If you look into your own heart and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
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What Maori leaders frame as racism by white folks is usually not.
It’s the reaction people with a proud history of abolishing slavery and deposing tyrants have when we’re talked about like we’re slaves by people who act like they want to be tyrants.
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This one positive comment below Christopher Luxon’s cringey handwritten final pre-election “four legs good, two ticks blue” David Brent effort at being liked, is a fitting epitaph, floating like a lone solid turd in a polluted Ganges of protest from bewildered and betrayed Kiwis.
Wow.
This sounds like the “then you win” part of the “first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you …” cycle @RCR_NZ
Thanks @franks_lawyer
Read this. Right through. ‘man for man’ they’re more talented and effective than anyone running state media. On budgets a tiny fraction of the state’s. But most importantly, they’re more principled, committed to free, penetrating speech. To informing.
Genuine leadership in the next government would give them TVNZ or RNZ to reform and run.
Another great open letter from @AliaVFF
As someone who knows her, and the other folks involved in @RCR_NZ they’re great New Zealanders, and it’s shocking to see the way we’re reported on, as so often happens when the mausoleum media discusses the familiar — so much bullshit!
YOU COULD HAVE JUST ASKED...
An open letter to New Zealand's mainstream media
Dear New Zealand Media,
Well, haven't you been busy!
Our Vote Smart 2026 campaign has generated quite the flurry of media attention over the past couple of weeks. Articles, interviews, television reports, political commentary. We've even made the lead item on the 6pm news. You've interviewed politicians, speculated about who's paying for it all, and devoted plenty of airtime and column inches to what our campaign might mean for Saturday's election.
And yet, amongst all this breathless reporting, something rather obvious seems to have escaped you. You've barely bothered to speak to the people who actually came up with the campaign.
You know, the women running it. Which is funny because, you know, women are all the rage these days...
That would be Claire and me. Hello! We're right here. 👋
Had you bothered to pick up the phone or flick us an email, we'd have happily answered your questions. Instead, we've watched an increasingly tangled narrative about billionaire funding, Electoral Commission complaints and police investigations.
It's rather like watching someone make aeroplane noises while spoon-feeding the public a great big mouthful of mashed-up information, hoping nobody notices what's actually in it.
So, since you haven't shown much interest in asking, allow me to explain a few things.
Vote Smart 2026 ( votesmart2026.co.nz ) is our campaign. Claire and I conceived it in August, developed the strategy, assembled the team and went looking for funding. A couple of dozen larger donors have contributed $1,000 or more, alongside many other generous supporters.
Yes, Mr Harry Mowbray is one of those donors. His contribution arrived on 18 October, when our campaign was already well underway. Whilst we’re grateful for his donation, it represents approximately 2% of our budget, roughly the cost of one of our 20 full-page newspaper advertisements. He didn't conceive, organise or direct our campaign, and his separate Split Your Vote initiative is exactly that. Separate.
We've spent nearly six years building our own organisations and community networks. More than 16,000 people have contributed financially to our work over that time, and we have over 100 local groups throughout New Zealand.
We didn't need a billionaire to tell us what to think, say, or do.
Now, here's something you might find interesting.
For years, you've had a remarkably narrow vocabulary when describing us. Far-right. Anti-vax. Anti-mandate. Anti-government. Anti-mainstream media.
You've become so accustomed to telling the public what we're supposedly against that you've rarely shown any curiosity about what we're actually FOR.
We believe people should be free to speak their minds, make their own medical decisions, raise their children according to their values, and enjoy the rights and freedoms generations before us fought to protect.
We want decent schools, public services that work, sensible government spending and politicians who make decisions based on evidence and common sense. We value our Kiwi culture, our traditions, property rights and the freedom to disagree without being treated as the enemy.
Surely none of that should be particularly controversial?
Yet somehow, you've managed to spend six years describing us without ever really explaining us.
Perhaps that's why this campaign has caught so many of you off guard. Two women you've spent years dismissing have helped organise 30+ billboards, a million flyers delivered nationwide, 20 full-page newspaper advertisements, a substantial digital campaign, a website, several explainer videos and interactive educational tools, all with the help of a remarkable community of ordinary New Zealanders.
And you've been so busy looking for the mysterious puppet master that you've missed the people standing right in front of you.
Which brings me to the most obvious question of all, and one remarkably few of you have bothered to ask.
Why are we doing this?
To understand our determination, you need to remember the Covid years. We certainly do.
We remember the people who lost their jobs under government mandates, the families torn apart, friendships destroyed and businesses lost. Ordinary Kiwis who felt coerced into medical decisions and people still living with the consequences.
We remember the division, vilification and cruelty directed at those who questioned government policy. And we remember the critical role the mainstream media played in ALL OF IT.
While people were losing their livelihoods, you were often more interested in labelling and ridiculing them than listening to their stories.
And when it was all over, where was the reckoning? The difficult questions? The accountability?
Chris Hipkins and other senior figures from that Labour government have continued their political careers without acknowledging the harm caused. And much of the media has carried on as though nothing happened.
Perhaps you think New Zealanders have moved on.
We haven't. Nor have many of the people whose lives were turned upside down.
That's a large part of why we're fighting so hard.
And before you assume we're cheerleaders for National, we're thoroughly unimpressed with plenty of its decisions too. Our campaign reflects our dissatisfaction with both major parties and our belief that New Zealanders deserve to understand how their votes work under MMP.
You can question our strategy and scrutinise our advertising. Please do. But at least understand what we're doing before telling the country what you think we're up to.
And while we're talking about trust, have you wondered why public confidence in mainstream news has been declining for years? Why independent media has grown? Why RCR exists in the first place?
When important context is omitted, when labels replace genuine inquiry, and when people aren't given a fair opportunity to explain themselves, trust inevitably suffers. You can blame social media and misinformation all you like, but perhaps it's time to examine your own contribution to the problem.
We saw an enormous gap between the questions ordinary New Zealanders were asking and those the established media seemed willing to pursue. So we built something of our own.
Whatever happens on Saturday, we're not disappearing. We've spent six years building our own media platforms, establishing nationwide networks, and learning just what ordinary people can achieve when they stop waiting for someone else to do something. We intend to keep asking uncomfortable questions, challenging those in power, and holding people accountable for decisions that affect our lives and our children's futures.
The thing is, I suspect some of you regard us as a rather unpredictable wild card. A grenade sitting on the table, its pin almost entirely extracted. You don't quite know what to make of us, what we might do next, or how much influence we might have. And perhaps that makes you uncomfortable. I would be, if I were you.
But here's a thought. How about you try talking to us?
You might discover two Kiwi mums who love their country, care deeply about their children's future, and have families and lives they'd quite like to get back to occasionally.
We also have long memories, and we've learned that being dismissed and underestimated can be a remarkably powerful motivator.
There's an old saying about a woman scorned.
Well, I wouldn't underestimate two of them. 😉
Yours sincerely,
Alia Bland
Co-founder, VFF and RCR Media
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Thomas Sowell: "I really think that our society is doomed. Our higher educational institutions have become increasingly intolerant of opposing viewpoints.
Charles Kirk was murdered by a person who claimed he was a 'fascist', not knowing that he himself was behaving like a fascist when he pulled the trigger."
TVNZ’s media luvvies fulfilling the requirement in their charter to provide balanced reporting by getting ALL their coverage on the US midterm elections from CNN.
Sigh.
I guess when our own “conservative” PM’s fave politician is Barrack Obama, we shouldn’t be surprised.
What Michael Laws said is entirely accurate.
Weaponised female disapproval has been steadily less and less effective due to both trivial over-use, and the “bulldog chewing a wasp” nature of its most enthusiastic wielders.
Never apologise Michael.
Have you learned nothing?
Split your vote.
Or find out what happens when the same Marxist student politicians get the credit card back.
Just dropped
youtu.be/EBYhiid-YwE
At this point “incompetence” doesn’t cut it as an explanation for where we’ve ended up as a nation.
Alert: New Zealand is under DEMONIC attack 🚨🚨🚨
That Wong woman is Ardern 2.0.
Same voice, same script, same poison. I heard her in the leaders’ debate and it was instant recognition.
If Kiwis still haven’t learned what Ardern did to this country, then a vote for this communist is a vote to finish the job. She will turn New Zealand into a cesspit at the bottom of the world — the kind of place decent people leave and never return to.
Desperation is doing the work for them. People are so broken they’ll vote for anyone who tells them the pain will stop. It won’t. It will get worse.
We’ve never had leadership this bad. Not even close. And the ones lining up next are worse.
Wake the fuck up.
If a Labour-led … a Chris Hipkins-led … coalition wins this election, there needs to be three years of solid work by patriotic New Zealanders to destroy the National Party in its present form as a force in New Zealand politics, and end the era of the globohomo traitor puppet.
Imagine if @NZNationalParty had scrapped Labour’s PIJF conditions and enforced TVNZ/RNZ’s charter requirements for balanced reporting.
We would have had a much better-informed Kiwi voting public.
At this point it’s hard not to conclude bald Cindy’s TRYING to lose.
The videos Chloe calls cyber bullying
On 2 November 2026, Green co-leader Chloe Swarbrick accused National of cyberbullying with its AI-generated campaign ads, and Labour called them "AI slop". Here are the videos National posted on its own channels, shown in full so you can judge for yourself.
Videos (in order):
1. South Park-style animation ("Don't risk Chloe Swarbrick as Finance Minister") – Facebook, 29 Oct 2026: facebook.com/reel/4319980058…
2. Instagram reel, labelled AI – 2 Nov 2026: instagram.com/nznationalpart…
3. Instagram reel, labelled AI – 2 Nov 2026: instagram.com/nznationalpart…
4. "9 Taxes" song – Instagram, 2 Nov 2026: instagram.com/nznationalpart…
5. AI Hipkins musical-stage video on capital gains tax – X, 3 Sep 2026: xitter.gq/NZNationalParty/status…
Coverage:
rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…
thepost.co.nz/nz-news/361097…
newsroom.co.nz/2026/11/02/la…
thepost.co.nz/politics/36107…
Cyberbullying, or fair political satire? Have your say below.
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“Burke exposed a truth that defines today’s culture wars: when progressive ideologues tear down inherited traditions, family structures, and religious faith in the name of "social justice," they don't liberate humanity. They destroy the very guardrails keeping tyranny at bay.”
In 1790, a statesman who fought the British crown to defend the American colonists looked at a revolution praising "equality and progress"—and predicted a bloodbath Before a single drop of blood was spilled.
Long before he became the father of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke was a fierce champion of the American Revolution. As a Member of the British Parliament, he famously stood before the House of Commons and warned King George III that English colonists had liberty in their blood and could never be taxed into submission. Even fewer know that Burke was born in Dublin to a Catholic mother and a Protestant father, forcing him to witness firsthand how the state used tyrannical laws to strip his own Catholic relatives of their property and heritage.
That upbringing gave Burke a superpower: he could instantly tell the difference between fighting to preserve historic freedoms (like the Americans in 1776) and tearing down civilization to build a radical utopia (like the French in 1789). When the French Revolution erupted, European elites cheered as mobs attacked the Church, erased the traditional calendar, and promised a paradise of "pure reason." Burke stood practically alone, writing Reflections on the Revolution in France—a masterclass in political foresight that sold 30,000 copies in an era when most citizens couldn't even read.
Burke exposed a truth that defines today’s culture wars: when progressive ideologues tear down inherited traditions, family structures, and religious faith in the name of "social justice," they don't liberate humanity. They destroy the very guardrails keeping tyranny at bay, creating a moral vacuum that only a ruthless authoritarian state can fill. Three years before the Reign of Terror began, he predicted that France’s utopian experiment would end in mass executions and a military dictatorship—a prophecy fulfilled to the letter by the guillotine and Napoleon Bonaparte.
Writing over two centuries ago, Burke delivered the ultimate warning against those who seek to erase a nation's history and rebuild society from scratch:
"Society is indeed a contract... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born... Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."
Burke understood that civilization isn't a playground for arrogant social engineers—it is a sacred inheritance we hold in trust, and the moment a nation forgets the wisdom of its ancestors, it surrenders its future to the mob.
I have had more up-close and personal contact with gangs and gang victims than most other non-criminal/non-drug-addicted/non-police white folks.
It’s an ugly, damaged and damaging environment.
"I feel sick watching anyone romanticise it." - Marty Gibson
Gibson says the political conversation around gangs is dangerously sanitised compared with the reality faced by victims, families and former members. Have politicians turned gang life into something far cleaner than it really is?
Maree Buscke @MacBuscke and Marty Gibson @martyozone are back with Media Matters.
🎥 Watch here: rcr.media/episodes/media-mat…
“Tocqueville [said] American greatness rested on three pillars: fierce individual self-reliance, decentralized local communities, and strong foundation of religious morality … They formed local groups to fix problems themselves rather than begging a distant politician for help.”
In 1835, a Young French Aristocrat Predicted the Exact Bureaucratic Trap Threatening the West Today
Before the philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville ever set foot in America, radical tyranny had already scarred his family. During the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, left-wing Jacobin zealots guillotined his great-grandfather and threw his newlywed parents into a Paris dungeon. Waiting daily for the executioner's blade, his father’s hair turned snow-white at the age of twenty-one. Only the sudden fall of Robespierre spared his parents' lives by a matter of hours, allowing Alexis to be born a decade later.
Raised in the shadow of state terror, Tocqueville became obsessed with a single question: why did the French pursuit of utopian equality end in a bloodbath, while the American Revolution produced the freest, most prosperous republic on earth? In 1831, at just twenty-five years old, he convinced the French government to send him to the United States under the mundane bureaucratic cover of inspecting American prisons. Once he arrived, he spent nine months traveling seven thousand miles by stagecoach, steamboat, and horseback to study the soul of the American citizen.
His observations became Democracy in America, one of the most brilliant political analyses ever written. Tocqueville realized that American greatness rested on three pillars: fierce individual self-reliance, decentralized local communities, and a strong foundation of religious morality. Whenever Americans saw a problem, they formed a local group and fixed it themselves rather than begging a distant politician for help.
Yet as he studied the young republic, Tocqueville foresaw a chilling vulnerability. He realized that a proud, armed citizenry would always fight back against an obvious military dictator. Therefore, future tyrants would abandon whips and chains in favor of welfare, cradle-to-grave safety, and endless administrative rules. They would conquer free citizens by offering to manage their lives in the name of compassion.
Describing this future nanny state in 1840, Tocqueville wrote a passage that reads like a headline from today:
"Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate... It seeks to keep them in perpetual childhood. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd... till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
Tocqueville called this system "soft despotism." Nearly two centuries ago, he understood that when citizens trade personal responsibility for government security, the state gladly reduces them to dependent children. Every bloated regulatory agency, speech code, and entitlement program today operates on the exact blueprint he exposed. Liberty rarely perishes overnight in a violent coup; it erodes quietly when a free people allow bureaucrats to become their shepherds.
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You may be led to believe by watching the news, one week out from the election, that the level of political discourse in New Zealand has now descended to flipping burgers, patting dogs, eating ice creams, and running in marathons.
We are in one of the most globally unstable times in the worlds history, we have inherited a cost of living crisis, a fuel cost crisis, an overloaded health system, a stunted economic growth rate, high youth unemployment, debt through the roof, total uncertainty for what the future will bring, and a more polarised society than ever before - but all we see is a political clickbait parody being run by politicians.
We can have a go at the media for their part, and we do, but these politicians who instigate this low level politics are equally to blame.
They are treating the voters with disdain and are treating democracy like it is measured in screen-time and clicks.
And the only ones who are suffering because of this are the people of New Zealand who have a right to an informed vote, and a right to know how different parties will address their very real problems.
All those other politicians are dragging our democracy down to the lowest common denominator, and the people of New Zealand deserve better.
NZFirst has been around the country for months holding packed public meetings, talking with literally tens of thousands of ordinary hardworking kiwis, answering their questions about the issues that are affecting them, and giving them all the chance to have some hope for the future - that’s what a political campaign is supposed to be about. Not burgers, dogs, marathons, or ice cream.
This must be the last election where people are forced to vote for what they don’t want least.
Craig Stobo for PM in 2029.
Calling it now.
"Isn't that the most stark example of ideology smashing headfirst into reality that you've ever seen?" - Maree Buscke
Buscke recounts the French woman pleading "I'm one of you" while her family's shop was allegedly being trashed. Turns out virtue-signalling points are not accepted as legal tender during a riot. How's that ideology holding up now?
Maree Buscke @MacBuscke and Marty Gibson @martyozone are back with Media Matters.
🎥 Watch here: rcr.media/episodes/media-mat…
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"Isn't that the most stark example of ideology smashing headfirst into reality that you've ever seen?" - Maree Buscke
Buscke recounts the French woman pleading "I'm one of you" while her family's shop was allegedly being trashed. Turns out virtue-signalling points are not accepted as legal tender during a riot. How's that ideology holding up now?
Maree Buscke @MacBuscke and Marty Gibson @martyozone are back with Media Matters.
🎥 Watch here: rcr.media/episodes/media-mat…
At this point it’s hard to escape the conclusion that @NZNationalParty want to lose the election.
🚩National’s Matt Doocey wears a tutu and pink wig at a primary school for “kids mental health”. The mental health minister was joined by Whangarei national candidate Budd Lloyd Budd also dressed in a pink Tutu and pink wig. He’s funded some pink hair mixed up program for primary schools.
Doocey of course is an infamous trans maniac, having worked at the disgraced gender clinic - the Tavistock in the UK - and also in the house stated “I look forward to celebrating my children’s sexuality and gender identity”.. this sick prick also held up WP from banning Puberty blockers.
You are really going to have to swallow a rat and still candidate vote did these sickos unfortunately. Labour sexualised the school curriculum, National and Act all voted with them for the sick trans enabling laws, Seymour famously defended drag queens reading to kids - for the sake of children party vote NZ First - the party that removed the RSE trans shit from school.
Sick pathetic assholes. I bet Doocey got sexual pleasure dressing up in that crap.
nzherald.co.nz/northern-advo…
Another good laying-out of the issue.
I've been trying to tell you the level of evil that is coming for years now. "Bolsheviks" is mentioned so often on our show that it has become a drinking game.
You are not up against "the democrats". The democrat party was murdered in its sleep 30 years ago.
You are not up against "the Nazis" -- they are long gone, but their name is used to keep you from seeing the truth.
You are not up against "the fascists" either -- see "the Nazis", above.
You are up against global Bolshevism. They say it to your face. They have trained three generations now to laugh whenever anyone says "communist". They own your schools. They own your media. They own your entertainment.
They have only three goals. Obtaining power, retaining power, and crushing any dissent to their power. That's it. That is what makes them effective.
Wake up, America. Your enemy is Bolshevism.
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Post script: do not come at me with that idiotic "it's all the same hurr durr!" garbage. It is not "all the same". Not by a long shot. Not even close. Quit being a mouth-breather.