Grant Fredericks
@savedemocracynow.bsky.social
Certified Forensic Video Analyst, DOJ Instructor, FBI National Academy, Former Cop … always fighting to protect Democracy…. now more than ever.
Gonzaga University ‘82, now retired and playing golf.
Wine collector.
DEEP BLUE #WA5
Go ZAGS!
Gonzaga University ‘82, now retired and playing golf.
Wine collector.
DEEP BLUE #WA5
Go ZAGS!
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Wa CD 5 Rep Michael Baumgartner if flailing and failing badly
Check it Out.
Carmela Conroy will likely whip him.
Yup
Check it Out.
Carmela Conroy will likely whip him.
Yup
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Wa CD 5 Rep Michael Baumgartner if flailing and failing badly
Check it Out.
Carmela Conroy will likely whip him.
Yup
Check it Out.
Carmela Conroy will likely whip him.
Yup
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Congressman Michael Baumgartner forced a govt. shutdown—jeopardizing paychecks and services we pay for—because he refused to tackle the skyrocketing cost of healthcare for hardworking Americans. That’s not leadership. #WA05 deserves better.
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What happens now that a government shutdown is underway
A lot of government continues during a federal shutdown.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Congressman Michael Baumgartner forced a govt. shutdown—jeopardizing paychecks and services we pay for—because he refused to tackle the skyrocketing cost of healthcare for hardworking Americans. That’s not leadership. #WA05 deserves better.
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Spokane’s KHQ & KNDU turned Rep. Baumgartner’s cynical 9/23 letter into “news,” amplifying lies instead of facts. Local outlets should hold him accountable, not launder deception into headlines. Our rural hospitals are threatened & reporters are cheering.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Spokane’s KHQ & KNDU turned Rep. Baumgartner’s cynical 9/23 letter into “news,” amplifying lies instead of facts. Local outlets should hold him accountable, not launder deception into headlines. Our rural hospitals are threatened & reporters are cheering.
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Rejecting the hateful messages from this weekend’s memorial service:
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Seeds We Choose to Plant
There’s a difference between fighting for something and fighting against someone. Outsiders say we must choose bloodshed or revenge. Eastern Washington knows better: we choose the path of neighbors wh...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Rejecting the hateful messages from this weekend’s memorial service:
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“The number of far-right extremist attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”
This is the conclusion of a National Institute of Justice report on domestic terrorism … deleted from gov. files days after Charlie Kirk’s murder.
This is the conclusion of a National Institute of Justice report on domestic terrorism … deleted from gov. files days after Charlie Kirk’s murder.
Burying the Facts
1984 Comes to America
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September 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“The number of far-right extremist attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”
This is the conclusion of a National Institute of Justice report on domestic terrorism … deleted from gov. files days after Charlie Kirk’s murder.
This is the conclusion of a National Institute of Justice report on domestic terrorism … deleted from gov. files days after Charlie Kirk’s murder.
RFK Jr. has plans for Eastern Washington’s children with with autism.
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The Autism Registry Gambit: WA-5 Families as Pawns in RFK Jr.'s Profit Scheme
Spokane families sought autism diagnoses to access care, but now fear their data could fuel marketing for RFK Jr.’s allies. His plan to reshape the USPSTF could mandate coverage for unproven treatment...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
RFK Jr. has plans for Eastern Washington’s children with with autism.
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WA-5’s Michael Baumgartner campaigned on local control, then backed 57 bills shifting Congress’s power of the purse to Trump. This is a surrender of our democracy. Read how our representative is systematically dismantling the constitutional.
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Congress Is Surrendering the Power of the Purse and Democracy Itself
Guest Article
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September 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
WA-5’s Michael Baumgartner campaigned on local control, then backed 57 bills shifting Congress’s power of the purse to Trump. This is a surrender of our democracy. Read how our representative is systematically dismantling the constitutional.
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Another tragic school shooting.
In the last 8 months, our Congressman, Michael Baumgartner (R-WA-5), co-sponsored 5 bills designed to add more guns to American streets, while simultaneously removing the only mechanism for law enforcement to track gun ownership. These are his ‘thoughts & prayers’:
In the last 8 months, our Congressman, Michael Baumgartner (R-WA-5), co-sponsored 5 bills designed to add more guns to American streets, while simultaneously removing the only mechanism for law enforcement to track gun ownership. These are his ‘thoughts & prayers’:
August 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Another tragic school shooting.
In the last 8 months, our Congressman, Michael Baumgartner (R-WA-5), co-sponsored 5 bills designed to add more guns to American streets, while simultaneously removing the only mechanism for law enforcement to track gun ownership. These are his ‘thoughts & prayers’:
In the last 8 months, our Congressman, Michael Baumgartner (R-WA-5), co-sponsored 5 bills designed to add more guns to American streets, while simultaneously removing the only mechanism for law enforcement to track gun ownership. These are his ‘thoughts & prayers’:
Amid lawsuits, “Biblical governance,” and voucher schemes, Spokane’s Central Valley’s school board is draining public funds to implement a MAGA agenda. Can challenger Mark Bitz reset the extreme right wing influences and restore focus to real education?
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When Education Becomes a Battleground: Central Valley's Choice Between Ideology and Common Sense
Central Valley’s school board has shifted from education to ideology. Under Pam Orebaugh, lawsuits, “Biblical governance,” and voucher schemes mirror a national playbook that drains resources and divi...
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August 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Amid lawsuits, “Biblical governance,” and voucher schemes, Spokane’s Central Valley’s school board is draining public funds to implement a MAGA agenda. Can challenger Mark Bitz reset the extreme right wing influences and restore focus to real education?
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Washington: Dan Newhouse (D4) and Michael Baumgartner (D5) cut your medicaid and food assistance, increased your student loan payments, cut taxes for the wealthy, and created a slush fund for Trump and his friends.
Vote these clowns out.
#WashingtonState #Vote
Vote these clowns out.
#WashingtonState #Vote
August 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Washington: Dan Newhouse (D4) and Michael Baumgartner (D5) cut your medicaid and food assistance, increased your student loan payments, cut taxes for the wealthy, and created a slush fund for Trump and his friends.
Vote these clowns out.
#WashingtonState #Vote
Vote these clowns out.
#WashingtonState #Vote
Michael Baumgartner has thrown Spokane’s most vulnerable under the bus. He’s cheering Trump’s crackdown that criminalizes poverty while gutting Housing First. Instead of solutions, he’s offered our homeless neighbors as targets in a national war on the poor.
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Spokane as Ground Zero in the National War on 'Housing First'
How Spokane became ground zero for a far-right experiment: dismantle Housing First, reward encampment bans, and call it public safety. We follow the money, the mandates, and the lives on the line.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Michael Baumgartner has thrown Spokane’s most vulnerable under the bus. He’s cheering Trump’s crackdown that criminalizes poverty while gutting Housing First. Instead of solutions, he’s offered our homeless neighbors as targets in a national war on the poor.
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Jim Jordan’s Aug 17 Spokane visit isn’t just a fundraiser, it’s part of a power shift to the presidency. My latest article uncovers how he & Baumgartner coordinate to centralize authority … an anti-democratic scheme that shreds states’ rights and erodes our constitutional balance.
Baumgartner Jordan Strategic Alliance
So much for "States’ Rights"
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August 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Jim Jordan’s Aug 17 Spokane visit isn’t just a fundraiser, it’s part of a power shift to the presidency. My latest article uncovers how he & Baumgartner coordinate to centralize authority … an anti-democratic scheme that shreds states’ rights and erodes our constitutional balance.
Discover how WA-5’s Vital Wines is transforming Washington’s wine industry; donating 100% of profits to vineyard worker healthcare and rewriting the ethics of winemaking. Read the full story of purpose, people, and a movement rooted in Walla Walla.
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Vital Wines and the Vineyards Rewriting the Ethics of Washington Winemaking
In Washington’s wine country, a nonprofit winery is redefining what it means to care for the people behind the harvest. Vital Wines doesn’t just bottle vintages, it funds healthcare, restores dignity,...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Discover how WA-5’s Vital Wines is transforming Washington’s wine industry; donating 100% of profits to vineyard worker healthcare and rewriting the ethics of winemaking. Read the full story of purpose, people, and a movement rooted in Walla Walla.
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The damage being done is generation. I wrote this article last month, hoping the Senate might step in and save one of America’s most unique institutions. Then the axe fell. I updated the article when the axe fell. The consequences are now being felt. If you want to know who is complicit:
The Day the Airwaves Were Cut: Public Media Just Lost Its Lifeline in Rural Washington
UPDATE – July 17: Today, the U.S. Senate followed the House in voting to slash funding for NPR, PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The final blow came despite months of warnings from jo...
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July 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The damage being done is generation. I wrote this article last month, hoping the Senate might step in and save one of America’s most unique institutions. Then the axe fell. I updated the article when the axe fell. The consequences are now being felt. If you want to know who is complicit:
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The Big Ugly Bill was designed to delay the damage until after the 2026 midterms.
MAGA Americans - Yam Tits and the GOP are f*cking with you big time. OPEN YOUR EYES!
MAGA Americans - Yam Tits and the GOP are f*cking with you big time. OPEN YOUR EYES!
July 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Big Ugly Bill was designed to delay the damage until after the 2026 midterms.
MAGA Americans - Yam Tits and the GOP are f*cking with you big time. OPEN YOUR EYES!
MAGA Americans - Yam Tits and the GOP are f*cking with you big time. OPEN YOUR EYES!
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Fact checking our WA CD05 Rep Michael Baumgartner. What a surprise he lies!
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Lie vs Truth
Fact-Checking Representative Baumgartner's Tax Flyer - Updated
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July 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Fact checking our WA CD05 Rep Michael Baumgartner. What a surprise he lies!
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Baumgartner’s schoolboy bully debate stunt is a distraction from the truth: he just voted for the largest federal spending increase in U.S. history, while handing billionaires massive tax breaks. It’s not a vision for the future. It’s a betrayal of working families, dressed up for TV.
July 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Baumgartner’s schoolboy bully debate stunt is a distraction from the truth: he just voted for the largest federal spending increase in U.S. history, while handing billionaires massive tax breaks. It’s not a vision for the future. It’s a betrayal of working families, dressed up for TV.
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I'm on the Senate floor right now debating Trump's Big Ugly bill, and I really worry Americans do not fully realize just how bad it is.
Please help get the word out.
This is just SOME of what's in the bill (so far).
Please help get the word out.
This is just SOME of what's in the bill (so far).
July 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I'm on the Senate floor right now debating Trump's Big Ugly bill, and I really worry Americans do not fully realize just how bad it is.
Please help get the word out.
This is just SOME of what's in the bill (so far).
Please help get the word out.
This is just SOME of what's in the bill (so far).
Millions of acres of public land: wilderness, tribal treaty zones, even grizzly habitat, are suddenly up for grabs. ‘The Quiet Liquidation’ reveals how a hidden Senate bill is selling public lands to the highest bidder. America’s wild heart: For Sale.
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The Quiet Liquidation: What the Land-Sale Bill Reveals About America’s Vanishing Stewardship
A Premonition in the Pines
At the northeastern edge of Washington State lies the Salmo-Priest Wilderness, untouched and elemental. It is one of the last places where the original ecology of the In...
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June 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Millions of acres of public land: wilderness, tribal treaty zones, even grizzly habitat, are suddenly up for grabs. ‘The Quiet Liquidation’ reveals how a hidden Senate bill is selling public lands to the highest bidder. America’s wild heart: For Sale.
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One third of my county is on Medicaid? I didn’t realized it was that high — I thought maybe 20 percent. What a nightmare scenario for us if this bill passes.
And Baumgartner voted for it.
And Baumgartner voted for it.
June 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
One third of my county is on Medicaid? I didn’t realized it was that high — I thought maybe 20 percent. What a nightmare scenario for us if this bill passes.
And Baumgartner voted for it.
And Baumgartner voted for it.
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As a constituent of baumgartner, living in Eastern Washington— we have conveyed this (how much his constituents rely on Medicaid) to him over and over. His response— they aren’t cutting Medicaid to anyone except illegal immigrants 🙄 *almost makes you miss Cathy.
June 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
As a constituent of baumgartner, living in Eastern Washington— we have conveyed this (how much his constituents rely on Medicaid) to him over and over. His response— they aren’t cutting Medicaid to anyone except illegal immigrants 🙄 *almost makes you miss Cathy.
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Come meet Carmela this Sunday, June 8 at 10 AM in #WallaWalla! Join us for good conversation, community connection, and a chance to hear from Carmela about her vision for #WA05. Open to all – no RSVP needed!
June 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Come meet Carmela this Sunday, June 8 at 10 AM in #WallaWalla! Join us for good conversation, community connection, and a chance to hear from Carmela about her vision for #WA05. Open to all – no RSVP needed!
WA-5 Rep. Michael Baumgartner talks about student success, yet backs Trump’s budget that guts student loan support and slams WSU students with higher costs. He can’t claim to support education while voting to sabotage the very aid working families rely on.
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WSU officials worried Trump Administration spending bill could drastically impact student loans
SPOKANE — Washington State University is worried President Trump's current spending bill, supported by Representative Michael Baumgartner, could negatively impact students and enrollment.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
WA-5 Rep. Michael Baumgartner talks about student success, yet backs Trump’s budget that guts student loan support and slams WSU students with higher costs. He can’t claim to support education while voting to sabotage the very aid working families rely on.
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Baumgartner’s vote for Trump’s brutal budget cuts will kill an estimated 120 people every year in WA-5. That’s not rhetoric, it’s math. Seniors, disabled residents, rural families, sacrificed for political gain. Who dies for his vote? #ASilentCulling #WA05
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A Silent Culling: What 51,000 Preventable Deaths Reveal About Trump’s Health Care Cuts
“Are we just left to die?”
Gail Halverson asks the question quietly, but it lands with weight. A retired resident of Spokane, Washington, Gail depends on both Medicare and Medicaid to manage her heal...
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June 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Baumgartner’s vote for Trump’s brutal budget cuts will kill an estimated 120 people every year in WA-5. That’s not rhetoric, it’s math. Seniors, disabled residents, rural families, sacrificed for political gain. Who dies for his vote? #ASilentCulling #WA05
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