Katie Herzog is a coward that doesn't understand how calendars work.
Katie Herzog is a coward that doesn't understand how calendars work.
Or, at least, pretends not to understand when it's convenient for her narrative.
Previously, I debunked “journalist” Katie Herzog’s claim that I exaggerated being chased by a Black Lives Matter mob in Dallas Texas.
I also debunked Katie’s narrative that I was a lone crazy person getting a no trespass order at a school board meeting when, in fact, I was engaging in planned activism with the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire against a school board that covered up that teachers were sexually molesting students.
And that’s an important piece for this next component. That school board meeting took place in December 2021. After she told this story in the podcast, Katie goes on to imply that this was around the time that I left the Republicans to join the Libertarians, and instantly conned myself into getting nominated for Governor.
The problem is that I had joined the Libertarians 8 months prior to this occurring.
Let’s walk through the real story that Katie didn’t bother to look into.
When Katie Herzog was working on her hitpiece, she emailed me asking for a timeline of when I joined the Libertarians. I immediately responded noting that I had joined in April of 2021 and laid out how and why. I will provide receipts for everything I told Katie in this article to back up what I said.
But first, we have to go back.
When I left the Democratic Party and joined the #WalkAway campaign in 2020, a lot of people made the assumption that I had become a Republican or conservative.
Those people were wrong.
In fact, I went out of my way constantly to remind people that I wasn’t either and had remained independent. I had left the left - I didn't join the right. This is a clip from a speech I gave at the #WalkAway March on Washington in October of 2020:
All throughout 2020, I thought I could best be described as a Libertarian, mostly because I didn’t really care what other people did or how they lived their lives as long as they didn’t force anything on me.
But then there was this tweet from the Libertarian Party nominee for President:
I later learned she didn’t even send this tweet (a staffer had). But nonetheless, I completely turned off my brain to anything involving the Libertarian Party if they were going to advance the messaging of the woke left. They simply weren’t an option for me after that point.
So, once the election was over, I felt like I didn’t really have many choices. It was either stay independent or try my best to fit in with an imperfect Republican party that I didn’t really feel represented me, but that maybe could be used to fight for the issues I cared about (keep that issues piece in mind - that will come up later).
At that time, advancing state legislation to ban critical race theory from the classroom was the issue I cared most strongly about and I happened to live in a state that introduced the first state-level ban in the country - New Hampshire. I took up that cause, trying to rally as much support for that bill as I could. More on that in a moment.
But first, we have to talk about Lauren Witzke.
Lauren Witzke is a psychopath that somehow managed to become the Republican nominee for senate in Delaware (probably because she’s thin and blonde). And she also called for the deportation of my husband on Twitter.
My specific husband.
Her account has since been suspended (too bad, so sad) but here are some tweets I sent at the time about the incident (this was before I learned to screenshot everything).
Lauren also declared that I would NEVER be a Republican and all that stood between that and me proving her wrong was to take a 15-minute trip to town hall and fill out a form.
I was scheduled to appear with her in a debate on Slightly Offensive the following week on whether LGBT people should be “allowed” in the MAGA movement (don’t even get me started on how twisted I thought this topic was to begin with) and I knew I wanted to break Lauren.
So, I registered as a Republican just to spite her. And I tweeted my intention to do so:
Two days later, I went to town hall and changed my registration from independent to Republican.
The timing of this change was entirely to be able to spite Lauren Witzke in the debate, in which I also broke her by reminding her that I was the one with the husband while she was lonely and unloved.
After this happened, Lauren complained about me for three straight days in her Telegram group and on Gab. Mission accomplished.
Given this clear sequence of events that is publicly available on my Twitter for anyone to find, I asked Katie Herzog via email if she stuck by her reporting (I’ll post the full email I sent her at the bottom of this article.
She is a coward and did not respond for comment.
But then something funny happened: A few weeks later, the New Hampshire Libertarian Party NOTAed Nick Sarwark.
Katie asked about this point in my email. I explained what that means to her:
I was working on lobbying for the anti-CRT bill in New Hampshire when this happened. Here is the testimony that I gave to the house committee on it in February 2021 and another stream where I was lobbying support for it, also in February 2021. I even went on Glenn Beck’s show to talk about it:
During this time, I was in pretty constant communication with several of the state’s liberty Republicans. These are mostly Libertarians and Free Staters who are registered as a Republican to get elected, and they were the main ones pushing for the legislation I cared most about.
When Nick Sarwark was NOTAed, I started hearing from many of them, including from Michael Yakubovich who pointed me to Michael Heise’s post about it on Facebook.
Michael Heise is the founder of the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus. This was the first time I had heard of it.
A week after this (just like I told Katie), I had beers and a pretzel with two of the Mises Caucus Recruiters in New Hampshire. We took a photo together to taunt Nick Sarwark with on Twitter:
They gave me a pamphlet and explained the platform of the Mises Caucus, which was strictly zero identity politics. These were the first non-woke Libertarians I had ever met. I took their information and started researching them on my own, watching videos of Dave Smith, one of the lead influencers of the Mises Caucus.
About a month later, on April 24, 2021, I spoke at an anti-CRT rally to support the bill I had spent so much time supporting for the last few months. And in that speech, I took Republican Governor Chris Sununu to task for watering down and destroying the beautiful anti-CRT bill that the liberty Republicans had introduced. Here’s a clip:
I also wrote about this on substack.
This is all particularly inconvenient for Katie’s story
Katie wants you to believe that the only reason I joined the Libertarian Party was because conservatives were mean to me on Twitter and it wasn’t a decision based on policy:
The problem is that the leadup and ultimate decision for me to join the Libertarians was entirely because of policy. I worked hard to lobby for that anti-CRT bill and it wasn’t the Democrats that watered it down, it was the Republicans. They made excuse after excuse after excuse. I recently discussed this on a show:
Via email, I asked Katie if she stood by her reporting regarding the timeline of events:
Katie Herzog is a coward and did not respond to my request to comment.
New Hampshire’s liberty activists are the greatest in the world.
I joined the Libertarians not only because the New Hampshire Libertarians had proven themselves non-woke to me, not only because I agreed with them on policy, but also because they are the people who get shit done. They show up. They rally. They engage in activism. And I knew I was an activist. Not an influencer, not a media commentator - I was an activist. I wanted to make change and solve problems, not make money off of talking about the problems and complaining about them like Katie’s IDW.
On the evening of the rally (again, that was April, 24 2021) I went to the New Hampshire Mises Caucus Meetup at Murphy’s Taphouse in Manchester, NH, and I told the organizers I was done with the GOP. I came home with a new hoodie and proudly showed it off on Twitter.
I had also met the organizers of Porcfest - Carla Gericke and Dennis Pratt - at the rally and at the Mises Caucus meet up that night, respectively. They both invited me to speak at the annual festival celebrating the Free State Project. The next morning, I bought tickets to Porcfest 2021:
A few weeks later, I paid dues into the Libertarian National Party, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire and the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania (story on that one in a moment). I also became a monthly donor to the Mises Caucus PAC to support Michael Heise’s work in taking over the Libertarian Party.
Here’s receipts for all of those, with date stamps:
Why Pennsylvania? Because it was one of the key battleground states for the Reno Reset takeover. We suffered a loss there in 2021 and we knew we had to come out in force in March 2022 for the state convention just a few months prior to the national convention where the delegate for Reno would be elected. Luckily, at that time, Pennsylvania allowed out-of-staters to become members. So, a bunch of us from LPNH signed up and planned to make the trip. I also covered what happened at the 2022 convention on Odysee (this is a recording of it that I watch the week after the convention as a recap).
Another fun fact: Katie (badly) covered the coup of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire in her smear piece on me. But I was the very first person on the Internet to post about it, just hours after it started in June 2021. It’s how I know how much Katie got wrong in her reporting on it.
I was the first to get the story because I was there when it happened. I’m on the communications committee and the group chat started buzzing as soon as the accounts started being locked down. Within hours, I broke the news of what was going on from a direct, insider perspective:
I have a whole playlist on the event here. Perhaps Katie could have availed herself of my journalism in her own reporting. It would have been a whole lot more accurate than it was.
I asked Katie Herzog for comment, given the timeline and evidence clearly points to the fact that I had irreconcilable policy differences with the GOP, and the Libertarians were the only ones doing activism on the issues that I cared about.
Katie Herzog is a coward and did not respond for comment.
It was always policy, Katie.
All of this is to say that I have a well-documented history of being involved with the LPNH, The Mises Caucus, the Free State Project, and the Libertarian National party dating back to March of 2021 when I met with their recruiters (just like I told Katie), joining in April 2021 (just like I told Katie), and having it clearly be for policy and activism reasons, not just because conservatives on Twitter have feelings.
I’m in constant communication with the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Mises Caucus. We have group chats where we talk all day. And, we do fun activities together, like going to school board meetings to protest teachers sexually molesting students to #MakeTyrantsAfraidAgain (and we’re going to keep doing it whether Katie likes it or not).
So, how’d I get nominated for Governor?
Exactly how I explained in this video. And if Katie Herzog has questions about any of it, she is welcome to fact check it with the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire to ask them, which she never bothered to do for her original piece. Katie made all these assumptions about my direct involvement in the party since I joined it, and she didn’t even bother.
Anyway, here’s the story:
In fact, I was so serious about running for Governor that in my acceptance speech for the nomination at convention, I told people that my platform would be to vote for Jeremy for Senate. That’s because that was the focus of where the resources were going to go, and it was always supposed to be that way from the beginning.
Katie also seems to think that my tweets are the make or break element in my campaign for Governor, rather than all of the work I did with parents around the state regarding the anti-CRT legislation that started in February 2021. What Katie doesn't acknowledge is that I’m currently polling at 8% in New Hampshire. That might not seem like much until you consider that the last Libertarian running for Governor in New Hampshire got less than 2% of the vote, and we only need 4% for ballot access.
This polling information would have been available to Katie had she actually decided to do journalism. It was reported in the New Hampshire Union Leader on July 11, 2022.
I asked Katie Herzog if tweets are all that matter, how she explains this polling.
Of course, since Katie Herzog is a coward, she did not respond for comment.
While Katie was reading the platform on my website, she made this equipt about me opposing “anti-white” programs.
I found this to be a particularly interesting lapse in journalist integrity since I had proactively emailed Katie direct evidence that I do not use the term “anti-white” because it is being co-opted by very bad people. She knew (or should have known) that not only do I not use that term myself, I do not allow it to be used in my community or on any of my platforms because of the type of toxic element it attracts. I would encourage Katie to stop using it as well.
Katie, of course, ignored that evidence and didn’t mention it at all. You can read the article I sent her here.
Finally, Katie ends by noting that people who hate me and they’re pretty sure I’m just making all this up and haven’t really been involved with the Libertarians at all and will surely leave for the Green party at any moment.
The fact is that Keri Smith escalated in targeting me as soon as she realized I had been nominated for Governor because it was proof that the narrative she’s been trying to craft about me (the one that Katie completely bought into) for almost two years is a lie. She and her horde of friends started losing it the moment they found out I was nominated for Governor. Josh Slocum was one of those people (Keri RTed this tweet, but his account has since been suspended so I can’t show that evidence anymore).
Keri is so unhinged about me that she throws a hissy fit if her Twitter handle is tagged in the same tweet as mine because she’s pissed off that a meme was made making fun of her insanity six months prior.
Keri Smith has been tweeting nonsense about me since October of 2020, but in December of 2020 it really started to escalate with her posting an essay on the substack equating me with her abusive mother.
I’ve spoken to Keri Smith three or four times in my entire life.
In February of 2022, I documented just a few months of her attacks in a 3.5 hour live stream. You can see the evidence for yourself.
And, as a reminder, Keri Smith was threatened with a defamation lawsuit by her former boss for doing the exact same thing to him that she’s been doing to me for almost two years. You can see the documentation here.
I also asked Katie if she had bothered to contact anyone in the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, the LNC, the Mises Caucus, or the free state project, or if all of her sources are people like Keri Smith who have been smearing me on the internet for two years? Did Katie even try to be a balanced journalist, or would she admit to creating a smear piece?
Of course, Katie Herzog is a coward and did not respond for comment.
Here is the full email I sent Katie Herzog yesterday giving her yet another chance to retract her podcast now that I’ve debunked the majority of claims she made in it (and I’m not done yet).
She, of course, is a coward and did not respond for comment.
Watch the full stream I did debunking Katie’s shotty reporting on the fly here. The supplementary material above backs up everything I said happened.