An archived recording obtained by Bigger Truth Media shows failed Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ralph Rebandt told a private prayer call on May 29, 2025, that donors had asked him to run for governor and that the man who ran Kari Lake’s campaign, a description matching national Republican operative Floyd Brown, was privately advising his strategy. The call came three and a half months before Rebandt entered the race and roughly a year before he disclosed an $800,000 bitcoin gift from a donor he refuses to name, money that supplied 81% of his campaign’s funding.

Rebandt launched his campaign with a $795,000 “personal contribution” to his campaign, which raised eyebrows for the retired pastor who told observers at the end of his 2022 campaign for governor that his $95,000 contribution to that race constituted the bulk of his retirement savings.

This unearthed recording undercuts Rebandt’s public insistence, made after the gift surfaced in May 2026, that there was “no connection” between the money and his decision to run. On the call, Rebandt made donor backing a precondition of his candidacy.

“I wouldn’t do this unless I had support,” Rebandt said. “I wouldn’t do this unless donors had come to me and asked me to run.”

If the $800,000 was given to fund his campaign, Michigan law treats it as a contribution. The state caps individual contributions to a gubernatorial candidate at $8,325 and requires the donor’s name in public filings. Rebandt instead reported the money as a personal gift of “unearned income” from an unnamed “longtime friend,” a classification that carries no cap and, until a 2024 disclosure law, no reporting requirement at all. The gift was 96 times the contribution limit, and its source appears in no campaign finance filing.

“It kind of smells,” Bob LaBrant, a veteran Michigan campaign finance expert, told Bridge Michigan when the gift was disclosed. “Obviously, we don’t have a whole lot of experience with people getting $800,000 gifts.”

Rebandt, an Oakland County pastor who finished last in the 2022 Republican primary for governor, described his adviser on the call in specific terms: “The gentleman who ran Kari Lake — regardless of what you think about her ... this guy’s a national figure, he’s watching Michigan.” The adviser told him a crowded primary favored a candidate with a distinct base, Rebandt said, and “thinks it’s really possible that I could win this thing.”

Brown, founder of Citizens United, creator of the 1988 Willie Horton ad and builder of the Western Journal media operation, was chairman of Lake’s 2024 U.S. Senate campaign, according to January 2024 reporting by Right Wing Watch and others. Bigger Truth Media has identified no other nationally known operative who held that role. Brown did not respond to text message requests for comment.

On the same call, Rebandt said he had attended the Council for National Policy meeting in Naples, Florida, weeks earlier and the “prayerful launch of America’s Revival” in Miami the following weekend. The Council for National Policy is the Christian right’s longtime coordinating body of donors and operatives. It is the same milieu as Ziklag, the invitation-only network of wealthy Christian families that ProPublica reported in 2024 had planned roughly $12 million in election spending and listed Michigan among its target states.

Brown sits on the board of Ziklag’s 501c3, TransformUSA. Multiple sources with direct knowledge and experience within Mike Flynn’s organizations have told Bigger Truth that Floyd Brown helped secure the funding for Flynn’s 2024 movie and bus tour, which was part of Flynn’s and Roger Stone’s “Plan B” campaign for Flynn for President, which Stone said prior to the July 13 2024 assassination attempt that they were running in case something happened to Trump.

As Bigger Truth reported in April 2025, Ziklag was formed out of sex-scandal marked Gateway Church in Dallas/Fort Worth as a partnership between extremely high net worth family offices and the Flynn-linked Allied Special Operations Group (ASOG), which worked closely with Flynn and Byrne in their operations after the 2020 election.

In text messages to Brown’s cell phone from Bigger Truth, he was asked explicitly about his involvement in funding both Rebandt’s campaign and Flynn’s 2024 campaign. He did not respond.

Whether Brown, Ziklag or anyone in that network supplied the bitcoin is unproven. No filing, document or public record identifies the donor, and Michigan’s disclosure law required Rebandt to report the gift but not the giver. The donor’s name, a wallet trail or sworn testimony would settle the question. Bigger Truth will continue to investigate and report on the money’s source.

The timeline of the money is documented. Rebandt announced his campaign Sept. 18, 2025. Within a month, he loaned it $795,000 in three transactions. Those contributions accounted for 81% of everything the campaign raised through the end of 2025. Rebandt, who said his 2022 run consumed essentially all of his retirement savings, told Bridge Michigan he received the bitcoin “way before I announced (my campaign), but I don’t remember exactly,” and sold it “at its highest point.” Bitcoin’s 2025 peak of roughly $126,000 came Oct. 6, after his announcement and inside the window of his three loans, meaning a sale at the top was a sale by a declared candidate for governor.

“I have a friend who knew that I had given everything that we had for retirement, and he came to me and said, ‘You know, Ralph, I just want to help you out,’” Rebandt told Bridge Michigan in May 2026. He also said: “I’ve been telling people that I want to be the most truthful, honest, and transparent governor.”

Bigger Truth issued a public request for comment to Rebandt on X the day prior to publication of this article but he did not respond.

Despite his significant funding, Rebandt failed to secure enough valid signatures to appear on the August primary ballot. The Board of State Canvassers found his nominating petitions insufficient May 28, 2026. Following the well-worn path of many Flynn-linked candidates, Rebandt refused to accept the result, insisting the state deploy more resources into examining every signature after roughly two-thirds of the state’s randomly selected sample of his signatures were invalid. State courts, including the Michigan Supreme Court’s refusal to hear his appeal.

U.S. Rep. John James won the Republican nomination and faces Democrat Jocelyn Benson in November. Bigger Truth has found no record of Rebandt conceding to James or endorsing him.

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Michigan GOP Delegates Prioritize Winning

Last weekend at the Michigan Republican Party state nominating convention, common sense won. Anthony Forlini and Doug Lloyd—the two candidates I endorsed—secured the MIGOP nominations in decisive fashion. Attempts to disrupt were quickly quashed. No last-minute rule suspensions. They both took approximately 25 point wins in the first round.

The Detroit News published an excellent column: “The party has prioritized electable candidates and rebuilding. These candidate choices signal seriousness to voters beyond the base.” Columnist Kaitlyn Buss continued, “A party that can nominate candidates who appeal to both its base and the broader electorate is a party that can compete in Michigan again.”

This is the path to victory. The division within the Republican party is not “establishment v. grassroots” as the dividers want us to believe, and as the rest of this report will help illuminate. It is foreign-linked insurgents and their useful idiots who are working to destroy the GOP by making us unelectable.

Despite the Flynn network’s best efforts (and those of their man in Michigan, Patrick Colbeck), Delegates chose the only two candidates with the experience to run winning campaigns and appeal to a wide, common-sense voting audience. This was a huge win that so many of us worked hard for, and it is a blueprint for the future survival of our party and the greatest nation on Earth.

Does a Settlement Agreement Really Prove Anything?

Fresh on the heels of Flynn’s no good very bad week last week, Flynn announced the finalization of a settlement agreement with the DOJ in his $50M wrongful prosecution civil suit against the government. It was announced a few months ago that the DOJ would settle this lawsuit, but the timing of the finalization of the agreement was certainly beneficial for Flynn.

The settlement was for $1.25M, or 2.5% of what he was seeking. He instantly published a statement claiming this proved that he was a wrongfully prosecuted victim hero. But did the settlement prove anything? Lawsuits are settled all the time without an admission of guilt and this was no different.

Flynn wrote in his statement, “Nothing can fully compensate for the hell that my family and I have endured over these many years…” But what hell did they put him through? He his family members personally pocketed hundreds of thousands on his legal defense fund. He didn’t spend a day in prison. He has raked in millions across his multiple grifts, and he clearly enjoys the adoration of millions of Americans.

His actions from Russiagate until now have certainly created massive setbacks and suffering for both of Trump’s administrations. If not for Flynn’s and the DIA’s involvement in Trump’s first campaign, Russiagate would not have gained the traction it did to set back Trump’s first administration.

What was strange to me about Flynn’s settlement was how aggressively the media pushed the story, and how the story was framed, with conservative outlets framing the settlement as correcting a “historic injustice” and left-leaning outlets criticizing the settlement as an example of favoritism because of Flynn’s “support of Trump.”

Both sides worked together to promote the false narrative that Flynn is a faithful supporter of President Trump.

After paying no attention to the major stories I discussed last week that proved beyond a doubt that Flynn is working against Trump — Dan Bongino pointing to his military grade PSYOPs against conservatives, promotion of a CCP-linked propagandist, and more — they all run with the story about his settlement.

Shortly after this story ran its course, Flynn posted an image of his statement on his letterhead supposedly signed by President Trump, claiming that Trump “signed off on” his statement.

I’ve run this through advanced paid models of Grok, ChatGPT and Claude AI and they all think it’s a fake. There is no statement from Trump or anyone outside of Flynn’s immediate family to corroborate it and there is no image of what looks like an actual piece of paper signed by the President. If President Trump were to “sign off on” Flynn’s statement, wouldn’t he have included a personal note to Flynn or have posted it himself on Truth Social?

But all we have is what appears to be a forgery from Flynn, but nevertheless it was useful in providing reassurance to his millions of followers who were beginning to doubt him.

CPAC: Truth Peaks Through the Woke Right Veil

President Trump wisely skipped CPAC after Epstein’s BFF Steve Bannon, Matt Gaetz, and a host of other Israel-obsessed Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) promoters filled the speaking schedule.

In that milieu, Josh Hammer took the main stage and spoke right through the woke right squeals and heckling as he called out the rot by name. He named Tucker Carlson, Matt Gaetz, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and the broader “Podcastistan” influencer class for what they are—explicitly anti-MAGA. He pointed out (as I did last week) that Carlson hosted a CCP mouthpiece who proposed America join China, Russia, and Iran as “equal partners” in a new world order, and that Carlson affirmed it as the wisest possible advice. He connected the dots to Alexander Dugin, noting that the goal of these influencers is to build a coalition that “makes America great by making Russia and China great.” He called it what it is: the direct advancement of our enemies’ interests. And he reminded CPAC that Trump himself has labeled these figures as “not MAGA,” and that Republicans trust Trump over Carlson and Kelly by an 83-to-6 margin.

Here’s a clip:

Sarah Maekin, who served in the first Trump administration as the President’s Senior Advisor on International Religious Freedom, delivered an equally critical message on a topic the Flynn network desperately wants you to ignore: Russia’s systematic persecution of Christians. She told CPAC that Russia has bombed, shelled, and looted 650 Christian churches in occupied Ukraine. That they have murdered at least 49 pastors, priests, and evangelical leaders—torturing many of them before killing them. That in Russian-occupied territory, only one church is allowed, and you can be arrested for practicing any other faith.

This is what the Flynn/Russia influence network doesn’t want you to hear. They want you to believe Russia is not a threat — or is even an ally — and we need to disband NATO as we just let them have Ukraine.

Flynn’s New Favorite Influencer Shares Russia’s Vision

I reported last week about how Mike Flynn called Tucker Carlson’s interview of Jiang Xueqin “the most powerful and insightful strategic analysis I’ve heard in the past decade.” This week a new video was published of Jiang in front of a classroom smart board walking his audience through Alexander Dugin’s vision for “Putin’s World Order.”

He calls for the end of the “unipolar moment of American dominance” because our Constitutional system “breaks apart communities,” is “anti-human” and “abhorent.”

This is what Tucker Carlson platformed and Mike Flynn just endorsed.

He insists America will collapse following a civil war, and presents his vision for the Russia-led “multipolar world order” that would ensue. As a result, Russia will become “The third Rome.”

This insurgency that I’ve been calling out within state GOPs, churches, and the influencer network on the right for over two years is showing itself to be aggressively advocating the destruction of America.

The Unauthorized Russian Duma Tour Through the U.S. Capitol

On March 28, Republican representatives Anna Paulina Luna, Eli Crane, Derrick Van Orden, Andy Ogles, and Vicente Gonzalez hosted sanctioned members of the Russian Duma—including Vyacheslav Nikonov, grandson of the Vyacheslav Molotov who signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Hitler to carve up Europe—on an unauthorized personal tour of the U.S. Capitol. The Hill reported that they entered Speaker Mike Johnson’s suite of offices through the balcony, unannounced, while Johnson was not present. The Hill reporter on scene was discouraged from asking the group further questions. A member of Russia’s United Russia party, Svetlana Zhurova, acknowledged it was her first time in the Capitol.

Van Orden said of the Russian lawmakers: “one guy I guarantee he used to be a KGB agent—that’s a very good, educated guess. But pleasant enough.”

I was the first to report that it appeared that Turning Point’s Tyler Bowyer helped lead the group. I recognized Bowyer in video taken by The Hill, and after publishing about it heard from someone who personally recognized Bowyer inside the Capitol with Luna and the Russians. Bowyer, who tweeted on March 26 that it was “Big news today as we have GREAT congressmen hosting the Russian Duma,” is the same man who tweeted in February 2022—three weeks before Putin’s full-scale invasion—that he “lived in Russia and studied Stalinism.” By March 2025, the story had shifted: now he “lived on the border of Ukraine and Russia.” His involvement in facilitating this Capitol tour deserves serious scrutiny.

In December, the same lawmakers who welcomed these Russians in March had already rolled out the red carpet for Russia-linked propagandists and Putin-adjacent clergy on Capitol Hill back in December.

Battle Lines: Massie vs. Trump, Amplified by RT

Some issues draw champions from both sides, and some issues form clear lines of demarcation. The effort to unseat Rep. Thomas Massie is the latter.

The Flynn network, Russian propagandists, groypers, Israel-haters, and Libertarians all converge in support of Massie. Massie has relentlessly promoted TDS talking points against Trump.

Trump, Bongino, and the entire counterinsurgency that has formed around Bongino on X support Ed Gallrein.

Rep. Thomas Massie is being relentlessly amplified by Russia Today(RT)—Russian state propaganda that the State Department has said should be treated like a covert intelligence operation. They’re painting him as a victim-hero while blaming Israel for every problem on Earth. Massie held a “Massie Money Bomb” fundraiser with MTG—and RT reposted it, with MTG’s quote about “three Jewish billionaires” and their supposed loyalty to Israel right there on Russian state media’s feed.

The Kentucky primary on May 19 will be a battle of Team America (Gallrein) v. Team anti-America (Massie). Polymarket currently shows Gallrein with a 65%-35% lead over Massie, but if you spend any time on X you could be led to believe Massie is more popular.

Roger Stone Posts Twice in Response to My Reporting

Roger Stone posted twice this week in response to my reporting on his involvement in the 2024 “Plan B” campaign for Flynn for President.

He claimed that he simply made a comment in 2023 about Flynn being a better candidate than DeSantis or Nikki Haley. In his second post, the next day, he omitted his profane conclusion but copied and pasted his first three paragraphs as you can see above.

The problem is that the documented record tells a different story—and that Stone’s story has changed as well. Stone stated on Alex Jones’ show in 2021 that they were running a campaign for Flynn for President, and I documented the infrastructure around that effort, which goes far beyond casual “contingency planning” and included a years’ long effort to take over state GOPs in order to take over the 2024 RNC convention from the floor.

The fact that Stone felt compelled to post twice indicates that my reporting is having an impact.

The WHY Behind All of It: The Russia-China Joint Declaration

The Flynn/Massie/Tucker/Candace/Fuentes insurgency comes down to a single question: Do we want the United States of America, our Constitutional system, and the US Dollar to remain the guiding force in world politics and economics? Or do we help bring about a multipolar world order led by the CCP and Russia?

The Flynn networks have planted their flag squarely on the side of Russia and the CCP. Trump is representing the USA—and therefore the individual human rights and freedoms of the citizens of every country on Earth.

Last week, I came across this February 2022 joint declaration between Russia and the Chinese Communist Party, published just 3 weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine. The document lays out the Russia-CCP alignment around four explicit goals—goals that map precisely onto the chaos the Flynn network has been engineering since Flynn’s 2013 visit to the Kremlin’s GRU.

The document outlines four main goals:

Multipolarization of the world—replacing the United States as the dominant world power. This is the endgame. Every time you hear “multipolar world order” treated as a virtue, you’re hearing Dugin’s language laundered through CCP propaganda.

Economic globalization—replacing the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency. If the Dollar loses its reserve status to a BRICS currency, interest rates skyrocket, borrowing costs surge, and Americans face a devastating transfer of wealth to Beijing and Moscow. This is what Jiang Xueqin was selling on Tucker’s show when he said the collapse of the petrodollar would “benefit the world.” It would benefit their world.

It still blows my mind that Tucker Carlson and Mike Flynn endorsed this.

Social informatization—monitoring and controlling the beliefs of the public. This is exactly what I’ve documented about Satanist Michael Aquino’s MindWar, which I’ve argued has defined Flynn’s entire career. The central premise: those who determine the beliefs of the public determine the future. It is an occult-oriented belief at its core, and Dugin has also has a well-documented background with the occult.

Cultural diversification—an obsessive focus on the differences that divide and isolate us rather than our shared humanity. Every wedge the network drives—between parties, factions, religions, denominations, ethnicities—serves this goal.

Everything these anti-American propagandists are doing is aimed at distracting us from this plan and how it would signal the end of American freedom and relative prosperity. Everything they do is aimed at dividing and destroying the GOP and our Catholic and Protestant churches—the very institutions that are our greatest defense. And they are obsessed with causing us to hate Israel and NATO, our greatest allies against the Russia-Iran-China axis.

If you want to understand why we’re experiencing all the chaos, hatred, division, and confusion—this is where you start. Read the declaration (or ask AI to summarize - it’s long and full of doublespeak). It’s all there.

The mask is off. The lines are drawn. Michigan just showed what winning looks like when we reject the network. The rest of MAGA has a choice to make.

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In a single week, every thread I’ve been pulling for two years snapped taut at the same time.

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WASHINGTON — In the days following President Donald Trump’s January 2025 inauguration, Michigan attorney Matt DePerno participated in a phone call and Signal group chat that he says was an attempt by Flynn-linked election conspiracy promoters to influence a federal investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines.

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At the February 2025 Michigan Republican Party (MIGOP) state convention, an individual previously unknown to many in the party, who had no history of volunteering for the party, was elected Coalitions Vice Chair for the state party with nearly unanimous support of the collectivist voting block of delegates who had previously supported Kristina Karamo.

Since then, Susan Kokinda has been an active vice chair, using the position to promote her podcast and organization, Promethean PAC. Multiple party members have asked me to investigate Kokinda and her organization after observing her promoting candidates for office with longstanding ties with her organization and using those candidates and door-knocking campaigns to distribute Promethean PAC literature—especially focused on recruiting a “youth movement.”

At first blush, her podcast and organization appears to be fiercely pro-Trump. She and her grandmotherly co-host laud praise on President Trump’s economic and foreign policies, in particular. But as I’ve shown with Michael Flynn and his network, not everyone who says they support President Trump is who they say they are.

What I’ve discovered has shocked me: a 55 year pattern of Marxist Russian propaganda that has infiltrated to the highest levels of MIGOP and the MAGA influencer space. Like the best PSYOPs, this one is mostly true, and has strong appeal: two well-versed grandmothers praising President Trump and talking about some grand conspiracy.

The devil, of course, is in the details.

The Shape of Russian Influence Operations

Before examining Promethean PAC, we need to understand how Russian influence operations work. The KGB’s “active measures” didn’t die with the Soviet Union—they evolved. When Russia abandoned communist ideology publicly, it freed Kremlin propagandists to become “much more ecumenical in devising propaganda and disinformation themes,” using diverse tactics and language patterns to target both left and right.

Russia has been particularly active on the American political right, especially in the last 10 years. To understand Russian propaganda, it’s helpful to learn from Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB propagandist who defected from the Soviet Union around 1970.

The modern Russian playbook includes: demoralization by sowing chaos and destabilization within Western political parties, promoting institutional nihilism (“everything is corrupt,” “elections are hopelessly rigged”); promotion of racism, anti-semitism and white nationalism; narratives positioning Russia as “good,” “neutral,” or irrelevant to global problems; and deflecting blame for Russian actions onto other Western nations—particularly Britain and NATO.

This last tactic is crucial. As researchers at the Marshall Center note, Russian propaganda consistently seeks to “blame an Anglo-American cabal for global tensions,” conveniently exonerating Moscow.

Enter Susan Kokinda and Promethean PAC.

Lyndon LaRouche: “The American Lenin”

To understand the organization that became Promethean PAC, we must look at the founder. Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. (1922–2019) began his political career in 1948 by joining the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party—literally calling himself “the American Lenin.” He spent the 1950s and 1960s as an active Marxist, teaching college classes under the alias “Lyn Marcus” and participating in radical Students for a Democratic Society organizing.

In 1968, LaRouche founded the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), which operated as a Marxist cadre organization. During this period, LaRouche claimed his NCLC was coordinating with “allied Communist forces within the world’s Marxist labor movement.”

LaRouche wasn’t just a Marxist theorist—he had direct contact with Soviet officials. In 1974-75, he met with Soviet UN representatives, proposing to fold the Communist Party USA into his organization. A 1983 French intelligence memo (later leaked) warned top officials about “possible ties between the LaRouche network and Moscow.” French intelligence took it seriously enough to circulate a confidential alert within the cabinet.

Even stranger: LaRouche’s followers somehow obtained that secret French memo and published it in a newspaper ad—simultaneously bragging about it and raising questions about how they accessed classified foreign intelligence documents.

Throughout the 1980s, despite superficially anti-communist rhetoric, LaRouche’s publications consistently took positions “favorable to the Soviet Union,” according to a Heritage Foundation analysis. When Poland’s Solidarity movement challenged communism—backed by the West and opposed by Moscow—LaRouche’s New Solidarity newspaper blamed Britain for Poland’s turmoil, echoing Soviet narratives that Solidarity was a Western (British) PSYOP wrecking Poland.

LaRouche also visited Russia in 1994, lecturing at the Duma (Russian parliament) and the Russian Academy of Sciences. His ideas found audiences among Russian Communist Party (KPRF) members and ultra-nationalists. LaRouche and his network often wrote favorably about Vladimir Putin once Putin rose to power.

The Heritage Foundation concluded: “Ultimately the publications and rhetoric of the LaRouche network end up with positions that are favorable to the Soviet Union… their efforts in the long run can only serve to further Soviet propaganda aims within a sector of the population that Moscow could never reach directly.”

Susan Kokinda: A 55-Year Cadre Member

Susan Kokinda joined LaRouche’s NCLC in August 1971—according to her own biography, the day after Nixon ended the gold standard. She told me in an email that she was a young political science and history graduate.

Consider the implications: A woman with a fresh political science and history degree joins an explicitly Marxist organization that was actively teaching Marxist political science and economics. This wasn’t accidental—this was ideological conviction.

When asked what attracted her to an explicitly Marxist organization, Kokinda responded, “I was attracted to Lyndon LaRouche’s commitment to scientific and technological progress and physical production. By the mid-1970s, our organization discovered and embraced the American System of Political Economy—the largely unknown body of economics which addressed the societal problems we were grappling with.”

Her to-be husband Ronald Kokinda (they likely met through the movement) joined around the same time. His Ballotpedia profile explicitly states he “has been affiliated with the LaRouche Political Action Committee” since 1971.

For over fifty years, Susan Kokinda has remained inside this network. By the late 1970s, she was testifying to Congress on behalf of LaRouche orgs. She served as LaRouche’s Washington, D.C. representative and Capitol Hill liaison. She has never left.

The 1973 Narrative Shift: Communism Becomes a “British Psy-Op”

In 1973, LaRouche launched “Operation Mop-Up”—violent physical attacks (reportedly with lead pipes and clubs) against Communist Party USA members—and simultaneously began pushing a bizarre conspiracy theory: that the British Empire, not Soviet Russia, was the true puppet-master behind anti-American world events.

This narrative claimed communism itself was a “British intelligence psy-op” designed to undermine nations. Karl Marx was allegedly a tool of London bankers, and North Korea was formed by the CIA (despite the fact that it became communist before the CIA was established).

These claims tend to be based solely on LaRouchites’ claims of their own authority. Kokinda frequently supports her claims by saying something like, “I’ve been researching these networks for 50 years.” However, no historians, no intelligence agencies, no academic research supports the idea that British intelligence invented communism. The Bolshevik Revolution, the Cold War, Soviet expansion—all are well documented as genuinely Soviet/Russian initiatives.

In fact, this denial of the true nature of communism, the tremendous toll of human suffering, the culpability of Russia and China, and hundreds of millions of murders it is responsible for (including Chinese forced abortions)—is akin to Holocaust denial and should be treated as such.

But consider who benefits from this narrative: If communism is all the fault of England and the CIA, then Russia is exonerated or overlooked. Soviet atrocities become British schemes. Russian aggression becomes British manipulation.

This is how Russian propaganda works—deflecting blame onto Western nations while laundering Moscow’s culpability.

Kokinda has promoted these narratives for decades. She recently claimed on a podcast that “Russiagate was a British intelligence operation.” Her co-host recently claimed that the MAGA black pilling operation is a “British intelligence operation at the highest levels” that “played” Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon, and Alex Jones. They insist Flynn has honest intentions. Of course, all three of these figures have deep and longstanding ties with Russian intelligence, not British.

When asked if she could point to any peer-reviewed studies or credible analysis that supports her claim that British intelligence created or controlled international communism, Kokinda responded, “First, as to the relative animosity of Russia and Britain toward Donald Trump, the Russians did not run Russiagate. Britain did.”

I have studied and reported on Russiagate extensively, and her claim that Britain “ran” Russiagate is factually deficient. It was the FBI, CIA, and DIA with a bit of help from Five Eyes that ran Russiagate. She provided no evidence to support her claim that it was a British op.

Instead, she continued, “As to the British role in creating communism, I recommend the extensively-sourced book by Richard Poe, ‘How the British Created Communism and Blamed it on the Jews.’ If by ‘peer-reviewed’ you mean acceptable to NATO, the neocons, and the foreign policy establishment, I probably have nothing for you.”

Documented Russian Media Connections

The LaRouche network’s ties to Russian state media are well documented.

During the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, RT (Russia Today) interviewed both LaRouche aide Jeffrey Steinberg and Lyndon LaRouche himself. LaRouche dutifully argued that Georgia’s conflict with Russia was “probably a British-led operation with U.S. support”—exactly what the Kremlin wanted Western audiences to hear.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Lyndon’s widow) has appeared multiple times on Radio Sputnik, Russia’s state-run network, praising Russian and Chinese policies while condemning U.S. “imperialism” and NATO.

The Schiller Institute—a LaRouche-founded organization—has been identified by VoxUkraine/VoxCheck researchers as a platform through which LaRouchites and invited speakers “spread narratives that align with pro-Russian views” and “systematically justify Russian aggression.”

Ronald Kokinda is credited as an editor in Schiller Institute publications. Susan Kokinda is listed as a participant in Schiller Institute events, even in the last 10 years. The Kokindas are not distant observers—they are integral members of the LaRouche cadre.

The LaRouche/Promethean core doctrine has been remarkably stable since 1973:

• State-led “national development” (infrastructure, credit, industrial policy)

• Hostility to “British/Wall Street finance” (a classic LaRouche frame)

• Geopolitical alignment with Russia/China against the U.S.(“deep state”)–UK–NATO order

• Cross-ideological recruiting (left and right both welcome if they accept the frame)

The “Cult” Question

The LaRouche movement has long been described as a cult by numerous researchers. Members spend decades inside. Internal marriages are common. The organization demands total loyalty. Alternative information sources are dismissed as “enemy propaganda.” They have their own unique end times theories to which they alone hold the political solution.

In 2003, British student Jeremiah Duggan died under murky circumstances after attending a LaRouche-linked conference in Germany. He had reportedly discovered the organization’s extremist nature and tried to flee. His suspicious death was hastily ruled a suicide by German authorities, but a British coroner said the body exhibited indications that he was likely beaten to death.

Jeremiah called his mother at about 4:30am to say he was “in trouble” before the call was disconnected. The British coroner told the media at the time that Jeremiah’s revelations that he was a British Jew during a LaRouche conference “may have put him at risk from members of the organization.”

One former LaRouchite, Yves Messer, told British media the group is “anti-British to the extreme and sickly paranoid.”

Susan Kokinda has spent 55 years inside this environment—entering as a young woman and never leaving.

LaRouche History of Antisemitism

For decades, the LaRouche movement—spanning organizations such as the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), the U.S. Labor Party, and later LaRouchePAC—has faced persistent allegations of antisemitism from civil-rights organizations, journalists, scholars, and courts. The Anti-Defamation League repeatedly characterized Lyndon LaRouche as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist, citing movement publications that blamed Jewish individuals and organizations for international drug trafficking, financial manipulation, and political subversion.

A detailed report by the Heritage Foundation documented LaRouche’s endorsement of Protocols of the Elders of Zion-style narratives, including his claim that the text contained a “kernel of truth.” LaRouche outlets also attacked Jewish civil-rights groups—most notably the ADL—using language such as “Zionist Gestapo,” and were accused of minimizing or reframing the Holocaust as a political “hoax.”

Courts have ruled that labeling the LaRouche movement “antisemitic” constitutes fair comment, finding that the group’s own publications reasonably give rise to that conclusion. While LaRouche organizations deny antisemitism and frame criticism as merely “anti-Zionist,” the record shows a long, well-documented pattern of allegations grounded in the movement’s own words and actions.

Promethean PAC: Same Network, New Name

In April 2024, LaRouche PAC rebranded as Promethean PAC. Their website explicitly states: “Promethean PAC was formerly LaRouche PAC.” The FEC registration (C00309567) dates to December 1995.

Same organization. Same people. Same ideology. New branding.

Kokinda, however, insists that “Promethean Action and Promethean PAC officially separated from the organizations affiliated with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, including the Schiller Institute, The LaRouche Organization, and Executive Intelligence Review, in early 2024. Our support for Donald Trump and the role of a strong and sovereign United States on the world stage were driving factors in that separation.”

Despite her claim, the namesake Kokinda and cohost Barbara Boyd chose for their rebranded org indicates strong ideological continuation with the Marxist LaRouche. Karl Marx wrote in his doctoral dissertation that Prometheus is “the most eminent saint and martyr in the philosophical calendar.” Marx quoted Prometheus’s declaration: “In simple words, I hate all gods.”

For Marx, Prometheus represented human self-consciousness as “the highest divinity”—rejecting all divine authority. Marx explicitly positioned philosophy as making “its own confession, its own aphorism against all heavenly and earthly gods.”

This is antithetical to Biblical Christianity. Prometheus stealing fire from the gods parallels the serpent’s temptation in Eden—”you shall be as gods.” To herald Prometheus is to celebrate rebellion against God.

The Promethean PAC logo, with its upward-thrusting imagery glorifying human power, echoes Soviet propaganda aesthetics that elevated mankind (represented by the state) above all other authorities.

For an organization positioning itself within conservative Republican politics, this Marxist theological symbolism should raise immediate red flags.

The Flynn Connection

On November 6, 2025, General Michael Flynn posted on X calling Susan Kokinda “the queen herself” and declaring: “You should be advising the WH and Congress should make you mandatory listening on a daily basis!”

Flynn has his own documented Russia connections—paid appearances on RT, the infamous dinner seated next to Putin, and his unprecedented meeting as DIA Director in Moscow’s GRU in 2013. Now he’s amplifying a 55-year LaRouche cadre member to his millions of followers.

The LaRouche network has documented ties to Alex Jones (who hosted LaRouche and his associates on InfoWars an astounding 49 times) and Roger Stone (who called LaRouche “a friend of mine, a good friend”). AP News reported that “Alex Jones, Roger Stone… see [LaRouche] as an elder statesman” of conspiracism, “toiling in the same dismal field.”

Alex Jones, in particular, has deep ties with Russia, as he has both appeared on and promoted Russian state-owned media numerous times.

Unsurprisingly, Steve Bannon has also promoted Promethean PAC, hosting Barbara Boyd of Promethean Action on Bannon’s War Room.

Infiltrating Michigan GOP

In February 2025, Susan Kokinda was elected Coalitions Vice Chair of the Michigan Republican Party. She did not work her way up through local GOP ranks—she spent “five decades” in the mostly Democrat LaRouche movement before suddenly appearing in party leadership.

I was a delegate at that convention. Many delegates witnessed how Kokinda’s election was orchestrated through coordination with the Kristina Karamo faction. The same collectivist voting block that elected Mike Flynn and Patrick Byrne puppet Bernadette Smith as MIGOP co-chair dutifully elected Kokinda.

Susan Kokinda has over 50 years of professional political organizing experience—and most of that not for Republicans. She was trained in Marxist cadre organizations and has spent her entire adult life building movements. Those skills transferred directly to infiltrating MIGOP.

Now a 55-year Marxist cadre member holds an official position in Michigan Republican Party leadership, helping shape coalition strategy and grassroots outreach.

The Deflection Pattern

Watch what Promethean PAC does when other Russia-aligned figures face scrutiny for their propaganda: they claim “British intelligence” is responsible.

When Flynn, Jones, or Bannon face criticism, Promethean Action publishes defenses claiming they’ve been “played” by British intelligence operations “at the highest levels.” Their pamphlet “A Police Dossier: It is the British Who Murder Our Presidents” exemplifies this deflection—blame Britain for everything, which deepens confusion and protects the guilty.

The absurdity of Barbara Boyd’s claims in the above video goes well beyond her accusation that 33 year intelligence veteran Flynn was simply “played” by undisclosed British intelligence operatives. In the case of this black pilling operation, it’s clear that many of the leaders of this influence operation do have ties to Russia - Tucker Carlson, Flynn, Alex Jones, Jackson Hinkle, Caleb Maupin, Nick Fuentes and so many more are frequently promoted by RT and Sputnik.

When Dan Bongino recently announced he would speak out against “black pilling” operations targeting MAGA, Promethean rushed to position this as a “British intelligence operation”—conveniently deflecting from the far more documented Russian influence on these same networks.

This is not coincidence. This is the same narrative LaRouche has pushed since 1973—the narrative that conveniently serves Russian intelligence objectives by redirecting scrutiny away from Moscow and onto America’s closest ally.

The Addictive Distraction

The LaRouche/Promethean model follows a pattern: there’s always “something big” about to happen. British intelligence is always about to be exposed. for over 50 years now, the “evil empire” has faced imminent destruction. The truth is always just around the corner.

This creates an addictive information loop that keeps followers engaged while distracting from the actual, documented, historically verified communist conspiracy—one with genuine ties to Russian, Chinese, and compromised domestic actors.

Notice how Promethean content rarely discusses Russia critically. China gets occasional criticism, but it’s almost always framed as “working with” rather than against. Meanwhile, every problem—from the Federal Reserve to drug cartels to assassinations—traces back to London.

This selective blame pattern is itself evidence of ongoing Russian ties. A genuine anti-globalist organization would criticize all foreign interference based on verifiable evidence and historical fact. An organization serving Russian interests would deflect exclusively from Russia while attacking Russia’s historical rivals.

The LaRouche network also maintains ties to pro-Russian communist groups. In 2023, investigators traced connections between LaRouche-associated figures and the Party of Communists USA (PCUSA)—a tiny Marxist group aligned with Russian positions—supporting pro-Russia candidates. The old “communist” enemies and LaRouche followers found common ground: both support Putin’s Russia.

What This Means for Conservatives

The communist infiltration threat is real—but it’s not coming only from the obvious left. These operatives have learned to speak our language, invoke our heroes (Trump, Reagan, the Founders), and channel our legitimate grievances while steering us away from the actual foreign threat and toward manufactured conflicts with allies.

The goal isn’t to make you a communist. The goal is to make you an unwitting amplifier for narratives that serve Russian strategic interests—chaos in American politics, division within the GOP, hostility toward NATO, and blindness to actual Russian influence operations.

And it’s highly effective. Even President Trump has shared a Promethean video that lavished praise on Trump. The praise of Trump helps them not only with the White House, but with you and me. It’s very effective at causing a Trump-supportive audience to believe they are on our side.

Conclusion: We’ve Been Played

The evidence is clear:

• Susan Kokinda joined an explicitly Marxist organization in 1971 with a political science and history degree—signaling ideological commitment to Marxism.

• The organization had documented contacts with Soviet officials and consistently continues to take positions favorable to Moscow.

• The organization’s core narrative—”communism is a British PSYOP”—has zero historical support but perfectly serves Russian disinformation objectives.

• The network has many documented appearances on Russian state media (RT, Sputnik).

• The organization rebranded with explicitly Marxist symbolism (Prometheus) antithetical to Biblical Christianity and Republican conservatism.

• A 55-year continuous member of that cadre now holds official Michigan GOP leadership.

We conservatives have been taught to look left for communists. We weren’t watching for them to arrive from the right, wrapped in MAGA messaging, pushing pro-Trump and “anti-globalist” narratives that happen to align perfectly with Kremlin interests.

The real conspiracy is communism itself—operating for decades with the witting or unwitting help of organizations like LaRouche/Promethean, using American patriots as unwitting amplifiers for Russian active measures.

What follows is an extensive AI deep research report on LaRouche/Promethean ties to Russia in 11 parts, featuring a thorough timeline and dozens of direct links to supporting content, as well as the unedited email sent to Kokinda and her unedited response. This content is only for paid subscribers of Bigger Truth.

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Over the last two years, I’ve sacrificed a great deal to use my voice to speak unpopular truths about an insurgency within MAGA and state GOPs—one that threatens to burn the entire movement down. From the beginning, my only agenda has been to investigate the causes of division: first within the Michigan GOP, then across state GOPs nationwide, then within MAGA influencer circles, and ultimately to wade into the narrative warfare that is raging for our hearts and minds every day.

I’ve studied the leaders of this insurgency—their words and actions, their organizations and money flows—and I’ve come to a clear conclusion: what we are witnessing is a well-funded military-intelligence operation, with foreign influence, aimed at pulling a significant segment of MAGA away from Trump and into a nihilistic, highly radicalized belief system.

The operation is highly compartmentalized. Only those at the very top see the full picture. Many lower-level operatives are true believers who genuinely think they are helping to save the country. There are countless roles in this broad operation, which has targeted state and local Republican parties, churches, the Q-influencer movement, the health and freedom movement, the election integrity movement, J6 defendants, MAGA influencers, and nearly every state-level political campaign.

This is a battle for our hearts and minds—and it’s not simply right versus left. It’s more accurately described as the rational middle versus the extremes on both sides, along with the media ecosystems that thrive on division and the politicians and unelected bureaucrats who want to preserve their power and gravy trains.

It is war—a full-scale psychological war—and the battlefield is each one of us. We win with logic. They target people who believe discernment is intuitive or emotional. It isn’t. Discernment is a logical process. We win when we apply the science of logic to the evidence.

I’m going to skip around now to several of the key battlefields and show where we’re winning—and where we’re losing.

Patrick Byrne makes a stunning admission

It’s been several weeks since this happened, and I discussed it in my last podcast, but it’s too important to ignore: Patrick Byrne admitted he is an Obama-era CIA operative.

Before dismissing this as drug-fueled ranting—which it certainly resembles—let me explain why the admission is highly credible and deeply vindicating for my work.

It began in the early hours of December 8, when Byrne posted: “Stay tuned. I’ve gotten permission to release something. Let me prepare it.”

A few hours later, he appeared on Emerald Robinson’s show and proceeded to admit to several crimes while making a series of extraordinary statements. Here are the key points, followed by analysis:

• He described his relationship with the CIA as a “mother” relationship.

• “I became something called a Tier One intelligence asset, then in 2010/11 Obama elevated me to National Intelligence Asset.”

• “I was told I would be the ‘ace in the hole’ for all the real tough situations.”

• He said he worked for Brennan for four to five years prior, starting in 2006.

• He admitted helping set up the Russian hoax against Trump.

• He admitted lying about it: “I was fib-fibbing.”

• He made an implicit incitement to murder military officers:
  “I want to tell people in the military… ‘theoretically’ if you have officers who try to get you to take part in a color revolution, please kill them for us citizens. Just shoot them in the face.”

While the CIA admission is new, Byrne has long acknowledged working with “the government,” as I reported over a year ago. Stefanie Lambert also testified under oath in the Dominion v. Byrne case that Byrne was a “National Intelligence Asset.”

Notably, at the conclusion of that hearing, the judge took the highly unusual step of clearing the courtroom—except for Lambert—for “one unrelated matter.”

Flynn himself introduced Byrne on his podcast in November 2024 as someone the “national security state” asks to “do things on behalf of the U.S. government.”

Taken together, this strongly suggests Byrne’s admission is true. More importantly, the statement is against his own personal interest. Under Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3), a statement against penal or pecuniary interest is deemed inherently credible:

“A statement that a reasonable person in the declarant’s position would have made only if they believed it to be true…”

If a court would likely treat Byrne’s admission as factual, so should we. And that raises serious questions:

• Were Flynn and Byrne knowingly working together while helping set up Russiagate in 2016?

• Did Flynn know Byrne’s role—and is that why they aligned?

• Was their December 18, 2020 operation a CIA-sanctioned action against Trump?

• Was the Masheen Fraud psyop CIA-directed?

• Was the CIA involved in infiltration of state and local GOPs via The America Project?

• Did the CIA direct Byrne to set up Tina Peters?

• If Byrne’s operations targeted Americans on U.S. soil, does this violate the Smith-Mundt Act and the CIA’s own mandate?

These questions barely scratch the surface. They raise legitimate concerns about CIA involvement in failed election-integrity lawsuits, bad candidates, destructive policies, and corrosive narratives.

This new information is deeply vindicating. My core thesis has always been that the insurgency I’ve documented is an intelligence operation involving both foreign and domestic actors.

Flynn and Alex Jones run scared: “skipped dinner, sleepless night”

Just weeks later, Alex Jones cryptically referenced an emergency so serious it left him depressed—and even Flynn “didn’t know what to do.”

What caused Jones to skip dinner? What triggered talk of a “political uprising” to purge “sleeper cells” from Trump’s administration?

According to Jones and Flynn, Trump’s own administration is coming after them.

Flynn says, “They’re coming after my family.” This strongly suggests possible action related to Col. Earl Matthews’ testimony that he witnessed Charlie Flynn delay the J6 National Guard deployment over “optics.” It raises questions about Michael Flynn’s Fifth Amendment plea and whether the brothers communicated beforehand. Charlie Flynn was promoted after J6 and abruptly retired days after Trump’s 2024 victory.

Jones claims: “They are literally wargaming, during the Trump administration, how to come after us.” “Us” clearly includes Flynn, Jones, and later Steve Bannon—yet more vindication.

Jones then argues they must use Flynn’s network to “decapitate” the so-called deep state within Trump’s administration—meaning those who want accountability for the Flynn network.

Then comes the meltdown: Jones admits Dan Bongino called him to say he’s coming after them.

Since then, I’ve seen more growth, engagement, and coordinated attacks in two weeks than in the previous year combined. Demand for answers about why Trump may be turning on Flynn is exploding.

Bongino confronts Gaetz—and the network panics

Confirmation followed immediately. Bongino publicly went after the “black pillers” and directly confronted Matt Gaetz.

Bongino’s little retort sent shockwaves throughout the Flynn network. Since then, they’ve cycled through frantic displays of loyalty to Trump, narratives designed to weaken him (“Where are the arrests?” “Israel First,” “Trump’s economy sucks”), and relentless attacks on Bongino and the FBI—proxy attacks on Bongino himself.

To be “black-pilled” is to embrace political nihilism. I’ve reported for years that nihilism is the network’s core objective: convince people that everything is corrupt—elections, courts, Congress, even Trump—so they disengage from voting and lose faith in peaceful political solutions.

I saw this two years ago with Kristina Karamo and the “burn it all down” crowd. A hopeless population is easier to radicalize—and easier to push toward violence.

I don’t know what Bongino will do when his show relaunches. I don’t know if he’ll name names. But it’s clear he’s striking at the heart of the narrative war—and the network is rattled.

The tide is turning.

The rest of this article is available for paid subscribers only. I share an encouraging report from Arizona, insight on a Flynn-linked chaos agent in Minnesota, and share my thoughts on what this all means for this year’s elections. To access it, please subscribe today!

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