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HoweEnterprise.com What a great week we had in Howe, Texas last week. It was a fun time each night and all of the events were wellattended. If anyone needs me, I’ll be asleep this week. ***** Howe was also placed on the Texas High School Football map this week as Matt Stepp of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football was in town. This was mainly due to his relationship with Tioga Head Coach Chad Rogers, but Howe fared well with the spotlight on the town.

Howe and Tioga last played in 1948 and most people think it’s because Tioga stopped playing football, however, it was Howe that shut down their football program after 1948 for 10 years.

When Howe returned, Tioga had stopped. Friday’s game marked the first matchup between the Bulldog teams in 74 years. ***** For those that don’t know, it gets a little heated in the press box on Friday nights at Bulldog Stadium. The PA and clock crew have the A/C control in their room with two large vents to keep them cool. Meanwhile, in the very small broadcast room there is one tiny vent and three large men.

Obviously, 70 degrees in the large room is cold to the guys in there, but it’s closer to 80 degrees in our room. Thankfully, they wear jackets and keep it cranked to 70.

EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

Bulk Trash Pickup 2nd Friday of each month in Howe.

Monday, September 19, 2022

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Howe wins battle of Bulldogs, 42-14

Austin Haley and Teagan Stubblefield were named Homecoming King and Queen, respectively.

Photo by Michelle Carney.

Howe celebrates 150th birthday in style

Antwone Rattler runs for yardage during Friday’s 42-14 win over Tioga. Rattler finished with 156 yards rushing and 25 yards receiving and a touchdown. (Story on page 3) Photo by Michelle Carney.

City council approves residential development Paisley Hawkins was crowned the Sesquicentennial Queen on Monday night. The crowning of the queen was sponsored by Independent Financial. Photo by Michelle Carney.

The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce spearheaded the City of Howe’s 150th birthday and it was a week full of entertainment including a western gunfight, murder mystery, parade, community worship service, and a chamber dinner with a Howe historical performance acted by students of Howe ISD. The week began on

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Tract 1 of Noble Ridge will begin with 177 homes.

Top: Hayden Adkins performs as Mame Roberts in the Howe Historical Theater. Middle: Ladies from First United Methodist Church serve ice cream after the Community Worship Service.

Bottom: First Baptist Church won “Best Float” at Tuesday’s Sesquicentennial Parade.

The City of Howe, in a special called meeting last Tuesday, approved a residential development called “Noble Ridge” which will include 177 homes in the initial first phase. The property is adjacent to Summit Hill to the south off of Summit Hill Parkway.

There are multiple phases intended for the property, but the council approved

only the first phase for the development headed

by Howe Land Partners,

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INSIDE

Lady Bulldogs, pg. 6 SHES Employee/Month, pg. 8 Howe JV Football, pg. 8 Howe Chamber members, pg. 9 City Info, pg. 10 Texoma Patriots, pg. 11 Sesquicentennial photos, pg. 12 Homecoming Court, pg. 13 Christian, pg. 14 Patriot Pony, pg. 15 Past front pages, pg. 17-24

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Howe’s 150th birthday

Winners of the Murder Mystery at Summit Gardens on Monday night.

Staff photo.

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Monday at 6:30 pm with a downtown 1880s style western gunfight performed by Tin Star Entertainment thanks to a sponsorship by Tomlin Investments. A good crowd lined both sides of the street for the performance which ended with the marshal and deputy killing two bad guys.

Following the performance Paisley Hawkins was named Sesquicentennial Queen as she sold nearly $800 in raffle tickets for a Yeti Cooler sponsored by Independent Financial. The queen fundraiser raked in a total of $1,300 which will be dedicated to Communications Park. Queen Hawkins was recognized at all events throughout the week.

After the queen was named, First Baptist Church hosted desserts in the Fellowship Hall and games on the lawn for kids. Howe Mayor Bill French, Howe ISD Superintendent Kevin Wilson, and Howe Chamber President Monte Walker judged a spectacular pie contest where Michelle Fox was the winner with her peach blackberry pie.

Donna Pelkey’s coconut cream pie came in second with Tina Cox’s chocolate pecan pie finished third. Other contestants were Doug Shelley—apple pie, Texanna Norman—pecan pie, and Brenda Hemperley’s chocolate pie.

Casey Davis was the winner of the pie eating contest.

The Sesquicentennial Queen Paisley Hawkins poses with the “Gunfighters” that performed in downtown on Monday night. Photo by Michelle Carney.

Tin Star Entertainment was not done for the evening as another set of actors performed a murder mystery at Summit Gardens where the venue was full and the show was very well performed.

On Tuesday evening, the chamber hosted a Sesquicentennial/ Homecoming parade sponsored by Lacey Tucker Fairway Mortgage. First Baptist Church of Howe was the winning float which displayed a large birthday cake and a message of “Happy Birthday Howe.” The parade traveled along Highway 5 (Denny Street) from Duke Street to Bulldog Stadium where a watermelon feast awaited which was hosted by Cory Hernandez State Farm. The Howe Athletic Booster Club also sold sausage on a stick and Chill Out Shaved Ice was present.

On Wednesday, local churches gathered together for a community worship service at Bulldog Stadium. Chamber President Walker gave opening remarks and thanked Clarissia Doty who chaired the event. Brett Hetrick, paster of Summit View Church gave the welcome and opening prayer. Community Bible Fellowship’s Praise Band performed “Great Things” and “Hallelujah for the Cross” before First United Methodist Church minister JB Bryant gave a message of love to the children at the event. Community Bible Fellowship Associate Pastor Ryan Moreau read scripture for the praise band performed “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone.”

The message was shared by longtime First Baptist Church pastor Roger Tidwell and Community Bible Fellowship pastor Jeremy Moore. They collaborated together working from John 4:7-14.

Moore opened with a 15 minute sermon hit hard on the amount of time people spend on things away from spending time with the Lord. Tidwell’s 15-minute segment completed the ser(Continued on page 7)

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Bulldogs

Garren Lankford, returning from a wrist injury, made several outstanding open-field tackles Friday.

Photo by Michelle Carney.

The eyes of Texas were on the Howe Bulldogs (3-1) Friday as the local TV news stations were camped out at the oldest active stadium in north Texas beginning at 4:30 pm. Matt Stepp of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football also had this game circled on his list of games to witness in person. With all the hoopla surrounding the first contest with Tioga since 1948, Howe did not disappoint and walked away with a 42 -14 win. Thanks to sturdy research by Jason Della Rosa of the Herald Democrat, it was realized that this was the first time ever that Howe has scored at least 42 points in three consecutive games.

A week ago, Howe found themselves buried early in the first three minutes of the game with Commerce which forced them to play from behind all night. The opposite was true Friday.

Moments after Austin Haley was crowned homecoming king, he won the coin toss and elected to receive the ball. Three plays into the game, Howe punched it in the endzone. Antwone Ratter raced 52 yards on the first play of the game and then made his first reception of the season on play three which ended in the endzone for a 15yard Haley pass. It took only one minute exactly for Howe to have a 7-0 lead.

Tioga, playing without their outstanding starting quarterback Hayden Hilliard due to injury in a scrimmage, and their speedy tailback Johnny Dorphinghaus who broke his collarbone in a

previous game, made the decision to chew the clock and keep the ball on the ground for the most part. They ran an astounding 93 plays on the evening and rushed for 272 yards and passed for another 129. It’s the first time Howe has allowed over 400 yards in a game this season.

Tioga quarterback Austin Norwood’s pass on their seventh play of the opening drive was tipped in the air by Bryce Crosby and into the hands of Cooper Jones who raced 51 yards for the “pick-6” touchdown. Howe’s lead widened to 14-0 with 8:55 left in the first.

Tioga drove 58 yards on their next possession, but turned the ball over on downs to Howe at their own 15 yard line. The hometown Bulldogs drove 76 yards on 11 plays, but Jonathan Garcia missed his first field goal of the year from 26 yards.

Tioga’s next possession ended with Carson Daniels recovering a fumble at the Howe 42 yard line which set up a 6 -play drive for Howe that went 58 needed yards. The drive was finished with a 4-yard plunge by Jones and Garcia then missed his first PAT of the season which left Howe with a 20-0 lead with 6:45 left in the second quarter.

Tioga got on the board against Howe for the first time since 1946 when Norwood hit receiver Tyler Henley for a

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Planned development (Continued from page 1)

school districts.

LLC.

The previous CPA had been out of contract for quite some time. Shephard made a motion to approve the new firm and the motion was approved unanimously.

Councilman Dale Rideout made the motion to approve the preliminary plat for Noble Ridge Phase I subject to future council approval of the Noble Ridge Development Agreement or addressing the street with issue through future plat change or obtaining a variance. It was second by Councilman Rod Gross and approved unanimously.

Ambulance Service The council also approved an ambulance contract with Texas Vital Care.

(TVC). The city has been under contract with a different company for a year which City Administrator Jeff Stanley has not been a good situation for Howe.

“Months into it, they started missing calls or really late to calls which isn’t good when you have (emergencies such as) strokes or other victims and you’re 45 minutes late to a call,” said Stanley to the council.

Stanley asked Howe Fire Chief Robert Maniet to find an ambulance service that would be better than TVC. A month ago, TVC was recommended and the City Attorney James Tidwell approved the contract that was presented to the city council Tuesday. The new service will provide an ambulance in Howe 24/7 which will be stationed at the Howe Fire Department. A second ambulance will also be in Howe which will cover the cost over the $50,000 per year that the City of Howe will pay the company. An upfront payment of $25,000 will be made with a performance period of six months where the additional $25,000 will be paid.

The ambulance service will not be answering calls outside the proper city limits of Howe. TVC has also agreed to mark the ambulances with “City of Howe.”

Councilman Joe Shephard made the motion to accept the contract which was unanimous.

CPA Change The council also approved to change for Consulting Services by Lori Cannon CPA. Stanley told the council that the City of Howe has had the same CPA for over 10 years but they weren’t happy with the service provided in the most recent year.

“It put extra work on the city secretaries and the city auditors. They had to go back and redo a lot of work,” said Stanley. “They had to go back and redo a lot of the work. At one point, they were just about done with the audit and found out the information that he gave was inaccurate, so they had to start all over.”

Stanley said he began to look for replacements and found Lori Cannon CPA who at one point worked for the current auditor, but branched out on her own. She works with cities and © 2022 The Howe Enterprise

Police Upgraded Equipment The council also approved protection shields for the Howe Police Department which are designed to stop high rifle rounds. The State of Texas has offered $12 million for the protection of officers, therefore the city will not incur an expense for the upgrade of equipment.

Tax Rate The council heard from Paul Jasin of Specialized Public Finance who explained the $0.54 tax rate. The voter approval rate is the tax rate of $0.44988 is for maintenance and operation (M&O) that can be approved without triggering a rollback election.

Most cities try and maintain a stable tax rate such as Howe’s $0.54 per $100 of valuation. Jasin explained that if Howe has a year of 20% growth, the city would be forced to lower the tax rate significantly. In order to keep the tax rate at the $0.54 level, the city must either pay of callable debt, or issue more debt. What the city has elected to do is obtain more debt in order to maintain the $0.54 tax rate. This additional debt incurred would be able to make improvements to facilities such as the Police Department or City Hall.

Howe will see substantial growth in the near future which will force the city to decide a tax rate which will allow for capital needs for that growth.

The voter approval rate of $0.44988 requires the adjustment to the interest and sinking (I&S) rate which will allow for the city to meet the voter approved rate.

Howe is preparing for a land purchase and a wastewater treatment plant which will require a substantial infrastructural investment.

Shephard made a motion to approve all matters incident and related to the issuance of sale of “City of Howe, Texas Tax Note, Series 2022,” including the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of such obligations. This allows the city to increase the I&S debt.

The overall tax rate of $0.54 on each $100 valuation was approved unanimously by the council after Rideout made the motion. However, the proposed M&O tax rate was listed incorrectly on the city’s agenda at $0.466086 on each $0.466086 on each $100 valuation of property and $0.073914 on each $100 valuation of property for I&S and certificates of obligation. The council will make an amendment on the M&O and I&S tax rate in next month’s meeting.

City Budget The council also approved the 202223 budget.

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Austin Haley gets a block from Carson Daniels on the quarterback keeper. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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32-year pass down the middle of the field. That score cut the Howe lead to 20-7 with 4:58 left in the second.

Howe answered back on their first opportunity as Haley pulled the ball out of Rattler’s gut and went untouched for 68 yards for the score to up the Howe advantage to 28-7 after Jones successfully converted the 2point conversion.

Tioga took the final 4:39 off the clock and appeared to be about to score inside the five yard line with less than a minute left, but a penalty caused a 10second run-off and the half expired.

Tioga received the ball to begin the second half and were forced to punt after a 9-play drive. Howe needed seven plays to score when Haley was forced out of the pocket and heaved a leaping pass to Ryan Hough in the endzone who made a spectacular diving catch for the touchdown. Howe led 35-7 with 6:02 left in the third after Garcia’s successful PAT.

Tioga, alternated runners with power back Johah Grubbs and speedster Chase Evans. The two would spell each other to keep fresh. They led Tioga to a 12-play, 74-yard drive that ended when Evans punched it in from the four yard line with 1:58 left in the third. Alex Bautista was perfect on the night in the kicking game and Tioga cut the Howe lead to 35-14.

Haley was intercepted on the next possession which gave it back to Tioga.

Evans raced 45 yards on the first play, however, Mahlon Walker recovered a fumble on the next play at the Howe 27. That set up a 9-play, 63-yard drive

by Howe that ended on a 10-yard touchdown pass from Haley to Triston Williams who was playing for an injured Jones. That gave the game its final score at 42-14 with 8:13 remaining in the game.

Tioga was turned over on downs twice in their next possessions and Howe punted on their final two.

The Bulldogs will travel to S&S Friday for the final non-district game.

Howe has historically owned S&S with an overall series advantage of 25-10 that dates back to 1961. Howe’s last trip to Sadler was a 41-20 win in 2018. The game will be broadcast live at HoweEnterprise.com and on YouTube at Studio42.

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Lady Bulldogs fall to Leonard, Pottsboro during the week

Talia Bjorn sets up Presley Shockey. Photo by Alexa Brunner.

The Howe Lady Bulldogs fell to Leonard on Tuesday in three sets by scores of 25-18, 25-19, and 25-16.

Kendall Griffin led Howe with 10 kills while Teagan Stubblefield had nine digs and Korie Bouse had 11 assists.

On Friday, Pottsboro beat Howe 3-0 by scores of 25-11, 25-12, and 25-13.

Stubblefield had five digs to lead the Lady Bulldogs.

Howe vs. Leonard stats: Kendall Griffin- 10 kills, 4 digs Emery Snapp- 4 kills, 2 blocks Kamry Snapp- 4 kills, 1 ace Jenna Clark- 3 digs Jordan Brunner- 3 kills Teagan Stubblefield- 1 ace, 9 digs

Reese Smith- 4 digs Presley Shockey- 3 blocks, 4 kills Talia Bjorn- 3 digs, 4 assists Korie Bouse- 1 ace, 11 assists Shelbee Taylor- 2 kills, 2 digs Howe vs. Pottsboro stats: Kendall Griffin - 1 ace, 4 digs, 3 kills Jordan Brunner- 2 kills Teagan Stubblefield- 5 digs Kamry Snapp- 2 blocks, 2 kills Emery Snapp- 2 blocks, 3 kills Shelbee Taylor- 1 block Korie Bouse- 4 assists, 1 ace Talia Bjorn- 4 assists Reese Smith- 2 digs Jenna Clark- 2 digs Kiera Robertson- 2 digs

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September 19, 2022 Community Worship Service and the Historical Theater.

Sesquicentennial

Left to right: Howe Chamber President Monte Walker, Howe ISD Superintendent Kevin Wilson, and Howe Mayor Bill French judge the pie contest at First Baptist Church on Monday. Courtesy photo. mon with the Christian faith of today’s community and how it must reflect the new growth coming to the area in the near future. Tidwell, in pure Roger Tidwell fashion, had a bottled water delivered to him by one of the Baptist members in which he told the audience he wished it had come from one of the Methodist members as it might have had more of a kick to it.

Rocky Crigler, pastor of Howe Church on the Square, was to sing “I Can Only Imagine,” but an emergency took him from the service. The praise team finished out the service and the closing prayer was from Hettrick.

On Thursday evening, Legend Bank sponsored a Chamber Dinner and Howe Historical Theater. Gabriela’s Mexican Cocina catered the event.

About 60 were in attendance for the

performance from Howe ISD Theater students portraying Howe historical figures. The cast was Ethan Strunc (L.B. Kirby and Elmer Schenk), Hayden Adkins (Mame Roberts), Ayden Burris (Steve Simmons and Charles R. Thompson), Riley Troxtell (Jabez Haning), Gabrielle Smith (A.M. Ferguson), Kimberley Gonzales (Jean Norman), Jay Hill (Tony Brinkley), Kris Phillips (W.P. Thompson), Lucas Reese (Arthur Boyle), Audie Martin (Norma Wallace), and Lily Lafoy (Carrie Waller).

The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce would like to thank those who participated as committee members. A lot of planning took place for several months leading up to the week. One person in particular, Clarissia Doty, was instrumental in several of the events during the week including the

Above: The crowd at the Community Worship Service on Wednesday. Right: Howe 3rd/4th volleyball team in the parade on Tuesday.

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Above: Audie Martin as Norma Wallace on Thursday’s Historical Theater.

Right: The moment of truth in the Downtown Gunfight on Monday.

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Summit Hill Elementary Employee of the Month I’m Alicia Wilson and this year I’m excited to start my first year in Pre K at Summit Hill! It’s a big change from the last eleven years of second grade but I’m enjoying it! I am a University of Oklahoma graduate with a degree in early childhood education. I began my career teaching kindergarten then stayed home for nine years to raise our three children: Jackson, Elijah, and Mia. My boys are both graduates of HHS and attend college at OSU and OU. Mia is a sophomore at HHS. My husband, clay Wilson, is the principal at HMS. We have been married for 27 years and I have lived in Howe for almost 19 of those! Thank for the privilege of entrusting your children to me—it is my JOY to serve as one of their many teachers. I love my job, these students, and our wonderful town and school!

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Howe JV wins 26-0 over Tioga

Preston Reeves scores Howe’s first touchdown. Courtesy photo.

Alicia Wilson

Howe’s JV beat Tioga 26-0. The running game was led by Knox Bounds, Parker Daniels, and Preston Reeves.

Reeves got the Bulldogs on the board on the board first with a short touchdown run that was set up by several tough runs between the tackles by Daniels.

Bounds found the endzone twice.

Gavin Rodgers and Devon Wallace both broke for long runs of over 40 yards on their lone carries on the night.

The wide receivers were led by Eli Stoner who had a touchdown catch late in the game and also frustrated the defensive backs all night with great

downfield blocking that helped spring several big runs. The Offensive Line consisting of Will Ingram, Dillon Patterson, Michael Weimer, Nathan Thorpe, and Jeremiah Thornton, opened running lanes all night.

The defense had a stellar performance. Alex Meija and Gage Carr were standouts at linebacker, both players finished the game with 10 tackles. Jeremiah Thornton played exceptional up front and finished with three tackles for loss. Gavin Rodgers had a huge momentum swinging interception late in the first half that set up a short field.

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City of Howe SECONDS COUNT IN AN EMERGENCY! That's why the City of Howe has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-water notice, missing child or evacuation notices). The system is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers a pre-recorded message describing the situations to a live person or an answering machine in the affected area possibly including instructions requiring action on the part of the recipient.

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2021-22 Local taxation State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Ad valorem reduction Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total

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Women Fighting ForAmerica The Texoma Patriots will welcome Christie Hutcherson, CEO of Women Fighting For America (WFFA) Thursday at 7 pm at the American Legion James Adams Post 376, 293 Jay Road in Van Alstyne.

“The mission of WFFA is to shine light on government corruption which starts with our open border!,” says the flyer for the Texoma Patriots.

It goes on to read, “WFFA is in the fight and on the frontlines. “We can no longer afford to be on the sidelines. . .

Be part of the solution.” Christie is a strong advocate for America’s soul and moral compass. She will be speaking on National and Domestic Security borders and the destabilization of America’s future. She is compelled as a Christian to shine the light in the darkness.

Christie is dedicated to defend America based on its founding roots. Her focus is to educate, spread biblical truth, and protect America’s values and the constitution. She works to expose those seeking to undermine our sover-

eignty as a nation.

“We will not sit by while those that seek to fundamentally transform America into a socialist communist society demean and destroy our traditional family values.” ~ Christie Christie Hutcherson has been married 25 years to Robert Hutcherson - a small business owner, U. S. Air Force veteran, and author of the book Organizational Optimization. She is also the mom to twin boys, Daniel and Benjamin.

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Texas History Minute

John Henninger Reagan was a controversial figure in Texas History. He had a long record, serving as a judge, U. S. Senator, Confederate cabiKen Bridges net member, and chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission. While he was an outspoken defender of slavery and secession early in his career, he was later a defender of the interests of farmers against large railroad interests.

He was born in 1818 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. His parents were fairly prosperous and sent him to private schools for his education, and he even attended a seminary in Tennessee for a time. As a young man, reports emerging from Texas about its fight with Mexico and push for independence fired his imagination. In 1838, still just 19, he left Tennessee to head for Texas on his own.

He worked for funds along the way, briefly managing a plantation in Mississippi. Not long after his arrival in Texas by 1839, Reagan became embroiled in battles between the Cherokees in East Texas and settlers in the area. Reagan soon began working as a deputy surveyor in what is now Kaufman County, just east of present-day Dallas. He also made extra money working as a private tutor. He made enough money to buy his own farm in Kaufman County and began apprenticing himself to a nearby attorney to study the law. In 1846, he was admitted to the bar. He settled in nearby Buffalo, at that time a thriving community and the county seat of Henderson County. Widely respected in the area and now a newly-practicing attorney, he was elected district judge in April 1846, the first for the area with Texas as a new state.

In 1847, he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives. He was defeated for re-election in 1849. But his fortunes bounced back, and he was elected district judge in 1852. In 1857, he was elected to Congress as sectional tensions began to boil over. He was a rabid defender of slavery, even warning of racial violence if the slaves were ever freed. After the 1860 election, he joined Texas secessionists in trying to pull Texas out of the Union, sharply opposing Gov. Sam Houston, an outspoken Unionist. Reagan joined the secessionist convention, which ousted Houston and declared Texas a part of the Confederacy by early 1861.

Reagan resigned from Congress and was then sent by the convention to be a part of the provisional Confederate Congress then meeting in Alabama.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis named Reagan postmaster general of the Confederacy. Reagan quickly went to work, keeping most of the post office system across the South intact and even convincing a number of postal officials in Washington, DC, to join the Confederate post office. Within a few weeks, the post office was fully functional again and was one of the few Confederate institutions to function successfully during the Civil War. But the Confederacy faced increasing defeats on the battlefield and economic pressures led to massive shortages and even bread riots. The Confederate post office had to close and consolidate many routes to stay functional By early April 1865, Union forces had broken through Confederate defenses at their capital in Richmond, the Confederate government, along with Reagan, were forced to leave on the few available trains still going southward. While they were initially planning to reassemble a new government in North Carolina, the reality was that they were running for their lives.

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Photos from the Sesquicentennial events

Attendees of the Murder Mystery visit with one of the actresses during an intermission. Staff photo.

The view looking south on Denny Street near Haning Street. Staff photo.

What lay next was still uncertain in a very chaotic time.

First United Methodist Church Minister JB Bryant talk with children at the Community Worship Service on Wednesday at Bulldog Stadium. Staff photo.

Ethan Strunc portrays LB Kirby during Thursday’s Howe Chamber Dinner and Howe Historical Theater. Staff photo.

"With a united effort we can make the place in which we live clean, wholesome, attractive. We can make the crowded city dweller homesick to come back to us and real living. We can bring new life, new business, new beauty, to the little towns." - Mame Roberts

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HHS Homecoming Court Living with children A mother recently asked my advice concerning a discipline problem she was having with one of her children. I asked her to John Rosemond define the word discipline.

She thought a moment and answered, “Well, it means to create rules and enforce them consistently. Right?”

Left to right: Pam Kirby (cheer coach), Jentrie Doty, Korie Bouse, Teagan Stubblefield (Queen), Kiera Robertson, and Olivia Morris.

Photo by Michelle Carney.

No, not right. To be fair, most parents would give similar answers, which begins to explain why something so simple—the discipline of a child—has become so difficult for so many of today’s parents. Mind you, one cannot discipline without rules, and a rule which is not consistently enforced is not a rule, but merely a wish, but enforcing rules is not the essence of discipline.

Discipline is the process by which a parent turns a child who is selfcentered and strong-willed (every child ever born, that is) into a disciple who follows the parent’s lead. Discipline is a primarily a matter of rule, not rules. It is leadership, not legalism; teaching, not policing; command, not demand; proper communication, not proper consequences.

Left to right: Ayden Burris, Bryce Crosby, Austin Haley (King), Carson Daniels, and Caleb Hix. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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Just because someone occupies a leadership position does not mean he is a leader. The micromanager is a good example. Micromanagers are by nature obsessed with details, always busy, busy, busy. Wherever one finds a micromanager, one finds not an effective leader, but an anxious individual who is frequently frustrated, exasperated, and exhausted. In short, micromanagers are legalists, and legalism cancels one’s ability to lead.

Leadership is not a matter of one’s IQ, socio-economic status, or academic background. It’s a matter of a certain attitude, one that conveys a calm, natural authority. Like myself, most Americans over the age of 60 were raised by parents who ruled not by creating a host of rules, but by communicating broad expectations in a clear and compelling manner.

In the 1950s, for example, it was rare for a parent to so much as check to make sure a child had done his homework. And yet, we baby boomers did our homework (most of the time). Ask someone my age why that was the case, and he is likely to answer, “Well, I guess I did my homework because my parents and teachers expected me to do it.”

Leadership is expectation, not persuasion. Persuasion is the tool of the politician – someone who avoids making unpopular decisions. As such, politicians are often wishy-washy. A politician might say one thing, and then, after looking at the polls, say another.

Leaders, on the other hand, compel people to their point of view. They have no problem making unpopular decisions. What leaders say, they mean.

Needless to say, many of today’s parents behave toward their children more like politicians or micromanagers than leaders. What about you?

Family psychologist John Rosemond: johnrosemond.com, parentguru. com.

John Rosemond has worked with families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field of family psychology.

In 1971, John earned his masters in psychology from Western Illinois University and was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.

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Christians are accountable to love and pray for their family, and friends, and against evil everywhere, but unfortunately, many have lost the enthusiasm Dr. Billy Holland and the burden to ask God to set them on fire for His glory. If Christian leadership is afraid to declare war against Satan and evil strongholds and principalities, how can they be inspired or have the faith to become a living sacrifice for God? When there is no difference between a spiritually blind world and those who claim to be God’s front-line warriors, society falls deeper into spiritual darkness.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is what God uses to prick the conscience of those who are spiritually lost, and His disciples are accountable to pray for the sensitivity to know when a divine appointment is being arranged. When Christians become distracted with their plans and pleasures, prayer is neglected, and we know when conviction and the reverential fear of God are ignored, sin increases and becomes bolder. This is exactly why Satan and his demons spend every moment trying to prevent Christians from seeking God’s instructions and accomplishing His will.

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side is very subtle and uses a progressive repetition to slowly convince the masses that good is evil and evil is good. The idea is to program the human conscience to embrace the tsunami of lies and propaganda that is intentionally attempting to remove God from our culture.

The vision of the world continues to advance toward global control and we know it will be very difficult for many to resist the temptation to follow this system. I ask that we consider examining and preparing our souls today for serious choices we may face tomorrow. The lines are drawn and each person will decide which kingdom they are going to stand with. Matthew 6:24 states there are only two. Those who love the world will side against God and hate Him, and those who love God and embrace His truth will be hated by the masses. Jesus said in John 15:18-19, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” Who do we love?

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” I John 2:15.

Mankind has always been under attack from the kingdom of darkness and many different evil spirits are working overtime trying to weaken and distort the strength, honor, and faith of Godly men and women who are called by God to stand and engage in spiritual warfare for divine truth.

Look around and notice that most men are spiritually anemic and filled with fear and carnality which is a disgrace to God’s plan for them to be strong leaders for His glory.

My family has told stories about how my great grandfather would walk down the hill behind the house in the evenings and they could hear him weeping and travailing in the spirit to God. He and his wife were Godfearing people who raised 14 children on a small farm and depended on God for everything. How many people do you know who spend time on their knees desiring above all things to have a broken and contrite heart? The Bible says in James 5:16, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much.” Fervent means intense and this desperate determination to know God is the only way anyone will be able to endure to the end.

This deception is intended to hinder those who are called by the Lord to be the head of the family and role models for their children. The church laughed at people like Milton Berle and Flip Wilson, but it’s not funny now, as it was all a plan to plant a seed of accepting perversion. For those who are commanded to take up their cross and follow Jesus, we must be careful with what we accept as normal. The dark

William F. Holland Jr. is a minister, chaplain, psalmist, and author. As a freelance faith writer, his books and newspaper and magazine articles are enjoyed around the world. Dr. Holland’s weekly column, “Living On Purpose” is focused on bringing spiritual hope and encouragement through God’s Word. Read more about the Christian life at billyhollandministries.com.

Local church calendar A Christian Fellowship 150 Fellowship Ln, Sherman, TX 75090 (903) 815-1333 Wednesday 6:30 pm – Potluck Meal 7:00 pm – Worship Service 7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Youth Sunday 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages) 10:30 am – Worship Service 10:30 am – KidZone Children’s Service (5yr – 12 yr.)

Community Bible Fellowship 415 S Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 6th grade, nursery available) 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service First Baptist Church Dorchester 11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 Wednesday 6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults and kids eat free) 6:30 pm - Praise service 7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - A.M. Worship Service 5:00 pm - Adult Choir Practice 6:00 pm - Evening Worship First Baptist Church Howe 100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903-5325504 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30am - Worship Service 6:00 pm—Potluck Fellowship and Bible Study

First United Methodist Church of Howe 810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Monday 9:30 am - Care Team Meeting 10:30 am - Pastor's Bible Study Tuesday 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study 11:30 am - Out and About with Pastor Stephen 6:30 pm Boy Scouts Wednesday 9:00 am - Wednesday Workers 6:30 pm - Jr. High and Sr. High Youth Saturday 9:00 am - Feed My Sheep (1st and 3rd Sat each month) Sunday 8:40 am - Fellowship and Donuts 9:00 am - Sunday School 10:00 am - Worship service 3:00 pm - Cub Scouts Howe Church of Christ 1205 N Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6441 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes (all ages) Sunday 9:00 am - Bible Classes (all ages) 10:00 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Worship Service Howe Church of the Square 100 E. O’Connell St., Howe, TX 75459 Sunday 10:00 am—Worship Service Summit View Church 910 S Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6828 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Sunday 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, women, men) 10:30 am - Worship Service 10:30 am - Kids Church

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Election deniers? 82 Democrats who called GOP 'Fauci knows' he funded gain-ofelection wins questionable, illegitimate or stolen function research, 'misled Congress,' formerCDC directorsays "Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia; Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida," then-Sen. Kamala Harris said.

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Trump at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio: “Remember, we were the ones supposed to be working with Russia. It was the FBI and the Democrats who were working with Russia and now it’s all coming out.

In other words, the FBI was paying a Russian who made false smears to try and take down the POTUS. It was also recently revealed that the FBI went to Facebook in the weeks before the 2020 election and told them that the Hunter Biden laptop was all Russian disinformation.”

TRUMP: "The radical Democrats view 75 million Americans as enemies to be cancelled and suppressed. Ain't going to happen. They want to censor you from the internet, banish you from the public square, get you fired from your jobs, target you for destruction with 87,000 new IRS agents. We've been fighting that.

Use the FBI to spy on patriotic parents and criminalize political dissent as if we were a third world country, a third world dictatorship.

But the thugs and tyrants attacking our movement, and there's never been a movement even close in the history of the United States, have no idea of the sleeping giant that they have awoken."

Trump in his rally also called for death penalty for drug dealers at human traffickers.

Trump: “This Green New Deal is a destructive force and it’s total bullsh**, I have to tell you.”

By Natalia Mittelstadt

Immediately below are 10 representative examples of election denial by leading Democrats, followed by a link to a more extensive list:

Democrats and their media allies have sought to stigmatize Republicans concerned about 2020 1. Former Secretary of voting irregularities as State Hillary Clinton "election deniers," yet has at least quesscores of leading Demotioned, if not outright crats have themselves denied, the outcomes raised concerns about of the 2000, 2004, elections won by Republiand 2016 presidential cans since 2000, includelections, as well as ing claiming elections the 2018 Georgia were stolen and attemptgubernatorial elecing to change the outtion. She said that the come of presidential elecSupreme Court "took tions by objecting to the away a presidency," certification of state elecfollowing the 2000 toral college votes. presidential election, in its ruling in Bush v.

In the Senate race in Gore. Clinton also Washington, for instance, repeatedly claimed Democratic Sen. Patty that Trump was "an Murray's campaign reillegitimate presicently slammed her GOP dent." oopnent Tiffany Smiley for her stance on election 2. Then-President Bill Clinton said regardintegrity, calling it "way ing the 2000 presiout of line with the truth dential election, "The and way out of line with only way Washington voters."

[Republicans] could win the election was "Tiffany Smiley is yet to stop the voting in another MAGA RepubliFlorida." can who is scrambling to 3. Former President hide her extreme views Jimmy Carter said after the primary," Murray regarding the 2000 campaign spokesperson presidential election, Naomi Savin told Axios.

"There is no doubt in my mind that Al Gore Murray, however, put out was elected presia statement on Jan. 6, dent." Concerning the 2005 expressing her 2016 presidential agreement with fellow election, he said: "I Democrats who had think a full investiga"raised questions about tion would show that voting irregularities" in Trump didn't actually the 2004 presidential elecwin the election in tion.

2016. He lost the election, and he was In a statement to the put into office beWashington Free Beacon, cause the Russians Smiley campaign spokesinterfered on his bewoman Elisa Carlson said half." that Murray was "a hypocrite and has no business 4. Former Vice President Al Gore said of attacking anyone over the 2000 presidential protecting democracy." election, "I believe that if everyone in "She questioned the integFlorida who tried to rity of a presidential elecvote had had his or tion 18 years ago, supher vote counted ports Democrat efforts to properly, that I would boost election-denying have won." candidates, and opposes common-sense laws like 5. President Joe Biden, when he was still vice voter ID requirements," president, said regardCarlson added. ing Gore and the 2000 presidential Murray didn't respond to

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election, "I think he won it, anyway."

During the 2020 presidential race, in response to a supporter calling Trump "an illegitimate president," Biden asked if she'd be his vice presidential candidate and said he "absolutely agree[d]" with her.

When Vice President Kamala Harris was still a California senator, she said, "Let's say this loud and clear: Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia; Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida."

When former President Barack Obama was an Illinois senator, he said that "not every vote was being counted" in the 2000 presidential election.

John Kerry, now Biden's special presidential envoy for climate, said following his defeat in the 2004 presidential election that "too many people were denied their right to vote; too many who tried to vote were intimidated."

Stacey Abrams, who is again running as the Democratic nominee for governor in Georgia, said she would "not concede" the 2018 gubernatorial election in her state and that she "did win my election." Rep. Maxine Waters (DCalif.), now the House Financial Services Committee chair, said in 2001 that she was objecting "to the fraudulent Florida electoral votes" in the 2000 presidential election

"Nothing's going to happen as long as the Biden administration is here," Robert Redfield says, citing threats on his life for promoting the lab-leak theory.

By Greg Piper The former Center for Disease Control and Prevention director who was cast as a conspiracy theorist for saying the evidence supported the lableak explanation for COVID-19 – allegedly provoking death threats – claims that the real "conspiracy is Collins, Fauci, and the established scientific community."

Robert Redfield told former Senate Finance Committee investigator Paul Thacker that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci "knew" he funded gain-of-function research that makes viruses more dangerous, and "misled Congress" when he denied it," but "[n]othing's going to happen as long as the Biden administration is here."

"Tony and I are friends, but we don't agree on this at all," Redfield said in an interview published in Thacker's Disinformation Chronicle newsletter.

"Everyone had to agree to the narrative" pushed

by Fauci and thenNational Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins that SARS-CoV2 emerged from a "wet market" in Wuhan, not the Fauci-funded Wuhan Institute of Virology miles away, to avoid becoming a public target of the two officials, he said.

The virologist Redfield told the immunologist Fauci from the "second or third week in January" (Continued on page 16) 2020 that "I'm very con-

cerned that he was championing this theory that it came from animals."

The particulars of the novel coronavirus, such as the furin cleavage site and the "human" sequence in it, make clear that it's not from bats, he said. "This thing was manipulated, orchestrated. That cleavage site was created."

Transmission doesn't make sense under natural evolution, according to Redfield. "You have a virus that is one of the most infectious viruses in the history of humanity, and yet that virus no longer can infect the bat? ... No, this is highly abnormal."

Redfield said he believes The Lancet spring 2020 letter that lumped in the lab-leak hypothesis with "conspiracy theories" was "orchestrated ... under direction of Fauci and Collins, trying to nip any attempt to have an honest investigation of the pandemic’s origin."

"There was nothing scientific about that letter. It was just an attempt to intimidate people," he also said.

"Tony had over a year looking for an intermediate host" to explain the natural-evolution theory of COVID-19 "and still hadn’t found one" when Redfield went on CNN in 2021 to defend the lableak hypothesis, Redfield continued.

Scientific American accused Redfield of promoting a conspiracy theory based on "xenophobia," which Redfield suspects was

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Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee says woke FBI analysts are going after Americans Rep. Jim Jordan discusses the FBI going after a veteran-run organization and labeling it an extremist group.

By Charlotte Hazard Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan tells of a veteran-owned organization being labeled as an extremist organization.

Last month, Green Beret and former government contractor Mike Glover put out a video on his YouTube channel titled "I am NOT a terrorist" after the FBI accused his organization "Field Craft Survival" of being an extremist group. Field Craft Survival is an organization that teaches survival skills and gun safety.

"He's an American veter-

an serving his community and loves this country," Jordan said on the "Just the News, Not Noise" TV show. "Then some woke analysts at the FBI decide, 'Oh, wait a minute. This guy waves the American flag, he owns a gun, he voted for Trump.' Whatever basis they come up with that fits the Joe Biden narrative that half the country are 'extremist' and they investigate him."

Jordan went on to say that whistleblowers have been coming out and speaking about how politically corrupt the FBI has become.

"A number of FBI agents have come to us as whistleblowers, talking about the pressure to juice the

numbers, and catalog and create to have all these 'domestic violent extremism' cases," Jordan explained. "That is a concern, particularly when you view it in the broader context with what we've seen from the FBI and the Justice Department over the last six years."

suppressed evidence relating to the Bidens' foreign dealings."

Jordan also said that the FBI had politically inserted itself into presidential campaigns in the past and how it must be acknowledged.

"Facebook, for example, has banned and deleted everything with Americancontingency.com," Glover said on the Thursday edition of "Just the News, Not Noise." "If you have a Facebook account, and you try to search it right now, you're likely to get deleted. My mom had her spa, 'The Wasp,' in Fayetteville, North Carolina get deleted off Facebook because she reposted a link of that organization."

"Think about how many times now the FBI has inserted themselves into the election process," Jordan stated. "In 2016 they were spying on President Trump's campaign. In 2018, they had had the special counsel to impact it. In 2020, they

Mike Glover, who had his business impacted by the FBI labeling it as an extremist group, said that it hadn't just impacted his business, but his family as well.

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due to Fauci's influence at that publication.

"I was threatened, my life was threatened," he said.

"I have letters I got from prominent scientists, that previously gave me awards, telling me that the best thing I could do for the world was to shoot myself because of what I said."

He believes that "Fauci and Collins were behind a lot of" the conspiracy and "anti-Asian hate" claims about the lab-leak theory, and plans to elaborate in a book once Chinese Communist Party leadership changes. Redfield said "big publishers" frowned on his book proposal because it promotes the lab-leak theory.

By Charlotte Hazard The Biden Justice Department asked a federal appeals court Friday to put on hold part of a judge's order appointing a special master to review documents the FBI seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

The department asked the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to permit the FBI to immediately regain access to about 100 classified documents and not to submit those through the special master's review.

It did not, however, ask the court to reverse the independent arbiter's appointment.

"Although the government believes the district court fundamentally erred in appointing a special master and granting injunctive relief, the government seeks to stay only the portions of the order causing the most serious and immediate

harm to the government and the public," the 29page filing said.

Earlier this month, Trump won a significant victory when a federal judge ordered a special master to review evidence seized by the FBI during its raid of the former president's Florida estate last month.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said she would not accept the DOJ's representations about which documents were privileged and which were classified, saying the dispute needed to be reviewed by the master.

"The court's order hamstrings that investigation and places the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) under a Damoclean threat of contempt should the court later disagree with how investigators disaggregated their previously integrated criminal-investigative and national-security activities," DOJ's appeal said.

Revolver Oct. 25, 2021 The story of the mystery man, Ray Epps, featured in Rep. Massie’s video above is in fact far more shocking than even the good Congressman implies in the hearing. It’s a story so strange, and so scandalous at every turn, that it threatens to shatter the entire official narrative of the “Capitol Breach” and expose yet another dimension of proactive federal involvement in the so-called “insurrection” of January 6th.

If Revolver News’s previous reporting points to a proactive role of the federal government in relation to the conspiracy cases against Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, the Ray Epps story that follows suggests a similar, yet more egregious, explicit, direct and immediate degree of federal involvement in the breach of the Capitol itself.

Here is a transcript of Thomas Massie’s exchange with the Attorney General, just in case you skipped past the video above.

Rep. Massie: As far as we can determine, the individual who was saying he’ll probably go to jail, he’ll probably be arrested, but they need to go into the Capitol the next day, is then directing people into the Capitol the next day, is then the next day directing people to the Capitol. And as far as we can find. You said this is one of the most sweeping in history.

Have you seen that video, or those frames from that video?

AG Garland: So as I said at the outset, one of the norms of the Justice Department is to not comment on pending investigations, and particularly not to comment on particular scenes or particular individuals.

Rep. Massie: I was hoping today to give you an opportunity to put to rest the concerns that people have that there were federal agents or assets of the federal government present on January 5 and January 6. Can you tell us, without talking about particular incidents or particular videos, how many agents or assets of the federal government were present on January

"Yeah, I think Tony tried to kill" the inquiries into the Wuhan funding and lab experiments, Redfield said, while clarifying that "I don't believe there was any intent to harm people" through suppression. NIAID didn't immediately respond to a request for Fauci's response. Neither did Collins, who remains at NIH as head of the molecular genetics section.

"The whole thing is scientific arrogance. There was an arrogance that they could contain this, that it wouldn't escape it," he said. "I worked with the Chinese CDC for many years while in the military and while at the Thacker noted that newly University of Maryland. released emails show And viruses get out of January 2020 discussions labs. That's just the nature within NIH about Fauci's of the beast." funding of the EcoHealth

DOJ partially appeals Trump Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur raid ruling, seeks to keep investi- Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 gating disputed classified memos Attack On The U.S. Capitol DOJ wants FBI to immediately regain access to about 100 classified documents and not submit them to special master.

Alliance and a 2015 paper in Nature about the Wuhan lab manipulating coronaviruses.

6, whether they agitated to go into the Capitol, and if any of them did?

AG Garland: So I’m not going to violate this norm of, uh, of, of, of, the rule of law.

[Looks down and away] I’m not going to comment on an investigation that’s ongoing.

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and that she didn't "care that [the objection] is not signed by a member of the Senate." Gore, who was presiding over the joint session of Congress as president of the Senate, responded that "the rules do care."

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There is good reason why AG Garland ran from Massie’s question faster than he could find words — and why he couldn’t even keep eye contact as he was dodging Massie’s gaze.

speech, and with the vast majority of Trump supporters still 30 minutes away from the Capitol.

After months of research, Revolver’s investigative reporting team can now reveal that Ray Epps appears to be among the primary orchestrators of the very first breach of the Capitol’s police barricades at 12:50pm on January 6.

Epps appears to have led the “breach team” that committed the very first illegal acts on that fateful day. What’s more, Epps and his “breach team” did all their dirty work with 20 minutes still remaining in President Trump’s National Mall

Secondly, Revolver also determined, and will prove below, that the the FBI stealthily removed Ray Epps from its Capitol Violence Most Wanted List on July 1, just one day after Revolver exposed the inexplicable and puzzlesome FBI protection of known Epps associate and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. July 1 was also just one day after separate New York Times report amplified a glaring, falsifiable lie…

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