ABOUT THE ARTIST

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Although 12thGenPatriot.us is a new website it is not a new endeavor.  This site is the culmination of years of supporting President Trump, promoting common sense ideals, decades of conservative political activism and experiences, and further, centuries of feisty and like minded American ancestors before me.

Initially on this site, we are offering the 3rd edition of our embroidered  “Making America Great Again TRUMP" Jackets available now in limited quantities. There are four variations of the design to chose from; “PATRIOT” in full color red, white & blue (jacket back design as pictured above) on black or white jackets, “Dark MAGA” monochrome in shades of gray & charcoal on black or white jackets, “WHITE HAT” monochrome shades of white & gray on black jackets, and, the "New GOLDEN AGE” monochrome in shades of gold on black or white jackets. This 3rd "TRUMP 45-47"edition will be the Final round of our MAGA TRUMP Jackets and availability is very limited.   Production is capped at 2024 copies of this 3rd edition designs, all color schemes included. See full product details for jacket styles, materials and front embroidered insignia too.  Order yours today before they are sold out!

Keep in mind with the personalized names embroidered (FREE now thru Dec 30, 2024) on the left breast under the front design insignia, each jacket is custom made just for you. And as such slight variations in the stitch-out of each Jacket will ensure each is unique. Allow 2-4 wks for delivery.

Free Speech is a wonderful thing, especially when our right to it is uninfringed.  Aside from genetics the most obvious common thread between the artist (myself) and my many generations of American ancestors is FREE SPEECH.  And like those before me I have utilized it often at my own peril.  And it shouldn’t’ be that way.  

My handle on X is @SpeakW_outFear for a reason.

With deep conservative roots in New York, New England and far back to Colonial America in the early 1600’s my Smith genealogy in America began with a gentleman that came to be known as “Bull” Smith.  How he became known as Bull is another story for my soon to come genealogy page but suffice to say Bull Smith relished his freedom of speech and was known to exercise it frequently.  Bucking restrictive authority, hell bent on enjoying his freedom in "The New World" and unafraid to speak his mind Bull was twice banished for his "unreverend carriage" from early settlements in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Southampton, New York well before 1650.  Shortly after, Bull Smith determined to establish his own domain, became the 'Patentee' of his own settlement of 55 sq miles rightly named Smithtown, New York by 1665.   Smithtown still exists today.

Like my ancestors, I have been censored for my speech making it anything but free. 'Speak Without Fear of Reprisal' is my motto and should be our first amendment policy.  It is quite ironic that our fights to preserve our fundamental rights for freedom of expression, peaceful quiet enjoyment, religious choice, land ownership and the liberty to live as we chose are just as relevant today as they were four hundred years ago.  I could write a few books on just that and I fully intend to soon but for now and as an introduction to the 12thGenPatriot.us website brevity requires me to limit myself to the many years that I have supported conservative principles and policies and of course Donald J. Trump, our 45th- 47th President.

My support for candidate Donald J. Trump began in May 2015 when I answered an invite to the Sarasota GOP’s Statesman of the Year event in his honor.  Mr. Trump spoke candidly for ninety minutes, as he typically does, and without a teleprompter.  Trump didn’t lecture us or talk down to us.  No stiff and boring speech full of empty rhetoric.  Donald Trump's remarks were truthful and sincere.  He was having a conversation with his audience about the sad state of affairs in America after the [biggest fraud under] Hussein years had totally depleted our military might and equipment, kept our economy in perpetual recession and left America’s infrastructure in shambles.  Mr. Trump made sense and my neighbor and I were all too glad we drove hours to attend.  Would he officially announce his candidacy, we knew not, however we were 'All Aboard' the Trump Train regardless, before that was even a thing.  

Of course, many thought I was nutz even many in my own family.  “Too bad” I said to the naysayers and after they gave me strange looks and dismissed Trump’s chances as zero to none I’d spout off “stop drinking the koolaid and eventually you’ll see the light.”  Determined to show my support and long before there was a Trump Store with official merch I had already made, and worn-out, T shirts and tank tops resembling the early on Trump campaign motifs.  Trump gave birth to “Make America Great Again” and I was out spreading the news o social media and to all that would listen.

By 2016 and the Presidential Preference Primary season I had made over 7,000 phone calls for the campaign, engaged thousands of voters, answered hundreds of questions on the issues, registered many voters and gathered a dozen good and reliable volunteers.  Our Team campaigned anywhere and everywhere in our large county. Sign and flag waves at high traffic areas, registering voters, passing out bumper stickers, meeting with voters and spreading the Trump Love all over our county and beyond.  We attended and worked rallies, drove all over for sign distribution and overnights on eves of elections, and so on.  Spent a fortune on gas and expenses.   And we utilized the Trump Pence RV on multiple occasions and secured free billboard advertisements “WOMEN FOR TRUMP” in hot pink and white in highly visible areas.  Our momentum began and we ran and ran until we knew Trump had won.

Then we ran and campaigned some more on Trump's Thank You Tour.

As I was making plans to attend the January 20, 2017 inauguration, several balls and other festivities in DC I felt terrible that I couldn’t bring my entire team with me, no that was cost prohibitive.  I so wanted to do something special for them, something they would remember past digesting their complimentary steak dinner.

Did I mention that I can be creative and I sew?

Well I am and I do.   I had a vision then drew it, designed it and stitched out my first MAGA Trump embroidery design on my machine and voila the 1st Edition MAGA TRUMP PENCE Jackets were born.   After testing this was the first I stitched out in January 2017.  And so, I gave each of my treasured volunteers a MAGA TRUMP PENCE Embroidered Jacket and a Making America Great Again embroidered bandana as my way of saying Thank You.

By January 2021 the censorship was so blatant and flagrant the Marxist takeover of America was well underway and on full display with the help of the Fake News.  In reality it was nothing new, it was all part of the evil swamps plans to destroy America and our God given inalienable rights.

You see for me the censorship was old hat as I had been attacked and shutdown, heavily shadow banned since 2009  before that was a widely used term.  And in 2010 after I found out about Hussein’s private army of internet hacks he had hired to censor and monitor the conservative opposition - and repeatedly hack my website - it was war for me!

In the aftermath of the housing and financial crashes of 2007 & 2008 that left 50,000 Builders like me in Florida out of work I tried reinventing myself as an artist in the fall of 2009 as a by product of my involvement early on in the Tea Party movement. 

I always knew in my gut that B O, from the very first moment I heard of him, was a leftist fraud, stool for the spread of _______ and implementation of the deep state swamps Marxist agenda to destroy America as we know it.  And I spoke out about it.  And yes, many thought I was a bit intense about it and I was but  this our country that we live in and love.  I was attempting to awaken people to the real machinations of Barry's reign.   Take a look at what happened and where we are today, need I say more on that?

Along with a million other Tea Party Patriots I protested our out-of-control government during the first 912 March on DC in Washington DC in September 2009 and others.  And for five days I met many patriots, grassroots leaders and activists, real journalists – even Andrew Brietbart God rest his soul.  I made many signs, heard many speak out about the wrongs existing in our government, the epic failure of Obamacare,  took lots of notes, collected information and listened to the many possible solutions, and marched from FREEDOM PLAZA  on down to the Capitol in an effort to take our country back from the radical left.  As we passed by the National Press Club building with the words of the First Amendment carved into the stone facade I shouted out "THIS IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT" and the crowd roared and cheered in agreement.

It was an awesome event and experience and the lamestream media (another young term in 2009) played it down to ten thousand in attendance when anyone who can count could look at the photographs and know there was more than a million people there.  

My late cousin, a career Navy intelligence officer then, had met me in the Hotel lobby incognito, looking like a goofy Florida Tourist.  I was perplexed? He said if his boss [JN] knew he was there he’d be fired.  I was shocked he said that but knew he was dead serious.  I leaned in and asked him a few things and he basically affirmed them all adding that the Hussein admin was so much worse than what my questions were asking. "You can't imagine how bad it is," he said.   But he too was silenced and uttered he couldn’t elaborate for fear of retaliation.  He had to remain apolitical even in his personal life.  I’m thinking what the hell is up with that. That's tyrannical.  More to the point of silencing dissent and opposition, and, controlling the narrative. I met him again each time I was in DC until he mysteriously died suddenly in 2015.  I digress.

Upon my return to Florida in the fall of 2009 I rendered the sum of my many experiences and interactions during those five glorious days at the Tea Party March on DC in Sept 2009 into a 4' x 5' ink and watercolor painting, a montage of vignettes, problems and solutions in America and called it “We the People,….We are Back.” By the end of 2009 I met Glenn Beck in Jupiter, Florida at a book signing and passed him a 24"x36" test print.  From there we printed 1000 high quality digital 24"x36" prints, had a website built and proceeded to sell prints online by February 2010.  

Jenny Beth Martin's Tea Party Patriots and activist Robin S.  did a very nice feature on me and the prints from the painting and my sales skyrocketed …. I could of sold out in one day had it not been for the malefic DHS bots that sabotaged my website a mere 38 mins in to the uptick.  When I complained to my hosting service they declined to take a formal cyber crime complaint because it was the government hackers that had camped out on my website and disabled the credit card functions thus sabotaging sales of the prints.  And as quick as I would rebuild it DHS098 shut it down. I was furious and suffered huge financial losses because of it.  No one believed me “Why would they bother with you?” or  “You’re a nobody, the government isn’t going to waste their time on you.”  It was demoralizing and it bankrupt me in more ways than financially.  I was exhausted emotionally, mentally and physically too.

I may have been shut up and shut down for the moment, but then my Ancestors were roiling in their graves and they spiked me with the courage to get back up and next thing I knew I sprang out of bed at 4am with a FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT kinda idea.

When I reported the cyber-crimes to my hosting service and they refused to take my complaints saying there was nothing they could do because it was the government shutting me down I thought what a bunch of cowards, sellouts and wimps.   In creating, designing and painting the “We the People,...We are Back” piece I kept all of the information and messaging contained in it 100% truthful and “G rated” for the express reasons that no one could say otherwise, and, I wanted it to be shared widely with our youth, our children and grandchildren.  This is about our country and we must take action or we will lose our country to the evil leftists and Marxists that seek to destroy America as we know it!

Attempts to silence my free speech may have won the day and the battle but most certainly won’t win the war in the end. I swore to myself they’d have to kill me first.  And now the gloves were off.  I was still a natural redhead then and I vowed to continue my efforts however small and inconsequential it may seem to some, no matter what.  The same sheer will, fortitude and determination that my ancestors braved weeks at sea and months and years in a new and foreign land often in harrowing conditions and without the modern creature comforts that we all enjoy without conscious thought and take for granted every minute 24/7 365,  I will muster too. 

For not I then who?

Carry on I will, Speaking Without Fear and at least attempting to awaken as many from the masses as practically possible to the destruction of our country that was materializing before our eyes in real time.

My FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT kinda idea came thru in multiple technicolor visions – still all true even today – but now exposing the evil behind it all.  I leapt out of bed at 4am in February 2010 and drew and painted, start to finish, my entire “Rid the Radicals” piece in one gloriously long day.  The work literally flowed out of my fingers thru the pen and brush like a download off the internet and “Rid the Radicals” was done.  It is a ‘stop the Marxist takeover of America’ piece and many of the contributing evil culprits are featured and included in the work.  

Once I published this piece on my thrice reworked website in February 2010 those same government bots destroyed my site entirely.  That must of hit a nerve with Barry and his equally maleficent mentors and minions.  I built another website and it too was sabotaged.  After 4 website builds, I was again exhausted emotionally, financially, mentally and physically.  But every drop of ink I put to paper for that piece was as true and relevant then as it is true and relevant today nearly 15 years post haste!  Hussein proved it himself by the events of his great fraud on America and shutting me down over and over again.