Dad, husband, Chmn of Knox Cty TN Repub Party, biz owner, atty, fmr Knox TN State Rep, advocate for smaller, transparent gov’t, ind'l rights, & free econ mkts.
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Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
The greatest heist in world history...
Seven men boarded a private railroad car in New Jersey on the night of November 22, 1910, under fake names, and by the time they reached Jekyll Island, Georgia, they had begun drafting the legislation that would hand control of American money to the banks that needed controlling.
Nelson Aldrich organized the trip. He was a Rhode Island senator, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., and the chairman of the National Monetary Commission. He brought Paul Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, Frank Vanderlip of National City Bank, Henry Davison of J.P. Morgan and Company, and a handful of other men whose combined institutions held one-quarter of the world's investable wealth. They told no one. They used first names only on the island. The servants who staffed the Jekyll Island Club were replaced before arrival.
The cover story, once the trip leaked years later, was that these men gathered to reform a broken banking system for the public good. How generous of them.
They built a cartel with a government badge. The Federal Reserve would act as a lender of last resort, meaning your tax dollars and your inflated purchasing power would backstop the riskiest decisions made by the largest banks. Smaller banks, those that competed with Morgan and Rockefeller institutions, would face reserve requirements Washington enforced on their behalf. Credit expansion, which produces the boom-bust cycle you live through every decade, would now operate through a centralized mechanism immune from market discipline.
Warburg, who had spent years lobbying for a European-style central bank in America, drafted the core structure. Aldrich carried it to Congress. Congress passed it as the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913, after many members had already left Washington for Christmas recess.
The scheme operated through rhetorical genius. They named it a reserve system, implying caution. They called it federal, implying public ownership. A private banking cartel now possessed the legal authority to manufacture money. You have been paying the interest on that arrangement ever since.
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
My coworker spent one year in Tennessee.
He came back to Tokyo two months ago.
He is not the same man.
He says "y'all" in meetings. To our boss.
He holds the door for the entire floor. Twelve people. Every morning.
He asked the convenience store clerk how her day was going. She had to sit down.
He calls every man "bud." Including the CEO.
He refuses to describe anything under three hours away as "far."
He waves at drivers who let him cross. One driver waved back and almost hit a pole.
Last week, he told a junior employee, "I'm proud of you."
She went to the restroom and cried for ten minutes.
We thought it would wear off.
It didn't. It's spreading.
Three people in accounting now say "y'all."
The junior employee holds the door.
The convenience store clerk asks HIM how his day is going.
Tennessee, I don't know what you did to him.
Please do it to the rest of us.
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
🚨 JUST IN: ANOTHER CARAVAN of migrants just left Mexico's southern border for America and they hope DEMOCRATS WIN THE MIDTERMS, per @Julio_Rosas11
All of America needs to see this and vote RED accordingly!
They know exactly which party opens the borders.
We ALL know an even LARGER caravan would come post-election day
DHS is NOT letting them into the country, under any circumstances, but this is our country in 2029 if Democrats win elections!
And DON'T put it past Dems to try and defund ICE/DHS if they take Congress.
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
Premise:
Incentives drive all human behavior.
The corollary:
How to destroy a country:
A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work.
An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families.
An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country.
Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family.
The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts.
Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies.
The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors.
The state responding to protests by increasing social support.
The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters.
Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy.
Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets.
Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees.
Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation.
Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state.
The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population.
A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare.
The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth.
The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns.
A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population.
The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred.
Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden.
Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above.
The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work.
Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure.
And so on…
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
.@TNDAGC supports Amendment 1 because our district attorneys see firsthand how the TN constitution limits the ability to deny bail except in cases for the death penalty. State law cannot change the words of the constitution, Amendment 1 allows judges the discretion to deny bail for violent crimes as well, like 2nd degree murder, and aggravated child rape. I stand with the prosecutors on the front lines of protecting Tennessee families. If we are serious about crime, then Vote Yes on Amendment 1 - Give our judicial system the tools they need to keep our communities safe.
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
Everybody with common sense should vote Republican in November!
If you don't believe me, just listen to this..
No Socialist/Communist!!
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
It is not a good sign when the IRGC shifts from "Death to America" to "Vote Democratic." The IRGC is reportedly encouraging Americans to vote against the GOP in the midterms. nypost.com/2026/09/29/world-… ...
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
Some will rush to the defense of Christa Pike, but the only ones who matter in this case are Colleen and the Slemmer family. For thirty years the family of Colleen Slemmer has waited for the execution of their daughter’s killer, Christa Pike. Colleen was lured, beaten, tortured, slashed, carved on and then had her skull crushed. This pre-mediated act of violence deserved and received the death penalty. While a few will argue the death penalty isn’t humane - was Colleen’s murder humane? Justice wasn’t carried out last night due to an error. In the coming months, I will work with my senate counterparts to investigate this failure and past failures to make sure this doesn’t happen again. We will look at all options - expanding the alternatives, and changing the current medications to include potassium chloride. Thirty years is too long for justice. My thoughts have been and will remain with the Slemmer family as they continue to grieve.
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
This November, we'll end the threat of socialism in Tennessee by electing Republicans up and down the ballot.
Together, we’ll make Tennessee even stronger and cement our state as America’s conservative leader. Join us!
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
18,530 + illegals removed from Tennessee since January 2025 through nation's strongest state-level enforcement system. Tennessee will not be a sanctuary state. #TNLeads
@CSexton25 @WilliamLamberth @JasonZacharyTN @repmarkcochran
ALT https://tnhousegop.org/press-releases/2026/09/tennessee-deports-18530-illegals-in-partnership-with-ice-builds-nations-strongest-state-level-enforcement-system/
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
Look at this chart.
These are American residency programs.
Red = foreign resident doctors.
Grey = Americans.
Some hospitals are almost 100% foreign. A lot of these doctors came in on visas. Some have been tied to fake credentials and USMLE cheating scandals.
I pay the premiums. I wait months to be seen. Taxpayer-funded Medicare GME money(over $21 billion a year) is training these foreign doctors instead of Americans.
And I DO NOT even trust these doctors !
Why should we keep funding this?
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
🚨 UPDATE — SCOTT JENNINGS DROPPED THIS AND HE'S 100% CORRECT:
"Disagreement with specific Trump policies is NO REASON to vote for Democrats' higher taxes, open borders and radical ideology!" 💯
"Democrats have gone PLUM CRAZY! Just because you have a policy problem here or there with Trump doesn't mean you have to vote for higher taxes and open borders."
Thrusting the communists into power is how you DESTROY America!
Every single person who voted for Trump in 2024 needs to vote for Republicans in 2026. If this happens, we hold the GOP trifecta and save the second half of his term 👏🏻
Imagine a Congress run by Chuck Schumer and Hakeem, NIGHTMARE
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
Every government-issued paper currency in history has collapsed. Every single one.
Rome debased the denarius until it held almost no silver. Weimar Germany printed the mark into oblivion by 1923, destroying middle-class savings in under four years. The Continental dollar, the French assignat, the Zimbabwean dollar, the Venezuelan bolivar. The list runs long and the ending never changes.
Central banks manage fiat currency to fund government spending that tax revenue cannot cover, not to protect your purchasing power. Inflation is a tax. Every dollar created without corresponding production transfers purchasing power from savers to first spenders, which is always the government and its connected institutions.
The dollar has lost over 97% of its purchasing power since the Federal Reserve opened for business in 1913. That loss did not happen accidentally; the Fed ran the printing press, and you absorbed the damage.
Defenders will argue that modern central banking is more sophisticated than Weimar. The math remains identical: spend beyond revenue, monetize the gap, dilute the currency. Sophistication only determines the speed of the destruction.
No fiat currency has ever survived indefinitely. Not one government has voluntarily relinquished the power to inflate. Given those two facts, the current dollar's long-term trajectory requires no guesswork.
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
The West is in the process of destroying itself from within - and Oswald Spengler saw it coming a century ago.
In The Decline of the West (1918), Spengler argued that civilisations rarely perish from external conquest alone. They collapse when they lose faith in their own identity and begin to take pleasure in their own disintegration. Instead of confidently transmitting their traditions, values and achievements, they turn against themselves. They treat their history as a catalogue of crimes, their institutions as systems of oppression, and their core principles as sources of guilt. At that point, they become culturally defenceless.
The modern West displays these symptoms with disturbing clarity. Large parts of its elite actively participate in the vilification of Western civilisation. Western achievements in science, law and liberty are reframed as sources of shame. Mass immigration from incompatible cultures is often presented not as a policy to be managed, but as a form of historical atonement. Criticism of this process is frequently treated as morally illegitimate.
Spengler observed how late-stage democracies tend to become weak and sentimental. They struggle to defend their borders or uphold their own values because doing so conflicts with their self-image as open and non-judgemental. This creates a dangerous asymmetry: while the West engages in relentless self-criticism, other cultures remain far more assertive about preserving their own identity.
Spengler did not believe this process was easily reversed. Once a civilisation loses the will to defend itself, it has already entered its final stage. We are running out of time to prove him wrong.
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
If you had told me that Tennessee would become home to 75,000 Muslims within 25 years of 9/11, I would have scoffed at such a ridiculous notion.
If you then insisted that 44,000 of those Muslims would be foreign-born, I would have balked at the possibility that the federal government would ever support such a nonsensical immigration policy.
And if you told me that the federal government would naturalize 22,000 foreign-born Muslims after 9/11, I would have called you crazy. I would have been unable to fathom the idea that Tennessee would one day be home to 30,000 foreign-born Muslims with naturalized citizenship.
Yet, here we are.
You will never convince me that having a naturalized Muslim population in Tennessee large enough to equal the entire number of active-duty Fort Campbell soldiers is in our best interest.
None of these 75,000 Muslims — regardless of where they were born — belong here.
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
Get the Flock out of Knox County! My last official act as Mayor was signing this ordinance prohibiting agencies of Knox County government from using fixed ALPRs. Thank you to County Commission for standing strong in defense of Liberty!
Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
“We’ve swapped genuine cultural icons who understood hardship and family sacrifice for hollow corporate influencers who can't recount a single unscripted memory without checking with their publicist first.”
Well said.
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Rep. Martin Daniel retweeted
We could cancel every Flock contract tomorrow, and the surveillance problem remains, because a competitor takes the contract the next day.
The fix isn't a boycott of one vendor. It's a warrant requirement.
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