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Now you can watch Congressman Ken Buck on the popular Facebook TV series "The Swamp."Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain. Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life House of Cards in our nation's capital. Elected in 2014 as president of one of the largest Republican freshman classes ever to enter Congress, Buck immediately realized why nothing gets done in Congress, and it isn't because of political gridlock—in fact, Republicans and Democrats work together all too well to fleece taxpayers and plunge America deeper into debt. "It is an insular process directed by power-hungry party elites who live like kings and govern like bullies," Buck reports. Buck has witnessed first-hand how the unwritten rules of Congress continually prioritize short-term political gain over lasting, principled leadership. When Buck tangled with Washington power brokers like former Speaker John Boehner, he faced petty retaliation. When he insisted Republicans keep their word to voters, he was berated on the House floor by his own party leaders. When other members of Congress dared to do what they believed to be right for America instead of what the party bosses commanded, Buck saw them stripped of committee positions and even denied dining room privileges by the petty beltway bullies. In Drain the Swamp, Buck names names and tells incredible true stories about what really happened behind closed doors in Congress during legislative battles that have ensued over the last two years including budget, continuing resolutions, omnibus, trade promotion authority, Iran, and more. If the Trump administration is going to bring real change to Washington, it first needs to get the whole story—from deep inside the swamp.

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISK“No one—conservative or liberal—should be comfortable with a few Silicon Valley oligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself.” — Senator Ted CruzWhen the Founding Fathers drafted our Constitution, they had no idea there would be a “Big Tech” – nor any concept of the immense power these companies would wield over our people. But the Fathers did provide mechanisms -- a system of check and balances -- for the people to stop dangerous monopolies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon from suffocating our business and political life. Few know more about these mechanisms than Rep. Ken Buck, who has been a leader in Congress fighting against the unchecked power of Big Tech.In CRUSHED: Big Tech’s War on Free Speech, Buck exposes the bullying and predatory behavior from the Big Tech giants who have used their technologies and their unbelievable market shares to stifle commerce and censor free speech.  He spells out the inside details of how these companies restrict free markets, stop competition, increase prices, and ultimately hurt consumers. Even worse, Big Tech companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook are actively censoring conservative news and views, as they openly manipulate information provided to voters. Ken Buck shows how these tech giants are true monopolies and their concentrated power pose a serious danger for our democracy.In contrast to the robber barons of the Gilded Age who simply posed a threat to commerce, Big Tech threatens the very core of our political system. They control the flow of information shared with the public for their own financial and political gain. In CRUSHED, Ken Buck argues that while Americans are under siege by Big Tech, we are not destroyed. We can still take on Big tech, fight back and even win. The future of our nation depends on it, he says.IT IS TIME TO FIGHT BACK!

IT IS TIME FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS TO TAKE BACK THEIR COUNTRY FROM THE RADICAL SOCIALIST LEFT BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.For over a century, the left has used the federal government to fund and promote its socialist agenda. Under the guise of flowery titles like the New Deal or Great Society, Democrat administrations have spent money America doesn’t have on programs America doesn’t need. Each of these leftist causes are sold to the public as temporary solutions to existential threats. But their actual purpose is to vest more control in the federal government and advance the left’s partisan objectives at the expense of individual liberty.In this shocking and scathing exposé of corruption and morally bankrupt ideas, Buck reminds us of the Founders’ vision for a limited federal government, “of the people and for the people,” designed to protect personal liberty by adhering to federalism and separation of powers—and how progressives have methodically chipped away at these bedrock principles to consolidate power in a government detached from those it is supposed to serve.Ideologies that attempt to supplant private decision-making with centralized state control cannot persist in a free society without pervasive deception and state-sanctioned violence. Buck argues we are closer to the tipping point than most Americans realize. This book is about recognizing warning signs while there is still time. It is about understanding how we arrived at a system that cannot seem to stop spending. And it is about what must change if we want to preserve a country where government exists to serve the people.The threat to America has never been greater. The United States is on the precipice of defaulting on its national debt, losing the dollar bankruptcy of Social Security and Medicare, and becoming isolated from once-close trading partners. While the left cheers America’s demise so it can further suppress liberty, the world order will fall into a nuclear armed chaos. The time to act is now, and this book will arm every citizen with the knowledge and strategy to make a difference.THE MACHINE DOES NOT SLOW DOWN UNLESS IT IS FORCED TO. THE BUCK STOPS HERE!The facts around spending are grim. The United States debt continues to rise. We are not cutting nearly enough to make it stop. Entitlement programs continue to grow, and members of Congress who insist that we do something about it are often told that they’re “not being team players.” The only way to restore sanity is to keep digging, keep paying attention, and keep spreading the message that we need to take responsibility for the money we spend as citizens of the United States. If not, we will be setting up our children, our grandchildren, and our great grandchildren for disaster.To stop that from happening, citizens should demand that Congress do the following now:Make DOGE permanent; publish what they uncovered and what they cut.Take steps to stop spending more than we take in, while acknowledging thatwe probably can’t do it for decades.Eliminate all earmarks and pet-project spending.Produce serious committee oversight plans that are focused on real problems.Close the Department of Education.Find more agencies that need to be defunded, returning the United States to rule by “democracy” instead of “bureaucracy.”These steps might seem huge, but they aren’t. If nothing else, they are a start. If we’re going to begin seriously addressing the spending problem in this country, it will need to start with citizens, not members of Congress. The work Elon Musk did with DOGE was an important and heroic start to this fight. Now the rest of us need to finish it.But first, we need to wake up and realize that something is wrong.The rise of socialism—which seems so alluring at first, just like so many terrible ideas from throughout history—will be the death of freedom.IT IS UP TO US TO STOP IT!GET INVOLVED TODAY!