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WARNING: I will be linking to the original content I talk about, including graphic photos, videos, and articles about graphic topics. Please remember all of this is designed to make you upset. Please don’t get mad at me, get mad at Martin Mawyer and Christain Action Network for using these topics to make money.
This week is all about Christian Action Network and Martin Mawyer. I donated $10 to CAN and after one year they have sent me about 20 mailpieces and put me on the mailing lists for 40 charities.
I want to go over this charity because everything about them is a series of red flags telling you not to donate to them.
- Only 50% of the budget goes to programs
- The charity employs family members
- Personal loans from Mr. Mawyer to the charity and from the charity and loans to family and board members
- They are on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s radar for hate speech
- And the big one for me is this group sells your information to other like-minded charities.
This is a clip from 1994 from an interview CSPAN did with Martin Mawyer. Where he describes CAN as a Pro-family Pro-Christain group that wants to pass legislation that helps families.
That is how he describes CAN to the general public. How does CAN describe itself when it wants to sell itself to prospective buyers of its mailing list? This is CAN’s NextMark page. It is no longer a Pro-family Pro-Christain group, in reality, it is an anti-Muslim hate group.
Edited out for time: This post is not about fact-checking everything this group talks about. I could make 30-minute videos about single sentences this guy makes. This is about IRS 990s and Mailing Lists. But I think the whole “Shariah law (Islamic law) is being used to help decide court cases” thing is about the Muslim community using Religious Arbitration to take care of interpersonal disputes. I found a couple of legal papers on the topic of Muslims using Arbitration. I also found a conference about Religious Arbitration. It covers more than just Islam. I will link to a playlist version that pulls out each speaker. There are a few speakers that talk about how the Muslim community historically used Arbitration and how they are modernizing the practice for today.
Islamic Arbitration: A New Path for Interpreting Islamic Legal Contracts PDF
The Future of Sharia Law in American Arbitration PDF
The Promise and Perils of Religious Arbitration YouTube video
The last 30 years of Christian Action Network
I don’t want to go too in-depth on what he talks about these days, mostly because it is always changing. He is like an angry little bee hopping from one angry flower to another looking for the sweet sweet nectar of money. The moment I hit publish he will jump on the bandwagon of the next outrage that everyone is talking about.
Mr. Mawyer consistently punches down on marginalized groups that are lower on the social hierarchy than himself. He picks topics that “arouse high-dominance emotions”. The easiest high-dominance emotion to arouse in people is anger. He purposely picks topics that make you angry. He is a part of the “outrage content factory” (NBC article that uses the phrase “outrage content factory”). He picks topics that are so outrageous they demand you take action before you think his clever plan all the way through. His business model depends on low-information donors. The second people start to look into Mr. Mawyer and CAN they would know not to donate. But if he can get people to see red when they read his letters and send out a check he is golden.
Can you defund the National Endowment for the Arts? You can for a while then the administration changes and their funding goes right back to where it was. Can you sue Barnes & Noble to force them to put a book behind the counter so that kids can’t buy it? You can but the judge will toss it out.
He sticks to 2 main topics, Muslims invading America, and LGBTQ+ issues. From Mr. Mawyer’s perspective these 2 groups just existing and living their daily lives is the end of the world.
National Endowment for the Arts Obscenity and Defunding
I have a clip of Mr. Mawyer telling the story of his involvement in defunding the National Endowment for the Arts and changing the way the National Endowment for the Arts picks what art to fund. Mr. Mawyer teamed up with some friends they drove around in an RV with a stack of photos by Joel-Peter Witkin that they found offensive, that the NEA had funded. They gave these photos to Jesse Helms and he showed these photos on the floor of the Senate after this happened as Mr. Mawyer puts it “completely abolished the NEA” Witch is very wrong the NEA is still around and has a yearly budget of over $207 million. They did have to change their policy for funding art after the Supreme Court case NEA vs Finley in 1996.
Virginia Delegate Tim Anderson sues Barnes & Noble for selling obscenity to minors (Mr. Mawyer tells the story about defunding the NEA at 20:30)
This is one of the photos Mr. Mawyer mentions in the podcast. Joel-Peter Witkin Testicle Stretch with the Possibility of a Crushed Face, New Mexico, 1982 (WARNING: Graphic photo NSFW) I couldn’t find “Pot Head”. I can not stress enough how hard I looked for a photo matching the description Mr. Mawyer gave. I looked at every Witkin photo I could find. I am probably on a list at the NSA for the keywords I used in Google.
Clips of Jessie Helms in September 1993 talking about Joel-Peter Witkin Clip 1 Clip 2. Vanity Fair article (WARNING: Graphic photo NSFW) that Mr. Helms used as a source for his speech.
Ellen Degeneres and Gay Days at Disney
Defunding the NEA thrust Mr. Mawyer into the national spotlight. Around this time is is getting interviewed on CSPAN and by national newspapers like the New York Times. But by the late 90s yearly 00s the interviews stopped. He needs a new culture war topic to get attention and money. The next time he gets attention it is from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
SLPC Going over CAN’s anti-gay activities
The big gay battle over Disney History of Disney Gay Days and the people against it.
CAN’s Footage overdubbed with a local radio talk show. (Warning: Graphic footage of topless men in and around a pool.)
Islamberg, NY, Muslims of America (MOA), and the Ground Zero Mosque
After people stopped caring about Gay Days CAN moved on to the anti-Islamic sentiment that was spreading nationwide after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This included harassing the town of Islamberg, NY, and protesting the Ground Zero Mosque in Manhattan.
Mr. Mawyer and CAN made multiple movies and books on the subject of “Secret Muslim Training camps”. Including Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S. and its sister book Twilight in America. These publications added to the anti-Islamic attitudes at the time.
The Sad, True Story of the Ground Zero Mosque
The Christian Action Network (CAN) is a group also focused on bashing gay men and lesbians. In 2005, for example, after actress Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on her popular sitcom, CAN President Martin Mawyer warned, “If we allow the tidal wave of gay and lesbian smut to continue to pour into our homes, it will utterly consume us in no time at all!”
By 2009, however, CAN was showing interest in the issue of radical Islam, producing a “documentary” called “Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.” that claimed there were three dozen such camps on American soil. And that interest has only expanded as Americans grew more receptive. CAN recently announced a “Counter-Jihad Summit” for this August, saying, “Our public schools are sneaking into their curricula pro-Islamic teachings that actually promote Sharia law. An entire generation of our children is being brainwashed!” (The similarity between this claim and anti-gay groups’ claims about gays is hard to miss.)
SLPC ONE MORE ENEMY 2011
Driven by Anti-Muslim Paranoia, Far-Right Extrists to Gather in Islamberg, New York SLPC 2018
They Created a Muslim Enclave in Upstate N.Y. Then Came the Online Conspiracies 2019 NYT story about Islamberg (gift link)
Christain Action Network Doesn’t Like Being Labeled a Hate Group
“I think it’s defamatory;” Christian Action Network fighting back against hate group label WSET 2017 CAN Doesn’t like being called a “Hate Group”
Shout Out Patriots podcast ABC News huffed and puffed but couldn’t blow our house down March 2022 Mr. Mawyer and his friends joke about his status as a “General Hate Group” Are you a 5-star General of hate har har. I can’t find an article from 2022 from WSET but I can find the above article from 2017.
Christian Action Network sues state over solicitation letter Bangor Daily News 2009
CAN was barred from soliciting donations in the State of Maine because:
- Its letter contained “an inflammatory anti-Muslim message.”
- The governor had not given permission for his name to be used.
- The group had solicited funds when the state considered its license application to be incomplete.
Trying to get Gender Queer Banned
All of that brings us to 2022, and Gender Queer becoming the #1 banned book in America. Mr. Mawyer and CAN had to get a little taste of that controversy. It was as if the past 30 years of his mission has lead up to this moment.
- Offensive art? ✅
- Are LGBTQ+ people involved? ✅
- Saving the kids? ✅
If Maia Kobabe had been Muslim I think Mr. Mawyer’s head would have exploded.
It is time for CAN to swing into action. Only one topic is featured multiple times in the CAN’s solicitations in 2022 it is Gender Queer. Once a charity finds a topic that brings in money and attention they will grab onto it and ride the wave until it ends.
All of these mailpieces and an interview with Tim Anderson, the VA representative that brought the lawsuit against Barnes & Noble. Virginia Delegate Tim Anderson sues Barnes & Noble for selling obscenity to minors
Mr. Mawyer and CAN must have thought that this was going to go the distance like the NEA situation back in the 90s. He was able to fundraise off of the NEA for years and now here comes a new Golden Goose lawsuit that could go on for years. But sadly Tim Anderson is no Jesse Helms and Gender Queer was not funded by the government.
Gender Queer Obscenity Case Dismissed in Virginia Aug 2022
Further reading about Maia Kobabe and Gender Queer:
When I was on book tour in 2019, I was asked many times, “What age of reader do you recommend this book for?” I would generally answer, “High school and above,” but the truth is, the readers I primarily wrote it for were my own parents and extended family. When I was first coming out as nonbinary, I kept getting responses along the lines of, “We love you, we support you, but we have no idea what you are talking about.”
Opinion Schools are banning my book. But queer kids need queer stories. Maia Kobabe Oct 2021
Why do you think your book in particular has been so challenged, out of all of the queer literature that has faced scrutiny?
I think it is specifically vulnerable to challenges because it is a graphic novel and includes illustrations. I do think that it is easier to spread an image and have it go viral on social media, than say a screen grab of a paragraph of prose text. It also means it’s very easy to flip through it and quickly identify pages that perhaps a conservative reader might disagree with.
I also think the title probably has something to do with it. If you are in a library catalog and you’re searching topics such as gender or sexuality, my book is going to come up very near the top of the results list. And then I also think honestly, the fact that I won two American Library Association awards also has something to do with it in a funny way. Many librarians buy and support all of the ALA award winners. So the book was just in many public libraries and some school libraries. So if a conservative group was looking for books to complain about on the shelves, mine would be there because it had been very generously supported by librarians.
‘Gender Queer’ Author ‘Relieved’ After Court Rules Book’s Sale Can’t Be Restricted in Virginia Aug 2022
How ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ became America’s most banned book LA Times Dec 2022
How a Debut Graphic Memoir Became the Most Banned Book in the Country NYT May 2022 gift link
I will give the final word on the topic to Book Riot Sex Ed Books Don’t “Groom” Kids and Teens They Protect Them Apr 2022
Late Night Host Stephen Colbert Calls Jesus a “Cuck”
In September of 2022, Stephen Colbert called Jesus a “cuck” in the context of comparing him to Flordia Gonvener Ron DeSantis for the time he sent immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
Christain Action Network articles on the story
CBS’s Stephen Colbert calls Jesus a “cuck,” a sex voyeur. Will there be Christian outrage? Sept 19, 2022
CAN demands a meeting with CBS after Stephen Colbert calls Jesus a ‘cuck’ Sept 27, 2022
Stephen Colbert Says the Unthinkable Jan 4, 2023
Petition: Tell CBS that Jesus is not a ‘cuck,’ a porn fetish March 1, 2023
This got CAN a bit of traction to the point that they have posted multiple articles, a mailpiece, and a petition. In my opinion, it is pathetic to go after the jokes that late-night comedians make. Every joke they tell in an opening monolog is run by a team of “Standards and Practices” lawyers.
That concludes my 30-year review of CAN and Mr. Mawyer. He claims that he is pro-family, but in reality, he uses the cloke of Christianity and the pro-family movement to attack anyone who doesn’t fit his very narrow definition of what a family is.
IRS 990s and a Charity Navigator rating of ZERO
Charity Navigator Zero stars
ProPublica page
I have pulled these numbers from the Charity Navigator page for CAN. This is a 3-year average, to give you a better picture of what is going on with CAN. 49% of their budget goes to programs, 25% goes to fundraising and 25% goes to administration. Just from this chart, you can see why they have earned a ZERO star rating from Charity Navigator.
This chart used to be on the Charity Navigator website. I love it because it gives you a baseline of what a “good” charity looks like. 75% of a charity’s budget should go to programs, 15% should go to fundraising and 10% should go to administration. Idealy Programs should be at 90%. Fundraising can go up to 20-25% if the charity hires a third-party fundraiser.
I have pulled some other charities from Charity Navigator that are about the same size as CAN but they are all 4 stars. I did this to prove that a charity of the same size can be run properly and have a “good” chart.
Save the Manatee Club 86% goes to programs, 5% goes to fundraising and 8% goes to administration.
Forum for Scriptural Christianity also called Good News
Now go back and look at the chart for CAN. Do you see what I see? I see a charity whose numbers are completely off the rails. I don’t see a third-party fundraiser in their 990s. It doesn’t mean they don’t have one, they may not have paid them enough to have to document them on the 990 in some way.
Let’s dive into the IRS 990s for CAN. I will be looking at the most recent 990 I can find. It is for 2019. The IRS took a huge staffing hit during the pandemic. Uploading documents to the internet was not a top priority. Thankfully they have hired new people and soon everything will be running smoothly again.
This page is towards the end of the 990. In it, we learn that the wife and the kids, and the Sec-Treas were employed in some way during the year.
Charity Watch has a couple of articles about family-run charities and why they can be a problem.
All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F’s
“It’s more like a family business than a public charity … You would have to have a lot of trust in this family in order to want to give them your money.”
Donor Alert: ‘ACLJ’ Is Two Charities Dominated by One Family
On this page, we learn that Mr. Mawyer has lent the charity $8,000 (it was in 2015, to cover cash shortfalls) and that two of the Mawyer kids have taken out loans. The loans to the kids were not approved by the board and there is no written agreement. This is very sloppy paperwork.
The original loan to the charity for $8,000 from 2015 page 27
On this page, we learn that the charity has taken out a loan for an RV. We know how much the RV cost, what the monthly payments are, and how much is left on the loan.
Minnesota Attorney General’s Office Guide for Charity Board Members Huge thanks to the MN AG for writing out the ethical guidelines for loans made by a charity in such plain easy to understand language.
Let’s compare all the loans:
- RV Loan: meticulously documented. We know everything about the loan
- Mr. Mawyer’s loan to the charity: Approved by the board
- Loans to the kids: No board approval, no written agreement, “making periodic payments”
If you ever see a charity giving out loans like the loans CAN made to the Mawyer kids it is a massive red flag 🚩🚩🚩🚩. Never ever donate to a charity with these practices.
Christain Action Network a Nexus of Junk Mail
I’m going to combine the NextMark list from 2021 with what I received in 2022 to give a more complete picture of the kinds of “charities” that buy CAN’s mailing list. Charities with a ✅ are the ones I received in 2022. I will put the ⭐ rating from Charity Navigator ZERO – ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Charity Navigator does not rate churches and PACs. Where I can I will link Ministry Watch for churches. And when both of those fail I will link to ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer. Information about Political Action Committees (PACs) is covered by the Federal Election Commission and Open Secrets.
Personally, I recommend not donating to any of these charities no matter what their rating is. The charities that buy the mailing list of a ZERO star charity like Christian Action Network are telling you one thing: they are greedy and only care about money. They do not care about the impact their junk mail makes on both a personal and environmental level.
40 Days for Life ✅ Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Alliance Defending Freedom ✅ Wiki page, SLPC page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
American Bible Society ✅ Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ ✅ Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
American Cornerstone Institute ✅ Influence Watch page, ProPublica page, Opt-out here
Americans for Israel (I can’t figure out which “Americans for Israel” this is. I found 3, whoever you are pick a better name)
America’s Prayer Network Charity Navigator page, No rating it is a church.
Answers in Genesis (Creation Museum), Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Biblica Ministries Foundation (International Bible Society, NIV bible), Wiki Page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ✅ Wiki page, ProPublica pages, Ministry Watch page ⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Campus Crusade for Christ ✅ Wiki page, Ministry Watch Page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
CBN Israel a project of Christian Broadcast Network ✅ CBN Wiki page, Ministry Watch page ⭐⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is located at the same address of the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellview WA. ProPublica page, Opt-out here
Center for American Liberty ✅ Harmeet Dhillon wiki page, Charity Navigator page no rating, Opt-out here, if that doesn’t work contact the Dhillon Law Group Article published the day I posted this blog.
Child Evangelism Fellowship, Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Chosen People Ministries ✅ Wiki page, Ministry Watch page ⭐, Opt-out here
Christian Aid Mission ✅ Wiki page, Ministery Watch page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Christians Reviving America’s Values (CRAVE), Pro Publica Page, Opt-out here
Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Convention of States Action ✅ ProPublica page, Opt-out here
CURE America Action ✅ ProPublica page, FEC page, Open Secrets page, Opt-out here
Dallas Theological Seminary, Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Doubting Thomas Research Foundation Afgan Liberty Project ✅ ProPublica page, Opt-out here
Family Research Council ✅ Wiki page, SLPC page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) ✅ Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
First Liberty Institute Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Food for the Hungry, Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Freedom Alliance, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
God’s Word to the Nations Misson Society, Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Gospel for Asia (GFA World) Wiki page, Ministry Watch “Withhold giving”, Opt-out here
Good Shepherd India AKA DaySpring International ✅ Propublica page, Phone number from IRS 990 from 2015 (757) 428-1092
Gospel Revival Ministries ✅ Propublica page, Opt-out call (800) 309-0133
Harvesters Ministries ✅ ProPublica page, Opt-out here
Heart for the Persecuted Church a project of Religious Freedom Coalition ✅ Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐, Opt-out here info@religiousfreedomcoalition.org (202) 543-0300
Here’s Life Africa, ProPublica page, Opt-out here
Hillsdale College ✅ Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt out Donor Relations (517) 607-2727 donorservices@hillsdale.edu
Horowitz Freedom Center, Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, SLPC page, Opt-out here
Human Coalition, Pro-Lies page, Ministery Watch page ⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Ignition633 Ministries (A Thousand Hills) ✅ Source Watch page, ProPublica Page (no financial data, became tax exempt in 2020), Opt-out here
In God We Trust a project of The Seniors Coalition (TSC) ✅ ProPublica page, Opt-out phone number from IRS 990 from 2021 (202) 261-3594
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews ✅ Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here info@ifcj.org 800-486-8844
Jesus Film Project a project of Campus Crusade for Christ ✅ Wiki page, Ministry Watch Page ⭐⭐⭐ Opt-out here
Liberty Counsel Inc ✅ Wiki page, SLPC page, ProPublica pages, Opt-out here Liberty@LC.org (407) 875-1776
Live Action, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Messianic Jewish Alliance of America ✅ Charity Navigator page, ECFA page, Opt-out here info@mjaa.org and call 1-800-225-6522
Mission Aviation Fellowship Ministry Watch page ⭐, ProPublica page, Opt-out here
Mission India ✅ ProPublica page, Opt-out here
Moms for America (Homemakers for America)✅ Rational Wiki page, Charity Navigator page (no rating yet, should get one soon) ProPublica page, Opt-out here, also contact American Target Advertising‘s American Mailing List Corporation Opt-out here. Check out ATA’s mailing lists to see if you recognize anyone else.
National Day of Prayer, Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐ Opt-out here 719-559-9560 Privacy policy page
National Pro-Life Alliance PAC ✅ FEC page, ProPublica page, Open Secrets page, Opt-out here (703) 321-8380
Navigators, Wiki page, Ministry Watch page ⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Nora Lam Chinese Ministries International ✅ Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐, Opt-out here info@noralam.org
Peace for the Persecuted, ProPublica page, Opt-out here peaceforthepersecuted@gmail.com (408) 695-3754
Pray in Jesus Name Ministries a project of Persuade the World Ministries, Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here chaplaingate@yahoo.com (719) 360-5132
Prison Fellowship International, Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Project Rescue There are multiple “Project Rescues” I don’t know which this is.
Public Advocate of the United States, Wiki page, FEC page (no records after 2017), Open Secrets page (no records after 2014) ProPublica page, Opt-out here
Recover America ✅ Wiki page, ProPublica page (no records), Opt-out here
Religious Freedom Coalition Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐, Opt-out here info@religiousfreedomcoalition.org (202) 543-0300
Remember America’s Heritage a project of the Caudill Foundation, Charity Navigator page ZERO stars, Opt-out call Right Concepts Inc (703) 222-8440
SAT 7 North America ✅ Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Second Amendment Foundation, Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here
Secure America Now ✅ Wiki page, ProPublica page, Opt-out here info@secureamericanow.org (202) 900-3939
Shared Hope There are multiple “Shared Hope” I don’t know which this is.
Third Millennium Ministries Inc. (Third Mill) ✅ Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here give@thirdmill.org
Thomas More Society Wiki page, Charity Navigator page, Opt-out here info@thomasmoresociety.org (312) 782-1680
Trans World Radio ✅ Wiki page, ProPublica pages no data available, Opt-out here Webmail page Donor Services phone number 1-800-456-7897
United States Justice Foundation ✅ Charity Navigator page ZERO stars, Opt-out here James Lacy of Wewer & Lacy LLC james.lacy@wewerlacy.com and call (949)495-3314
World Concern Development Organization a project of CRISTA Ministries ✅ Wiki page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Bonus CRISTA Ministries Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, Opt-out here info@crista.net (800) 442-4003
How to Opt-out
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that they are members of the DMA/ANA the people that run DMAChoice the #1 thing you can do to stop junk mail. In theory, if you signed up for DMAChoice all mail from CAN should stop. The bad news is if you have EVER given them money DMAChoice won’t work and you will need to contact them directly. The ANA thinks that any monetary transaction between you and the mail is a lifelong binding blood contact or some such thing.
I am going to link to their contact page. It has a phone number and a webmail box.
This is a sample letter you can use. I always kept mine short. I figured that people who fundraise this way don’t care about the impact their mail makes on the people they send it to, so I left out all of gut-wrenching horror their mail caused. I saved all of that for when groups ignored me and I needed to file complaints against them.
Subject header: Please remove [name] from mailing list
Please put [name, and address] on your suppression list. Including the mailing list “Christian Action Network Mailing List“ NextMark #327096 and any other mailing lists you buy, sell, or trade.
Thank you for your time,
[name]
Suppression list is the language they use in the direct mail world. Apparently, they don’t remove the name from the system they move it to another list. I don’t know this whole industry is ridiculous and makes no sense.
He also has a Substack page. Check your loved one’s bank statements for a Substack subscription called the “Majority Report”, and make sure to cancel that as well.
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