacted because of the new hurdles, dropping from 140,000 households in January 2014 to 90,000 as of January 2020.
“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” said Karen Siebert, an adviser for Harvesters, a community food bank network in Kansas and Missouri. “Some of these FGA proposals are such complex policies, it’s hard to argue against and to explain the ripple effects.”
In 2024, the foundation produced more than two dozen videos featuring state politicians from across the nation touting the organization’s goals and dozens of research papers arguing public benefits are wrecking state budgets. FGA also has its own polling team to produce data out of the states it’s working to influence.
The organization released a list of 14 states it labeled as “redder and better” places to exert more influence. That included Idaho, where the group has four registered lobbyists in the state Capitol.
In 2023, FGA helped present and successfully lobby for legislation there to require people receiving food aid to work at least 80 hours a month. The organization called the resulting law “landmark welfare reform” years in the making.
And this year, Idaho lawmakers passed more requirements for people enrolled in Medicaid who can work. FGA staffers worked with one of the co-sponsors of the legislation on a similar bill last year that failed, then again this year. A compromise bill passed with FGA’s backing, marking another victory for the foundation.
David Lehman, a lobbyist for the Idaho Association of Community Providers, which represents health organizations that have opposed FGA bills, said Idaho illustrates how FGA works with sympathetic lawmakers in conservative states to gain more ground.
“They’re pushing an already rolling rock downhill,” he said.
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Two Arizona lawmakers and President Donald Trump’s nominee for a top Pentagon job spoke at a conspiracy theory convention over the weekend, appearing alongside a man who claims God is telling him to sell cryptocurrency.
Arizona lawmakers Sen. Mark Finchem, R-Prescott, and Rep. Leo Biasiucci, R-Lake Havasu, each spoke on multiple panels at the Quantum Summit 2 event, a convention for a fringe conspiracy theory that claims extraterrestrials are helping shape national and global policy.
During one presentation, Finchem was joined by retired Gen. Anthony Tata, Trump’s nominee for under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness at the Pentagon.
Tata had previously been nominated by Trump during his first presidency, but his past inflammatory remarks referring to President Barack Obama as a “terrorist” and a series of Islamaphobic tweets scuttled his appointment.
Tata has appeared at a Quantum Summit event before, speaking at the inaugural event in 2024; photographs of his participation were posted on the event website and in other promotional materials. The White House did not respond to a request for comment or answer questions if they were aware of Tata’s planned attendance.
In a program for the event posted to BlueSky by anonymous independent extremist researcher Arizona Right Watch, Tata was listed as speaking on a panel with Finchem and two individuals who frequently post videos with QAnon related themes. Both Biasucci and Finchem also held their own presentations separately, with Biasucci speaking about his legislation and Finchem about his work with a former Tennessee cop in which Finchem has pursued spurious fraud claims.
“We are a very small team,” Finchem said, alluding to a nonprofit he created that has spread debunked election fraud claims and whose “head researcher,” a former Tennessee cop named Shawn Taylor, was also present at the event. Finchem suggested that those in attendance should donate to help fund his nonprofit’s work.
Quantum Summit 2 was put on in Cape Canaveral, Florida, by believers in the NESARA/GESARA conspiracy theory. In its most basic form, NESARA/GESARA is a conspiracy theory that revolves around a proposed piece of economic reforms from the 1990s called the National Economic Security and Recovery Act that conspiracy theorists believe was enacted in secret by President Bill Clinton but was covered up by the U.S. Supreme Court via a gag order and suppressed by the 9/11 attacks, which were orchestrated by President George W. Bush.
GESARA refers to a supposed global version of the economic reforms that adherents similarly believe were instituted and then hidden.
In the early 2000s, the conspiracy theory gained popularity in the early internet days as Shaini Goodwin, calling herself the “Dove of Oneness,” made bold predictions about NESARA and world events with dubious claims of “insider knowledge.”
Goodwin is a “graduate” of a New-Age school whose leader often goes on homophobic and antisemitic rants and has teamed up with QAnon. It is also tied to the NXIVM cult that was investigated for sex crimes and much more.
The conspiracy theory has regained traction in recent years, as QAnon adherents have flocked to it due to its many similarities.
NESARA/GESARA has often also been called the “grandfather” of the QAnon conspiracy movement. Goodwin initially promoted it as part of a larger scam that defrauded investors of millions of dollars, with promises of the erasure of all debts and the eventual abolishment of the Internal Revenue Services.
Believers often claim that extraterrestrials have been in communication with them or leaders within the movement and are working to promote the NESARA/GESARA agenda. A promotional video for the Cape Canaveral event that Finchem and Biasiucci spoke at mentions discussions around encouraging the U.S. Space Force to work with the “Galactic Federation.” The idea of a Galactic Federation is often discussed in the context of UFO religions and New Age movements.
The event was the brainchild of a man named Mel Carmine, who believes that Trump, using the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is ushering in the NESARA/GESARA plan.
Carmine also has violent beliefs as to what the government should be doing to Trump’s perceived enemies.
“Everything you buy, everything you touch, has a tax,” Carmine said in a
with Finchem and Biasucci. “People are tired of the thievery…I believe I’m speaking for the American people. I’m pissed off and I know the American people are pissed off. I know I wanna see guillotines and I’m very sure the American people want to see the guillotines and people hanging from ropes. Are we going to see these people perp walked? Are we going to see these people taken care of?”
Neither Arizona lawmaker responded to the statement, and instead spoke about legislation they’re running about taxes in Arizona.
In that same interview, Finchem claimed that Attorney General Kris Mayes had sent a “threatening” letter to lawmakers regarding cryptocurrency. A spokesperson for Mayes said they were unaware of any letter and noted they were working with Republican lawmaker Rep. Jeff Weninger, R-Chandler, on a cryptocurrency bill.
Neither Biasucci nor Finchem responded to repeated requests for comment.
In an opening video for the event, Carmine also claimed that God showed him the logo of a cryptocurrency in the sky that he is now pushing as the currency that will be backed by NESARA/GESARA. That cryptocurrency was featured prominently throughout the event and is pushed heavily on Carmine’s social media.
The event included a litany of speakers with conspiratorial ties and beliefs ranging from UFOs to a man who claimed that he was the original author of The Matrix movie, a claim that was rejected in court.
On Telegram during the conference, Carmine interviewed a person who claimed the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which left 20 children and 6 adults dead, was faked by the government and claimed “anti-gravity tech” and the scam technology known as “med beds” would be forthcoming.
Biasiucci and Finchem are not strangers to conspiracy conventions. In 2021, both spoke at a QAnon convention full of conspiracy theories and antisemitic propaganda.
Finchem has also fundraised with QAnon adherents and had major support from the QAnon community during his failed bid for statewide office in 2022. One of those major supporters, Juan O. Savin, was also a speaker at Quantum Summit 2.
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The letter to Pence also referenced the “alternate slate of electors” sent by Arizona on Dec. 14, 2020, the day Arizona and multiple other states submitted :{forged electoral certificates:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: to Congress, seeking to overturn Biden’s victory by falsely claiming their states’ electoral votes :{went to Trump:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:.
On Jan. 5, 2021, Townsend :{introduced:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: a :{resolution:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: in the Arizona Senate to revoke Biden votes and appoint the alternate electors, among whom were Hoffman and Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward. That same day, Townsend followed up on her email with a link to the resolution, :{writing:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:, “This resolution to appoint the alternate slate of electors is prepared and ready for the election audit findings, should they result in what I expect to happen.” In December, state Senate leaders had :{issued subpoenas:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: to Maricopa County demanding the release of ballots cast, voting machines, voter rolls, and other election information.
The records obtained by American Oversight also reveal that the office of U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks— a congressman from Alabama :{who on Jan. 6:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: gave an inflammatory speech to Trump supporters outside the White House — was actively seeking information that could be used to challenge election results. On Dec. 22, 2020, a Brooks staffer:{**emailed Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem**:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:indicating that the office was “putting together a master memo on the valid grounds” for objecting to the Electoral College certification.
The staffer also asked Finchem for a memo detailing “allegations of fraud and other election irregularities” from a :{meeting involving Rudy Giuliani:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:that had been held on Nov. 30 in Phoenix. Later that day, a Townsend staffer:{sent a copy of Townsend’s resolution:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: to Brooks’ office, asking to be notified once it was “submitted to Congress.”
On Jan. 5, Finchem circulated another :{letter:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: addressed to Pence regarding the “reclamation of Electoral College Electors from Arizona,” signed by Finchem, Townsend, and other Arizona House and Senate members. State Sen. Sonny Borrelli :{forwarded:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}::{ the letter:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: to Phillip Jauregui, the head of the conservative advocacy organizationJudicial Action Group, :{writing: :(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:“Mark has the most updated list” — likely referring to the list of lawmakers signing the letter and resolution. Jauregui, who is based in Birmingham, Alabama, was later invited to the July 2021 :{election integrity call:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: that included numerous election deniers across the country, including Finchem, Townsend, Brooks, and Brooks aide Madison Engelking...
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Arizona GOP lawmakers hold meeting on election outcome with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani
Ryan Randazzo
Maria Polletta
Arizona Republic
President Trump's personal lawyer spent many hours with a handful of Republican Arizona lawmakers at a downtown Phoenix hotel Monday discussing concerns with the 2020 election. Across town, as the meeting wore on, state officials officially certified the results showing the president lost.
Rudy Giuliani and state lawmakers billed the meeting as a "hearing," but it was not an official legislative event.
Outside the Hyatt Regency, several hundred Trump supporters filled Second Street between Adams and Monroe, where they waved flags, chanted, sold hats and other Trump merchandise, and showed their support for the president.
Downtown Phoenix was otherwise eerily quiet, as it has been for most of the pandemic.
Large screens set up outside the Hyatt lobby broadcast the hearing taking place inside, which some people watched. Others stood on a painter's ladder and used a microphone and gave rallying presentations, alleging fraud in the election, human trafficking cover-ups by Democrats, and denouncing the McCain family. Several carried firearms. Few wore masks.
Inside the hotel ballroom, Republican lawmakers Mark Finchem, Bret Roberts, Nancy Barto, Leo Biasiucci, David Cook, Kelly Townsend, David Gowan, Sonny Borrelli and Sylvia Allen listened to "witnesses" — who were not placed under oath — as they explained why they thought Arizona's election results were possibly compromised.
They listened to theories on how elections can be infiltrated.
Neither the Republican speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives nor president of the state Senate authorized the meeting. Republican congressmen Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs attended, sitting behind Giuliani.......
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...In the email, Waldron :{falsely said:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:that “scanned images are public records” in Arizona and that his team should “need no authoritative release requests” to access them. Waldron also suggested that his “local consultant and advisor” Lyle Rapacki, a :{conservative activist:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: who has claimed that :{“demonic”:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: forces led to Joe Biden’s win and who was also copied on the email, could travel to Maricopa County to load images of the scanned ballots onto a hard drive for inspection.
Less than a week after receiving this email, Farnsworth joined Fann in issuing a subpoena demanding that Maricopa County turn over all of its ballots, voting machines, and other records so that the Senate could conduct an “audit.”
Among the records obtained by American Oversight were communications between Arizona Sen.:{**Kelly Townsend**:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:and Michael Bowman, president of ALEC Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council. In a November 2021 :{email:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:, Townsend asked Bowman for advice on which ALEC committee would be best to discuss “election integrity” with. Bowman responded that Townsend should talk with ALEC’s “Process Working Group,” which was meeting in San Diego the following month.
Last week, the Arizona Court of Appeals rejected the state Senate’s broad use of legislative privilege to withhold records from the “audit” from public release in American Oversight’s lawsuit. And on Thursday, Cyber Ninjas and its CEO Doug Logan are scheduled to sit for a deposition regarding the firm’s failure to turn over public records to the Senate. Read more :{here:(style="box-sizing:inherit;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}: about our ongoing investigation into efforts to sow doubt about the 2020 election in Arizona.
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- The Arizona Senate’s Partisan Audit of Maricopa County Election Results
- The ‘Alternate Electors’ Plot to Overturn the 2020 Election
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Just a few years after questions were raised about the professional background of a frequent associate of several Arizona lawmakers, a former legislator says he is “utterly dismayed” to hear Lyle Rapacki has the ear of some current legislators and supposedly even the Trump legal team.
“He talks a good talk and presents himself as a big player,” the former legislator said, adding that Rapacki often prefaces comments with “according to my intel people” and comes off as being in the know. “He is a guy who really wants to promote himself as an authority, but it could prove disastrous if legislative decisions are made based on his advice. It is frightening.”
Rapacki co-owns Sentinel Intelligence Services, PLLC and has described himself as a “private-sector intelligence and threat assessment specialist” who has briefed and consulted with members of the Arizona Legislature since 2010. He is also listed as theDirector of Governmental and Political Affairs for the Prescott eNews operated by Specialized Publishing, Inc., which is wholly owned by former state Rep. David Stringer.
But Rapacki’s recent public access to Senate Majority Whip Sonny Borrelli (R-LD5) and Rep. Mark Finchem (R-LD11) has come under scrutiny after identifying himself as the coordinator of the Nov. 30 joint public legislative event at a Phoenix hotel attended by Trump campaign legal advisor Rudy Giuliani. He also claims to have recently “worked with the Giuliani team and the White House and other assorted teams” in connection to election fraud issues.
In a video posted Jan. 5, Rapacki said he was “fortunate and privileged to be working with the Giuliani team the last six weeks,” providing “consultations and related matters.” He also said he attended a 90-minute White House briefing days before the Jan. 6 Joint Session of Congress during which President Donald Trump expressed “very blunt” comments to the attendees.
Further, Rapacki commented in the same video to having intel that China and “other nations” were involved in compromising the 2020 General Election, evidence of which would be made public during future Congressional testimony.
Then in mid-January, Rapacki posted a video of his interview with Borrelli, the Senate Whip, in an Arizona Today podcast for Prescott eNews. During the podcast, Rapacki noted his efforts have been supported by Borelli, who he has known “for close to 10 years.”
Rapacki also said he “was privileged to present some information” leading up to State Senate subpoenas being issued to Maricopa County in connection to an election audit.However, his comments do not make it clear to whom he presented the information or what the nature of the information was.
In 2017, Rapacki came under fire after questions were raised in an Arizona Daily Independent article about his claimed connections to the intelligence community. The article pointed out Rapacki had lost his access to the state Capitol, a statement Rapacki did not challenge.
Last year, the Phoenix New Times reported Rapacki represented himself in a 2019 email to a University of Arizona lobbyist as the “Legislative Director” of the Arizona Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and had a close working relationship with Finchem on legislative matters.
Rapacki, who often refers to himself as Dr. Rapacki, has a Doctorate earned in 1998 for the treatment of psychological disorders via alternative medicine from the non-accredited Clayton College of Natural Medicine in Alabama. The college, which was defunct by 2010, has been decried as adiploma mill and purportedly did not offer its students clinical training in their subject matter.
The questions circulating around Rapacki are similar to the concerns being raised about the relationship between lawmakers from Arizona and Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander, who federal officials are seeking in connection to his admitted planning of “The Wild Rally,” one of several planned Jan. 6 rallies prior to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Alexander has publicly claimed to have “schemed up” something with three Congressmen, including Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, in an effort to reject the Electoral College votes of several states. However, questions about Alexander’s background and conduct have come under scrutiny.
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lYLE RAPACKI, PHD., DISCUSSING AGENDA-21; NEW WORLD ORDER, AND COLLAPSE OF THE MEXICAN/ARIZONA BORDER
On May 4, 2013, in Articles, Events, Meetings, Op-Ed, by Francine Romesburg
Lyle Rapacki is a busy individual. He will be speaking on the proposed collapse of the Mexican/Arizona Border and the push to deliver America into the New World Order. He will also discuss UN Agenda-21 and how this program is the implementation of the New World Order. I’m sure this will generate many questions from everyone.
Lyle has been very involved in many various activities and projects. He is a Protective Intelligence and Assessment Specialist and Consultant in Behavioral Analysis and Threat Assessment as well as a Private-Sector Intelligence Analysis. Since June 2010, Dr. Rapacki has provided selected members of the Arizona Legislature Intelligence Briefings on Border Security and threats to Arizona State Sovereignty.
Lyle continues to receive, analyze and disseminate critical intelligence and policy information from and to law enforcement, intelligence, and governmental communities. He is the author of dozens of white papers, bulletins and briefings, many of which have received distribution to and by local, state and federal law enforcement, intelligence and public safety agencies nation-wide. He has provided Actionable Intelligence to the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.
Lyle is the owner of Sentinel Intelligence Services, LLC which provides Intelligence Briefings and analysis to elected officials,as well as to selected clients in industry and the private-sector. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Master’s Degree in Counseling from Northern Arizona University, and his Doctorate from Clayton College of Natural Medicine specializing in the treatment of psychological disorders with natural medicine. He also holds a Post-Doctorate Diplomate in Forensic Counseling and another in Behavioral Psychotherapy.
Dr. Rapacki taught in the Criminal Justice Department atWayland Baptist University, Phoenix campus, and taught at Grand Canyon University. He also held the position of Director for the Public Safety Administration, Homeland Security and Crisis Management Programs at Grand Canyon University. He is a member of the FBI InfraGard for Arizona and the Association for Intelligence Officers, and ASIS (Advanced Security Worldwide) International which is recognized as the world’s leading security practitioner organization.
Lyle brought in Heather Gass from Danville, California, the Bay Area who is a Real Estate Broker and doing presentations on UN Agenda 21 wherever she can. Very involved in keeping our Country FREE. This is where we first heard and met Lyle Rapacki at the Sun City/Surprise Tea Party. He has been traveling all over the state since then speaking and talking about UN Agenda 21, and our Mexican/Arizona borders.
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Wendy Rogers Has Falsely Blamed “Radical Antifa Mobs” For The Violence On January 6 th . Wendy Rogers Falsely Claimed The Insurrectionists Were “Radical Antifa Mobs.” “I condemn the radical Antifa mobs for attacking the Capitol and I condemn the Democrats for wanting to defund the very police who protected them.” [Twitter, @WendyRogersAZ, 01/07/21] Wendy Rogers Spoke At A QAnon Conference About The Partisan Election “Audit” With Mark Finchem,An Anti-Government Extremists Aligned With The Bundys And HammondsWendy Rogers Spoke Alongside Mark Finchem At A QAnon Conference About The Partisan “Audit” In Arizona Of The 2020 Election.
“Biasiucci and Rogers spoke alongside Rep. Mark Finchem, who is running for secretary of state, and Sen. Sonny Borrelli on a panel discussing the Arizona Senate’s partisan “audit” of the 2020 election. That self-styled audit was marred by controversy and conducted by conspiracy theorists who had no background in elections or knowledge of Arizona election law. It found no evidence of the fraud that the four GOP legislators and tens of millions of Republican voters nationwide say stole the election from Donald Trump. Instead, the “audit” concluded that Joe Biden won Arizona.” [AZ Mirror, 10/28/21] ●
Arizona State Rep. Mark Finchem Is Aligned With Anti-Public Lands Extremists Including Hammonds And The Bundy Militia, Calling The Bureau Of Land Management “Bureaucratic Terrorism.” “State Representative Mark Finchem served as "Arizona Coordinator" for the Coalition of Western States, a group that supported the infamous armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016.
The Coalition of Western States (COWS) describes itself as a group of elected legislators and "grass roots leaders" in the Western United States "dedicated to stopping federal overreach" and the "bureaucratic terrorism" of the Bureau of Land Management, according to a December 2015 news release from the organization. The group publicly backed the Hammond family of Oregon ranchers, whose dispute with the federal government over public land management inspired the armed militia occupation of the Oregon wildlife refuge. Some members of COWS met with the militia members and fed them information.” [Phoenix New Times, 10/01/20] ●
Mark Finchem Attended Pro-Trump Protests In Washington, DC On January 6 th . “"We have substantial evidence that this election was a fraud in six states," Representative-Elect Mark Finchem, (R-LD 11) told to ABC15 Arizona, while walking the streets of Washington DC the morning of the riot. "If there’s violence, it will be at the hands of Antifa."” [ABC 15, 01/07/21] The Panel Wendy Rogers’ Participated In Featured Conspiracy Theories And Antisemitism. “The panel discussion opened up with a video by a company that makes QAnon memes and videos, many of which center on debunked conspiracies in them or antisemetic messaging. None of the legislators refuted any of the conspiratorial or antisemitic themes in the video...