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01/08/2026

Government Dross Rising Under Heat

To purify gold, one must increase the heat so that the impurities, known as dross, can rise to the top and be scraped off as waste.
Dross is defined as something regarded as worthless; rubbish.
That clearly defines the current leadership in Oregon.

We see headlines about the Medicaid fraud in places like Minnesota, Maine, Ohio, California, and Washington State, and suspect Oregon is just as filthy, and guess what, we’re right.

It’s not making national headlines yet, because, in my opinion, people assume Oregon is as corrupt as the other two left coast states, but less populated.

I interviewed with Oregon Representative Ed Diehl.
He and an independent journalist have been poking around and finding what they say is the same kind of fraud, and on just as large a scale.

As waste, corruption, and manipulation are uncovered, the powers of Hell, like the dross found in the making of gold, must heat up so purification can occur.
Those stuck in the process will scream and claw as they try to preserve their power and egos, but the fire under them will be turned up by them and their folly, so stand guard and don’t get in the way.
They will destroy themselves with arrogance and pride.

This is not a spectator sport.
People all over Oregon are in the fight; they proved that when they slapped the governor in the face, handing her over a quarter of a million signatures, telling her Hell no to the largest tax increase in the state’s history.

Watch what these quasi rulers do out of the corner of your eye, but don’t focus on their destruction.
Remember, they are the ones turning up the heat; you are the pressure cooker using knowledge and your words to call them out.
Seek out new leaders, find new voices of reason to elect into office.
Call out the status quo for the obvious inconsistencies and put their lies on the front pages of social media.

It’s taken decades to get to this point, and it will take time to turn the ship around.
But the captain has lost her bearings and can’t see through the fog she and her minions have created.
Let em sweat.
Push harder.
And keep talking about it.
They are banking on what history proves to be right.
They think time will lessen the blow and that you, the voting public, will forget about their missteps and lies.
Prove them wrong.
Turn up the heat.
And listen carefully.

01/08/2026

A lot of Oregonians are scratching their heads tonight after the Governor announced she wants to resend that tax hike her Democrats passed, and she pushed for, and Oregon voters turned out in huge numbers to reject. What does this all mean? We'll talk with an Oregon legislator to get his opinion.

01/07/2026

"Rocks, Stumps, Roots, Debris? We can help!"

"Dealing with rough, rocky ground? There’s a company that can turn your unusable land into farmable ready to plant soil"
The company is based out of Oregon but we caught up with them, transforming a field, in Montana.
This is not only groundbreaking it’s going to change the way farmers look at their land.

01/07/2026

01/07/2026

Justice For All

For many years, the words “Justice For All” have not meant a whole lot to people who lean more to the right.
We watched the last administration target and even jail those who hold the more conservative view of the world.
I could list case after case, but instead, let’s talk about the house of cards that is falling daily.

The Bongino Report had some interesting headlines.
1. Trump says he’s going after California to look for fraud, the likes of which is bankrupting Minnesota.
2. ICE director Todd Lyons says they are opening the largest immigration operation ever in Minnesota. He says the state’s policies are a magnet for illegal immigration.
3. Hilton removed a Minnesota hotel from its system for denying rooms to immigration authorities.
4. And Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, is under investigation by the DOJ.

The left is losing the public relations war over the capture of the drug lord and former leader of Venezuela, Maduro. Before his capture, more than half of us didn’t think he should be dethroned. Since the operation, “It turns out, Americans like what they deem to be successful foreign policy operations,” CNN data expert Harry Enten said

Despite what some of you think or like to focus on, we don’t hate Democrats.
What we dislike is the dishonesty, destruction, and left-wing policies that they used to destroy our country.

It is so nice to see a drastic change, a calling out of the lies and bu****it, and the American people rejecting policies that just a few short years ago we were hidden by fancy slogans and a lying media.

As we move into 2026, those of us who believe in the truth and justice for all smile as we watch the corruption and deceit catch up with the deceivers.

What changed?�We changed.
Republicans, fed-up Democrats, and a lot of other people who prefer common sense to virtue signaling, put their foot down and said, “No more.”

We’re not done, but we’re making some damn good headway.
Hold on, 2026 is sure to be a year of exposure.

01/06/2026

America Is Moving On

We’ve all experienced people in our lives who drag us down.
We look at the sky and see blue.
They look up and find the one black cloud in the sky.

Americans are ready to move on.
People on the left and right are done with the nay-sayers and doomsday sour mouths that seem to be more like Eeyore than Winnie the Pooh.

Yes, the country is in a rough place.
Corruption and liars seem to grease the system, and it’s easy to get socked into the web of despair.

The reaction, from the extreme left, to the capture of Madora, is a perfect example.
This drug lord/president is a bad man.
He took over the country, sells drugs to the United States, is responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and we’ve got people on the extreme left bitching about his apprehension.

Even their own leaders admitted in the past that this guy had to go.
Biden put a 25 million bounty on Maduro, but didn’t have the balls to back it up with anything but empty words and catchy slogans.

We’ve got fraud being uncovered by independent journalists.
Yep, taxpayers’ dollars are being stolen by Somali’s, and the extreme left works harder to discredit the messengers and protect the thieves than it does to protect taxpayers’ money.

This is no longer about Democrats and Republicans.
Many of my friends who claim “D” status are as done with it as you and I are.
This is about right and wrong.
It’s about far-left extremists and the rest of us.
And it’s time we recognize the difference and stop fighting each other so we can put a stop to the madness.

The true revealer is to listen to what they say and then watch what they do.
Rarely do the two line up.
They claim the other side is destroying democracy, but they turn around and take your rights away.
These are sleight-of-hand type of moves, but you need to pay attention, because the lies reveal the true heart of the extreme left.

Proverbs lists seven things that God hates.
A proud look.
A lying tongue
Hands shedding innocent blood.
A heart devising wicked schemes.
Feet are quick to run to evil.
A false witness breating out lives.
And one who causes strife among brothers.

The shift is happening.
It’s okay to be happy.
It’s our duty to call out those who seek to destroy our way of life.
Silence is the enemy.
Engagement is the key to restoration.
America is moving on.

01/06/2026

I was listening to several interviews today, trying to better understand people on the left. I lived in Oregon most of my life, worked in news and in politics. They say they want to talk, but they really don't. I'm not trying to attack but to better understand.

01/05/2026

Why Am I Such A "Dick?"

Misunderstood is just a way of life for someone who lives in the public eye.
It didn’t give me much grief until I left the television industry and started speaking out about what I saw happening on my podcast and social media.
People liked the guy who never made waves and fed them what they wanted.
When the menu changed, the challengers threw fiery darts to try to silence me.
It hasn’t worked.
I stopped explaining myself for the sake of understanding years ago.
I learned that people who don’t like you, don’t agree with you, or for other reasons dislike you, don’t want to understand you; they want to engage you in a conversation to win.
�Winning what, I’ve never quite figured out, which is why I don’t play the game.
I conduct my research, I understand the truth, and I’m open to people who challenge me without calling names.
As soon as they stoop to middle school tactics, I’m out.
Those who want to convince me I’m wrong, I can smell a mile away.
They don’t want a conversation but instead indoctrination.
Sorry, not interested.

I was recently named “A Dick” by a Eugene tabloid.
The reason they give is that I left Oregon for Montana, but I still talk about Oregon.
If you’re scratching your head, asking “What?”
Me too.
I spent 60-plus years understanding this state as a journalist, a politician, and just a guy.
Why would I stop talking about it now?
Just because you leave a place doesn’t mean you stop fighting for it.
The real reason they call me a “Dick” is that they hate my views.
They despise the truth.
I know where the bones are buried and have connections who trust me.
This is what I do.
This is what I’ve always done.
I’m not going to change because people don’t like it.

I’ve technically been a Dick my whole life.
My real name is Richard.
My parents could have gone with Dick, but chose Rick.
I guess they didn’t want me to take the name “Dick Dancer” and end up in the p**n industry.

It’s crazy we live in a world where an alleged “newspaper” is censoring someone for speaking about their opinions and ideas.
This paper has never liked me and always picked at me, so I think this has more to do with what I believe than it does with me leaving Oregon for Montana.
That’s an excuse and a lame one at that.

For twenty-plus years, I’ve worked to build an audience, mostly in Oregon.
Like the tabloid, our business is to bring in viewers.
By the looks of the number of readers they have versus how many views I get on social media every month, I can see why they might be envious.
But this goes deeper.
They are used to helping to set the agenda for Oregon, and people like me, other voices, other opinions, truth tellers, must be silenced.

A page picked up the story by asking who this “Dick” named Rick Dancer was.
I chimed in a bit and had a few interesting conversations and lots of support.
But the mudslingers also played along.
They claimed to want their questions answered, but most of what I read were not questions but accusations.

The guys at KPNW picked up on the conversation and invited me to join them live this morning to talk about it.
What is it?
I don’t really know.
I feel no need to explain myself, but welcome the chance to have an honest conversation about whatever it is they see fit.
So, here’s to freedom of speech.
They said I’d be on about 7:35 this morning.

I read something in “Streams in the Desert” that fits.
“When nothing whereon to lean remains, When strongholds crumble to dust, When nothing is sure but that God still reigns, that is just the time to trust.”

01/05/2026

WE ARE BACK!
6:00 hour we will be chatting about Venezuela
7:35 Rick Dancer joins us! *He make top 10 Eugene News (it's funny)*
8:35 Director of Athletes at the University of Oregon Rob Mullens will chat with us.
Email your questions to [email protected] - we missed you but not our alarms

01/04/2026

It’s Okay Not To Know

It’s hard to know who or what to believe anymore.
The latest battle is over the situation in Venezuela.
Maduro and his wife, the alleged President of the country, were taken into custody over the weekend.

More right-leaning news organizations report that people in the country are celebrating, while the left goes full steam in the other direction.
You feel like you’re being played?
We probably are, on both sides.

I have no trust in the left-wing machine.
This is what happens when you cry wolf over every single thing Trump does.
Here is something that, to a guy who thinks we need to stay out of other people’s business and instead take care of our own country first, this bothers me.
But I don’t know enough about the history, the plan, or what this all means, YET, to really know.
I have no trust in the left in this country, none.

But my caution is not just based on a lack of trust in the extremes.
I’ve done enough research on 9/11, COVID, Afghanistan, and even older wars and uprisings, not to trust my own government either.

What bothers me most is that as soon as this happens, the little public relations machines crank into full gear.
They say to their leadership, “How can we manipulate the American people to use this to our advantage?”
I’m sick of it.
In 20 years, we’ll have the real answers and find out we were lied to by both sides.
Fortunately, I don’t serve the left, nor do I serve Donald Trump.
I serve God, period.

It’s okay not to have an opinion just yet.
It’s pragmatic to watch from the sidelines, for a while, as pundits on the left and right use intellectual ma********on to try to summon you to their cause.
Don’t go just yet.
Knowledge comes and goes.
Wisdom is for the long haul.
Remember, these people rarely have our best interests at heart.
I know that doesn't sound very optimistic, but after 66 years on this planet, that’s where I’m at.
Power is addictive, and the smallest taste of it can push the liar’s mind into rationalizing that the end justifies the means.

For you and me, that is not the case.
Truth is our measuring stick.
Descernment is more than a feeling; it’s a gift from God.
Could you ask for it and use it?
Social media tries to tell us we need to have an opinion right now.
Wisdom says, let the pundits pout, push, and prod, while we pray.

Proverbs 4 26,27
Consider the path of your feet, and all your ways are established. Do not turn to the right or left, turn your feet away from evil.

01/03/2026

Let Them Say What They Will

Kathy and I were enjoying a beer together last night when she said to me, “Do you see what people are saying about you online?”
There it was on a page, an Eugene tabloid blasting me, for of all things, living in Montana and speaking out on what’s happening in the state I had lived in for over 60 years.
How dare I? LOL

The same people who accuse me of gaslighting and clickbaiting, gaslight me and use me for clickbait.
I scroll through the comments and see the usual name-calling and desperate attempts to paint me into something I am not.
The problem these novists have is that I spent decades doing my job, creating connections and understanding the state I love, Oregon.
I respond to a few comments and thank the page managers for addressing some of the more libelous accusations, and smile.

You know you’re hitting a nerve when this is all your opposition can come up with.
That and the juvenile name-calling.
I lived most of my life in Oregon.
My connections, contacts, and knowledge of how the state works and how it doesn’t are vast.
We learned during the overreaction to COVID that people like me, who do video work, social media management, and podcasting, can work from anywhere.
They call us influencers because we share our information to give voice to large groups of people, who never get listened to by the very organizations that criticize us.

This tabloid and its followers obviously don’t understand that the world is much bigger than where you live; it’s what you know.
Boil it down, and that’s the issue.
While they sell a few hundred thousand papers a year(I’m being generous), we get anywhere between 6 and 9 million views on just two social media pages each month.

I truly believe informing people and giving them a voice is what changes the world.
This has been my career from the start, and that didn’t change.
What has changed is that by not living in Oregon, I am free to talk about things that are counter-culture.
The ideas and thoughts of the formerly silent majority are finally being heard, and the censorship lords don’t like that at all.
It’s hard to own the conversation for decades and all of a sudden have those you lorded your ideas over, turn on you.
A month ago, I started reading one chapter in Proverbs each day.
Ironic how God meets you where you are.
Each verse today seems to speak to the artificial beating I’m taking from some online.
KPNW Radio invited me to come talk about this on their radio program on Monday morning at 7:35.
I said yes, why wouldn’t I take the opportunity to talk about the things I love?
Things like freedom, crushing censorship, truth and justice, My Oregon, and all those people out there, turning on the narrative of despair.
Here are just a few verses that stuck out.

“Trust in God with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5

“Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear God, and turn away from evil.” Proverb 3:7

“The curse of God is on the house of the wrong. But he blesses the home of righteousness.” Proverbs 3:33

“He certainly scoffs at the scoffers but gives favour to the humble.” Proverbs 3:34

“The wise do inherit esteem, but fools are bearing away in shame.” Proverbs 3:35

Welcome to 2026.
This is guaranteed to be an interesting year.

01/02/2026

2026 The Year of Truth?

When you’re hiking in the wilderness, you have a lot of time to think.
When you clear your head and look, not at what’s being said, but the motivation behind it, you start to see a trend towards truthfinders in America.

I’m watching legacy media scrape and claw at independent journalist Nick Shirley for breaking the biggest story of last year.
Oh, he wasn’t the first to expose the Medicare fraud, but he dug the deepest and took America into the sewer with him.

The far left is being relatively quiet about the whole story.
I hear a few typical racism claims from the losing team, but there’s so much evidence that even they seem to be afraid to say too much.

On my social media, I still find the usual jabs.
They rarely argue over what I say, but show their fear in their comments that are more about me personally, because they have nothing else to fight with.
Facts are their enemy.

I believe 2026 will be a turning point, a sort of adjustment in the American way of life.
I would call it a restoration of what is good, kind, and decent about American life.
Expect a recoil at my suggestion, but something is happening.
Those with discernment can feel it.

We have taken our country from a melting pot to a dysfunctional stew.
People used to come here to be a part of our great nation.
Many of our forefathers were among them.
America was a place for dreamers, and people wanted to be a part of it.

When the Biden administration turned a blind eye to illegal immigration, criminals, misfits, and people who could not give a damn about our country turned the American dream into a nightmare.
They got help from a group of people who really don’t like America and would like to see the whole idea flushed and start over.

Nick Shirley exposed the darkness, and the former keepers of the castle are doing all they can to discredit him and climb back up on their thrown of lies.
That’s not gonna happen.

If we as a nation make truth our guidepost for all decisions, I think we have a chance of restoring order to our country.
But we must be consistent and relentless about it.
This goes far beyond partisanship.
If we want to change it, we must call out liars on the left, right, and the middle.

The key is to stay engaged but not consumed by the headlines and messaging.
Give people room to think what they want, but never hold back correction or questioning, as we have in the past.

When I was a news guy, I heard a lot of folks in the extreme camp talk of tolerance, acceptance, and open minds.
That’s all it was, talk.
We’re done talking and need to stand up, stand strong, and stand for the truth.