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Welcome to Brighttown.com, and today we've got a really special guest for you, Derek Brose, who is, well, he's the head of The Conscious Resistance.
That's his website, TheConsciousResistance.com.
He's an author, and he's also running for the mayor of Houston, Texas.
And the state, it seems, is doing everything possible to keep him off the ballot.
Derek Brose is a champion of human freedom, liberty, and, of course, self-determination.
That's why I love his message so much.
And he joins us today while he's on the campaign trail right now.
Welcome, Derek Brose.
It's a pleasure to have you on.
Thank you for having me on, Mike.
It's good to speak to you.
It's been a while.
It has been a while.
I interviewed you a few years ago.
You've done a lot since then, and of course the world has changed dramatically since then.
I would say that even more than ever before, your message is critical for the future of humanity.
Can you kind of summarize what it is that you stand for and advocate?
Sure.
I mean, I think that I'm a lover of liberty.
I'm a defender of liberty.
I've been doing this now, journalism, independent journalism and activism for about 14 years.
And all of my work, my efforts, including running for mayor, which is something I never thought I'd do before, are all about trying to specifically, how can I improve my local community?
And how can I fight back and push back against encroachments on our liberties?
Promote decentralization, promote individual liberty, bodily autonomy, etc.
on the local level and very much under the belief that if each of us were to do that and focus on what we can do in our own communities and we were to see this kind of pattern of behavior and these habits and be passed down intergenerationally, that we could create intergenerational change outside of the systems of enslavement.
So I've done that in the form of journalism, producing documentaries, writing books, confronting politicians, going and putting a microphone in their face, writing articles.
I currently write for The Last American Vagabond with Ryan Christian.
I produce weekly articles there and documentaries, whatever it takes, running for office.
I always know about trying to promote solutions, trying to educate and expose some of the darkness in our world and some of the corruption that we're aware of and the rising surveillance state.
Obviously, so many people have woken up to that in the last couple of years since COVID-1984 began.
And that's really the crux of my work.
And when it comes to the conscious resistance, for me, I am a spiritual guy.
I went to prison at a young age and I discovered prayer and meditation while I was in prison.
It's really what turned my whole life around when I was 20 years old.
So I had that sort of awakening before I ever started questioning politics and Conspiracies and things of this sort.
So I kind of came into the Liberty Movement in 2010 after discovering Ron Paul, reading Ron Paul's book, watching some Alex Jones documentaries, discovering your work early on, and already had a kind of spiritual curiosity and kind of awareness there.
Those things was on that journey.
When I started to get into activism and eventually journalism and I launched The Conscious Resistance in 2013, for me it was very much about trying to bring those two things together.
I wanted a place where I could do serious investigative reports and documentaries as well as talks on the benefits of prayer or meditation or exploring You know, mental health or just whatever things were interesting to me.
But really, the conscious resistance, I like to tell people that it's the understanding, the reflection that the struggle for a more free and ethical and just world that I think many of us are after, that it's not only going to come from confronting the physical institutions of power, be that governments, corporations, The World Economic Forum, etc.
That's a part of it.
We need to expose them and that corruption and look for solutions in the physical realm.
But there's also this internal struggle, what I call the struggle against our own internal tyrant, our doubts, fears, insecurities, and limiting beliefs.
And I believe the more we work on that, And whatever ways that may come, you know, I'm not here to ascribe which religion or spiritual path or any of that works for any individual, but I do think there is something to be had there.
And when we're doing that, when we're working on our internal world, our healing of our trauma that we've all had to go through as a species through our various lives, And trying to do that in the physical realm by exposing that darkness, I think those two things together, that's what I call the conscious resistance.
So my work is kind of always filtered through that lens, doing journalism, trying to promote healthier mental states and healing from trauma, as well as physical health as well.
I think it's absolutely important that we take care of our physical bodies and our minds and that we're capable in all the ways we can be to take this battle on, which is both a physical battle and a spiritual battle.
That's why I think your message resonates so much with our audience, because you see that side of it.
And I would even call it a consciousness revolution is really what's necessary for human progress here.
And we're not going to defeat, let's say, the rogue, tyrannical governments of the world.
By picking up rifles and having a shootout.
That's not going to work.
Instead, we're going to make them obsolete.
We're going to make their systems obsolete.
We're going to make their money obsolete.
We're going to make their power and control and censorship obsolete.
And at the same time, they use distractions as kind of a sorcery weapon system against your consciousness to lock you down and keep you focused on fear and scarcity and panic all the time, right?
So that, I mean...
Do you also teach people, well I know you do, but talk about this, of how we can reclaim our own consciousness so that we can direct what we're focused on in order to evade what I would call the sorcery of psyops.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, I mean, I talk about in my book and how to opt out of the technocratic state, which everybody can download at theconsciousresistance.com slash how to.
In that book, which I wrote late 2019, published January 2020, just about a month before we started hearing the words COVID and that whole chaos of the last three years exploded onto us.
And I was writing this book Kind of looking ahead to what was coming.
You don't have to look that far ahead.
We've heard of Agenda 2030 for a while now, so here we are, 2023, six and a half months away from that deadline or that goal of theirs.
And I was looking at the future in 2019 and just sort of imagining...
How is a person like myself, and I would say you, Mike, and probably most people in this audience, who care about privacy, who care about liberty, who don't want to fund surveillance and fund war and fund violence of the state by paying taxes, but do want to be a part of the community and do want to contribute in good, positive ways, how do people like that stay free and maintain privacy in the world that we see as quickly and rapidly approaching us?
I started to try to look at the landscape and I really encourage people to take what I call a holistic self-assessment, which is also a title of one of my other books you can find on the website, which really is just basically saying, we understand there's a problem coming up in 2030 and they've got this great reset.
You'll own nothing to be happy.
So many people can recite the problems, but how many of us are spending time working on those solutions?
And when you do this holistic self-assessment, you kind of take a scope of your life, you might realize, okay, I've got my finances, all my money's tied up in banks, or I've got credit card debt or student debt or whatever, right?
Maybe then you look at your job situation.
Where are you making your money?
How are you making your money?
Are you an entrepreneur?
Are you going to have to worry about potential vaccine mandates or any of those things coming down the pike?
Because you know about the CBDC plans, you know about the digital identity plans, right?
So knowing that there's a problem, we need to be proactive instead of reactive and start taking the scope of our lives and asking, in which ways are we prepared?
In which ways could we be more prepared?
And absolutely part of that, I would say, is a spiritual...
Kind of mental game as well because you have to be mentally prepared for what we're facing and whatever your religious beliefs are, get right with your God if that's part of your beliefs or get right with yourself.
Just be ready for what we're facing because I think it does take sound mind, sound heart, a strong body.
I'm not saying we all need to be bodybuilders or anything like that, but it might be It's worth making sure you can jog around the corner and not get winded and things like that.
For me, it's about preparedness, not in the sense of preparing for doomsday or living in fear.
This is really what I call in the book exit and build.
I know you've talked to John about this, John Bush, but the idea of exiting from these slavery systems, essentially, whether you're talking about digital system, the economic system, the CBDCs, that's the slavery system, the digital IDs.
And all that that entails, that's the slavery system.
Being completely dependent on their mainstream food production and distribution system, that's the slavery system because that's where you're going to get your vaccine meats and your injections and all that fun stuff.
So the more dependent we are on these systems, and I would even include mainstream religion and new age and kind of false dogmas of various types, Under these slavery systems.
So I guess for me, it's like the more self-aware we are, which comes with this consciousness revolution, as you put it, Mike, the more self-aware we are, the more in tune we can be.
We can really decipher BS when it's coming our way.
We can use our critical thinking.
We can see what's coming instead of just being frozen in apathy or fear and essentially failing the coming generations.
Because if you see what's going on and choose not to act, I mean, I don't know if that's cowardice or just whatever it is, but if we know what's coming and we choose not to act, We're selling out the future generations and we're failing our ancestors who worked so hard to get us to where we are now.
So we have to be proactive and start looking at our lives in this way and seeing, okay, which ways do I need to kind of harden myself a little more?
I don't got any gold or silver or crypto or Bitcoin or whatever.
I'm not very aware in that area.
I'm totally dependent on the banking system and I got credit card debt.
Then start working on those things.
Start taking steps now Before it's too late and becomes even more difficult to kind of unplug from those systems.
So I would include a spiritual perspective in all that as well.
Well, I'm glad you mentioned CBDCs and crypto.
I wanted to ask you in that area, as you know, on this show, we are advocates of taking self-custody of your assets.
And, you know, we talk about gold and silver and crypto as three, probably the three best means in which to do that.
I know you're an advocate of privacy cryptos like Monero, for example.
It seems like As in, never before in human history have we had as many choices in ways to take self-custody and have self-determination over systems of value, transactional systems such as privacy crypto.
What do you think this means for the world that now, very soon, every person is going to have to make a choice?
You either go into a slave system, CBDC, or you get out of that slave system and you choose to operate in the world of Bitcoin and Monero and other privacy coins.
What are your thoughts on those subjects?
It's not only the financial situation where people are going to be faced with these kind of decisions.
We're already seeing it.
We saw it during COVID-19, get a jab or you can't travel, get a jab or you can't go to work.
And some people under the pressure, you know, I'm not here to judge anybody, but some people under the pressure did what they felt like they had to do.
Maybe they got the shot.
I know family members who were told by their elderly parents who they're afraid, you know, they wouldn't get to see, told by them, You can't come see us again unless you get the jab.
And this is a person that loves their parents and wants to see them and hang out with them every weekend.
You know, they were pressured into it, right?
People were already kind of feeling the social pressure when it came to COVID-19 and the alleged pandemic.
Well, we're going to face even more situations like that.
And ultimately, it is going to come down to, you know, we can make it as complex or as simple as we want it to be.
And as simple as it can get is that you are going to have to make, each of us going to have to make decisions about how we relate to technology, digital technology, different forms of technology, be that CBDCs or crypto or for those who are just Think that there's another alternative, maybe just all precious metals or some other method.
We're going to have to Make those choices soon.
I mean, and I write this in the book, too, that staying free is going to, at some point, involve breaking the law.
Now, that doesn't mean anybody here is a bad person.
That's part of the programming of the state, right?
They want us to believe that their laws are morality, but we know that laws have said that slavery was legal and that all kinds of horrible things were legal, according to the state, and still are to this day, right?
So we know that we should go with What we know is right, what is right with creation and with the creator, as opposed to these immoral laws.
But that's what it's going to come down to.
When they say you can't interact anymore without this digital identity, Or your workplace announces starting in 30 days, all of your money will be transitioning to sending you instead of checks or instead of direct deposit to your bank, it's going to direct deposit into these new digital wallets that you all have to use.
It's going to come in so many different ways and each of us will have to make those decisions.
So I also encourage people to start thinking about what are those red lines in the sand for you?
What are those things that you're unwilling to accept?
I'm back here in Houston right now where I'm born and raised.
I have family here, but I also bought land in Mexico during the COVID-1984 era.
I left Texas in March 2020 because I'd always had a red line in my mind that if the government of the U.S. started talking about restricting interstate travel, that that was just something that signaled in my mind that we're heading in a very bad direction.
And sure enough, when COVID started...
Donald Trump and the government was discussing what moves are they going to make, right?
And then obviously then Biden came in.
I started hearing this discussion of restricting travel between going from this state to that state.
And also I remember that it was New York City because it was the hotspot.
They started checking license plates in Rhode Island and elsewhere, looking for a New York license plate.
And this just to us was like, nope.
And within 24 hours, we packed up our car and we went to Mexico because That was a red line that I was unwilling to sit through.
I wanted to, like, let's get somewhere safe from a distance.
And for us, it ended up being the right move.
My point is that we all need to have these kind of levels of understanding.
You know, sit down, have a conversation with your loved one, your family, your friends, your freedom cell, your community, and understand what you're not willing to take and what is acceptable because we don't live in a perfect world.
We're all compromising to one degree or another because the way the system is structured.
But we have to understand what we're not willing to accept.
Otherwise, we're just going to keep getting run over, keep getting run over.
And before you know it, you'll have digital IDs, CBDCs, and you'll be locked in the technocratic grid with no way out.
Yeah, with food rationing cards and biometrics at the grocery store.
Yeah.
So what I love about what you're doing, by the way, is you're running for mayor of Houston, Texas.
You just said you're from Houston.
There are roadblocks being put in your way to try to prevent you from even being on the ballot.
Now, this show normally is not focused on a candidacy like that, but I think this is of great interest to our audience because if you were mayor of Houston, you know, you would help set Houston free.
I mean, you would be a major force for helping Texas explore and expand freedom.
So tell us about your candidacy.
Your website is derrickbrose.com, B-R-O-Z-E, derrickbrose.com.
That's where people can sign up for your email list there.
And tell us about your plans for being the mayor of Houston and then what they're trying to do to stop you.
Yeah, thank you for that, Mike.
I appreciate it.
So, I mean, I've been doing activism and journalism in Houston for 14 years, and one of the things that's always been important to me is to have a foot in my community and to promote these ideas on a local level.
So I started an activist group called the Houston Freethinkers back in 2010, got involved in a lot of things.
We kicked the TSA off the Houston buses, had a lot of successes from the activist front, and I also had a lot of brick walls that I ran into.
I started to learn how the city government works and started to see the limitations of what I could do as an activist.
So then I started approaching it as a journalist, confronting the mayor, the various mayors over the last 10 years out in public events.
And then I started getting pushed around by security guards.
I started getting banned from events.
Same thing.
So I've tried it from every avenue that I could think of.
I'm not a political guy, so even going for office wasn't in my tool belt at the time.
I was really just focused on what can I do as an activist and as a journalist.
But time and time again, I kept realizing that there's this major roadblock.
For those who don't know local politics across the United States, You typically have two forms of local government's mayoral position specifically.
You have a strong mayor position or a weak mayor position.
And there are some variations between the specifics, but as it sounds, one is stronger, one is weaker.
In Houston, we actually have the strongest mayoral position in the entire United States.
The only city that comes close is Denver.
This is because the mayor, he or she gets to set the weekly budget or the weekly agenda.
Every city council meeting every week, there's agenda items.
If you call to speak on agenda item C, then you get to speak early because it's an official agenda item.
But if you want to call in and speak about fluoride in the water or something like that, which is not on the agenda, You'll get placed at the end.
It'll take you two, three, four hours to speak.
Half the council's gone.
The mayor's gone.
The rest are just playing on their phone.
They give you two minutes.
Ding!
Time's up.
It's a very disheartening experience.
I've seen it time and time again.
I've done it time and time again.
So this is no small thing, being able to set the agenda.
This means that the 16 council members that are supposed to represent the three and a half, four million people in the Houston area have no power to place items on the agenda.
Even if all 16 council members are getting phone calls about Whatever the issue may be, flooding, crime, fluoride, whatever it may be, they can't do anything about it unless the mayor, he or she, says, yes, this automatically sets up a, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
Not to mention the mayor also gets to dole out the funds.
So the mayor gets to decide which district and which city council member gets what amount of money.
So if the council members want to get anything done, like build a park in their district, they need to stay on good terms with the mayor because the mayor can hold that as sort of a Wow,
really?
Yeah, that amount of people are electing...
The mayor of the fourth largest city in the United States, who then goes out and does all kinds of international deals.
For example, the current mayor, Sylvester Turner, I put this in one of my documentaries a couple of years ago, he was awarded the 5G Champion Award by the wireless industry for making Houston the first 5G spot in the United States.
He sits on the board of the Resilient Foundation, actually as the chairman, which is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
This is no small position, but nobody's paying attention.
I believe part of it is because People who have tried to get involved and make a difference have given up.
They've realized there's no way to make a change because the mayor has this much power.
So I say all that to say that that is one of the main planks that I'm running on and I'm campaigning on.
I ran on this in 2019 when I also ran for mayor, and I was able to stay on the ballot all the way to the end.
I didn't win then, but we successfully got this topic into the conversation to the point that after the 2019 election passed, In 2020, a coalition of different activist groups from across the political spectrum came together.
They gathered more than 40,000 petition signatures, and now this petition they were trying to get passed specifically was doing what I was calling for, to make it that if three council members Say, my people are calling about X, Y, and Z. It automatically gets placed on the agenda, whatever the mayor says, because this is what I was calling for in 2019, to take away the power of the mayor, to decentralize it, give it back to the city council.
And in an ideal world, this would mean people, they would still have to get actively involved, but people could actively get involved knowing that their council members could actually be responsive, instead of basically saying, our hands are tied, which is what they've always done.
If you become mayor, you would actively work to reduce the centralized control power of the mayor position.
Exactly.
And as a mayor, do you have the power to do that, or does it take the state legislature to alter the laws?
It just takes the city charter.
So to wrap up the point I was making there, because to answer your question, yes, that is exactly what I'm talking about.
So the city charter amendment, which they got 40,000 petition signatures, the city has accepted it.
Now they dragged their feet for two years because the current mayor, the 5G champion, He didn't want this to be on the ballot while he was still in office because obviously it would limit his power, but it has now become a topic.
When I was running in 2019, nobody else was talking about this.
I was championing the idea.
The other candidates started to repeat this talking point and said, yeah, the mayor has too much power.
Now, when I was at a forum about two weeks ago, sitting next to Sheila Jackson Lee and John Whitmire, who are the top two leading candidates who are both 30-year career politicians in the Democratic Party, They're asking us, what do you all think about the mayor's position?
Does the mayor have too much power?
This has now become a talk in the debates, and the funny thing is the other candidates, they'll say, yeah, the mayor does have too much power, but that's why you should elect me, because I know how to use it right.
I'll use it correctly.
I'm the only one saying, elect me to help take that power away.
But the cool thing is, I'm telling people, even if you don't like me, That's now going to be on the ballot in November.
So in addition to voting for city council and mayor, we just got the name the other day.
It's going to be called Proposition A. The people of Houston will be able to vote to amend the city charter to make that change, which it doesn't completely reduce the mayor's power in the ways that I would like, but it definitely does Right.
So that's a key to decentralization of political power in Houston, then.
You said it's called Proposition A? Yeah, Proposition A. And I don't even know yet if it's supposed to be voting yes or no yet because they haven't released the language yet.
And as anybody who knows politics, they like to be funny with word games too.
So I don't want to say vote yes on Prop A. I think that's what it's going to be.
But if anybody who's curious about that or knows people in the Houston area, follow my campaign website and I'll be promoting that once we get the details.
Okay, excellent.
All right.
Now, let me ask you this then, because again, this is about decentralized living here on the show.
As mayor of Houston, should you win the position?
What would you encourage the people of Houston to do in terms of living more decentralized lives?
For example, would you encourage community gardening or maybe a citywide ordinance that means everybody can grow a garden in their front yard no matter what, no matter what the HOA says?
Things like that.
I'm glad you asked, Mike.
One important thing to say is I'm running a serious campaign.
People go to DerekBros.com and they check out the issues.
You'll see real plans and I'm going to share with you our community garden plan because we actually do have one under a plan called Regenerate Houston.
If you're going to run for something like this, you can go about this two ways that I've seen.
You can be the joke candidate, boot on the hat, vermin supreme, whatever kind of crazy character.
I don't know what that proves.
That's not the way I'm going about it.
You won't be taken seriously.
You won't be invited to debates and forums.
You won't be invited to TV interviews.
I'm going to the local I'm running a real campaign with real ideas and real vision.
The biggest problems people are saying in Houston are crime.
What are you going to do about reducing crime?
What are you going to do about flooding?
What are you going to do about the environmental issues?
I do care about the environment, although I'm not buying into climate change propaganda.
I know there's a way for me to speak to that crowd by talking about environment and community gardens and homesteading, things that appeal to a broad amount of people.
I might not even be speaking in their language, per se, but I'm saying some things that do appeal to them.
Under our Regenerate Houston plan, we're focusing on three specific areas.
As I mentioned, flooding's a big problem in Houston.
There's a lot of reasons for that.
One of it is because they've never stopped building, so the developers don't care.
The real estate developers in the city, they're getting a lot of money from this.
They keep building.
They keep putting more concrete down over the prairie lands, over the grasslands.
That's true.
That's going to lead to more flooding.
I don't necessarily want to come in and say, stop all the building, but if you're going to keep building, then we need to make sure there's more green space as well.
You need to try to replenish or replace what's being taken away.
We have a vision for, we've already identified a number of empty and abandoned lots that are around the city of Houston.
There's some parts of the city that they just turn into dumping grounds or maybe people end up doing drugs in these spaces, they're like abandoned lots and many of them are owned by the city and the city's probably waiting to get a good chunk of money for them.
But we have this idea of identifying those lots in different neighborhoods around Houston and what the mayor can control is the permitting process.
For example, I could say, hey, to this neighborhood over here on the west side of town, we've identified 10 abandoned fields in your neighborhood.
We're willing to permit those to you for a dollar each, something like that.
These could be used for community gardening, urban farms, because I've been involved in a lot of urban farming here in the city.
For years we had an amazing urban farm growing moringa and papaya and greens and all kinds of good, clean, organic food in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Houston that never had that at all, none of those options.
So food deserts is an issue here in Houston, so we want to address that.
But again, my plan isn't saying let's tax everybody and make this happen.
It would still be dependent on the neighbors and people taking advantage and stepping up and saying, We want to participate in that program, and we also, talking about water quality under this environmental plan, we want to get rid of the fluoride contract in Houston, which is costing a million dollars a year for taxpayers.
You know all about the problems of fluoride, so the idea would be abandoning that contract, just ending that contract, and then we have an idea, because again, I don't want to speak for the people.
I would like it in an ideal world to say, okay, here's a million dollars a year being used on fluoride.
We're going to end that.
Let's let the people of Houston decide.
Do you want a $5 check in the mail?
Because we'll send out whatever that breaks out to everybody.
Or let's take that million dollars that's already being used and repurpose that under the Regenerate Houston plan and create non-GMO seed distribution programs to those neighborhoods that are coming into our community gardening program and our urban farming program.
And along with that, I've been working with a number of different groups locally here in the city that really are doing some cool ideas, some working with the city and some doing it privately, just planting more native plants along the bayous and waterways, which helps with flooding and erosion.
But also, you could plant more industrial hemp around certain areas because it's now legal in Texas.
It absorbs a lot of water.
It can help with flooding as well, as well as, you know, helping the soil and remediating the soil.
And I'm really going to lean on my permaculture background.
I mean, I know a lot of people that if I did happen to become mayor or even was an advisor to some program like this, we have people that we could call up ready today and say, hey, come to Houston and help us.
Redesign the bayous and the waterways or add to what's already there.
I want to tackle these ideas and, again, speak to an audience that cares about these things and do it in a real way.
Because right now, if anybody knows anything about Houston, Houston is a big oil city.
Every time the city is doing any kind of event, like Fourth of July, Freedom Over Texas, brought to you by Shell and Exxon, which goes back to Rockefeller money and the same old people we've been dealing with forever.
To me, this is just part of that Yeah, exactly.
It's an interesting and delicate balance, too, because...
The oil industry does run a lot of what's going on in Houston, a lot of influence.
But at the same time, as you said, the climate change agenda or narrative is rooted in a lot of falsehoods.
Carbon dioxide, for example, is necessary for photosynthesis in order to grow food all over the world or to have forests or to have grasslands.
You've got to have carbon dioxide in the air.
So carbon dioxide is not the enemy.
But there is real pollution happening.
There's heavy metals pollution, pesticide pollution, pharmaceutical runoff, and biosludge pollution, which is also happening in Houston where they take all the sewage from the city of Houston and they go dump it on the farms and the surrounding areas.
I did a documentary on that called Biosludged.
So there are real environmental problems.
It's just that CO2 is not the problem that they claim it is.
But there are other very real problems.
You mentioned pesticides.
I mean, there's no reason that just, I don't even think it would take a legal effort, but there's no reason a mayor couldn't come in and just change policy to say, hey, we're no longer using pesticides on all city lands and things like that.
Because, again, the mayor, the current mayor during COVID, he didn't have much legal power because the state stepped in, as you know, and sort of Abbott did some job, you know, limiting the state a little bit.
Obviously, he pushed a mask order.
But on the local level in Houston, this current mayor, as he called it, necessary civil disobedience to push back against the state, preventing us from fighting COVID. So he mandated the shots for all city of Houston.
Oh, my.
When I thought about that first, it was like, okay, people who work at City Hall.
But when you really think about city employees, that's people who work at the airports, people who are construction workers, city of Houston employees.
So people all over the city, thousands of employees.
There's no record keeping of if anybody was injured or if anybody quit or fired.
But my point is, in that case, he exercised the little bit of power he could.
In that same way, I would like to do some things.
But most of my goal is to Let's get rid of bad things that are not working or just wasteful and let's either give that money back to the people or repurpose it towards something that actually is going to be valuable and useful.
This isn't a perfect libertarian or even anarchist situation.
It is a government system, but you can find ways to reduce the overhead cost, the strife in everyday people's lives as much as possible so that when they think of the city government or the local government, they see it instead of as a force of Well, right.
Man, that's a big leap to get to that because so many people are tied into local government and pension programs that they've earned up over time.
And by the way, I don't know what the city of Houston's financial situation is.
I would imagine it's strained.
But, you know, Mandating vaccines, which we now know are killing one in a thousand people who took them.
I'm talking about the COVID vaccines, the mRNA jabs.
And that's VAERS data.
That's U.S. government federal funded data right there.
We know that that eases the financial entitlement burden of a city like Houston.
So the easiest way for them not to pay out pension and benefit and health care claims is to kill off the people who are approaching retirement age.
So think about that.
A vaccine mandate is actually...
A money-saving proposition in the city of Houston and other cities across America and even at the federal level.
No, it's not.
You're right.
And as far as Houston goes, I mean, they just said within the last week that Houston is the city's top financial officer is warning that Houston's going to be upside down by 2025 if something doesn't happen in the next year.
So, you know, it's a real Realistic situation as far as them having budgets and having money that none of us as individuals would ever be able to just continue to go in debt, go in debt, and keep asking for more money.
Houston now having the biggest budget they've ever passed just this past year, over a billion dollars for the first time.
It's pretty crazy.
People see money going out.
They see things happening at City Hall, but most average people don't feel like they're being heard.
This is why I think that me and my team, we really see a potential path to victory because at the moment, The five main candidates of the 12 people who are running at the moment are all tied to the Democratic Party, including, as I mentioned, Sheila Jackson Lee, who's a longtime congresswoman from the Houston area, and John Whitmire, who's a Texas state senator, Both are Democrats and they're trying to appeal to Houston's leftist base, but also trying to play a little conservative where it matters to get enough conservative vote, but nobody's really buying it.
I think people are just sick of it.
So we're going out speaking to Democrat groups.
I'm going to speak to a Republican group tonight.
We had a brunch with the Libertarian Group last week, and we're speaking with people who might identify as progressives that actually care about privacy and surveillance, and they like what I have to say on those issues.
I mean, we're really reaching a broad base of people who I think are sick of the same old.
And really, it's interesting when you see if we're coming up to say, hey, I'm running for mayor, or one of my team's going to pass out some information.
The reaction we get when people hear that, okay, great, some candidate, they maybe get a little eye roll, but then when they hear he's an activist and a journalist, not a politician, people's entire demeanor switches and all of a sudden they're going to listen because people are sick of these career politicians.
So we actually, in the last two weeks, I don't think we've mentioned this, I showed up in the first and the most recent poll at 7% among likely voters.
There's still 22% of the city that's of poll people, and it was a small poll, but If we extrapolate, 22% of the city is still undecided.
And yes, those top two candidates are getting the higher percentage they claim.
But for us, we're polling at 7%.
They're raising tens of millions of dollars.
We've raised about $12,000.
They're spending...
Way more for every potential vote than we are.
We're making it stretch and last, and we have a real movement behind us.
I just received the endorsement of the Harris County Libertarian Party this past week and some other groups.
We got some support from Texas Latino Conservatives.
It's really exciting, but as you mentioned earlier, and I don't think we've touched on it yet, but they are attempting to find ways to keep me from Oh, I'm sure they are.
Perhaps we'll get to that, but I want to ask you about a particular topic of decentralized power, and that's self-defense.
Because, of course, police are often deliberately underfunded, and Houston has a violence problem, as you know.
And can you guys show, camera one, this is...
This is a Glock 43X that I actually carry right here.
And this is a really awesome handgun.
Carries 15 rounds.
Really nice.
And, of course, this being Texas, you know, we all carry.
I mean, most of us carry.
And it's not that we're anti-police.
We're not.
We are pro-law enforcement, in a sense.
I mean, we know that we need policing of communities.
We've got to stop the violent criminals in some way.
But it should be a team effort, in my opinion.
Yes, there are police, but then you are your own first responder as well.
That's the ultimate decentralization is, you know, 15 rounds of 9mm in your hand.
So what are your thoughts on firearms, concealed carry, and the city of Houston?
I mean, I totally support the Second Amendment, obviously, and, you know, have no desire to limit that.
And then I think also if you go to some of the neighborhoods that do have incidents of crime, like the recent stats have shown that crime is going down in Houston, but still, I mean, it's coming down from historic highs, so that might not be saying much depending on where you live.
But the crimes that are happening, though, it's mainly we're seeing home break-ins, vehicle break-ins.
Obviously, murders do happen and things like that.
And people in some of these neighborhoods, they would say they want the right to arm themselves just as you or I would, right?
So I don't think that trying to limit anybody's ability to defend themselves would be a right move.
And what I would like to see, let's say I did become mayor, it would be really interesting to try to combine some of what I've done I'm going to go to my political activism with freedom cells with some of the city's plans.
For example, they have this idea, and it's never really been utilized that I've seen to a great degree, maybe small groups here and there, but they call them super-neighborhoods.
The idea is you've got the city council, And then each area is broken up into these super neighborhoods, and those groups are supposed to meet and assign officers or whatever.
They're like their own little local governing bodies that can come together and communicate the needs of the neighborhoods.
And ideally, they're supposed to actually have representatives at city council, like a liaison officer.
The city council should be meeting with them, but none of that actually happens.
But you could see how if something like that was used, or even like a freedom cell, the idea of decentralized Organizing in neighborhoods around the city that then communicate to city council or to the mayor about, hey, this is what we're seeing.
This is what we need.
This is what we need from you.
Maybe some neighborhoods do want more cops.
Maybe some neighborhoods don't because they're willing to take their community defense in their hands, not vigilante style, but just walking around doing neighborhood patrols.
Those used to be a lot more common.
and they don't seem to happen in most neighborhoods anymore where community members themselves going out patrolling and kind of just doing what they could because they either didn't trust the cops or because the cops were busy.
Houston is one of the places that has over an hour wait time for police to respond.
So it's not like if you call the cops, you're gonna be getting help right away anyways.
So it's not a bad idea to have this decentralized protection.
And Mike, you're probably familiar with Dale Brown from Detroit Threat Management up in Detroit.
He's been doing great work over the years.
He has his organization that they help victims of domestic abuse.
They get hired by corporations, but they also focus on de-escalation training, and they've tried to work with any law enforcement officers when they're open to it.
I've got to go up to his dojo and train a couple times and just sort of learn about his approach and go ride along with him as he goes around the city.
There's groups like his that I'm sure would love to come down If invited by the city of Houston, to come to different neighborhoods and teach some self-defense and give people some basic skills so that they're not waiting around for an hour for a cop.
I don't think it's necessarily, at least from my perspective, about being anti-cop.
I do think that the cops, like every other institution of government, should have to prove its budget.
Unfortunately, in politics, and I see this just from my little stepping in here and stepping in 2019, that no politicians on the local I would say this even with those who are really loud, but when it comes down to it, they usually vote or support the cops.
Most politicians aren't going to say anything negative or what could be perceived as negative about the cops in terms of taking away budget from them.
For example, there's a local group right now that's speaking out a lot about surveillance, some of the same issues I've been talking about, and they've been suggesting that AHPD should have to put a freeze on its budget for up to a year so that there could be an audit and a real review of it because that billion-dollar budget that Houston just put 70% of it was the police.
They're getting massive amounts of money.
It's always like, we need more money.
We need more money.
If the things they are trying don't work, then they say, we need more money to do better.
If the things they do seem to work, then it's like, we need more money because it's working.
Most politicians are just afraid to even say, like, hey, maybe we should talk about the budget.
And it doesn't have to be like you're anti-cop just by expecting an institution that owes responsibility to the people to approve its budget.
Let me ask a bigger question, though.
It kind of segues into that.
You want to be mayor of Houston.
Houston, like many American cities, is, and this is my opinion, perhaps not yours, but the very structure of the city is becoming obsolete.
It's a dying structure in the sense that after COVID, everybody began working remotely.
We now have commercial real estate collapsing in most cities around the country.
To some extent in Houston, not as much as other places because Texas itself is still a desirable destination.
So Houston may fare much better than other cities.
But I've always said cities are artificial constructs where you have to have these inputs of food, water, fuel, electricity, and then the outputs are bio sludge and pollution and landfill.
Of course, there's also outputs of ideas and productivity and products, manufacturing and so on.
I'm not discounting that.
But the very structure of a city no longer serves the purpose or the critical need that it once did in society.
A lot of things can happen without people having to be so densely populated in close proximity.
So what are your thoughts about that?
I know you probably never got this question about the city, but...
Well, I tend to agree with what you're saying there.
I mean, I might even question whether or not the city and what we call society really ever served the purpose.
You know, obviously it's gotten us to where we are, but there's been a lot of destruction along the way.
So I definitely understand where you're coming from with that.
And, you know, I don't see myself.
I love the city.
Honestly, I love living in the city, but I also bought land in Mexico.
The place I can live in is the suburbs.
I love being either in the city, deep in the city, in the heart of it, involved, like where I can go to music and get involved with culture and all this stuff and try to get involved with activism, or put me far out of the city, like in the countryside.
That's kind of my base.
So this is really, like, obviously if I was to win, I would stay here and do what is necessary.
But as much as I love the city, I also know what's coming and what's right here, smart cities.
Houston was one of the first places to get 5G. The mayor has a smart city council.
I see what's coming.
I'm trying to make my effort to give the hometown, the city that I've really grown up in, where I have family and friends that live all around the city that I love and care about, One more strong effort to say, what can I do to get on TV, to get on radio and newspaper, to get on the debate stage, to inject these ideas and to talk about things like COVID and Agenda 2030 and stuff, because this is how it happens.
It happens on a local level.
You might hear about the UN World Economic Forum, but then it starts in your neighborhood planning commission where they start talking about ways to limit vehicles on certain days of the week or whatever.
This is where it really happens down on the local level.
So for me, it's not so much that I think the cities are worth saving per se, and I do think you're right that there's a lot of major shifts happening, and I don't see long-term freedom happening here.
I couldn't imagine what things were going to be like in 2019 to now, and then COVID and everything else happened.
I can't even imagine what things will be like in the next election in 2027 here in Houston, but I don't think I'll be around to see it unless I happen to be mayor.
But beyond that, I'm doing what I can to spread this message and spread these ideas, and I'm very much continuing on my path of building my community In Mexico and try and encourage family and friends to get it further out of the cities as quick as they can.
Wow, yeah.
I think for cities to survive, they're going to have to reinvent their core purpose.
What advantages do they bring to people?
And every city in America, I think, is going to be reeling from the debt collapse that's coming.
And the commercial real estate collapse I already mentioned, but the debt collapse, food supply chain disruptions, we're going to see famine in the cities, I believe.
And, of course, that's going to just be exacerbated with violence and addiction, crime, homelessness, people losing their homes and so on.
If you are the mayor of Houston, You've taken on a big burden, that's for sure.
I mean, the city would benefit from you, no doubt, but man, that's one heck of a job to take on.
But nevertheless, we wish you the best success in your campaign, Derek.
I appreciate it, Mike, and I appreciate you giving me some time to share about these ideas.
I guess if I had any kind of closing message, it would just be I'm not running for office to encourage anybody to believe that going within is going to save us or the idea that change the system within.
It's kind of the exact opposite of what I personally believe.
In fact, I've been trying to Thread this needle very carefully to inspire and motivate people, but not necessarily to give anybody hope in this dying system.
And frankly, I think it needs to die.
I think it needs to collapse because something better that we create will replace it.
I am trying to reach as many people as possible.
I've tried and continue to and will continue to try with documentaries, with books, with articles, with public speaking, with interviews.
It opens up certain doors for me, so whatever you're out there doing and Whether it's making memes, doing podcasts, or talking to your friends and family, or putting up posters in your neighborhood, I think all of us need to consider what tools we have at our disposal and what strengths we're bringing to the table.
And for me, that's my voice, that's my mind, so I'm trying to use it the best I can.
I encourage you to use the tools you have at your disposal at this really crucial moment.
I completely agree, Eric, and I want to thank you for taking the time here.
You said something really critical, that the current system will die.
And I think what you mean by that is the system of fake counterfeit fiat currency, a debt-based economy, the concentration of power in the hands of the few, the corruption, the rigging of everything.
Yeah, that system actually does need to die, and it will die, because it is a death-based system.
Instead, what we're going to build on the other side, people like you and I and all those watching this, we're going to build a new system, folks.
It's going to be a system based in human dignity.
It's going to be based in decentralized food, decentralized medicine, the sanctity of human knowledge rather than the suppression of speech.
And Derek, I know you're going to play a big role in whatever that next system is.
And so I just look forward to seeing what you do and I appreciate your passion and your courage every single day.
Thank you so much.
I look forward to being on this journey with you and so many others.
Okay.
All right.
Take care, Derek.
That was Derek Brose, everybody.
The website, of course, for his campaign is DerekBrose.com, B-R-O-Z-E. And then if you want to go to his main site, the Conscious Resistance Network, that is TheConsciousResistance.com.
And if you add a slash how-to on the end of that, you can get one of his books about how to exit the tyrannical system of control.
Thank you for watching today.
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And since I hope all of you watching this are human, then we're going to share that future for humanity together.
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Todd, are you going to launch your satellite soon?
Yeah.
I've not launched my satellite.
That's still in my right pocket.
Yeah, right.
I haven't launched a satellite either, but if we ever launch satellites, then we can have peer-to-peer satellite comms.
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This is a way to have a mobile device.
It works, of course, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and everything.
And you can put a data SIM card in it, and so you can get your bandwidth from the cell towers if you want.
And you can also buy those SIM cards from above phone using Monero, by the way.
So you can have privacy crypto to purchase the SIM cards so there's nothing that ties you to the phone or the data or the cell towers.
How cool is that, Todd?
Wow.
I mean, we finally found a provider.
That's amazing.
That's amazing.
So, this is just kind of a junior varsity question here.
With that phone, are you getting a new phone number, or are you porting over the number that you've always had?
How does that work?
Okay, so the phone is, of course, it's brand new hardware.
You purchase the phone, which are Google hardware phones from the Above Phone company, which is all pro-Liberty.
I mean, they're all on board with everything we do.
And then you have a SIM card in it which passes data back and forth to the cell towers, but you don't have an SMS or a phone phone.
Rather, there's an app that lets you set up a phone number and you have calling and receiving.
It functions normally, but it's using data instead of using the actual phone protocols.
that the cell towers use.
Now, the good news why this is great is because you are not going to be wrapped up in some kind of geofencing warrant because normally, you know, like if you're standing around and then somebody robs the bank a block away, well, you know, they can issue a geofencing warrant and they can say, you know, they can issue a geofencing warrant and they can say, let's go talk to everybody, visit everybody's home who was, you know, within 100 feet of the bank robbery based on your phone number and your phone checking in with the cell tower and registering as
So with the de-Googled phones from above phone, they don't register as phones.
They register as data devices, which is common for things like trackers and security cameras and what have you.
So those data devices don't get swept up in the geofencing warrants.
That's fascinating.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's very cool.
Right.
And then in addition, there's nothing about this phone that's tied to your identity.
Right.
So your name, your social security number, your credit card, nothing is tied to that, especially if you paid using crypto, obviously, you know, privacy crypto, even better.
So this is the way to be anonymous and protect your privacy while actually having a mobile phone device.
Now, it runs virtually all the apps you need, but not 100% because it doesn't use the Google Play Store, obviously.
It's running the Graphene OS, but a specialized version of Graphene with all these apps on top of it.
I mean, I've used Graphene phones.
I'm running Graphene right here.
I've been doing this for years.
I de-Googled a while ago.
I don't know if it's been years, but it was a while ago.
And I can run everything that I need to run, you know, like Signal or weather apps or, you know, mapping.
I don't run Google Maps, obviously.
Like, Google has no place.
Can you get crypto wallets on that phone?
Absolutely.
I've been running all the crypto wallets I've been running.
Really?
Epic wallet.
I've been running Cake wallet.
I've been running, you know, Beam wallet.
I've been running Monero wallets.
I've been running all the, yeah, all the crypto.
Oh, that's awesome.
That's even better.
Yeah, yeah.
So you don't need Google.
Yeah, perfect.
You should de-Google your life, because Google's spying on you all the time.
Right.
And so are iPhones, by the way.
So again, go to abovephone.com slash DTV, and it'll take you to this website here, abovephone.com, and you can get their hardware, you can get their SIM cards, you can even just take your existing hardware if you want and use their SIM cards.
And that gives you a level of privacy.
But the best way is to get their Google Pixel hardware that's been de-Googled with their SIM cards that you purchase with crypto.
And then that's the whole package.
Then you are truly private and you cannot be easily tracked like you can with your normal spy device.
Wow.
So, cool stuff.
And last question.
Yeah.
Then is there, like, a monthly fee that's associated with, like, you know, I know with my setup, you know, I have a lot of daughters, so there's five of us on the plan.
And so every month my wireless bill is pretty healthy.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Well...
So you can use the hardware without paying any monthly fees, but if you want to use the apps that have a phone number for you, there's a small monthly fee associated with that.
But that's optional.
You don't have to run that.
The other thing is the SIM data cards you pay per gigabyte.
Okay.
Right?
So it just depends on how much data you want to use or whether you watch videos on your phone all day through the cell towers.
But, you know, just switch over to Wi-Fi when you're home and you're just using your Wi-Fi so you're not being charged for that data.
So it's actually a lot less expensive than using a regular phone.
It sounds like it.
And it's a lot more private.
And you have total control over it as well.
I'm ordering...
Yeah, yeah.
Serious.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
All right, so folks, if you want to decentralize your mobile phone, this is the answer.
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And you can probably sleep better at night knowing you're not being constantly tracked.
So, all right, there you go.
Above phone.
Love it.
Very cool.
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