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Today, the Two Mikes were again fortunate to speak with Bishop Robert E. Smith Jr. from Little Rock, Arkansas. Bishop Smith said that there was no way else to describe the world's problems, except by saying that, at the moment, Satan is the king of the world. He can be beaten, and the recipe for victory is easily available to all people; namely, it is in the Bible and in both testaments. The starting point in this fight, according to the Bishop, is the formation of local communities that can provide immunity against the depredations of the satanic federal and state governments. Strong local communities willing to keep schools and churches open when the politicians order them closed; insisting on going to work when ordered to stay at home because of falsified health reasons, refusing to obey mandates and other directions from governments that people be inoculated with shots known to be murder weapons, and most of all to build local communities into citadels for faith and trust in God, and pray relentlessly.In other words, kick unconstitutional, lethal, and anti-Christian government "requirements" to the curb, and get on with the process of proving that God and not Satan is the KING of this world. Through such a process a community can regain stability and, by joining with other like-minded, God-based communities, can return stability, unity, law, and faith to the republic. It all begins with a firm acknowledgement by all the Christian communities in this land that "God is King and it is time for Christian communities to get their priorities together and get going!"Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetworkElevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code TWOMIKES for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code TWOMIKES for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code TWOMIKES and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Today, The Two Mikes recorded an episode that seems, at long last, to explain how the 2020 and 2022 elections were stolen without any of the sophisticated electronic tools, computer systems, and other esoteric means that have been talked about on our show and many others since 2020. Our guest today, Michele Swinick, who has worked as an election-day official in Arizona elections in Maricopa County, explains in clear and commonsense terms how the Maricopa elections were stolen by cooperation among Democrats, Republicans, and civil servants by the simple means of (a) not obeying the election laws of the state, its counties, and other localities, and (b) the collusion of all players in both parties working toward the same illegal end. That's it, no whizbang methods, always-wrong experts, or space-age tools, just simple, easily provable, and well-documented illegalities. There also is no need or reason for circus-like, big-name shows criss-crossing the country to explain the "maze of cheating" that supposedly occurred during the elections -- for just the cost of admission, of course. The Two Mikes have done quite a few shows on the issue, but this show with Ms. Swinick and two previous show with Joe Freid -- makes the most sense and is backed up fully by the state's own election and post-election documents. Ms. Swinick's rattlingly good presentation and concise factual statements show that "none of us have a country so long as the uniparty is in control", a conclusion that seems all too accurate. She adds, moreover, that items from Arizona's menu of cheating methods are used by other states in order to arrange elections that keep the uniparty in power. @EverythingHomeT  Our guest, Michele Swinick (@EverythingHomeT), and her colleague-in arms, the attorney Leon Donofrio (@lcdlaw1), used the fully legal method of time-consuming research in public documents, namely securing those documents by request from Arizona's version of the Freedom of information act. The state, at times made it hard for Ms. Swinick at times -- for example, by limiting her visits to one important document repository to one a month -- but through patience and hard work seems to have proved without doubt that both parties -- the uniparty -- cooperated at every step of the way and got the results they wanted.Ms Swinick and her colleague have worked long and hard and, using the state's own election government, have found and documented that many of the officers running the election disobeyed the law, lied, and failed to record information about the elections required by law; all easily found facts that should void the 2020 and 2024 elections. But none of the of the defeated candidates, from either party, in the two elections, have shown any interest in using the air-tight evidence of fraud put together by Ms. Swinick and her colleague that has been presented to them. Neither defeated senatorial candidate Abe Hamadeh nor gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, have been interested in considering the full story that tells of comprehensive cheating by those who ran the selections. Very Odd that defeated candidates -- one a flamboyant national figure -- have no interest in easily proving they were denied their victories by well-documented official fraud. Ms. Swinick and Mr. Donofrio are the leaders of the "Save My liberty Movement" and two of their most informative podcasts -- along with 300 other episodes and supporting documents -- are available for listeners and readers. - for free!  Citations for the two pivotal podcasts follow: #278 NEW ELECTION FRAUD EXPOSED! Maricopa County ADMITS It Has NO Chain Of Custody Reports For How Many Voters Checked-In At The Polls On Nov 8th + AZGOP, MCRC, RNC & Lake’s Team KNEW A.R.S. 16-602 Was VIOLATED & The Law Was BROKEN! https://rumble.com/v4nxr3q-278.html #280 Maricopa County Admits There Are NO Reports Recording How Many Voters Checked-In Nov 8th & AZGOP, MCRC, RNC & Lake’s Team Knew AZ Law 16-602 Was BROKEN! | LEWIS HERMS https://rumble.com/v4onyqz-280.html Ms. Swinick's e-mail is: [email protected], Tel: 602 885 7607; Rumble podcast:  Save My Freedom Movement, TV Show & Podcast – FRIDAYS @ 4pm PT The Movement's websites with other commentary and documents are: https://www.savemyfreedom.us;  https://www.TakeBackAmericaPlan.us; and  https://savemyfreedom.substack.com Her Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingHomeT Music Credit: The Beattles – Magical Mystery TourSubscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetworkElevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code TWOMIKES for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code TWOMIKES for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code TWOMIKES and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Today, The Two Mikes had the good fortune to speak with Mike King, who runs and writes from a site called "Real News and History" (https://realnewsandhistory.com). Mr. King is known as a "correctionist historian" and has the courage and talent to take on the lies that have for decades taken the place of truth in the writing of both popular and academic history. Mr. King said that one highly important fact that all Americans should remember is that when almost any historian or politician speaks in public and starts by explaining that he is going to talk about an issue that is "extremely complex", the listener can be sure that the speaker is going to turn a relatively simple issue into an issue that is impossible for ordinary Americans to understand. Making a simple issue "extremely complex" is meant to make Americans uninformed, fearful, and line up with their traditional loyalty and patriotism to support the deceitful academics and politicians they have been trained in school to respect. There is, for example, nothing hard to understand, for, about Ukraine; it's about the U.S. and NATO wanting to use that country against Russia, to fill it with chemical weapons labs to make plagues to use against Russia and the common citizens of the West; as well as about the corrupt skimming off the money sent there to "help" that country: About Israel: The enormous U.S. funding sent there is not to "protect the only democracy in the Middle East" but ensure that a part of the money to be used by the Israeli security services to control the U.S. Congress and federal bureaucracy; and About NATO: it's about tricking the American people into believing that the shameful amount of their taxes that are sent to NATO is mean to defend democracy for Europeans, even as their own governments grow authoritarian, discriminate against the native born, and flood the continent with foreigners who want supremacy not assimilation; and, finally, About the U.S. Civil War: all politicians and almost all academics peddle the nonsense that the war was fought simply and only to free the slaves. This is not only a lie, it is the mutilation of any plan for producing history that is as close to the truth as is possible. Lincoln, it should be remembered, raised 75,000 troops and invaded the south after the cannonading for Fort Sumter, an ancient and decaying facility only good for the offshore collection of the national tariffs that always overwhelmingly favored the economic and industrial development of the north. Quite simply, Americans in 1861 would never have fought a Civil War to free the slaves at the ultimate expense of 800,000 Americans, north and south. The war was not caused by but did end slavery.  Mr. King runs a fine and very smart website. He is a brave, excellent and very provocative writer, and his timely and pertinent work is available at https://realnewsand history.com). Take a look at some of it and feel your eyes being opened.Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetworkElevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code TWOMIKES for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code TWOMIKES for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code TWOMIKES and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Today, The Two Mikes talked with Nicole McCaw, a journalist and documentary-maker, who is focused on the unfolding, federal-government orchestrated disaster that is occurring along America's southern border. 

Ms. McCaw explained that her investigations have shown that 60-percent to 80-percent of the many thousands of women and children who are being trafficked across the southern border have been raped -- many repeatedly -- or otherwise molested. Almost 16.5 million illegal aliens have been allowed into America since 2021, Ms. McCaw said. 

She also said that her investigations found that the Biden regime also is doing virtually nothing to stop the inflow of fentanyl into the country. In essence, Ms. McCaw said, this China-supported smuggling of fentanyl is nothing less than an attack on the United States by a weapon of mass destruction, with 400 Americans now dying each day as result of fentanyl. Ms. McCaw stressed that too many Americans still have no clear idea of how lethally dangerous this U.S. government-protected human-inundation is both to the country's peace and prosperity, and the survival of the United States.

This anti-American attack on the United States by the Biden Administration also is being supported by some of the best-known NGOs, including Catholic, Mormon, Lutheran charities. She and her associate Tim Rose have made a 1-hour-and-20 minute documentary called "Borderwar", information about which can be found at https://www.borderdoc.com.
Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https:// rumble.com/c/ freedomfirstnetworkElevate your meals with Freedom First Beef... even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code TWOMIKES for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https:// freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code TWOMIKES for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https:// ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code TWOMIKES and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Today, The Two Mikes again spoke to Gordon Oliver from Cambridge Credit Counseling. Mr. Oliver, frank as always, said that the signs of more economic problems for those with debt problems have not wholly abated. The nation's credit card debt has increased to 1.3 trillion and college-loan debts have increased to $1.92 trillion. In addition, in the past year 40-percent of Americans have dipped into their retirement funds to avoid foreclosures. On the school loans, Mr. Oliver noted that the government's new move to "forgive" $11 billion dollars for public employees at all levels of government -- which of course came at a time Biden is desperate for votes in any place he can find him -- ends on 30 April 2024, and even those public employees who were refused forgiveness on the first try can apply again and see if they can follow the required application process. Mr. Oliver also said that, at the moment, the single worst investment a consumer can make is to purchase an automobile -- which loses 25-percent of its value the moment you drive it off the lot. Needless to say, the interest rates on car loans also are through the roof. As to the future, Mr. Oliver said that while the economic and financial impact of the COCID debacle are about finished, there still probably are rough waters ahead, and, as always, people must take responsibility for themselves to plan their economic future.The place to start is by putting together a spending plan (budget) that details your expenses, see where that can be reduced, and then do your best to stick to that plan. That is where Cambridge Credit counseling can help. Cambridge is a non-profit NGO and has helped a large number of people to create such plans, and they do so at no charge to the consumer.No one can know for sure how rough future economic times will be, but a commonsense spending plan, or budget, is an important tool to have ready to face the future, come what may. --Cambridge Credit Counseling: Tel:  1 800-235-1407; Website:  https://www.cambridge-credit.orgSubscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetwork Elevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code TWOMIKES for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code TWOMIKES for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code TWOMIKES and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Today, The Two Mikes spoke with Fred Coulter, the pastor of the Christian Biblical Church of Christ in Hollister, California. As Christians are marking Holy Week, Mr. Coulter threw a bracing bucket of cold water on the increasingly severe mistakes that Christians are taught throughout their lives, and by which they live their lives, while passing on inaccurate beliefs to their children. We spoke to Mr. Coulter for over an hour and there follows a summary of the several points he made. --Christians of the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox faiths follow a version of Easter that was never observed by the Apostles. As on many other issues this world lives on the basis of lies. --Easter and Holy Week are not to be found in the Bible in the way we now celebrate them. As Ezekiel says in Chapter 8, God cannot be worshiped with lies and pagan theology. --Catholics, in particular, appear to model many of the faith's holidays on the pagan holidays that were celebrated in Babylon. The word "Easter" for example, appears to be based on the Babylonian goddess Ishtar (a word that is now pronounced Easter). Ishtar, of course, had nothing to do with Jesus Christ. In addition, our Easter Sunday "Sunrise Services" appear to be based on sunrise services that started in Babylon, wherein the pagan peoples priests prayed to the soon for the resurrection of departed gods. the Bible, of course, says "Do not learn the ways of the heathens." --The marking of Ash Wednesday is another tradition that is to be found nowhere in the Bible. --The correct Sabbath day of all Christians is Saturday not Sunday. Neither the Saturday sabbath nor the Old Testament are the exclusive property of the Jewish faith. Likewise, the Old Testament is as relevant for today's Christians; indeed, it is a perpetual part of their faith. --Mr. Coulter concluded by saying that today's Americans -- because of the abominations they regularly practice -- ought to pay close attention to Deuteronomy, Chapter 28, Verses, 43-44 and 49-50, which offer a warning to Americans in a way that is completely appropriate to their country as it now stands. "The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. ... The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle fleet; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favor to the young."Mr. Coulter’s websites include: https://www.CBCG.org  and https://www.truthofGod.org Mr. Coulter’s websites offer an array of books that can be used by a person seeking God or seeking to return to God. Many of the books are available for no charge.  P.S. Unlike Trump his Faithful Version Bible is free.  In its Original order.Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetworkElevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code TWOMIKES for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code TWOMIKES for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code TWOMIKES and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Today, the Two Mikes spoke with Mr. Barry Moore, a good and valued friend of our podcast, and earlier of our efforts on the radio. Currently, Mr. Moore is the President and CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Central Virginia, (BBB, https://www.bbb.org). Mr. Moore noted that the BBB was founded in 1912, and from that time till this the Bureau has not received a cent of support from any government. All of its money come from the business and citizens who contribute to support the BBB’s work.Moreover, the BBB has nothing to do with any government. The BBB’s activities are solely intended to help the community it represents – in Mr. Moore’s case Central Virginia -- to work together, as well as to protect the businesses that abide by the BBB’s standards and to help all citizens who are looking for a particular service to find firms they can count on, and thereby avoid companies that cut corners, leave work partially completed, or are just plain scammers.Indeed, the BBB’s website has created and maintains a Scam Tracker for the use of would-be customers seeking to steer clear of fraudsters, scammers, or other bad apples. Mr. Moore concluded by recommending this year’s “CEO Convention”. It is being organized by Liberty University’s Provost Dave Bratt and will be held at the school in the September-October, 2024timeframe. The convention’s precise dates will be announced shortly.Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetwork Elevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code TWOMIKES for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code TWOMIKES for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code TWOMIKES and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Today, The Two Mikes spoke with Nate Cain, a true Republican candidate for Congress from West Virginia’s 2nd congressional district. The interview turned out to be a humdinger and a bit lengthy, so we are publishing in two parts. Mr. Cain is an Army veteran, and also has been a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the FBI. While working for the FBI, Mr. Cain became one of the most important whistle-blowers we have ever heard of. During his FBI tenure 2017-2018, Nate saw FBI documents that showed that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her associates in Obama’s regime – at the highest levels, such as two FBI Directors and other senior DOJ officials, and major Clinton donors – had behaved treasonously, and otherwise criminally via money-laundering, “pay-to-play”, and illegal transfers of uranium to Russia. Mr. Cain took the documents to Congressman Devin Nunes and received whistle-blower protection under the law, but the FBI fired him and raided his home, taking his electronic devices and deeply upsetting his wife and children. Giving enormous credence to Mr. Cain’s claims about the nature of the information he delivered to Nunes is that fact that he still holds his security clearances, showing that he acted legally and truthfully by getting the documents to Congress, and that the FBI, DOJ, the Clintons and the Obamas knew that and feared if the issue was not buried “it could bring down the whole government.” In his congressional race in West Virginia’s 2nd district, Mr. Cain stands as center-right Republican with a Christian perspective on the world, and says he is determined to fight the neo-fascist corporatism that is now abroad in his state and the nation. He has been conducting a grass roots, very localized campaign to get his message out, so far clocking 60,000 miles on the family car in the effort. After he entered the race, members of the Republican caucus in the state’s legislature asked him to drop out in favor of his opponent. His opponent is Riley Moore, the nephew of Republican U.S. Senator Moore Capito. Mr. Cain refused and afterward found it nearly impossible to schedule any radio interviews in the state. The refusals from radio programs included the biggest radio voice in the state, one that covers every county in West Virginia. Why, well the Moore family is plenty wealthy and former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was quick to endorse Riley Moore immediately as soon as he entered the race. There still seems to be RINO’s rampant in West Virginia.  Mr. Cain’s opponent, Riley Moore, was West Virginia’s treasurer and won applause – including from The Two Mikes, for which we humbly offer this mea culpa for getting slicked – for fighting the attempt of banks to enforce their ESG rules against energy companies in West Virginia. Mr. Cain spent the second half of the program suggesting quite strongly that Mr. Moore may not be the conservative he claims to be. Before returning to West Virginia, Mr. Cain alleged Mr. Moore worked in Washington as a “Registered Foreign Agent” that is he was a lobbyist of the Congress for the interests of foreign organizations and countries like Hong Kong, after its return to China, Somalia, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He also worked with John and Tony Podesta, the later a noted collector of “art” showing children in unusual activities. He also worked with Tony Podesta in Ukraine where he helped Podesta's lobbying activities, but during which he was not registered as a “Foreign Agent”.Most recently, Moore has been associated with John Podesta to bring a large battery project to the northern part of West Virginia. The scoundrels behind this project are Bill Gates and George Soros and they have scrounged $290 million dollars in West Virginia taxpayer money for building facilities and manufacturing the batteries – Riley Moore through a proxy voted for $220 million-dollars of that amount. They also have already persuaded the U.S. Congress give them an exemption from a standing ban on Chinese technology and hardware for use in such projects, and an exemption from the Environmental Protection Agency from a ban meant to keep polluted water from the project being dumped into fresh waters, in this case the Ohio River. Shades of Palestine Ohio. The Gates-Soros team also refused to guarantee that most of the 750 jobs created by the project would go to West Virginians. Doesn’t sound like much of a bargain for working or unemployed West Virginians.Instead of take me home West Virginia we say, Take the $290 million back.Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetwork Elevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code TWOMIKES for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.com Be ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code TWOMIKES for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn. Protect your financial future with precious metals! 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Today, The Two Mikes spoke with Alexander Rossino, who holds a PH.D in history from Syracuse University, and is the author of Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia from the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862. Dr. Rossino's book seeks to supply answers to a number of questions that still surround the whys and wherefores of the Sharpsburg/Antietam Battle. One of these questions is why did General Lee take his army into Maryland? One traditionally offered reason still stands true, Lee wanted to take the war out of Virginia to allow the state's farmers to harvest their crops. More important, though, Lee's decision for Maryland focused on a major political aspect of the war, expanding the Confederacy. Lee brought his army into Maryland in an attempt to exploit what was thought to be the ardor of many Marylanders to join the Confederate States of America. In essence, Dr. Rossino explains, the army carried a message from Richmond that amounted to "we have come to welcome you into our new nation, if you so choose, and we are ready to spill the army's blood to protect you if you choose to join." As things worked out, relatively few Confederates rallied to the offer from Lee and the Confederacy. Indeed, after some of the bloodiest fighting in U.S. history, Lee's army fought the Army of the Potomac to a draw, and was able to withdraw back across the Potomac to safety in Virginia. Another question that always arises about Lee's actions is why did Lee and his army go into western Maryland rather than eastern Maryland along the Atlantic shore? This area, after all, was known to have strong supporters of the Confederacy and most of the state's slaves. Lee's motivation on this score was pretty clear cut, had he moved east he would have cleared a path for Union forces to sweep into the heart of Virginia. There is of course much more to answering both of these questions, and Dr. Rossino's book tells a fuller and more detailed story for each of them, as well as for several of the other major questions that are still asked about Lee's invasion of Maryland. Dr. Rossino is an excellent speaker and tells his story in very clear and concise terms. It was our pleasure to speak with and learn from him. Dr. Rossino's other Civil War-era books include: Calamity at Frederick; The Tale Untwisted: George McClellan and the Discovery of Lee's lost Order (co-author Gene M. Thorp); Six Days in September, A Novel of Lee's Army in Maryland; and the forthcoming, The Guns of September, McClelland's Army in Maryland,1862. All of the books are published by and available from America's top Civil War publishing house, Savas Beattie, as well as from Amazon and many other booksellers. Sponsors Triangle Fragrance: https://trianglefragrance.com/?sca_ref=4171318.dUndUHDKz3Cambridge Credit: https://www.cambridge-credit.org/twomikes/ EMP Shield: https://www.empshield.com/?coupon=twomikesOur Gold Guy: https://www.ourgoldguy.com www.TwoMikes.us

Today, The Two Mikes spoke with Max Ukropina who is running as a Republican for the 47th Congressional District in Orange County, California. To do this, Mr. Ukropina underlines that he has no desire to become a career politician, and is taking time away from his successful financial technology business. He intends to go back to that business after serving a few terms in Congress. Being a successful business builder, Mr. MacMillan said, he has grown tired of the national political process that sends people to Washington who prove themselves to be useless, but are sent back over and over again in succeeding elections. If elected, Mr. Ukropina says that he will work toward the abolition of entire departments of the federal government and the regular auditing of every department remaining. He said he would settle for getting rid of 50-to-75 percent of the federal civil servants, but only if he cannot achieve agreement on 100-percent. Mr. Ukropina clearly is a bit of an anti-big-government firebrand, a model of a congressman of which we have far too few.Sponsors Triangle Fragrance: https://trianglefragrance.com/?sca_ref=4171318.dUndUHDKz3Cambridge Credit: https://www.cambridge-credit.org/twomikes/ EMP Shield: https://www.empshield.com/?coupon=twomikesOur Gold Guy: https://www.ourgoldguy.com www.TwoMikes.us