Property Rights, Classic Cars, and the Assault on Freedom of Mobility

On April 15, 2026, Kim Monson marks Tax Day with a lineup that connects Colorado’s split-rate property tax bill, a Minnesota crackdown on classic cars, and the broader World Economic Forum push to strip ordinary Americans of the property and mobility they still own. Mike Rawluk, Lauren Fix, Trent Loos, Melissa Ogburn, Lorne Levy, and Carl Jones each show a different facet of the same fight.

Light as Security and the Return of Consumer Choice

Start listening at 10:22 – Hour 1

Carl Jones, owner of Radiance Power, opens the show with a practical case for investing in outdoor and accent lighting. Jones argues that modern LED fixtures have eliminated the energy penalty that once made homeowners hesitant to leave lights on, and he points to neighborhoods being canvassed by thieves looking for dark houses as evidence that security lighting is a safety investment, not a luxury.

Jones walks listeners through the color-temperature spectrum, from warm 2,700-kelvin tones to the cooler 6,000-kelvin range, explaining how a little extra money on selectable bulbs restores the warm glow most homeowners remember from incandescents. Kim Monson ties the technical discussion to the larger point she keeps returning to all morning: consumer choice matters, and government had no business dictating which bulbs Americans could buy in the first place.

“A lot of homes usually don’t have adequate lighting when it was built. You’ll get the occasional light around the front, the garage, and then the back porch, but a lot of times houses need more than that.”

Carlton Jones, Owner, Radiance Power

Grassroots Organizing for Life, Faith, Family, and Freedom

Start listening at 19:39 – Hour 1

Melissa Ogburn, founder and president of United Community Leaders of Colorado, invites listeners to a free meet-and-mingle at Moore Coffee House in Greenwood Village on Saturday, April 18, from 2 to 4 p.m. Ogburn describes UCLC as a 501(c)(4) forum where grassroots organizations that defend life, faith, family, and freedom can share resources and coordinate.

Ogburn tells Kim Monson that she started the group four years ago after watching Colorado drift in the wrong direction and deciding she could no longer sit on the sidelines. The Saturday event is designed for people who want to plug in with organizations already fighting for parental rights and the sanctity of life, and Ogburn urges anyone considering involvement to show up even without an RSVP.

“We’re not defending life or faith or family or freedom in Colorado. It’s been a trend in the wrong direction, and I finally got to the point where I thought I can no longer just sit by the sidelines and watch what’s happening.”

Melissa Ogburn, Founder and President, United Community Leaders of Colorado

HB26-1119 and the Split-Rate Property Tax Fight

Start listening at 23:25 – Hour 1

Mike Rawluk of the Ralston Valley Coalition breaks the news that House Bill 26-1119 is being heard in the House Finance Committee on the day of the broadcast. The bill would let Colorado counties assess vacant land at a higher mill levy than improved land, a scheme Rawluk calls “using taxes to shape behavior” and punishing owners who simply cannot build yet.

Rawluk notes that the bill purports to exempt agricultural and mining land but leans on increasingly vague rural zoning definitions, and he takes apart the sponsors’ citation of economist Milton Friedman, pointing out that Friedman’s stray comment about split-rate levies being “one of the least bad taxes” hardly amounts to an endorsement. He pairs the policy critique with an example from Nevada City, Nevada, where a 300-foot data-center setback from residential zones created a gap for mixed-use districts, a loophole he surfaced through non-adversarial public comment rather than combat. Kim Monson confirms Colorado Union of Taxpayers has taken a majority position in opposition, citing the Colorado Assessors Association’s please-kill on the bill.

“If I bought my land and I’m not ready to build on it yet, you’re going to penalize me because it’s empty.”

Mike Rawluk, Ralston Valley Coalition

Minnesota’s Classic Car Crackdown and the Kill Switch Agenda

Start listening at 36:20 – Hour 1

Lauren Fix, founder of Car Coach Reports, explains that Minnesota HF 3865 would rewrite the state’s historic vehicle rules to allow classic cars on the road only during daylight hours on Saturdays, and only for parades and car shows. Fix warns that collector-car states from California to New Jersey typically copy whatever passes in one jurisdiction, and Colorado owners should expect the same restrictions to arrive here.

Fix then walks Kim Monson through Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which required automakers to develop “advanced impaired driving prevention technology” that could detect alcohol and driver impairment at the push-button start. She documents $45 million in federal funding routed between 2022 and 2025 and $100 million more flowing through nonprofits like Driver Alcohol Detection Systems LLC, with Mothers Against Drunk Driving and allied groups lobbying to keep the money coming.

Fix argues the technology punishes sober drivers under a presumption of guilt, pointing out that even hand sanitizer can trigger a false positive and that no reset protocol has been built into the software. She urges listeners to follow Representative Representative Thomas Massie and Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, who have been trying to defund the program.

“You putting it on a new car makes you guilty until proven innocent. So you buy a brand new car. You don’t drink. I don’t drink. And then I get in the car and it says, oh, you can’t. You seem stressed today.”

Lauren Fix, Founder, Car Coach Reports

Mortgage Market Volatility in the Iran War Era

Start listening at 65:01 – Hour 2

Lorne Levy of Polygon Financial Group reports that mortgage rates have ticked down slightly over the past several days as Iran war volatility continues to shape the market. Refinances are running ahead of purchases, and Levy says some homebuyers are holding back because of gasoline prices and general economic uncertainty.

Levy recounts a listener who recently sent over a mortgage statement for a family member who is not yet in a position to refinance. The family is now on his watch list, a reminder that preparation pays off when rates move. He notes that he works with lenders in 49 states and can match borrowers to specialists who understand W-2 earners, self-employed clients, and real-estate investors.

“There’s a lot of different lenders out there that specialize and have better opportunities or better guidelines that favor certain people. That’s the point of having all these different lenders at our disposal.”

Lorne Levy, Mortgage Specialist

Farrowing, Fur Bans, and the Fight Against “You Will Own Nothing”

Start listening at 72:06 – Hour 2

Trent Loos, Nebraska rancher and longtime broadcaster, opens with calving season and a hard story about a first-litter sow that killed several of her own pigs overnight. Loos uses the moment to tie species behavior to Colorado’s abortion regime, noting that almost no other animals kill their own young and that one million American babies are still being aborted each year.

Loos then traces the effort to ban fur sales in Denver and the earlier wolf reintroduction campaign back to the same well-funded globalist interests, arguing that animal rights rhetoric is cover for a broader effort to eliminate private ownership. He points to Larry Fink of BlackRock, now chairing the World Economic Forum, and connects the dots from the Colorado fur fight to BlackRock’s 7 percent stake in Repsol, the Spanish energy giant behind many Wyoming wind projects.

Loos closes with a Nevada case where Meta, working with the Bureau of Land Management, is seeking to install 2,252 satellite dishes on federal land in White Pine County, a public-private partnership his friend Hank Vogler first surfaced. Loos contrasts the five years of environmental review a gold mine would face with the accelerated path granted to the Meta project, calling public-private partnerships an arrangement where “the private component makes the money and the public takes the risk.”

“They are funded by global interests who want to eliminate ownership of all things. And going after fur-bearing animals, going after fur, period, is just an easy way to generate sentiment to put the camel’s nose under the tent.”

Trent Loos, Nebraska Rancher and Broadcaster