Wolf Reintroduction Comments, Protect Kids Colorado, and Detransitioner Voices

Broadcasting from Virginia Macha’s office in eastern Kansas, Kim Monson welcomes USMC Memorial Foundation president Paula Sarlls, Protect Kids Colorado board member Patty McKernan, Wild Skies owner Lisa Bennett, Spartan Defense co-owner Teddy Collins, and mother-of-a-detransitioner Mary Buchanan for a Friday show built around public comment periods, ballot initiatives, and the fight to defend land, liberty, and children.

USMC Memorial Golf Tournament and the Meaning of Remembrance

Start listening at 11:05 – Hour 1

Paula Sarlls, president of the USMC Memorial Foundation and a Gold Star wife, previews the foundation’s third annual golf tournament on May 14 at the Ridge at Castle Pines. Registration opens at 7 a.m. with an 8 a.m. shotgun start, and lunch-only guests can participate by donating $50 online at usmcmemorialfoundation.org and writing “lunch” in the comments.

Sarlls explains that proceeds support ongoing care of Colorado’s official Marine Memorial, including the in-progress remodel. Her closing message widens the memorial’s mission beyond the Marine Corps: say the names of those who serve and those who have served, because remembrance is foundational to America’s history.

“The importance of the memorial is to remember all who serve, and that’s our motto. It’s not just for Marines, but don’t forget the people that are serving today and all those that have served.”

Paula Sarlls, President, USMC Memorial Foundation

March for Life Returns to the Capitol Steps

Start listening at 18:22 – Hour 1

Patty McKernan, a board member of Protect Kids Colorado, previews the Denver March for Life on April 17, starting with Mass at the Cathedral followed by a prayer rally, a 10 a.m. concert on the Capitol steps, and an 11 a.m. speaker program featuring Chelsea Mink of Castle Rock Women’s Health, Archbishop Golka, Auxiliary Bishop Rodriguez, Sister Mary Grace of the Sisters of Life, and Brandy Bradley of Save the Storks. The march itself steps off at noon and loops the Capitol and Civic Center Park.

McKernan ties the day’s witness to the three Protect Kids Colorado ballot measures that will face voters in November: life-in-prison penalties for child sex traffickers, single-sex school sports and spaces, and a ban on transition surgeries for minors. She also flags a bill moving through the Capitol that would mandate abortion medication on college campuses.

“They’re just very, very everyday issues that 80 to 90% of us believe in. But we have that little sliver at the Capitol that continues to use their chisels to try to chisel away at our children and our freedoms.”

Patty McKernan, Board Member, Protect Kids Colorado

Wolf Reintroduction and the Federal Comment Period

Start listening at 34:24 – Hour 1

Lisa Bennett, owner of Wild Skies in the Flat Tops of northwestern Colorado, walks listeners through the public comment window now open on Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program. The 2020 ballot initiative passed by just over a point, and Bennett notes that every county where the wolves were released had voted against reintroduction. With the original $2.1 million allocation long exhausted, the federal review is asking whether the 10(i) rule weakened Endangered Species Act protections, whether lethal control should be allowed, whether the three-year timeline was too rushed, whether the environmental review was adequate, and whether the larger Canadian wolves should have been imported at all.

Bennett, whose 15-year-old daughter Nicole once drove a Montana ballot initiative on mandatory bar association membership after the state’s 1972 constitutional rewrite, uses the wolf debate to warn about constitutional amendments generally. She points to John Eastman‘s recent disbarment as a cautionary example of how mandatory bar membership can punish lawyers who take on controversial clients.

“We need to think about our ag and ranchers and put them first over our tree-hugging, loving wolf fans out there.”

Lisa Bennett, Owner, Wild Skies

Spartan Defense, SD4, and the Taxpayer Pledge

Start listening at 64:02 – Hour 2

Teddy Collins, co-owner of Spartan Defense in Colorado Springs and now the only Republican candidate for Senate District 4 after the state assembly, comes on after a week that included the birth of his son and a trip to the Capitol to testify. Collins has signed the Colorado Union of Taxpayers pledge to protect TABOR, property rights, and parental rights, joining a field of 152 bills CUT has taken positions on out of the 661 introduced this session.

Spartan Defense carries 28 state-exclusive brands including Staccato, Atlas, and Logo Alien, and Collins emphasizes hiring veterans and first responders so customers get advice from people who have used the products in real life. He will appear next Friday on the show’s Dream Team segment with Cain of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado, Federalist Papers instructor Allen Thomas, and Ben Williams of Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling.

“We need to protect the taxpayers’ money and protect their pocketbooks, and it’d be good to see people from both sides of the aisle sign that pledge.”

Teddy Collins, Co-Owner, Spartan Defense

A Mother’s Fight and the Voices of Detransitioners Event

Start listening at 75:47 – Hour 2

Mary Buchanan tells the story of her daughter, socially transitioned in fifth grade under a secret gender support plan that ended with a suicide attempt, a 72-hour mental health hold, and a homecoming bag containing boys’ underwear and instructions on chest binding and cross-sex hormones. Four years of homeschooling, alternative therapy, and steady refusal to affirm the new identity brought her daughter back.

Buchanan invites listeners to the Voices of Detransitioners event on Sunday, April 19, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Inverness Hotel in Englewood. Hosted by Partners for Ethical Care and Transition Justice, the $25 lunch-included ticket supports 12 detransitioners flying in from around the country, including Colorado panelists Antoinette De La Cruz and Laurel Herbert. Details and registration are at partnersforethicalcare.com.

“Your kids need to hear it. The more that they hear, because they’re surrounded by people who just are affirming these delusions and these lies. And the more that they hear that, the more they think it’s true. So they need somebody in their life that is willing to say, no, this is not reality.”

Mary Buchanan, Parent Advocate

A Kansas Property Rights Network and the Southwest Power Pool Aftermath

Start listening at 01:13 – Hour 1

Virginia Macha, founder of Stand 4 the Land Kansas, hosts Kim for the entire broadcast from her eastern Kansas office as the Stand 4 the Land Kansas network expands across the Midwest. Macha reports that Thursday’s show and the accompanying Kim Monson Newsroom article on the Southwest Power Pool‘s $8.6 billion 765-kilovolt buildout lit up her phone overnight. A planned NextEra meeting with Rice County landowners collapsed when company officials failed to appear, stranding hundreds of residents who had put aside soccer games, baseball games, and family obligations to be there.

Macha traces the tax-credit architecture funding the industrial solar and transmission expansion through property tax abatements at the county level and transferable cash credits at the state level, arguing that Kansas counties are being bankrupted by codified tariffs that shift the load onto local property owners. She pledges to build out the investigation with Kim through the expanding Stand 4 the Land network.

“Going back and just touching, brushing up, reading a few things out of the Federalist Papers and reading the Constitution and reading what these founding fathers were about, it was about ownership of land and securing your freedom by owning land and that opportunity is fading every day in America and we must secure it or we have no American dream here.”

Virginia Macha, Founder, Stand 4 the Land Kansas