Six moves, sequenced.
First, the clip pipeline. Take the Payne interview and cut it into five or six segments — the "system left investors high and dry" line, the early-morning U-three halt, the foreign criminals quote, the one-twenty-four-thousand families number, the veterans number. Each clip gets a one-line caption and a link to the full Fox Business video. Post the same day across X, Rumble, and YouTube so the algorithm sees simultaneous distribution. Beard Vet's account is the launch point — his reach multiplies anything he touches first.
Second, the tagging discipline. Every post includes at-signs for SECPaulSAtkins and FINRA, plus the hashtag. Not as spam — as a standing address. The point is that when a journalist or congressional staffer searches the topic, they see the company and the regulators named in the same frame, repeatedly. That's how you make avoidance look like avoidance.
Third, the veteran-to-local pipeline. This is the highest-conversion move because local stations need stories and veterans are their viewers. A shareholder who's also a vet calls their hometown ABC, NBC, or Fox affiliate, says I'm one of eight to ten thousand veterans frozen out since December twenty-twenty-two, attaches the Payne clip, and offers to be on camera. Military-heavy districts — think Texas, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas — are the priority targets. One local hit legitimizes the story for every outlet downstream.
Fourth, the op-ed lane. Target law and market-structure publications, not retail finance sites. The pitch is narrow: FINRA's U-three halt authority was designed for temporary emergencies, and using it to freeze a corporate action with no exit created a permanent no-man's-land that no statute clearly authorizes. That's a real legal question, and law professors and former SEC attorneys will engage with it even if they don't buy the retail narrative. One published op-ed becomes a citable source for every congressional letter that follows.
Fifth, the primary-document feed. FrankNez and similar independent writers move on receipts, not rhetoric. Send them the BlueLedger methodology, the July twenty-eighth Equiniti broker table, McCabe's August seventh letter to Woodcock, the August fourteenth letter to Colby. Each document is its own story — the broker table alone shows registered totals that don't match what shareholders were credited, which is a concrete discrepancy any reporter can verify.
Sixth, the rapid-response protocol. When McCabe's next move drops — the demanded SEC meeting, a new filing, whatever it is — the sequence is fixed: Beard Vet posts within the hour, the clip pipeline activates the same day, local veteran calls go out within forty-eight hours, and the op-ed and document feeds follow within a week. Speed is the differentiator. The January press conference worked partly because it was coordinated and sudden. Scattered posts three days later don't move anything.
The through-line on all six is the same: never lead with emotion, lead with a document or a veteran, and let the emotion be the consequence.
@Genetics56 I just don’t know what would happen with the other sports. You have to find a place for them to play. If I’m the ACC or Big 12 why would you let the other sports participate in their conferences?
@slmandel He won with Coach Cuts players at Duke. The players hated him and were happy to see him go. Came into A&M with a loaded roster. Had some success year one and I’m sure his players are realizing what a asshole he is to play for. Buyout time?
@zing_leo12693 The problem is if the Sec and Atkins meet with MaCabe they have acknowledged the issue and will have to do something to fix it. And after almost 4 years they clearly aren’t trying to acknowledge the issue or fix it. Someone will have to force them to.
#MMTLP
McCabe framed the MMTLP/Next Bridge situation as affecting about 124,000 shareholders and called for a share count, transparency, and a negotiated resolution rather than two extra trading days, which he said would create market chaos. He offered to go to Washington with 24 hours’ notice to sit down with the involved parties.
“I promise you, I’ll never stop fighting for you.”
Last night’s Space with @nbhydrocarbons CEO Greg McCabe, @annvandersteel, and @laralogan was the preview.
Friday is the full #MMTLP interview with Lara and Greg, and everyone should tune in, even if you never owned the stock (trolls are welcome too).
Because the legal filings are the part that do not need a microphone.
If even a small part of what is alleged in the #MMAT Trustee’s complaint against Citadel, Anson and Virtu (who fought tooth and nail to NOT deliver their trading data/record) and what the litigation and discovery process may now surface, holds up, then this story becomes much bigger.
And I doubt those three are the only act on the bill.
In fact, around the 47-minute mark, Lara says it directly: this is impacting an “extraordinary number” of U.S.-listed companies.
She is absolutely right to raise that point.
Because if that is true, then this is not just one shareholder grievance or one unusual market event.
That is a Pandora’s box the financial market system now has to confront.
And when you eventually add crypto, tokenization, and 24/7 markets into that mix... the scale of the problem becomes exponential.
At some point, the machinery around all of this needs a proper reckoning... not another wrist-slap dressed up as “industry self-regulation”, right?
The longer @FINRA’s “financial industry” appears to protect its paying members… ehhh, sorry... nearly said customers!🤣… while retail investors and issuers are left completely in the dark, the harder that model becomes to defend.
And no FINRA FAQ or stonewall can ever truly hide, reconcile, or settle the record after the fact.
If self-regulation means the club looks after the club while everyone outside it absorbs the consequences, that is not regulation. It is a membership organization with a badge.
Now here is the part people should appreciate.
It has taken more than four years to catalogue and map this market plumbing:
-10s of thousands of hours of research by hundreds of members of the MMTLP community.
-Record setting 1,000+ FOIA requests.
-Pro-bono lawyers.
-Media.
-Shareholders.
-Ethical staffers in DC.
And now AI tools...
All working, in one form or another, toward resolution for more than 65,000 families.
And in doing so, I am convinced it can also help educate Congress; so that future generations, entrepreneurs, investors, teachers, veterans, and the middle class more broadly, are better protected.
Listening to yesterday’s Space, I kept thinking... HOW do you explain the #MMTLP fiasco to someone who doesn’t know a CUSIP from a boarding pass?
How do you explain it to someone with no financial background?
-At a family dinner.
-At the bar with friends.
-Over coffee with colleagues.
-Or to a complete stranger.
No technical jargon. No alphabet soup. No market-structure lecture... I’ve admittedly inflicted enough of those on people already! 😎
Just a picture everyone can understand.
So I started placing all the actors we have come across over the last four or five years into one setting. Yes... including the trolls! (You know who you are🧌)
Let’s place all of them in one place:
an airport...
Welcome to MIA:
MARKET INTEGRITY AIRPORT
Where market integrity occasionally goes missing in action.
...your departure board reads:
FLIGHT: MMTLP
DESTINATION: NEXT BRIDGE
GATE: U3
STATUS: HALTED
LUGGAGE: UNRECONCILED
Next post: the airport.
@Giftsonglass They know what they need to do but don’t want to do it. Sorry if it hurts their friends but they made a bad bet and lost. What’s the point of retail investing in the market if they get away with this.
After nearly four years, Next Bridge Hydrocarbons Chairman and CEO Mr. Greg McCabe is breaking his silence and speaking publicly about MMTLP and Next Bridge Hydrocarbons.
@TroyGuist Atkins is just another puppet put in that position. It seems like it’s not in his best interest to do anything with the MMTLP situation because it would hurt his friends on the wrong side of this trade. Gary Gensler was the same way…
$MMTLP Story 4 will resonate with everyone.
This is the story of Richie Fizz, told in his own words.
Richie was suffering from natural bone degeneration in his spine and had endured numerous operations. Yet despite the pain, the challenges and everything he was going through, his determination to make the MMTLP story heard never wavered.
Richie spent countless hours walking the halls of Congress, speaking with lawmakers and sharing the MMTLP story with Members of Congress willing to listen including @RepRalphNorman.
Richie is no longer with us, but his voice, his determination and the work he dedicated himself to will never be forgotten.
His story deserves to be heard.