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Investigative Journalist & Publisher, Restoring Democracy's Promise. Applying engineering-level systems analysis to expose the hidden architecture of power. Delivering irrefutable, primary-source-backed accountability. https://restoring-democracy.org
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The ALPR story didn’t disappear — it outgrew the platform.
New records show a warrantless national data pipeline moving your location data far beyond Iowa.
The full infographic now lives here → restoring-democracy.org
Full report coming. Stay sharp.
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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The Statistical Tell: 5.5-Year Analysis of 1,248 AG Cases. Comparison chart showing AG Bird's response (6 hours) versus average response (46.2 days). Probability by chance: 1 in 1,600. Statistical rank: #1 of 1,248. Restoring Democracy's Promise.
The Statistical Tell: 5.5-Year Analysis of 1,248 AG Cases. Comparison chart showing AG Bird's response (6 hours) versus average response (46.2 days). Probability by chance: 1 in 1,600. Statistical rank: #1 of 1,248. Restoring Democracy's Promise.
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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🛑 This isn’t just an Iowa story.
The same machine is active across multiple states — copy-pasting bills, credentialing “chaplains,” and undermining constitutional protections in classrooms nationwide.

📊 Map: where the laws are being pushed →

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U.S. map highlighting states in different colors: red = chaplain laws enacted, orange = pending or active, purple = failed or defeated, gray = no significant activity.
August 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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📖 “The God Machine” uncovers a hidden blueprint:

Chaplain credentialing as a Trojan horse

Faith-based lobbyists pushing copy-paste bills

Dark money fueling a legislative assembly line
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#iowa
A dark factory assembly line presses books labeled Biblical Principles and Project 2025 into a rolled-up scroll stamped ‘Legislation’ under a heavy machine labeled ‘NACL Model Policy.’ Sparks fly as the machine imprints religious ideology into law, symbolizing how extremist groups mass-produce policies.
August 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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🚨 Outside expert review just rated my investigation “The God Machine” a 9.5/10 for evidence, rigor, and impact.
This isn’t opinion writing — it’s forensic journalism exposing how Christian nationalism is rewriting America’s future from inside our schools.
An industrial-style machine labeled The God Machine. A funnel marked ‘Dark Money’ pours into gears shaped like a dollar sign, a cross, and people. A sheet of paper labeled ‘Model Legislation’ feeds into the machine, symbolizing how money and religion are turned into laws that impact public schools.
August 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The Governor’s silence isn’t neutrality; it’s strategy.
Phase 1: Enable the overhaul.
Phase 2: Step back while corporate allies cash in.
Public workers lose stability.
Full investigation: 🔗https://exposed1.substack.com/p/exclusive-doge-pension-privatize
#iowa #kimreynolds
Dark teal background with bold white text reading: “RDP — CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN STATE GOVERNMENT THREATEN PUBLIC TRUST.” At the bottom right, a black silhouette of a government building dome is shown, contrasting sharply with the background.
August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The “DOGE Task Force” was stacked 80% with corporate execs.
No teachers. No labor reps. No public retirees.
Their proposal mirrors ALEC’s Defined-Contribution Pension Reform Act—a blueprint to dismantle public pensions across America. 📄➡️💵
Stylized infographic showing a table with silhouettes representing “DOGE Task Force” members. Eight of ten silhouettes are labeled with corporate titles (e.g., “Exec, Principal Financial,” “CEO, Fareway Stores”), while teachers, labor reps, and retirees are absent. A text overlay reads: “80% Corporate. 0% Public Retirees. 0% Labor.” Background features faded ALEC logo and faint dollar signs.
August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The National School Chaplain Association (NSCA) is advising the NACL—which its founder, Rocky Malloy, also stands to benefit from.
Malloy took a $200K loan from his own ministry while pushing chaplain bills into law.
Self-dealing meets legislation. 😧
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A quote on a green background reads: “A $200,000 loan from a tax-exempt ‘ministry’—meant to serve public schools—directly to its own CEO. Not only is this a potential violation of IRS rules, it exposes a national scheme that may put children at risk for Christian Nationalist indoctrination.” — Timothy C. Tucker, The God Machine: How Faith-Based Credentialing Undermines Public Education. Website: exposed1.substack.com.
July 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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$200,000 loan.
Tax-exempt status.
Political endorsements.
Faith Wins, a U.S. political ministry, moved money to itself and helped build this network.
The IRS should be watching.
On a green background, a quote reads: “A $200,000 loan from a tax-exempt ‘ministry’—meant to serve public schools—directly to its own CEO… a national scheme that may put children at risk for Christian Nationalist indoctrination.” Cited to Timothy C. Tucker, The God Machine, exposed1.substack.com.
July 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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This isn’t just international evangelism.
Mission Generation is credentialing school chaplains in the U.S.—and lobbying to legalize them at the state level.
It’s a self-licensing pipeline.
This graphic shows the targets.
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July 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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"MISSION GENERATION” sounds like a kids’ cartoon.
It’s actually part of a real-world Christian Nationalist credentialing pipeline—run by Rocky Malloy from Santa Cruz.
He claims he can reach 1 million students through "our own textbooks."
Screenshot of the Twitter profile for Rocky Malloy (@missiongen), showing a description of Mission Generation: “teaches the Word of God in schools using our own textbooks,” with the goal of reaching a million children by 2010. Location: Santa Cruz, South America.
July 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Inside:
🩸 An AI-rendered “dark money heart”
🧠 Legislative schematics
🛠️ An assembly line of autocracy
⚖️ A 3-pronged electoral ground game
Threaded here: exposed1.substack.com
Full investigation 🔽
An AI-rendered glowing anatomical heart labeled “Marble Freedom Trust ($1.6B)” with golden arteries branching out to DonorsTrust, The 85 Fund, and allied organizations like Judicial Crisis Network and Turning Point USA. Text reads “Dark Money” beneath the diagram.
July 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The Pincer works because it’s funded.
We followed $425M+ across 3 years, from Marble Freedom Trust through DAFgiving360 + DonorsTrust to The 85 Fund.
This is the “Financial Superhighway.”
A flowchart titled “Figure 5.1: The Sustained Financial Superhighway” shows funding pathways from Marble Freedom Trust (MFT) to three major donor-advised funds: DAFgiving360™ (formerly Schwab Charitable) for FY2022–2023 ($307M), DAFgiving360™ FY2024 ($59.1M), and DonorsTrust FY2024 ($59.1M). All three channels ultimately funnel money into The 85 Fund. The chart illustrates a consolidated financial conduit used to sustain aligned entities from 2022 to 2024.
July 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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They built it like a factory.
📚 + 📖 → 🧰 → 🏛️
Legislation is no longer written.
It’s manufactured on-demand using the “Biblical Principles” + Project 2025 policy forge.
👇 Watch the machine run.
A dimly lit factory setting with a metal stamping machine pressing down on a scroll labeled “Legislation.” On the conveyor belt sit two documents: one labeled “Biblical Principles” and another “Project 2025,” illustrating how policy is manufactured like parts on an assembly line.
July 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🧵NEW: The Pincer Movement isn’t coming. It’s already operational.
We mapped how Project 2025 + dark money built a 2nd-term autocracy from the inside.
Visuals. Receipts. Strategy.
Read it now → exposed1.substack.com/p/exclusive-th…#Project20252#ThePincere#DemocracyWatchch
A shadowed image of the U.S. Capitol dome partially obscured by collapsed Roman-style columns, symbolizing institutional decay. Bold white headline reads: “Exclusive: The Pincer Movement – An Architecture of Autocracy,” with subheading about Project 2025 and Christian Nationalism.
July 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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7. If Starlink is the prototype, what’s next?

Energy grids? Water? Elections?

This isn’t a case of government failure.

It’s by design.

This is the merger of corporate empire and U.S. diplomacy.

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A retro-futuristic propaganda-style illustration featuring Elon Musk smiling and waving from the cockpit of a cartoon rocket labeled “DOGE.gov.” The rocket blasts off over a stylized city skyline with a giant full moon in the background. At the top, large bold text reads: “Rocket into Your Future with DOGE.gov!” At the bottom, a dark banner proclaims in dramatic white letters: “Join the Race to the Final Frontier — Join the Race Resources Resources, Secure Manipulate Public Opinion, and REAP UNLimited WEALTH!” The tone is satirical, evoking themes of technocracy, space privatization, and billionaire propaganda.
June 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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5. Starlink now has over 6,750 satellites.
In many countries, it is the internet.
Now imagine the U.S. lobbying for it while Musk sits on both sides of the table.
That’s not free enterprise. That’s shadow governance.
> A digitally illustrated image of a smiling Elon Musk floating in holographic form above a futuristic skyline, centered between glowing curtains. In the foreground, a family of four—two adults, two children—sit on a couch wearing VR headsets, immersed in a virtual world. Neon-like text above reads: “Embrace the Future with DOGE.GOV!” followed by smaller red text: “Reality is Overrated!” The tone is satirical, suggesting a dystopian blend of technocracy, escapism, and propaganda.
June 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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4. This is a billionaire-engineered feedback loop:

• Cut federal workforce (DOGE)

• Replace it with privatized digital infrastructure

• Lock in dependency through Starlink

• Bypass accountability entirely
A stylized illustration of Elon Musk grinning widely while holding two large sacks of cash labeled “Federal Gigafactory” and “SpaceX Mars Mission.” Both bags are stuffed with dollar bills and tagged “Federal Contracts.” He stands in front of an open vault door labeled “Public Funds.” The image conveys the idea of Musk diverting taxpayer money into his own companies. Bold caption text at the bottom reads: “Allocate billions in taxpayer dollars directly to your own businesses. Cancel competitors’ funding. Remember, public funds are your funds!”
June 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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🛰️ NEW: I investigated how Elon Musk quietly reshaped U.S. diplomacy through Starlink — using his dual role as a government advisor and CEO to push private empire-building behind the scenes.
This isn’t innovation — it’s capture.
🧵 THREAD:
A dark blue graphic card with a minimalist image of Earth in the background, overlaid with white satellite orbit lines and stars. At the top, bold white text reads: “Starlink Diplomacy – Elon Musk. U.S. Diplomacy. Quiet Capture.” Below, a large quote in serif font says: “When billionaires shape foreign policy and profit from the results, that’s not entrepreneurship. That’s governance for sale.” At the bottom, it reads: “Full Investigation by Timothy C. Tucker” with the URL: exposed1.substack.com and a Substack logo icon.
June 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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This is the anatomy of a modern political attack.
Iowa AG Brenna Bird is using immigration law to punish a sheriff for what he said — while violating the same law’s transparency rule.

We filed FOIA requests. The database that is required by law? It doesn’t exist.
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Illustration from our investigation at Restoring Democracy’s Promise. Iowa AG Brenna Bird, shown here, weaponizes immigration law against a dissenting sheriff — while her own office violates that same law’s transparency clause. Read the full report: exposed1.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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What if U.S. foreign policy was being quietly rewritten to benefit a billionaire's private empire?
My new investigation reveals how Elon Musk is using government power to push Starlink across the globe—for profit.
🧵 A thread:
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A digitally illustrated graphic showing a giant human hand reaching from the shadows of the U.S. Capitol toward the globe, releasing currency symbols, contracts, and data streams. The image represents Elon Musk’s global financial influence through Starlink. Overlaid text reads: “Starlink Diplomacy: Elon Musk’s Hidden Handshake with Power — When the White House Peddles Influence for Profit.” Source: EXPOSED1.SUBSTACK.COM.
May 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Come on America, let's not go here!

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#DOGE.gov #iowa #coalitionbuilding
This image shows a dark, ominous castle or palace on a rocky island in the middle of a stormy sea. The castle has many spires and towers, creating a Gothic architectural appearance. The sky is dark and cloudy, with some light breaking through, creating a dramatic atmosphere. In the foreground, there's a narrow stone pathway leading from the foreground toward the castle, bordered by heavy chains. On the left side near the beginning of the path, there's a wooden sign that reads "WELCOME TO THE CENTER FOR IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY." The overall mood is foreboding and dystopian, with the dramatic lighting, stormy waters surrounding the isolated castle, and the concerning message on the sign suggesting this is some kind of fictional authoritarian facility or institution. The image appears to be digital art rather than a photograph of a real location. This is clearly a digitally created image, likely meant as commentary on ideological conformity using Gothic horror visual elements. I should provide a descriptive alt text that captures the key elements of this fictional scene. A dramatic digital artwork depicting a Gothic castle perched on a rocky island in a stormy sea. The castle features numerous spires and towers with glowing windows against a dark, cloudy sky with breaks of light. In the foreground, a narrow stone pathway leads to the island, bordered by heavy chains. A wooden sign on the left reads "WELCOME TO THE CENTER FOR IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY." The overall atmosphere is ominous and foreboding, with turbulent waves surrounding the isolated fortress. The image has a dystopian fantasy aesthetic with dark blue-gray tones throughout.
March 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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This sums it up on very simple terms.
A digital illustration depicting a puppetry scene with two political figures stylized as puppet and puppeteer. A female figure in gray attire stands at a podium with what appears to be a presidential seal, while behind her, a figure with distinctive blonde hair manipulates puppet strings attached to her. The background features dramatic red curtains and blue lighting, creating a theatrical stage-like setting. The artwork appears to be a political commentary on influence and control in government.
March 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Iowa's Workforce First Act: A Trojan Horse for Academic Erosion #education #iowa
An illustrated image depicting a large wooden Trojan horse labeled "Workforce Development: Skills for Jobs," representing the concept of workforce-focused education. Inside the horse's body are phrases such as "Critical thinking blocked," "Doctorates are for losers," and "Cracked liberal arts," suggesting a critique of the marginalization of traditional education. The exterior features terms like "Practical education," "Turning students into workers, not thinkers," and "The workforce rides on STEM," emphasizing a shift towards job-oriented curricula. At the base of the horse, a crowd of people appears to be pulling it forward, while the background shows an open field with a clear sky. The image critiques the prioritization of workforce training over a broader educational foundation.
March 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Iowa Strips Away 18 Years of Transgender Protections 💔
This devastating rollback undermines LGBTQ+ equality nationwide.

#IowaTrans #TransRights #CivilRightsRollback #LGBTQ

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A stone monument labeled "Iowa 2007-2025: Transgender Protections" is shown being toppled, with the text overlay: "A Dark Day for Civil Rights in Iowa: Transgender Protections Are Stripped Away. Iowa Becomes the First State to Repeal Gender Identity Protections, Sparking Outrage and Protests at the Capitol." A blurred protest scene with banners is in the background.
February 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM