Women Who Fight Fascists — A Hack to My Best Work

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We have to live our best lives during trouble times — ‘the days run away like wild horses over the hills’ (Me and Bukowski).

I said to an editor recently that if I were a man, I’d be revered like Dominick Dunne. But I’m a woman, so I have to get up and prove myself every day.

And that’s fine. Keeps me sharp.

We have so many new members and along with my weekly Best of Bette ‘Roundups’, I wanted to share some of my key reporting so our new friends can get a sense of the scope of what we’re battling. As I said in Sunday’s Lucid meeting, when I quoted David Frum from 2017:

“If this were happening in Honduras, we’d know what to call it. It’s happening here instead, and so we are baffled.”

We should no longer be baffled. US traitors in fealty to Putin and other foreign enemy states are trying to overthrow our democracy.

And based on our Justice Department’s latest indictments, the US traitors are finding out.

Today, we learned that Fani Willis’ RICO indictments in Georgia encompass more than a dozen people — and just like any garden variety coup, they likely incorporate politicians, lawyers, business leaders and member/s of the US military.

We will have an impromptu Happy Hour with ex-fed Martin Sheil the moment the indictments drop.

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Here are links to a handful of useful investigative reports, along with some palate-cleansing features:

Ionov Indictment — Agitation and Propaganda: Russian Indicted for Using Political Groups as Foreign Agents

• Yes, Virginia, Russia has been infesting our democracy — buying off cheap people to cause chaos for years, and a Kremlin cutout named Ionov — the Charlie Kirk of Moscow — was indicted for paying US groups on the left and right to make our democracy look like a shitshow. He did this for a decade. Did you know CalExit was a Russian up? And that Arron Banks and Nigel Farage join Russia’s favorite Congressman Dana Rohrabacher in raising money for an op to remove California from the Union? I didn’t either until I investigated this story with my writing partner Matt Bernarndini. Bernardini is currently the target of lawfare from Donald Jessica Trump.

  • Here’s my folo up report on US citizens indicted for working for the Russians to corrupt elections:

American Monsters — a series about US criminals accelerating global authoritarianism

• To truly understand what we are enduring, it’s vital we understand who the US criminals are who brought us to this precipice. The first four monsters I profiled were Manafort, Stone, Cohn, and Trump. Just wait til I drop No. 5. It’s a doozy. 🤡

The Rolling Insurrection: How Putin is Waging a Covert War Against the West

The Rolling Insurrection: How Putin is Waging a Covert War Against the West

• There is a reluctance for people in the US to fully grasp that we fell asleep after the Cold War while Russia was plotting — always at war with the West. This report reveals the global march toward authoritarianism, and by exposing the operations, we can dismantle them. By exposing the operatives, we can neutralize them.

The Executed Renaissance - Lessons from Timothy Snyder

• While binging Professor Snyder’s ‘Making of Modern Ukraine’ lecture series, I heard him use the term the ‘Executed Renaissance’ — so I investigated it and found that hundreds of writers, playwrights, and activists were murdered under Stalin for having the audacity to think freely. If you wonder why Trump is suing my writing partner, and Mike Flynn and Kash Patel are suing my podcast partner it is because truth is lethal to those waging information warfare.

My Viper Room Memoir — 30 Years of Rock

• I jammed as many memories as I could into this memoir for Los Angeles Magazine. My editor told me I was like the new Eve Babitz, which I savored. To read the steamy roman a clef version of this, you have to buy my ebook ‘Fox Undercover’ — which that dear man Greg Olear reviewed and compared me to Raymond Chandler, my favorite author.

Wash Our Spirits Clean — desert reflections in a time of change

‘Wash Our Spirits Clean’ is my favorite feature of recent months, and I will be heading back to the desert soon, seeking solitude — the sun, and the moon, and the stars — poetry, birds, succulents, music, repeat.

This is all a good starter kit, and I will be rebooting some important early reports.

There are some noteworthy Bette Dangerous series as well:

• The ‘Spy v Spy’ series about Russian infiltration into the FBI

• Meat is Murdoch - Thank You for Not Smoking Fox — my Fox chronicles

• Follow the Money with Martin Sheil

And please peruse my early posts — there is much good information, so work your way back in time when you have the time, and I am always here for you if I can be of service.

Thank you as always for your support of independent investigative reporters and women who fight fascism.

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The message should be a fair deal… fairness everywhere.—Martin Sheil

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