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The conservative leaders who participate in the Conservative Action Project, including some targets of the Arctic Frost investigation, yesterday issued an open “Memo to the Movement” disclosing many of the abuses perpetrated through Biden’s meticulous, systematic attempt to use the power of the federal government to harass and dismantle the political right. The Memo also demands consequences for those who directed, led and participated in this vast and unprecedented abuse of power.
The Text of the Memo Follows:
Conservatives condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the politicization of the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in operation “Arctic Frost.” The ongoing revelations make clear that the so-called investigations carried out under Arctic Frost were not law enforcement – they were a meticulous, systematic attempt to use the power of the federal government to harass and dismantle the entire infrastructure of the political right.
The Extent and Scope of Arctic Frost: A Systematic Assault on Conservatives
Unveiled through de-classifications from FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI whistleblower documents provided to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Senator Ron Johnson, Arctic Frost is the Biden FBI’s code name for an expansive probe into alleged efforts to challenge the 2020 election results – legally protected activities that the Biden FBI decided were “election interference.”
Far from a legitimate investigation, Arctic Frost served as a vehicle for partisans within the government to weaponize federal authority against, as Chairman Grassley noted, the “entire Republican political apparatus.” Culpability for this brazen politicization started at the top: Arctic Frost was approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and FBI Director Christopher Wray. They personally signed off on an operation whose reach was unprecedented and breathtaking in its breadth and audacity:
- Targeting Elected Officials: At least eight Republican U.S. Senators were subjected to surveillance, including GOP senators Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, Ted Cruz, among others. This violated the federal law requiring direct notification to members of Congress before such subpoenas are issued, potentially constituting unlawful overreach by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who authorized the subpoenas for the phone records and signed off on the gag orders preventing the Members of Congress from being notified.
- Mass Subpoenas and Investigations: Special Counsel Jack Smith issued 197 subpoenas, ensnaring over 160 Republicans – from lawmakers to everyday activists – in a dragnet of intimidation. Reports indicate the total toll exceeded 430 conservative individuals and organizations, including Citizens United and its affiliated Foundation, Turning Point USA, the Conservative Partnership Institute, America First Legal, which did not even exist on January 6, 2021, and Center for Renewing America, which hadn’t even begun operations by that date. Also swept up were countless grassroots leaders who dared question election irregularities or support constitutional challenges.
- Diversion of Resources and Broader Harassment: Thousands of FBI agents were diverted from critical priorities, such as pursuing child predators, to hunt conservatives for their political speech. This included potentially unconstitutional infringements on First Amendment rights, with subpoenas aimed at silencing dissent rather than uncovering crimes. The operation extended to wiretaps, financial scrutiny, and cyber investigations, creating an “enemies list” that chilled free expression across the nation.
The actions taken as part of Arctic Frost represent a grotesque betrayal of the oaths taken by public servants to protect, not persecute, the American people. This operation embodied the very authoritarianism conservatives have long warned against: a federal leviathan unbound by law, targeting citizens for their ideology rather than their actions. As Senator Ted Cruz noted recently, “Arctic Frost is Joe Biden’s Watergate. And, in fact, in terms of abuse of government power, it makes Watergate pale in comparison.”
Arctic Frost grossly and directly undermined the American system of justice. The only way forward can be a level of accountability which matches the scale of the destruction. Jack Smith, Judge Boasberg, and the complicit Biden officials, including those at the FBI, must face immediate accountability – including termination, disbarment, impeachment, and where appropriate, prosecution for their roles in this vast conspiracy against liberty.
Signed by:
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
President, Council for National Policy
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.
Managing Editor
ConservativeHQ.com
Greg Sindelar
Interim President, AFPI
CEO, Texas Public Policy Institute
Lisa B. Nelson
Chief Executive Officer
American Legislative Exchange Council
The Honorable David McIntosh
President
Club for Growth
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Donald T. Eason
President, Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President, CEO & Chief Counsel
First Liberty Institute
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and
President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
Myron Ebell
Chairman-elect
American Lands Council
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Senior Legal Fellow
Conservative Partnership Institute
Mike Berry
Executive Director of External Affairs & Senior Counsel, First Liberty Institute
Jenny Beth Martin
Chairman, Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund and Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.
Rebecca Weber
CEO, Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
Lori Roman
President
ACRU Action Fund
William L. Walton
The Bill Walton Show
Vice Chairman, CPAC
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
President
The Leadership Institute
Floyd G. Brown
Founder
The Western Journal
The Honorable James C. Miller III
OMB Director (1985-1988)
Gary Marx
President
The Concord Fund
Lee Beaman
CEO
Beaman Ventures
Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr.
Founder and President
STAND Foundation, Inc.
The Honorable Craig DeRoche
President & CEO
Family Policy Alliance
Kielle C. Lindsey
President
The Lindsey Foundation
Tim Macy
Chairman
Gun Owners of America
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
Stephen D. Moxley
President
SD Moxley LLC
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
Rod D. Martin
Founder & CEO
Martin Capital, Inc.
Guillermo J. Aragon
Chief Strategy Officer
Martin Capital, Inc.
Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
The Honorable Peter J. Thomas
Chairman
The Conservative Caucus
Tim LeFever
Chairman
Capitol Resource Institute
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Robert K. Fischer
Meeting Coordinator
Conservatives of Faith
The Honorable Mike Wolfe
Candidate
Texas House District 128
Rosemary Jenks
Cofounder
Immigration Accountability Project
Ron Pearson
President
Pearson & Pipkin
The Honorable Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
Former Member of Congress
1st District of Kansas
Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
Ron Armstrong
President
Stand Up Michigan
Connie Hair
State Director, Louisiana
State Freedom Caucus Network
Suanne Edmiston
State Director, Arizona
State Freedom Caucus Network
The Honorable Justin Sparks
Member (District 110)
Missouri House of Representatives
The Honorable Charlice Byrd
Member (District 20)
Georgia House of Representatives
The Honorable Nathan Dahm
Former Member (District 33)
Oklahoma State Senate
The Honorable Ann Lucas
Member (District 43)
Wyoming House of Representatives
The Honorable Nick Schroer
Member (District 2)
Missouri State Senate
The Honorable Dodie Horton
Member (District 9)
Louisiana House of Representatives
The Honorable Bob Phalen
Member (District 17)
Montana State Senate
The Honorable Randy Grellner
Member (District 21)
Oklahoma State Senate
The Honorable Molly Jenkins
Member (District 33)
Oklahoma House of Representatives
The Honorable Lucas Cayler
Member (District 11B)
Idaho House of Representatives
The Honorable Beryl Amedee
Member (District 51)
Louisiana House of Representatives
The Honorable Jake Hoffman
Member (District 15), Arizona State Senate and Arctic Frost Target
The Honorable Noelle Kahaian
Member (District 81)
Georgia House of Representatives
The Honorable Glenneda Zuiderveld
Member (District 24)
Idaho State Senate
The Honorable Joseph Chaplik
Member (District 3)
Arizona House of Representatives
The Honorable Jim Olsen
Member (District 2)
Oklahoma House of Representatives
The Honorable Rodney Schamerhorn
Member (District 24)
Louisiana House of Representatives
Barbara Ledeen
Retired
US Senate
Matthew Tyrmand
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute and Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.
President
The Heritage Foundation
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, President Ronald Reagan
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Thomas E. McClusky
Principal
Greenlight Strategies, LLC
The Honorable Paul S. Teller, Ph.D.
President
Teller Strategies
Noah Wall
President & Founder
State Leadership Initiative
Alfred S. Regnery
President
Republic Book Publishers
Chad Connelly
Founder and President
Faith Wins
David Bozell
President
ForAmerica
Eric Teetsel
Chief Executive Officer
Center for Renewing America
Andy Roth
President
State Freedom Caucus Network
Scott T. Parkinson
Vice President for Government Affairs
Club for Growth
Thomas H. Jones
Founder
American Accountability Foundation
Bob Carlstrom
President
The Carlstrom Group
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
The Honorable Carla Sands
Chair, Foreign Policy Initiative, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Energy Policy, AFPI and US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark (Ret.)
Dr. OJ Oleka
CEO
State Financial Officers Foundation
Drew McKissick
State Chairman
SC Republican Party
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Kristen A. Ullman
President
Eagle Forum
Anne Schlafly
Chairman
Eagle Forum
Peggy Dau
Co-Founder
NationsNet.org
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
Frank Pavone
National Director
Priests for Life
Dr. John C. Eastman
Senior Fellow
The Claremont Institute, Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
Paul Gessing
President
Rio Grande Foundation
Christina Murphy, Esq.
President
The Martin Foundation
Phil Kerpen
President
American Commitment
Melissa Emery
Board Member
Media Research Center
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
Jim Pfaff
President
The Conservative Caucus
The Honorable Richard Hayes
State Representative
State of Texas
Paavo Ensio
Chairman
Universal Minerals Group
John Yep
President
Catholics for Catholics
Jack Park
Conservative Activist and Donor
Mark Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising
Jeffrey M. Kruszyna
Founder
JMK Victory
Ned Jones
Deputy Director
Election Integrity Network
Darin Gaub
State Director, Montana
State Freedom Caucus Network
Maria Nate
State Director, Idaho
State Freedom Caucus Network
Blake Bassham
Research Director
State Freedom Caucus Network
The Honorable Jeff Coleman
Member (District 32)
Missouri House of Representatives
The Honorable Carl Glimm
Member (District 2)
Montana State Senate
The Honorable Darin McCann
Member (District 48)
Wyoming House of Representatives
The Honorable Nelly Nicol
Member (District 53)
Montana House of Representatives
The Honorable Rachel Rodriguez-Williams
Member (District 50)
Wyoming House of Representatives
The Honorable Bill Allemand
Member (District 58)
Wyoming House of Representatives
The Honorable Dusty Deevers
Member (District 32)
Oklahoma State Senate
The Honorable David J. Leavitt
Member (District 25B)
Idaho House of Representatives
The Honorable Kathy Edmonston
Member (District 88)
Louisiana House of Representatives
The Honorable Faye Thompson
Member (District 8)
Idaho House of Representatives
The Honorable Representative Clint Hostetler
Member (District 24A)
Idaho House of Representatives
The Honorable Kendal Sacchieri
Member (District 43)
Oklahoma State Senate
The Honorable Christy Zito
Member (District 23)
Idaho State Senate
The Honorable Dana Prieto
Member (District 34)
Oklahoma State Senate
The Honorable Julie McIntosh
Member (District 3)
Oklahoma State Senate
The Honorable Daniel Singh
Member (District 61)
Wyoming House of Representatives
Dr. Charles Owen
Member (District 30)
Louisiana House of Representatives
Scott Heiner
Allen J. Hebert
- Arctic Frost investigation
- Biden administration
- Trump prosecution
- Special Prosecutor Jack Smith
- Conservative Action Project
- Biden Justice Department
- Merrick Garland
- Biden FBI
- FBI Director Kash Patel
- Senator Ron Johnson
- Senator Chuck Grassley
- Weaponized government
- FBI Christopher Wray
- Lisa Monaco
- Conservative organizations
- Turning Point USA
- Enemies List
- Judge Boasberg
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