Eric Brakey 🌲🦔
@SenatorBrakey
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Executive Director at @FreeStateNH. Retired Maine Senator. Liberty builder. Host of "The Porcupine Report" every Wednesday at 7pm.
Joined November 2012
For the sake of America, Ukraine, Russia, and the world — we need immediate diplomacy, not reckless commitments to prolong the war in Ukraine forever. That's why, in the Maine Senate today, I called out the propaganda of the corporate media and the Washington war machine.
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I was undecided, but today’s events have convinced me. I am voting for Trump.
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They want you to believe inflation is an uncontrollable act of nature, while the weather is a controllable act of mankind.
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The CIA and FBI supposedly work for the President. but they are actively at war with the President. It begs the question: if they don’t answer to the President, who are they accountable to?.
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Joe Biden says 22 million Americans lost their jobs due to the pandemic. That's not accurate. 22 million Americans lost their jobs due to government lockdowns.
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The failure to pardon Assange, Snowden and Ulbricht is a great final act of cowardice and submission to the Deep State.
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Elon Musk is doing more good for the world with his money than the federal government ever would. For humanity's sake, I'd prefer he pay no taxes.
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When will Joe Rogan answer for taking America off the gold standard in 1971?.
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Happy birthday to @RandPaul, the best freedom fighter we have in the U.S. Senate. #StillRanding
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The media obsesses over what’s Presidents say, ignoring what Presidents do. @BarackObama spoke nicely — while dropping bombs and starting wars. @realDonaldTrump speaks tough — while making peace and ending wars. Actions speak louder than words.
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Don’t trade Liberty for Security. Ever. You will lose both and deserve neither.
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Nothing that requires the labor of others is a human right.
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@KingsleyCortes The second amendment is for everyone. We do not have second-class citizens in America.
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Donald Trump — Russian asset.Tulsi Gabbard — Russian asset.Bernie Sanders — Russian asset. Why does every political candidate who isn’t approved by the Washington political establishment end up being accused of being a Russian asset?.
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President Trump is right to call for the end of birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants & we need fresh support in Congress to follow through. This policy has always been based on a misreading of our 14th Amendment. I will help pass legislation to properly fix this.
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No one is trying to take away your government. We just want commonsense government controls:. - ending the Federal Reserve.- abolishing the income tax.- prohibiting undeclared wars.- repealing the Patriot Act.- protecting the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
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Hey conservatives!. Remember how libertarians warned the Patriot Act would be used against you?. You didn’t listen, and they were right. Now libertarians are warning you about E-Verify. In 20 years, who will the federal government be targeting with this?.
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Congress never authorized war in Syria. This unconstitutional attack on a sovereign nation is more legitimate grounds for impeaching @JoeBiden than anything for which Democrats impeached Donald Trump.
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Some light reading while in the Maine Senate — helping me prepare for bills I am presenting this session to the Financial Services Committee.
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@ninaturner Poverty is not created. Poverty is the default state of mankind. Wealth is created. If you want to eliminate poverty, the important question: “How do we create wealth?”.
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BOOM!. Constitutional Carry passes the Texas House of Representatives by a vote of 84 to 56.
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@RepNancyMace McCarthy helped us lose ME-2 in 2020 by spending $500k against me in the GOP Primary — while yelling at Club for Growth for endorsing me. McCarthy managed to get an establishment nominee through the primary, who then lost the general in a district Trump won handily.
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If the federal government can just print an infinite amount of money with no economic consequences, then why do we pay any taxes?.
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The treatment of whistleblowers @Snowden and Julian Assange --- whose great crimes were informing the American people about the crimes of our own government --- says a lot about the contempt Washington DC has for the American people.
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Assuming our Secretary of State doesn’t succeed in delegitimizing our nomination process, I’m voting @VivekGRamaswamy in the Maine Republican Primary. As millennials, we remember what neoconservatives like Dick Cheney and @NikkiHaley did to our country. More liberty, less war.
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For the record, Lil Wayne deserved a pardon. Possessing a firearm isn’t a crime — it’s a 2nd Amendment right.
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Ron Paul was right… about the War in Afghanistan. Ron Paul was right… about the Patriot Act. Ron Paul was right… about inflation. And the GOP establishment told you to ignore him and support Mitt Romney. Time for a new GOP. A Liberty GOP.
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@RepNancyMace McCarthy regularly interferes in GOP primary contests where he has no business — not usually to support anyone in particular, but to specifically oppose liberty candidates.
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Inflation is a tax on the middle class and the poor.
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They want your guns. They want your money. They want your kids. They want your privacy. They want your plants. They want your freedom. But most of all. They want your compliance.
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@davidhogg111 How exactly do permit requirements stop school shootings?. Are mass murderers generally very concerned about possessing the proper paperwork?.
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Should an immigrant like Albert Einstein have been able to come work in America?. Or was he wrongfully taking a job from an American physicist?.
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Has everyone else noticed the governments suspending rent payments never suspend property tax payments?.
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I’m planning to vote for @VivekGRamaswamy in Maine, but I respect the solidarity. If our candidates are being arbitrarily removed from the ballot by the opposition party, then this is not a legitimate process and we should not treat it like one.
GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy doubles down on vow to withdraw from Maine and Colorado ballots
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What do you think about @RobertKennedyJr?. I met him once in 2017, when he testified before the Maine HHS Committee on mandates. His arguments for informed consent were compelling. Today, his takes on war & regulatory capture are among the best I’ve heard in a long while.
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One of the saddest realizations I've had to come to terms with over the last year is just how many of our fellow Americans are content living under authoritarian dictatorships.
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Four years ago today, my Constitutional Carry bill passed in the Maine Senate 21-14 with bipartisan support. Critics warned “blood will run through the streets,” but Maine today is ranked the safest state in America. #2ndAmendment.
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The Left: “Donald Trump paid no federal income tax for ten years!!!”. Libertarians: “Impressive.”.
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Since I am voting in the Republican nomination process, I’m fairly confident now that I am voting for @VivekGRamaswamy. He is the only candidate who has made the effort to hold the neoconservatives to account and outreach to the liberty wing.
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The more I think about it, the more @justinamash for US House Speaker sounds like a good idea.
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If Galileo were alive today, @YouTube would have banned him for not following the "Science.".
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COVID, like terrorism, is real. Also like terrorism, your perception of the danger it poses has been manipulated to generate fear and enable the powerful to expand their control.
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@POTUS And the biggest, most politically-connected companies will continue getting billions in corporate welfare though bailouts, sweetheart loans, and govt contracts. Instead of raising taxes on business (which will be passed along to customers), how about we end corporate welfare?.
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Would you trade an elimination of the federal income tax for higher tariffs?. Tariffs, of course, are not a tax on foreigners (as some portray them), but a national sales tax that selectively targets foreign imports.
BREAKING: Trump allegedly floated the concept of eliminating the income tax and replacing it with tariffs at the GOP meeting at the Capitol Hill Club.
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Imagine making people who’ve already had chickenpox get vaccinated for chickenpox.
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@davidhogg111 I’m glad that, after reading about history and talking with professors, you were able to confirm in your mind what you already believed to be true. It’s called confirmation bias.
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I went to bed last night uncertain of the final outcome (with a razor thin margin of 38 votes), waiting on results from the smallest town in my district. This morning, I awoke to learn that we won. With a margin of 183 votes, we carried 50.5% of Maine Senate District 20.
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The TSA searched my bag this morning. They didn’t tel me what set their detector off — but it must have been either my US Constitution or @Snowden’s book. No Liberty allowed in US airports.
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@ewarren I will do you one better. Washington DC should be a country! . (One that we should build a wall around to keep its IRS agents away from the rest of us.).
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Like most people, I was very skeptical of RFK’s pick of @NicoleShanahan for VP. Over the course of this race, however, she has demonstrated an incredible thoughtfulness and appreciation for Liberty.
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Sometimes it seems like the NSA is the only government agency that really listens to you.
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@BernieSanders One of your supporters shot up a baseball field of Republican Congressmen. But I don’t blame you for your hateful rhetoric against capitalists. We all have freedom of speech and your words didn’t pull the trigger.
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Until we have nuclear power, electric cars will continue running on coal.
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Should members of Congress be required to renounce dual citizenship to other countries?.
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So many are violently angry with @RandPaul because he is consistently challenging the doctrines of their cult leader, Anthony Fauci, and being proven right.
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Disappointed to see the man who planned an assassination of Julian Assange on the GOP Convention stage. @mikepompeo should be nowhere near the White House.
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How many tragedies must we endure before we take action to abolish these “gun free zones” that empower would-be mass murderers while disarming law-abiding citizens?.
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RAND: Here are your email communications, evidence that you conspired to smear dissenting scientists. FAUCI: You make accusations against me with absolutely no evidence. CORPORATE PRESS: Paul attacks Fauci with no evidence. ME: Are we going to talk about those emails?.
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How do they know she wasn’t infected by someone who was vaccinated?.
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People do not go to jail in America for committing war crimes. People do go to jail in America for exposing war crimes.
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Don’t cancel regular people. Cancel people in power.
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I am hearing the U.S. was unprepared in Afghanistan because the Pentagon slow-walked Trump’s withdrawal order—hoping they could pressure @JoeBiden to cancel the peace deal completely.
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Fun Fact: COVID can be passed, not only through respiration, but also visually through extended eye contact with others. If that doesn’t make sense to you, you are just a science denier.
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Only government can screw up so much that hospitals are forced to furlough medical staff during a pandemic.
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You can’t be the Commander in Chief if you can’t get out of the basement.
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After his home was firebombed, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a concealed carry permit to defend himself and his family. Government denied his application. This is exactly why I am proud to have authored Maine's Constitutional Carry law. The Constitution is our permit.
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Repeal the Progressive Era:. - Income Tax.- Federal Reserve.- War on Drugs.- Imperial Wars.- Welfare State.- Corporate Welfare.
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I am neither pro-vaccine, nor anti-vaccine. I am FOR you talking with your doctor and making a decision that makes sense for you. I am AGAINST anyone from the government attempting to take away your medical freedom.
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To @NikkiHaley —. How about @VivekGRamaswamy agrees to keep your adult daughter out of the debates…. … if you agree to keep all our sons and daughters out of your stupid wars?.
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Congratulations to the Mises Caucus on their victory in Reno. I look forward to working with anyone who believes in the cause of liberty to restore freedom in America — no matter what political vehicle they choose to advance our shared cause.
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SPOILER: Giving away all of your constitutional rights will not make COVID go away.
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Winning the states is more important than winning Washington DC. The Swamp has no power if the states nullify them. Take back the states!.
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.@JoeBiden is shutting down oil drilling in Alaska—but shouldn't the people of Alaska be the ones to decide whether or not to drill for oil in Alaska?. Why should a city 4000 miles away have more power to decide Alaskan oil policy than the people who live there?.
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My heart breaks hearing about the senseless violence and horrible loss of life in Pittsburgh. Today is also a terrible reminder that anti-semitism is still lurking in dark corners of our society.
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Last night in the Maine Senate, I argued for the passage of Defend the Guard legislation, seeking to call the members of our Maine National Guard home from wars not declared by Congress. Congress has abdicated its responsibility to our soldiers, so the states must interpose.
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A conservatism that rejects libertarianism is European in nature, not American.
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I lost my primary for Congress in 2020, in part, because Kevin McCarthy spent $500k against me — afraid I would be, in his words, “another Justin Amash.”. Now I realize he was right. If I was there, now is the moment I’d be ready to nominate @justinamash for Speaker.
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Cannabis is a performance-enhancing drug in contests of:. - Hot dog eating.- Creative writing.- Holding a conversation with .@joerogan .- Sleep marathons. Are any of these now Olympic sports?.
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@davidhogg111 All we need now is a public information campaign so the violent criminals know the weapons they use for assaulting people are banned. I’m sure if Illinois holds a buyback, they’d voluntarily turn them in. Compliance with the law is a high priority for the law-breaking.
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We hate each other because the government's power has grown so massive that every political disagreement feels like war. The answer is to defund Washington.
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“This will be the first-ever public hearing on cryptocurrency in the Maine Legislature,” said Sen. Brakey.
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Hear me out. If they are changing the dress code in Congress, here is what they should change it to.
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There is no Constitution in times of war or emergency—which is why the wars and emergencies never end.
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How would Americans react if China did this on our soil?.
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If Fauci does not lose his job for lying to Congress about funding the Wuhan lab's research into weaponized coronaviruses, then no American should lose their job for simply making their own healthcare decisions. #FireFauci #DictatorBiden.
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