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Immigration patriots Peter and Lydia Brimelow, the husband and wife duo who run VDARE.com, are in a dogged fight for survival in the face of politically-motivated lawfare by white-hating black New York Attorney General Leticia James. Their scrappy resistance received a much-needed shot in the arm Tuesday night when renowned journalist Tucker Carlson interviewed Lydia on the new Tucker Carlson Network [TCN].

Unfortunately, only the first eight minutes and 45 seconds can be viewed online without a subscription on Twitter/X and Tucker Carlson’s own website. To view the full interview, which is over 37 minutes long, viewers will need to purchase a subscription to Carlson’s site. This unfortunately cuts down on the reach of the Brimelows’ call for help. I have viewed the full video, however, and will report on its contents.

Mass immigration is completely destroying our country. Why is no one doing anything about it? Because they’re afraid of ending up like Lydia Brimelow. pic.twitter.com/B5B0bh6t5O

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 20, 2024

VDARE is under attack via a nebulous lawfare campaign being waged by James. No specific charges have been filed, and yet due to an endless stream of legal demands and document requests, VDARE is bleeding legal fees of about $30,000 a month and has spent approximately $500,000 since June 2022. This is what is meant by the phrase “the process is the punishment,” which is a fatal indictment of our broken “justice” system’s susceptibility to politically-motivated selective prosecutions. Nationalists are being targeted by moneyed interests that can essentially afford to hold dissidents under siege, akin to a medieval town where the inhabitants are deprived of food and water by a hostile force until they give up.

To the extent that any actual allegations against VDARE have been disclosed, they apparently relate to the organization’s purchase of a historic castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where the Brimelows now live with their three daughters. The investigation seems to be aimed at determining whether the purchase was a misuse of donor funds for the purpose of enriching the Brimelows or their associates. But as Lydia explained to Tucker, the property was acquired for the legitimate purpose of holding conferences for their organization; the next one is in April. The transaction was carried out in accordance with all the applicable laws, under the full supervision of lawyers.

Lydia also described to Tucker the harassment and stalking that has been carried out against her and her family by local Leftists who are working with a pest from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Michael Edison Hayden. The Leftist “resistance” to the Brimelows — who are simply living in quiet harmony with the surrounding Berkeley Springs community — is headquartered in a local business that is festooned with the usual garish Black Lives Matter propaganda and Pride flags. As Lydia tells Tucker in the interview, they are “like tropical fish: the more colorful they are, the more poisonous.”

Hayden, whom I have profiled at VDARE, has what some might call a preoccupation with sexual deviancy. He specialized in writing about heroin addiction and transsexual prostitutes while living in India. Then, after marrying an Indian woman, he wrote a play depicting his wife in sexual bondage situations with other men. To the surprise of no one, she has now divorced him, so he is back on the prowl on the streets of Berkeley Springs, asking insinuating questions of the Brimelows’ friends, neighbors, and even their priest. Hayden went so far as to surreptitiously purchase a tickets to a Christmas event that was held at the Berkeley Springs castle so that he could talk to the Brimelows’ underage daughter without consent.

Hayden has a reputation for supporting antifa and issuing thinly-veiled threats to the targets of his obsessions. Since he showed up in Berkeley Springs and began agitating among the small coterie of local Leftists, transgender and non-binary lunatics have begun approaching the Brimelows’ children while carrying guns in an attempt to frighten them into not going out in public. The alleged reason Hayden is doing all this is as part of “research” for a book about the Brimelows’ purchase of the Berkeley Springs castle.

As Lydia explained to Tucker, VDARE is caught in a trap of vague yet endless legal harassment from New York because they had incorporated in New York out of convenience back in 1999, when the United States had a much less politically hostile climate. The problem today is that incorporating in New York is rather like checking into the Hotel California: You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave. Non-profits cannot leave New York or even close down and transfer their assets elsewhere without the explicit permission of the state’s Attorney General — the vindictive Leticia James.

The Brimelows have been courageous and resilient patriots who have refused to back down on many controversial issues or desert their friends due to political pressure. If we want to continue to have allies with such integrity in the future, we must support them now before it is too late. Visit VDARE.com, read their articles, share the Carlson interview, and consider making a donation to help them out in their time of need.

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