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“AMERICANS OPPOSE FLOCK CAMERAS: More and more citizens across the country are uniting to oppose Flock cameras, security cameras operated by private companies that spy on Americans. In response to pressure, some towns have chosen not to renew their contract with Flock,” according to Agenda Weekly (published and accessed July 17, 2026). The Rains County Commissioners Court has approved surveillance cameras for Rains County. Some cameras have already been placed in Rains County. Cities and counties are sold to believe that public safety is the primary concern. However, this is the beginning of constant monitoring according to Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison when he stated, “during a 2024 meeting that AI-managed camera networks will ensure that ‘citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on,’” according to DeWeese (“The AI Prison Planet,” New American, June 2026).

Hats off to the Rains County Commissioners Court for establishing a Fire Marshal office and for the hiring and certification of a Fire Marshal in Rains County!

On Saturday, July 18, 2026, there were 142 protests opposing AI Data Centers organized by Humans First across 42 states, according to Tyler Durden (www.freedomphoenix.com, July 19, 2026) accessed July 27, 2026. The protests ranged from “Wasilla, Alaska to Naples, Florida.” Texas “hosted the most rallies” with 18.

John Rich, music industry leader, has been appointed “Special Envoy for American Landowners” by President Trump. He will “serve as a leading advocate for America’s farmers, ranchers, and private landowners, helping ensure their concerns are heard and their rights are protected. He will engage directly with landowners across the country and work to address challenges posed by government overreach, activist pressure campaigns, and outside interests that threaten private property rights and long-term viability of rural communities,” according to a USDA Press Release (www.usda.gov, June 10, 2026) accessed July 27, 2026. 

FCC Hangs Up on Traditional Copper-Based Phone Service

Telephone calls on traditional copper-based landlines will soon be discontinued. “On March 26, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously passed an order that further accelerates the retirement of copper POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) landline networks,” according to Fusion Connect (www.fusionconnect.com, March 31, 2026) accessed July 22, 2026. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) removed “key regulatory hurdles that once slowed providers down from retiring legacy networks… Carriers now have fewer barriers to discontinuing copper line service,” according to Hottman (www.ooma.com, July 20, 2026) accessed July 22, 2026.

“Historically, the FCC required carriers to seek approval before shutting down legacy services to ensure communities weren’t left without essential communications. Under the new order, that process is faster and far less restrictive for the carrier,” according to Fusion Connect. “Carriers are aggressively using pricing to encourage their customers to move off” the traditional copper-based phone service. The movement away from copper is happening quickly. “Beginning in June 2026, AT&T [was] expected to start permanently decommissioning copper infrastructure in approximately 500 wire centers nationwide—roughly 10% of its network footprint—following FCC approval for the first wave of discontinuance projects,” Hottman said. “This is not simply a restriction on new service orders. It is the physical retirement of the underlying [copper] network infrastructure”

Since data cannot be transferred over copper wires expeditiously with high-speed fiber and 5G wireless, copper is not able to transmit data at the speed needed to interact with other newer technologies such as AI Data Centers and flock(surveillance) cameras. “Promoters say [AI] will make our lives easier and more efficient” with convenience being “the main selling point.” There are benefits that AI can provide. “However, there are many reasons to be concerned about this technological explosion that is prompting a societal upheaval. AI can be a foundational tool for building a government system that will control every aspect of our lives. Therefore, each aspect of it must be examined, considered, questioned, and controlled,” according to DeWeese (“The AI Prison Planet,” New American, June 2026). Maintaining the traditional copper-based phone service would be an impediment to the technology network and to the creation of a surveillance state.

Recently, some Rains County residents received notices from Frontier (a Verizon company) that their “traditional copper-based home phone service will be discontinued” in just a few months. Frontier informed residents, “As part of our ongoing network improvements, service will be delivered using modern fiber or wireless technology where available.”

Copper has been fundamental for communication from the days of Alexander Graham Bell’s first issued patent for copper telephones in 1876 and on throughout the years until now. The traditional copper-based phone service is superior to high-speed fiber and 5G wireless technologies when it comes to reliability during power outages and emergency situations. High-speed fiber and 5G wireless technologies are harmful when it comes to people’s health and well-being.

During power outages and emergency situations, there is a need for battery backup power with high-speed fiber and 5G wireless networks. That backup power is limited in how long it lasts depending on the amount of battery backup power available. In their letter serving as a notice to residents about the discontinuation of the traditional copper-based phone service, Frontier admitted that phone service over the wireless network and unlimited digital voice, a Frontier fiber-based service, do not work unless the device used has a working external power source. “If the device has no electrical power or battery power, it will not function, including for 911 emergency calls.”

Interestingly, Frontier noted that the traditional copper-based phone service worked during a power outage and emergency situation with a corded phone, “For maximum reliability during power outages, consider using a corded phone that does not require external power.”  Obviously, the traditional copper-based landline phone service we have now is best for power outages and emergency situations. This traditional copper-based landline service has been reliable over the years. Copper powers more than just the traditional landline service. There are critical systems that still depend on copper such as elevator emergency phones, fire alarm panels, fax machines, medical monitoring devices, security systems, etc.

High-speed fiber and 5G wireless networks are detrimental to one’s general health and well-being. The newest high-speed fiber optics and wireless 5G networks along with cellphone towers are some of the worst electromagnetic frequency (EMF) sources, according to a brochure from EMF Solutions, a South Carolina company that sells products to protect people from harmful EMF radiation. “Bioeffects can occur in the first few minutes in levels associated with cell and cordless phone use. Bioeffects can also occur from just minutes of exposure to mobile phone masts (cell towers), Wi-Fi, and wireless utility ‘smart’ meters that produce whole-body exposure,” according to BioInitiative 2012, Report Updated 2014-2022.

With prolonged or chronic exposure, “many of these bioeffects can reasonably be presumed to result in adverse health effects,” according to Samuel Milburn, MD, MPH, author of Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization, Second Edition, in his online interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola (www.mercola.com, published May 28, 2017, and reprinted December 31, 2023).  According to the Mercola article, EMI “impacts your biology, specifically your mitochondrial function, which we’ve now come to appreciate is at the heart of virtually all chronic disease.” Milburn said, “Many diseases, especially cancer are related to electromagnetic interference (EMI) or dirty electricity.”

With powerful 5G networks and technology people are being subjected to “unprecedented forms and amounts of what retired U.S. government physicist Dr. Ronald Powell calls ‘mandatory irradiation’—without ‘prior study of the potential health impact’ or any assurance of safety,” according to the Children’s Health Defense team (www.childrenshealthdefense.org, February 13, 2019) accessed August 1, 2026. 

In Europe and in the United States, people “living and working in proximity to newly installed 5G towers and antennas” have already “started experiencing health problems such as insomnia, miscarriage, memory problems and other neurological issues.” In Vienna, adults and children are reporting “classic symptoms of EMR [electromagnetic radiation] poisoning: nosebleeds, headaches, eye pains, chest pains, nausea, fatigue, vomiting, tinnitus, dizziness, flu-like symptoms, and cardiac pain. They also report a tight band around the head; pressure on top of the head; short, stabbing pains around the body; and buzzing internal organs,” according to the Children’s Health Defense team.

EMR Syndrome is a medical condition for those who are electromagnetically challenged or electromagnetically disabled “with exposure to man-made electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from wireless technologies and electromagnetic fields. Sources of man-made EMR include cell towers, antennas, cellphones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ‘smart’ utility meters, ‘smart appliances’, implanted medical devices, airport body scanners, and more. These biologically disruptive EMR exposures have been rapidly increasing and making millions of people sick,” according to the EMR Syndrome Alliance (www.emrsyndrome.org, March 18, 2026) accessed July 20, 2026. The EMR Syndrome Alliance quoted Sharon Goldberg, MD, an integrative physician, as saying, “The current mindset that we have of thinking that the electromagnetic environment is irrelevant to health has to change. There is so much science and evidence to show this is simply not the case, including the rise of EMR Syndrome.”

 Safety studies need to be done. “When the FCC endorsed the transition to 5G in 2016, then-Chairman Tom Wheeler (a former telecom industry lobbyist) vowed ‘to allow new [5G] technologies and innovations to evolve and flourish without needlessly prescriptive regulations.’ Thus, even though 5G represented a radical shift in technology, the FCC proposed no further safety studies,” according to the Children’s Health Defense team.

In January 2026, an announcement was made “of a U.S. government investigation into the potential health effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from wireless technologies,” according to the EMR Syndrome Alliance. However, before the health effects have had a chance to be properly investigated, the FCC and carriers are rushing ahead with their plans to discontinue and silence the traditional copper-based landline service here in Rains County and elsewhere.

Call to Action

You may file an objection regarding the discontinuation of the traditional copper-based landline service “electronically through the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System,” according to the Frontier letter. Or by mail “to the Federal Communications Commission, Wireline Competition Bureau, Competition Policy Division, Washington, DC 20554.” The Frontier letter said to “include specific information about the impact of the proposed discontinuance (or reduction or impairment) upon you or your company, including any inability to acquire reasonable substitute service.”

For those who are electromagnetically challenged or electromagnetically disabled and need the traditional copper-based landline phone service to communicate with others, contact the US Access Board, an independent federal agency that represents the public and especially people with disabilities, by email to pavithran@access-board.gov and ogc@access-board.gov. The sooner you contact these agencies the better as they are in the process of making decisions.

Urge Governor Abbott and our state legislators to take appropriate action to make our health, safety, and well-being a priority.  A complete moratorium should be placed countywide, statewide, and nationwide on all AI Data Centers and renewable energy installations immediately until all risks, impacts to the communities and harmful consequences associated with these technologies are fully understood, characterized, eliminated, prevented or mitigated to acceptable levels and until appropriate safety regulations and standards are implemented.

What You Can Do

1. Pray. Join our Prayer Warrior Team and receive prayer requests. Click here .
2. Sign our Petition. Click  here
3. Inform others. “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.” James Madison
4. Voice your concerns and be heard. Encourage accountability and transparency of AI Data Centers and renewable energy entities by contacting elected officials about any concerns you have.

Elected Official Contact Information:

County Judge Brent Hilliard, 903-473-5000 ext. 122, brent.d.hilliard@co.rains.tx.us

County Commissioner Jeremy Cook (Precinct 1), 214-202-2416, jeremy.cook@co.rains.tx.us

County Commissioner Jim Jones (Precinct 2), 903-473-5000 ext. 123, jim.jones@co.rains.tx.us

County Commissioner Korey Young (Precinct 3), 903-473-5000 ext. 160, korey.young@co.rains.tx.us

County Commissioner Lori Northcutt (Precinct 4), 903-473-5000 ext. 124, lori.northcutt@co.rains.tx.us

State Representative Cole Hefner (District 5), cole.hefner@house.tx.gov

Austin Office: 512-463-0271, Mt. Pleasant Office: 903-717-8238, Lindale Office: 903-882-3254

State Senator Angela Paxton (District 8), angela.paxton@senate.texas.gov

Austin Office: 512-463-0108, Allen Office: 972-908-3424, Greenville Office: 903-454-2880

Governor Greg Abbott: 512-463-2000

To file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General the link is:

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumer-protection/file-consumer-complaint/filing-complaint- faq

US Senator John Cornyn: Washington DC Office: 202-224-2934, Dallas Office: 972-239-1310

US Senator Ted Cruz: Washington DC Office: 202-224-5922, Dallas Office: 214-599-8749

US Representative Pat Fallon: Washington DC Office: 202-225-6673, Rockwall Office: 972-771-0100

This information was obtained from the Texas Scorecard website, the Rains County website, Senator Cornyn’s website, Senator Cruz’s website, Representative Fallon’s website, and from the Texas Attorney General’s office.

Current Known Active Projects

At this time, there is one solar farm installation in Rains County. It is just west of Point on the south side of US Highway 69 and comprises close to 1,000 acres on property belonging to Barrett and others. It is operational. In the northeast part of the county (Brashear) there is a plan to install a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on land owned by Majewski. It is in the early stages of construction. This BESS is set to connect to the ERCOT grid in 2027.