I wanted to tell you about this the day it happened.
But I couldn’t.
Recruiting and mobilizing gun owners to storm the polls and send a message to Kamala Harris (and the remaining Leftists here in Wyoming) has been our singular focus since the primaries — and that program paid off big time!
Now the focus shifts. We need to make sure our election night victories translate into major legislative victories.
More on that in a moment.
First, I want to tell you about a problem that we’ve been dealing with here at WYGO behind the scenes for months.
Over the years, Big Tech has tried to muzzle Wyoming Gun Owners repeatedly. We lost our email provider in 2021.
We lost our online donation platform in 2022. Facebook has threatened to close down our page for years. ‘Deplatforming’ is a real thing.
But I never thought that our bank would do that to us.
That all changed recently when US Bank told us that they were shuttering our accounts with almost zero notice! In fact, by the time their form letter arrived, we had DAYS to find a new bank and move our accounts. They almost seized our cash on hand!
That didn’t happen.
But our organizational credit cards were turned off overnight. And US Bank stole a large amount of money from us in rewards points we didn’t have time to redeem.
Worst of all, our team was forced to spend hundreds of hours trying to ‘replatform’ WYGO since this happened.
Finding a pro-gun bank, obtaining new credit cards, updating dozens of vendors with new payment information — it’s been a ton of work that has almost nothing to do with the Second Amendment.
WYGO has had an account with US Bank since 2016! And our banker confirmed that we had never violated a US Bank policy.
But that’s all she could tell me. She made it clear she was under orders not to speak to us ever again because the bank fears retribution from WYGO due to our massive grassroots army.
The timing on this could not be more suspect.
US Bank just happens to attack the largest voice for gun owners in the state right before the most important election in our lifetimes? Coincidence? No, this was on purpose.
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I know that because the day after this happened to WYGO, other gun rights organizations that we work with in other states all reported the same thing — US Bank attacked all of us!
This came on the heels of the banks adopting a new Merchant Category Code that tracks and flags gun and ammo sales, part of their agenda to harass gun owners and gun rights organizations!
It’s enraging.
But I’m proud to say that US Bank’s efforts to sideline us totally failed.
Sure, our team had to pull a bunch of extra hours (as in hundreds) to fix this, and the timing could not have been worse.
But while we dealt with this, we executed our election program perfectly, exposing anti-gun candidates up and down the ballot, leading to major Second Amendment wins on election night!
That doesn’t mean that US Bank should go unpunished.
I pulled every penny I had in US Bank and relocated it after this happened. I think that it would be wise for any gun owner who has an account at US Bank to do the same thing.
More than that, I’ve already had meetings in Washington, D.C. with incoming Vice President JD Vance’s team about what US Bank did to us. In the Senate, Vance led on the issue of the weaponization of banking! I’d hate to be a US Bank VP right now.
Hopefully when the next Congress convenes, the story of US Bank attacking state level gun rights organizations in an effort to sideline them will be told in a congressional hearing!
But in the meantime, we’re getting ready for a busy 2025 legislative session here in Cheyenne. And we need your help.
If you’ve already renewed your membership for 2025 online or through the mail, please accept my apologies for the duplicate notice and disregard this message.
But if you haven’t yet renewed your support, please do so today so we can hit the ground next session at full speed!
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There are at least two priority bills that the legislature needs to address next session. This is where we are focusing.
First is our bill to finally repeal deadly ‘Gun Free Zones’ here in Wyoming. This is a battle we’ve been fighting for a long time, and it’s time to finish it!
We still have areas in Wyoming where we can’t carry. The State Capitol, UW’s Campus, and plenty of other government buildings, even though they are all taxpayer funded.
WYGO passed this bill in 2017, only to have then Governor Matt Mead veto it. As you know, we passed it again, this year, only to have Governor Gordon veto it.
This year will be different.
While last session was a very short ‘budget session,’ next session is 3 months long. So when Governor Gordon vetoes the bill this time, we’ll have time to override that veto and ram it down Gordon’s throat once and for all!
Second is our bill to enhance Wyoming’s Second Amendment Preservation Act. The RINOs watered our legislation down a lot in 2022. With the elections behind us, it’s time to fix that.
We need to put teeth into our SAPA law, to make sure that if an agency violates SAPA, the impacted gun owner can take that agency into civil court for damages.
More, we need to make sure that our cops can’t by pulled into a federal task force to confiscate guns, as a ‘work around’ to SAPA law.
Passing these bills should be easy. And maybe it will be. But it never has been easy. So we’re gearing up for a big push.
WYGO members have built our majorities in Wyoming!
WYGO members have passed every gun bill since 2010!
And over the last 15 years, WYGO members have thrown DOZENS of anti-gun RINOs and Democrats out of office!
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Gun owners have just ended a long, four year battle to save our Second Amendment from a vengeful tyrant. Now it’s time to secure as much freedom as possible while we can!
Stand with us! Renew your membership for 2025 TODAY!
For Wyoming,
Aaron Dorr
Policy Advisor
Wyoming Gun Owners
P.S. When US Bank closed our accounts and ‘cancelled’ WYGO before the General Election, it was clear that they hoped to force us onto the sidelines during the 2024 General Election.
They failed. And WYGO ran a massive election program last month, exposing gun-grabbers and informing gun owners who elected massive pro-gun majorities in Cheyenne!
Now it’s time to seize that momentum and pass major gun bills to secure freedom for the next generation.
So if you haven’t yet renewed your WYGO membership for 2025 please do so right away with a gift of $125, $75, or at least $35!
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