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Tune into CSC Talk Radio today for the Home on the RANGE segment with Bill Bullard of R-CALF USA, who joins hostess Beth Ann to talk MCOOL, The Packers and Stockyards Act, and much more! The show starts at 8:06 Pacific time and is sponsored by Loving Liberty Network.
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Back in the Saddle... After a whirlwind of life events, we're back with RANGE magazine! Check out our fave photo from the Outback Roundup. "Small cowboy, big country" steals the show. See more: https://t.co/a4a5WeEbYc Share with friends and family...

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A quick note from the publisher introducing our weekly newsletter. https://t.co/6xuUyXgsPv

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Last call for the photo contest... send in your entries, win fortune (a little) and fame (a little more).
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Trump administration delays grizzly Endangered Species Act decision to December https://t.co/a8Dv7ypZsE via @WY_Boomerang

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Today would be a good day to call your senators and representatives.
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Texas Governor Issues Disaster Declaration Over Spread of Parasitic Screwworm https://t.co/Kz42qigA2E via @epochtimes

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Rethinking sustainability: The untold benefits of cattle ranching in the American West https://t.co/Mfv6Dp58jm

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God help us all! Pray that HB 9 dies 🙏

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David Knight & Mark Herr ~ “Dead Man Talking” What Govt Doesn’t Want You... https://t.co/x29E0TlMKH via @YouTube

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Legislation to Delist the Mexican Wolf Advances, Offering Long-Overdue Relief to Cattle Producers https://t.co/YFVA4tXYAq

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@Rainmaker1973 There are thousands of formations like that in the American Southwest.

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Texas Governor Issues Disaster Declaration Over Spread of Parasitic Screwworm https://t.co/Kz42qigA2E via @epochtimes

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1860s-1880s American West. The U.S. government has a problem: Plains Indians maintain independence through bison hunting.

Approximately 30-60 million bison provide meat year-round. Plains Indians need nothing from the U.S. government.

Complete nutritional independence enables political independence.

The military solution: Eliminate the bison. Systematically.

General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1868: "The quickest way to compel the Indians to settle down to civilized life was to send ten regiments of soldiers to the plains, with orders to shoot buffaloes until they became too scarce to support the redskins."

He wasn't being metaphorical. This was official policy.

1870-1883: Commercial hunters, often with military support, killed 50+ million bison.

Not for meat - most carcasses were left to rot. For hides, sure. But primarily: To eliminate Plains Indians' food source.

By 1884: Fewer than 300 bison remained in North America.

Plains Indians, forced onto reservations, received government rations: Flour, sugar, lard. Minimal meat.

The transformation was immediate and devastating.

Sitting Bull, 1883: "Our people were healthy and strong before the white man came. Now they are sick and weak."

Reservation agents documented the change: Diabetes appeared. Obesity emerged. Dental health collapsed. Chronic diseases proliferated.

All within one generation of dietary change.

From bison-based diet (primarily meat and fat) to government rations (primarily flour and sugar).

Military reports noted that Plains Indians on reservations were physically weaker than previous generations. Less capable of resistance.

This wasn't accidental. It was the goal.
Eliminate the bison, force grain dependency, eliminate resistance capacity.

The strategy worked perfectly. No major Plains Indian uprising after 1890.
Not because they accepted subjugation. Because they lacked the physical capacity to sustain prolonged resistance.

The bison elimination was genocide through nutrition. Destroy the food source that enables independence, replace with rations that create dependency and weakness.

It's documented explicitly in military correspondence. The goal was stated openly.

Modern American history teaches the bison elimination as environmental disaster or economic shift.

It was deliberate nutritional suppression to eliminate political resistance.

The Plains Indians understood this. Their oral histories are explicit about the connection between bison elimination and population weakening.

But American historical narrative prefers the environmental story. Less uncomfortable than admitting we starved populations into submission using grain rations.

The experiment worked. The results were documented.

Remove the meat source. Provide grain. Watch physical capacity collapse.

Plains Indians went from warrior cultures dominating the Great Plains to reservation populations with catastrophic health outcomes in one generation.

The variable: Diet changed from bison to flour.

That's not coincidence. That's cause and effect.

The bison elimination proved what every empire has known: Control protein access, control political capacity.

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🚨BREAKING: Utah just advanced HB179 to legalize raw milk sales without a permit.

Unanimous vote out of the House Health & Human Services Committee.

“This bill removes the permit requirement entirely.”

Full vote next.

🇺🇸 FOOD FREEDOM IS HOT IN 2026!

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@daily_cowboy He's right. What the hell?

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Legislation to Delist the Mexican Wolf Advances, Offering Long-Overdue Relief to Cattle Producers https://t.co/YFVA4tXYAq

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(Washington, D.C., January 22, 2026) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is launching a new online portal to streamline reporting of transactions involving U.S. agricultural land by foreign persons, which can include businesses and governments, under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (AFIDA). The new online portal is part of a broader effort to strengthen enforcement and protect American farmland as USDA continues its implementation of theNational Farm Security Action Plan (PDF, 1.2 MB).

Learn more here: https://t.co/fSFNrPVSNg

#LibertyMatters #USDA #Agriculture #land

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Shock New Report Lays Out the Full Scale of Environmental Damage Caused by Onshore Wind Turbines https://t.co/faKxpq9F7v