January 2026
News
SBA Criteria: Who Is Economically Disadvantaged?
SBA Orders All 8(a) Participants to Provide Financial Records
In numerous articles and for over a number of years, Concerned Citizens has pointed out the contradiction of the wealth of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes with their participation in the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program for small business owners who are socially and economically disadvantaged.
Read more from Concerned Citizens of Montana on the Western Montana Water Rights blog HERE.
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President Trump is on the ballot in 2026!
Fellow Patriots,
2026 is a critical year for our nation. We must retain the House and Senate to keep President Trump’s great revival and revitalization of America rolling! Make no mistake about it–President Trump is on the ballot in 2026, even though it is a mid-term!
The totalitarian left as we saw during the Biden years is seeking to thwart every good thing done by this President so they can seize power and ruthlessly wield that power to jail their opposition, rig the election process, arrest conservatives while letting leftist off scott free, replace native American voters with imported illegals from around the globe, and push America into being a socialist hell-hole where only the elite live well and the common citizen pays for it in taxes.
The Montana GOP is the only game in town capable of derailing the totalitarian plans of the far and extremely well funded left (think Soros, Bill Gates, etc,.).
No matter what you thought of the MTGOP of the past, there is a new sheriff in town with Art Wittich’s election to Chair. The new group is working hard to implement decisive change, and that ‘change’ has the establishment hopping mad! The power brokers of old are working hard to make the new MTGOP fail! They liked the bland ‘we support everyone with an ‘R’ behind their name’ approach that went before, but those days are over. Chair Wittich is working hard to restore power to the grassroots and take it away from the rich ‘party bosses’ that had long counted on their big-money donations to ensure they got only the people they wanted elected to the legislatures of the state and federal government.
The power brokers fear this change and are betting against the new MTGOP!
We need your help to restore power to the people where it belongs. To the maximum extent possible, please attend the Winter Kickoff event this year, take the training, and let’s win big for the people in 2026. Let’s put real ‘America First’ conservative candidates in office, and let’s keep the federal House and Senate in the hands of Republicans–for the sake of our great President, Donald Trump! President Trump is on the ballot!! Get all your unregistered friends out to vote and keep the Trump Train rolling–for the sake of our future!
And if you haven’t contributed to the MTGOP before, I understand. But this has to change now. We are up against big-moneyed interests that do not want you to have a voice but instead want to preserve the status quo. Let’s send them a message and help reviatlize the NEW MTGOP! Donate, and give generously.
We must win in 2026. Our future is at stake!
See you in Great Falls!
Tracy Sharp
Chair, Lake County Republican Central Committee
December 1, 2025
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Taxation is ruination: A warning for Montana
“Taxation is supposed to be about revenue — not ruination. The overhaul of Montana’s tax system by the 69th Legislature threatens the foundation of our communities and could force Montanans to abandon their properties to the ultra-rich. Though advertised as relief, these reforms create an unstable, unpredictable landscape: property taxes drop for select homeowners, but increase sharply for small businesses, landlords and anyone excluded from narrow eligibility brackets.”
Read the letter from Tracy Sharp published by the Daily Inter Lake November 17, 2025, HERE.
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Cracks Appear in Foundation
Is this Fifth Generation Warfare we are seeing? We know some are trying to divide what we are trying to unite. “… One Nation, under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All”.
It often happens inadvertently. General Michael Flynn warned us in his book ‘5GW’:
“Tribalization is an act of self-segregation with a group… forms of tribalization include religious and political ideologies. It seems that, in today’s world, politics has become people’s religion, and their favorite news station has become their church. Historically, this type of tribalization comes with a high degree of prolonged emotionality and can easily lead to intentionally planned bloodshed. Because of the PSYOP in this fifth generation of war, some people are now tribalizing in ways to isolate themselves from their biological families, claiming it’s a necessary evil to save the world. America has not seen this type of tribalization since the civil war, where brother fought brother…
…people are doing it to themselves based on PSYOP campaigns that they don’t see and wouldn’t acknowledge if they did.”
Tribalization benefits the enemy, splitting us into smaller groups, so we won’t stand strong and united. The words of the Pledge of Allegiance are very meaningful and bare to be repeated – over and over.
One Nation, under God, INDIVISIBLE, with Liberty and Justice for All.
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MTGOP Steps up the Game
Art Wittich brings new energy to the GOP. For one thing, testing for candidates sorely needed!
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We Keep Losing in Elections. Explanation?
We all know PSYOPs are real. This is one to consider:
Suppression of information is also real. There is a reason why 64 lawsuits regarding the 2020 election were ‘thrown out’. All a part of the PSYOP?
The only prosecutable evidence of what happened in 2020 is discussed in the following show posted by Stephen Gardner:
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Last Chance Patriot: The Plot Thickens
Hello,
This month’s theme for The Last Chance Patriot is The Plot Thickens, which is particularly appropriate now. For many months, we have been discussing the sad deterioration of so many characteristics of the US in this newsletter: simple things like civility, tolerance, kindness, boldness, courage, and respect. At the same time, we pointed out destructive behaviors that are on a dramatic increase: disrespect, violence, hatred, prejudice, resentment, and total lack of common sense.
The plot is thickening because the manipulating and conniving puppetmasters are pulling the strings faster and faster in an effort to exert mind control over populations around the world. By fomenting violence in major cities in the US and other countries and by filling all media platforms with more and more hatred, the globalists are embedding their poison into the minds of vulnerable people, and we will pay a price if we don’t get it under control. We all need to wear mental armor to protect ourselves from being brainwashed, and we need to help each other to the best of our abilities.
As we move quickly toward Thanksgiving and then at a screaming pace to Christmas, let’s try as individuals to bring back some of the behaviors I listed above: respect, civility, and kindness. And let’s freely dispense smiles and sincerely give holiday wishes to everyone! We can win this battle!
By Linda Sauer
