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A new movement has been started recently in support of the current administration’s policies, Promethean Action. Analyses of policies, as well as support offered for grassroots action. Weeks ago, the group reportedly had 70,000 followers, mostly in America, but also from other parts of the world.

100s of thousands have now subscribed, finding common sense voices in the middle of an intentionally created chaos.

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Or the website HERE.

Midweek update from February 18: “A fight you need to be part of.” Hear Barbara Boyd lay out what we are facing ahead of midterms, and what the Trump administration is very well aware of and pushing back on.

 

In the Thursday Q and A sessions, many listeners have chimed in by sending in questions ahead of time by email or asking them during the show in chat. Last Thursday’s subject: Trump vs. the Fed; The Final Battle for America’s Economy.

The leaders of this movement, Susan Kokinda and Barbara Boyd, give knowledgeable assessments on what is going on in politics. A very interesting recap of the President’s speech in Davos, for one. If you are among those wondering why the President does what he does, these videos may give you a new understanding. As of January 22, they had gathered 400,000 subscribers – up from 70,000 just days earlier.

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Promethean PAC is planning on giving us insight in what various candidates stand for to help us make the right choices in the 2026  midterm elections.

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Toolkit

Bootcamps: How to win in 2026!

January 18, 2026; last edited February 21, 2026

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MTCAG: Water and Power Alert – What You Can Do!

Alert from Montana Citizens Action Group – Affecting Flathead and Lake counties and other areas of Montana

Think we had a lake water level problem before? Think your power bills are high now? Quietly slipping through the bureaucratic hands in an effort to stay out of the public eye are large data centers for POLSON, Missoula, Great Falls, Bozeman, Helena, and Billings. A contract for INITIAL 50 megawatts of power from the Kerr Dam, and an undisclosed quantity of water, have been slated for the data center in Polson. The Governor, in collaboration with out of state business entities, the CSKT, and Daines among other legislators, have promoted and signed off non-publicized deals on data centers in Montana, including one for the Polson area getting water and power from the Kerr Dam and Flathead river and lake. In June of 2025, it was publicized that Northwestern Energy was in negotiations for multiple data centers, with little disclosed on exactly who, where, and how much water and energy would be used and what impact it would have, but the initial contracts are for 1400 megawatts in 2026 to three data center companies (that’s the equivalent to 800k-1million homes). It has been near impossible to get information, but Quantum Investors and Bitzero have both made claims of opening data centers in Montana in 2026, including, “rural areas.” The purpose of the data centers are for both AI and/or bitcoin mining. The national data center map shows currently three buildings in Billings, one in Bozeman, one in Butte, and TWENTY data center buildings in Great Falls. This map only shows facilities that have been publicized and on record for at least six months, which means it does not show proposed centers nor centers in progress or not publicized. However, Northwestern Energy has already told the Montana Public Service Commission that they expect to provide utilities to these data centers starting in JANUARY 2026. A call to Kerr Dam had a representative inform me directly they are expecting to provide services sometime in spring of 2026.

SO WHO CARES?

If you have not been following the impacts of this, a recent study found that data centers in the US consumed more water than all the water bottling facilities (that was only what was found). There has been no identification of how much water would be needed for these Montana facilities, but if we are already having historic low lake levels because of drought, what will happen when we have a drought year and then have to meet the massive water demands of these centers? There has been zero information provided to the affected public on this.

Additionally, the costs of building and maintaining the electric grid to power the centers is generally being pawned off to the rest of the customer base. Some residents around the country saw 500% increase in their power bills. Why? Because if it took $5 million to upgrade the power grid infrastructure, the data center wasn’t held solely responsible and the cost was split equally among all the customers, with the data center representing only one customer! Northwestern Energy has already been confirming deals with these data centers, with no word whatsoever on how they would split any bill. This means that without public pressure, YOUR BILL would carry the tag of whatever cost it took to provide power to a single private business.

WHAT IS BEING DONE ABOUT THIS?

Montana law requires that Northwestern Energy show that there is no long term impact to customers from new large load contracts. In September 2025, Northwestern Energy stated they would not adhere to this as well as not offer opportunity for public comment or input. Gianforte and Daines, among the other parties leading this effort, are staying out of it and letting it all slide, as they are the ones who invited the data centers in the first place. At the end of November, a group of non-profits filed a petition with the Montana Public Service Commission asking to create a separate business classification for data centers, ensuring any costs associated with them are billed only to them. In response, Northwestern Energy filed a legal motion to acquire a protective order in disclosing any information in these contracts. There can be no other reason other than fear that the details will show that Northwestern Energy could break laws and/or confirm significant impacts to utility customers as well as water impacts.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

1)      Swarm Gianforte and Daines about the subject. If they aren’t going to act in their constituents favor, let them know no more votes for them!

2)      Contact the Montana Public Service Commission and have them hold Northwestern Energy accountable to law. Each region has an ELECTED Commissioner. Contact them and tell them to advocate on your behalf, or no more votes for them!

3)      Contact the Attorney General’s office and have them look into any and all breaches of Montana law around anyone involved with data centers.

4)      Contact Zinke’s office (DC 202-225-5628, Kalispell 406-317-0027) and Sheehy’s office (DC 202-224-2264, Kalispell 406-257-3398). Call BOTH offices of each representative as the person answering the phone may not forward your complaint depending on who it is on what day at what location.

INFORMATION VERIFICATION

I do not know everything about this matter, nor do I have all the answers. The information in my write up is my personal summary that comes from about a dozen sources I found through numerous types of searches. I also called the Kerr Dam directly upon which they verified some of this info as well. I reached out to some contacts with different agencies who were also able to point me to some of this info. Overall, the information has been difficult to find and I’ve been given the runaround by representatives and Northwestern Energy. If you are looking to have me verify every bit of information for you, I won’t. I have put my time into this subject and given my summary of the information I have been able to find. I am not here to spend my time doing all of the work for you outside of informing you of my findings. I will give some links that can start you on the track, but if you’ve followed my posts before, I believe each person needs to follow their own research for their own conclusions if they question the author of a summary. Again, the limited links I am providing is only a fraction of what I found and does not represent the entirety of my sources.

https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/groups-file-complaint-to-stop-northwestern-energy-from-shifting-data-center-costs-to-residential-customers

https://news.mt.gov/Governors-Office/Gov_Gianforte_Celebrates_Announcement_of_New_Investment_in_Data_Center_Montana_Jobs?

NorthWestern Energy inks power agreement with AI data center planned for Yellowstone County

 

NorthWestern Energy inks power agreement with proposed AI data center in Yellowstone County 

NorthWestern wants to supply new AI data center with enough electricity for 800K homes

 

NorthWestern Energy plans to power a massive new data center

 

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EVERYTHING Hinges on Elections

We the People have to be as loud as possible…. (Mel K)

The entire country is captured by a global financial order that is not willing to give up at all. [The government is not going to save us.] We the People have to be the ones.

Above are excerpts from Mel K’s conversation with Jovan Pulitzer on the evidence that has shown President Trump why no-excuse mail ballots must be done away with. Click the image to watch the show.

On January 6, 2017, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson designated election systems as critical infrastructure. That is when the silent federalizing of our elections begun. Facts about Albert sensors for monitoring elections nationwide, networking systems for information sharing and analysis (ISACs), etc., can be found in the following book:

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Each of us has a responsibility

General Flynn continues…:

This is an existential moment for America. New York City, our Nation’s bellwether, is a warning sign. Our borders, our sovereignty, and our freedoms are all under attack. But we are not powerless. We must come together, take decisive action, and safeguard the future of our beloved nation.

The future of America will not be decided by the deep state, the globalists, or foreign powers; it will be decided by We the People.

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Say No to PROTECT Act!

An Act that should never have been written

Read about what the Protect Act means to us and why we must stop it from being passed:

No to Protect Act

Contact info for Congressmen _Senators

Good news: Representative Zinke has pulled his support for this Act. Grassroots action is working!

Watch YouTube video by Northwest Liberty News with Linda Sauer of Montana Citizens’ Action Group explaining threats of this very bad Act:

ACTION NEEDED! Daines and Zinke “Protect Act” Opens the Door to More Tyranny

Great news shared on July 25: Apparently, Ryan Zinke no longer supports the PROTECT Act! Thank you, Representative Zinke! And THANK YOU, Linda Sauer, for making the eye-opening video. However, there is more to do, as pointed out by Linda in the LCP August edition – posted above.

Everyone please keep sharing the above video to open more eyes!

No PROTECT ACT, Paper by Tracy Sharp 7 18 25

What in the world brought the need for this ‘act’? Excuses?:

Statements of Support for Protect Act (1)

Updated August 7, 2025

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Make Your Voice Heard

Help build a network supporting America First policies

We did not get Ed Martin nominated for US Attorney, but we can still support him when he assumes the new role President Trump has for him with the DOJ. Follow him on X. Ed’s team will be listening to your voices!

Ed Martin has a good understanding of how the system is controlling us, especially through our elections. Pictured here with the book “Countdown to Chaos – Silent Federalizing of Elections” (Found in the reading list under “Resources” on this website).

The RINO representation in the District of Columbia seem to be accepting Judge Jeanine Pirro in place of Eagle Ed Martin as US Attorney. We will see how that works out for them. She can use our support too! (@JudgeJeanine)

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Consider Becoming a Member with a VOTE to Decide!

In its meeting April 2 the Central Committee had the need for more precinct captains on the agenda. Many precincts have vacancies for deciding members! YOU can have a vote to determine matters that affect the future of our county.

The county elections administrator has put together a list of current precinct committeemen and committeewomen:

Hopefully you didn’t miss this opportunity. Everyone is welcome at the monthly plenary meetings!

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Great Work by Montana Citizens Action Group! Join in!

The warriors who have been working hard for our water rights are expanding their reach! Now under the new name of Montana Citizens Action Group (MTCAG).

Here is an update from Julie Reffner – who together with her husband received the Chamber of Commerce volunteer’s award. Not suprising, Julie! Check out what Julie, Linda Sauer, and others involved in the group have accomplished for us now:

“HI Everyone,

          First of all, attached is a letter that we have sent out to President Trump/Elon Musk and over 80 other government officials/news personalities about the financial impact that reservations have on the US economy.  Please feel free to edit the letter as you feel is needed, and send it to the DOGE team and other government officials.  The more people who send similar letters, the more of an impact it will have with DOGE!  A list of addresses can be found here:  http://saveflatheadlake.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Government-officials-addresses.pdf
          We have a new email account that I will be using going forward.  The email address is: citizens@mtcag.org.  This account will be monitored by me so please send any communications to this account.  I will still respond to emails sent to my personal account but prefer that over time we transition to use the new account.  I am hoping that we will have some help responding to the emails as well so you may get a faster response. Please do not delete emails from this account thinking that they are spam or junk – they are not!  One more thing, I may still use my personal account periodically due to the fact that I get put in “email jail” for sending out so many emails in a day.  Having a couple of accounts that I can use enables me to stay on top of the emails to be sent out, or at least try to!
           We have also decided to expand the usage of our “Save Flathead Lake” website (http://saveflatheadlake.com/).  We do not want to delete the site or the domain in case we need to use it in the future, so we decided to expand the scope and usage of the site.  The site is being worked on, but as new content is added we will communicate to you via the new email address when there are updates.  If there is content that you feel should be added, please let us know.
           I am also happy to share two podcasts that Linda Sauer completed with Elaine Willman who is an author and has extensive knowledge in the US/tribal relations.  Please do not hesitate to share with everyone you know.  The more people who are aware of what is going on, the more people we will have in this fight!  The links are located on the website at:
           Feel free to let me know if any of you have questions or concerns and please look for emails coming from the new email account going forward.  Do not hesitate to contact government officials/DOGE and put some pressure on them to adjust the tribal funds being spent by our government!
Julie”
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For background on the issues we also recommend listening to the following conversations between Linda Sauer with Montana Citizens Action Group (new name) and Elaine Willman, author of the book “American Tribal Tyranny”:

Elaine Willman_1.2.2025.mp4

Elaine Wilman_2.11.25_Final.mp4

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