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Young Republicans Launch Petition To STOP Capitol Police From Moving To Florida

When Will This Madness Be Over?

he Tampa Bay Young Republicans have launched a petition urging Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to block the U.S. Capitol Police from setting up their planned field office in Tampa, Florida to investigate American patriots following the January 6 election integrity protest in Washington, D.C. The Capitol Police force, which plans to spread to Tampa and also Nancy Pelosi’s city of San Francisco, alarmed many Americans when Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn delivered highly partisan and widely doubted evidence-free testimony before Congress. Dunn absurdly claimed that pro-Trump patriots chanted the “N” word at him. Conservatives do not want the Capitol Police expanding their jurisdiction.

The petition was started by the Tampa Bay Young Republicans and it is entitled “Demand the immediate removal of the United States Capitol Police field office in Tampa.” The petition states: “On July 7, 2021, we learned the USCP is establishing field offices in Tampa, Florida and San Francisco, California in order to further investigate the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The field offices are a first for the federal department, and demonstrate the Biden Administration’s efforts to increase federal influence over state and local law enforcement. Over 500 unorganized people have already been arrested for Jan 6th and the FBI possesses over 15,000 Hours of footage of a 30 minute event. What else are we doing here that can’t be done within our existing judicial system and government agencies? Trump got trounced for sending in the national guard in Portland last year DURING riots, and this is more significant than sending in the national guard. This petition is calling on Governor Ron DeSantis and Floridian political leaders to protect the constitutional rights of Floridians from federal overreach and guarantee Florida’s law enforcement be represented by officials democratically elected by Floridians. This petition is also calling on the USCP to exclusively protect the U.S. Capitol, which it failed to do on January 6, 2021.”

Patriots are working overtime to provide Constitutional legal justification for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to block the United States Capitol Police from building their new planned field office in Tampa, Florida. Many patriots are adamant that the Capitol Police cannot expand to Florida without DeSantis’ authorization. Some patriots are urging their fellow freedom-lovers to send a letter to the governor explaining how he can stop the intrusion. The Republican Party of Hillsborough County has submitted the letter to DeSantis.

Here is the letter that is being sent to the Florida Governor: “Dear Governor DeSantis, I am writing to tell you to stop the establishment of the Capitol Police field office in Tampa, Florida.  This is not the proper place for the federal government to set up a base for authority.  We cannot allow this federal agency to operate in this State, circumventing the authority of our Sheriffs and our State Constitution.  We cannot accept the establishment of a federal office that will claim a superior power to the State within our State.  Our people need you and your protection!

  • Article 1 section 8 clause 17 of the US Constitution establishes that the Federal government has no authority to establish any presence within the State without the express permission of the State.

You have the authority to deny this intrusion upon our State, our People, our Constitution.

James Madison explains in both Federalist 39 & 51 there must be a separation of powers between the local and federal jurisdictions as an essential check and balance of power. (Adopted by the Supreme Court in Prins v US)

“The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the supremacy, no more subject within their respective authorities than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere.”

“The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself…”

  • The people must retain authority over all those who will enforce laws to prevent abuse of authority and enforcement of unconstitutional laws.

The Capitol Police are not elected or controlled by anyone chosen by the people of Florida!

  • 2 USC 2 §1661-1667 establishes that Capitol Police only have jurisdiction specific to Washington, DC or when they are actively protecting an elected federal official.
  • The FBI MUST have permission to exercise jurisdiction in our State.  This is a Constitutional fact evidenced by the necessity of “Mutual Jurisdiction Agreements.”

You Must withdraw and real or perceived permissions.

  • The existence of the Capitol Police and the FBI in our State is a global statement that Florida Sheriffs and Peace Officers are incompetent and incapable of doing their jobs.

This is a slap in the face to our local Sheriffs & Peace officers.  Please deny this authority and stand with our State and local officials.

I am asking you to please defend the Florida Constitution and the Rights of every Floridian from this unconstitutional intrusion upon our right as a State to self-govern.  Thank you for your time” (letter ends)

Meanwhile, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Capitol and Metro Police officers who testified before the congressional “January 6 Commission,” where the officers delivered shockingly partisan and widely-doubted accounts of the protest events. Pelosi personally invited Harry Dunn, a Capitol police officer, and Metro police officers Daniel Hodges and Michael Fanone to the House gallery for a vote back in June, making it clear that Pelosi had those three officers handpicked. Here is a photo of Pelosi meeting with Dunn, Fanone, and Hodges, alongside fellow leftist Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell.

“Harry Dunn, the Capitol Hill Police Department officer who claimed, without evidence, during Tuesday’s Congressional hearing that he was called a “n****r” by Jan. 6 Trump supporters, is a devout left-wing activist who frequently posted about his hatred for conservatives and his association with black supremacists on Twitter.

“Racism is so American, that when you protest it, people think that you are protesting America! #RacistInChief #racism #leaveittowhitestotellblackswhatisntracist #IStandWithIlhanOmar #squad,” Dunn tweeted in July 2019, expressing his feelings about “whites” and his love for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

In May, Dunn posted a picture of a tattoo that he had gotten to show off his support for black grievance politics. “The eye is crying blood, the black heart represents the struggle of black people. Blood tears for all the bloodshed in the struggle for equality while getting in ‘good trouble’. The red lightning is chaos all around #goodtrouble #JohnLewis,” Dunn wrote in support of dead politician and political avtivist John Lewis.

“If me talking about racism makes you uncomfortable, then thats [sic] exactly why I’m doing it,” Dunn declared in April. He also narrated an anti-Trump political video for liberal organization The Lincoln Project.

During the June 2020 George Floyd riots, Dunn, who has been held up as a model police officer who represents the collective feelings of law enforcement, retweeted a post attacking police officers.

Dunn also posted a video mocking a security threat towards former President Donald Trump: https://twitter.com/libradunn/status/1171026271112966144

Perhaps most alarmingly, in June 2019 Dunn retweeted a video from black supremacist Tariq Nasheed that instigated hate towards a White man. Dunn compared the man to Trayvon Martin attack survivor George Zimmerman, and appeared to negatively reference heritage and sexual orientation by hyperbolizing that the man had “a Confederate and Rainbow flag wrapped around him”: https://twitter.com/libradunn/status/1143853798852636672

Fox News host Tucker Carlson, one of the targets of Dunn’s political rage, pointed out the CHPD officer’s history of leftist Twitter activism, stating “Harry Dunn has very little in common with your average cop. Dunn is an angry left-wing political activist.’”

Democratic Lawmaker Arrested on Child Sex Charges

A Democratic Arizona lawmaker was arrested in Phoenix on sex charges involving a minor, according to AzFamily.com and other outlets.

Phoenix police said state Sen. Otoniel “Tony” Navarrette was arrested Thursday evening, the Arizona Capitol Times reported.

“We did make an arrest for molestation tonight, and as soon as we get more information we’ll make it available,” said Donna Rossi, communications director of the Phoenix Police Department.

The department released a statement about the arrest that was shared on Twitter by Nicole Valdes of KNXV-TV.

“On August 4th, 2021, The Phoenix Police Department received a report of sexual conduct with a minor that occurred in 2019,” the police advisory said.

“Detectives interviewed a juvenile victim and witnesses, and on August 5th, developed probable cause to arrest the suspect.”

“The suspect was arrested and is currently in the process of being booked into jail for multiple counts of Sexual Conduct with a minor, among other charges. The suspect’s name and booking number will be provided when the booking process is complete.”

No further information had been provided as of early Friday morning.

The Senate Democratic caucus released a statement on the arrest.

“We are aware one of our members has been arrested and are awaiting further details and for law enforcement to do its job,” the statement read, according to a tweet from Valdes. “We will not have further comment at this time.”

The arrest comes just days after Navarette reported that although he had been vaccinated, he had tested positive for the coronavirus.

“COVID-19 cases are once surging in Arizona and across the country and we need to be vigilant,” the Democrat said in a Facebook post.

“Thankfully with the vaccine, my diagnosis is not a death sentence, but an uncomfortable inconvenience. I know that people are tired and frustrated, but it’s time to mask up again. The best defense is getting the vaccine and masking up in public, crowded spaces,” he wrote.

Navarrette was elected to the state House of Representatives in 2016. He was elected to the state Senate in 2018 and re-elected in 2020.

He is also the deputy director of Promise Arizona, a not-for-profit agency, according to AzFamily.com.

An article last year at Queerty.com described Navarrette as an “openly gay Democrat.”

Illinois School District Violates Civil Rights Law, Calls It “Equity”

According to a lawsuit filed by the Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of teacher Stacy Deemar, the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 in northern Illinois has been forcing its teachers and students to engage in programming that discriminates against individuals on the basis of race in violation of both federal civil rights law and the U.S. Constitution.

The factual allegations made by the Southeastern Legal Foundation against District 65 are astonishing.

They include claims that District 65 (1) trained its teachers that “to be less white is to be less racially oppressive,” that “white identity is inherently racist,” and that teachers who disagree with these principles are “racists”; (2) taught its students that treating people equally “helps racism”; (3) engaged in race-shaming, such as racially segregated teacher and student “privilege walks”; and (4) directed the use of racially segregated “affinity groups” in which teachers were divided based on their race or racial identification.

These are just a few of the shocking allegations contained in the complaint.

The use of “affinity groups” was the subject of a federal civil rights complaint that was brought to the attention of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights during the Trump administration.

While that office determined in January that the district’s use of those groups was discriminatory and a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the same office under the Biden administration suspended that decision shortly after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, employing a dubious interpretation of federal civil rights law that is fast becoming a hallmark of this administration.

Kimberly Hermann, general counsel for the Southeastern Legal Foundation, warned:

By vowing to define its teachers and students solely by their race, District 65 promotes and reinforces a view of race essentialism that divides Americans into groups based solely on their skin color.

District 65 teaches its teachers and students that their whole identity comes from the color of their skin. It teaches them to hate each other. It teaches them not only how to be racist, but that they should be racist. This is illegal, wrong, and must be stopped.

Title VI expressly prohibits discrimination based on race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance, which would include educational institutions funded through the Department of Education.

The implementing regulations of Title VI prohibit a recipient of federal funding from providing any service or other benefit to a student that is different, or provided in a different manner, than to another student on the basis of race.

The regulations also prohibit recipients from subjecting an individual to segregation or separate treatment in any matter based on race.

Despite that, and the requirement that it adhere to the edicts of Title VI, District 65 is open about why it thinks its “racial and educational equity policy” is needed, stating:

The purpose of this policy is to establish a framework for the elimination of bias, particularly racism and cultural bias, as factors affecting student achievement and learning experiences, and to promote learning and working environments that welcome, respect, and value diversity.

Further, the purpose is to establish particular actions that District 65 shall take to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, to address disparities in educational opportunity and achievement while understanding the urgency with which we must move to support Black, Latinx (sic), and multiracial students.

District 65 is committed to focusing on race as one of the first visible indicators of identity … .

Unfortunately, the race-based programming in Evanston, Illinois, isn’t uncommon.

As the teachers unions and progressive cabal on Capitol Hill continue in their attempts to thwart pushback on critical race theory, ground-level efforts to cement the new “anti-racism” racism have increased in the curriculum, despite the fact that America is not nearly as racist as we’ve been led to believe.

District 65 explicitly endorses “equity” over “equality.”

While equality is the legal principle articulated in the Constitution and the nation’s laws that form the basis for equivalent opportunity and legal protection for all, District 65 says its necessary focus on equity “goes beyond the definition of equality—where students are treated the same—to fostering a barrier-free environment where all students’ unique needs are addressed and supported by resources which are allocated in a fiscally responsible manner.”

Proponents of critical race theory, such as Ibram X. Kendi, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” have openly argued for employing discriminatory tactics to achieve such equity, stressing: “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

America’s newfound obsession with racial identity has fostered a new racism, a type of “neo-segregation” that turns federal civil rights laws on their head by forcing individuals to be classified, segregated, and instructed on the basis of their race.

In Shaw v. Reno (1993), the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that classifications of citizens based solely on their race are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. They threaten to stigmatize individuals by reason of their membership in a racial group and to incite racial hostility.

The Southeastern Legal Foundation’s lawsuit—the first of its kind targeting the woke racial pedagogy of modern education—has the potential to make history in courts and classrooms nationwide.  

Parents everywhere can only hope.  

Gas Prices Surge to Fresh 7-Year High

Gas prices have surged to a new seven-year high and while some experts predict predict they’ll come down soon, others expect more pain at the pump if crude oil prices rise.

For the week of Aug. 2, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline rose by a little over two cents compared to the prior week to $3.159, a seven-year high, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The American Automobile Association said it expects gas prices to remain elevated at least through the beginning of August.

“On average, motorists are paying 15 cents more to fill up since the beginning of May,” said Jeanette McGee, AAA spokesperson, in a statement. “August could prove to be even more expensive if crude oil prices increase, driven by market concerns of rising COVID case numbers and how that could negatively affect global demand in the near future.”

Oil prices rose more than 1 percent on Thursday on increasing Middle East tensions, though gains were capped as fresh restrictions to counter a surge in COVID-19 cases threatened the global energy demand recovery.

GasBuddy head petroleum analyst Patrick De Haan told Fox Business in an interview that he believes gas prices are “close to a peak,” adding that he expects to see the top come in within a week or two as the vacation season trails off.

“We should then see prices start to taper off as demand cools off as we head back into routines from summer vacations,” De Haan told the outlet.

In a tweet, De Haan said he expects a further cooling in gasoline demand as some companies postpone plans to resume in-office work due to a resurge in cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

“Given today’s disclosure that Amazon is joining others in delaying a return to office, I see additional downside to #gasprices. It’s clear with Delta surging that gasoline demand will fall off heading into fall,” de Haan said in the tweet.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers the Delta variant of the CCP virus to be more transmissible and potentially more resistant to vaccines.

Civil Rights Group Sues George Mason University on Behalf of Professor Required to Get COVID Vaccine Despite Having Natural Immunity

The New Civil Liberties Alliance’s lawsuit says George Mason University’s attempt to interfere with Professor Zywicki’s bodily autonomy, with no legitimate rationale for doing so, not only violates medical ethics, but also fundamental rights protected in the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

George Mason University (GMU) is threatening employees with disciplinary action that includes “unpaid leave or possible loss of employment” if they don’t comply with the public university’s vaccine mandate.

On Aug. 4, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of Antonin Scalia Law School Professor Todd Zywicki against GMU’s unconstitutional reopening policy for the Fall 2021 semester.

The policy requires all unvaccinated faculty and staff members, including those who can demonstrate natural immunity through recovery from a prior COVID-19 infection, to not only disclose their vaccination status as “a prerequisite for eligibility for any merit pay increases,” but also be forced into choosing between their health and personal autonomy and suffering serious detriment to their professional careers.

Zywicki has recovered from COVID-19 and thereby acquired robust natural immunity, as confirmed in multiple positive SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests during the past year. Zywicki’s immunologist, Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, has advised him that, based on his personal health and immunity status, it is medically unnecessary to get a COVID-19 vaccine — and that it violates medical ethics to order unnecessary procedures.

“George Mason University’s arbitrary, irrational and unscientific policy forces our client, a tenured law school professor who has devoted his life to serving his community and his country, to ignore the medical advice of his own doctor,” said Jenin Younes, litigation counsel for NCLA.   “Receiving the vaccine would provide neither Professor Zywicki nor the GMU community any benefit, since he already has demonstrable, robust natural immunity.”

Younes added: “GMU’s attempt to interfere with Professor Zywicki’s bodily autonomy, with no legitimate rationale for doing so, not only violates medical ethics, but also fundamental rights protected in the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.”

Affidavits from Drs. Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff and Noorchashm explain that undergoing a full vaccination course creates a risk of harm and provides no benefit either to Zywicki or the GMU community.

To remain unvaccinated without facing disciplinary action, Zywicki must obtain an exemption to work at home. Otherwise, he must comply with punitive masking, testing and social-distancing requirements, while facing the prospect of disciplinary action, including termination of employment and lost eligibility for raises.

These requirements diminish Zywicki’s efficacy in performing his professional responsibilities —  thus, the policy coerces him into receiving the vaccine. In addition, the policy represents an unconstitutional condition being applied to Zywicki’s rights to bodily integrity and informed medical choice.

“George Mason University’s policy is indefensible from a medical standpoint, violates our client’s constitutional rights and deprives him of due process of law,” said Harriet Hageman, senior litigation counsel for NCLA. “Common sense and medical science should underpin GMU’s actions. Both have gone missing with this latest effort to force a distinguished professor to take a vaccine that he does not need — not for his own protection nor for anyone else’s safety at Scalia Law School,” said Hageman.

As an administrative unit of the Commonwealth of Virginia, GMU has no compelling state interest in overriding Zywicki’s personal autonomy by effectively forcing him to receive a vaccine or suffer adverse professional consequences. Because of his natural immunity, Zywicki already has the same or better antibody levels than a vaccine would give him.

In fact, his immunity status makes him far better protected — and less likely to spread the virus — than others on GMU’s campus who have taken one of the inferior foreign vaccines (e.g., Sinovac). As a result, GMU’s arbitrary reopening policy infringes upon Zywicki’s rights under the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution — including his rights to due process of law.

The reopening policy also conflicts with federal law. None of the vaccines approved for use in the U.S. has received full Food and Drug Administration approval. Rather, they have only been granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) status, which means anyone offered the vaccine may withhold their informed consent.

The policy thus conflicts with the EUA statute and thereby violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which dictates that a state or local law is preempted when it creates “an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.”

NCLA urges the Court to issue a declaratory judgment that GMU’s reopening policy infringes Zywicki’s right to bodily integrity and to refuse unnecessary medical treatment — that it represents an unconstitutional condition that also denies him due process of law — and that it conflicts with the federal EUA statute and thus violates the Supremacy Clause. For these reasons, NCLA also asks the course to enjoin enforcement of the policy.

Sean Spicer: Trump’s running

Signals have been pouring out of former President Donald Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, resort that he’s heading in the direction of another run for the presidency.

It was sparked by reports from former chief of staff Mark Meadows that Trump was meeting with his 2024 “Cabinet” to judge the field he might face.

And now, his former press secretary and adviser, Sean Spicer, is just saying it.

“He’s in,” he said during a preview interview of his upcoming book, Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America, already an Amazon pre-sale bestseller.

Spicer said that the last few months of bumbles by the Biden White House, especially on Trump issues such as immigration, have encouraged the former president to look beyond the 2022 midterm elections during which he plans to be a “kingmaker.”

What’s more, said Spicer, who hosts Spicer & Co. on Newsmax TV, Trump has banked $102 million, lost weight, and has kept his approval ratings high.

Pollster John McLaughlin added that “the more Biden fails, the better President Trump looks.”

McLaughlin has suggested that 2024 could look like 1980, when Ronald Reagan, who lost his 1976 primary fight, beat a floundering Jimmy Carter. Should he run and win, McLaughlin predicted a Trump 2.0 would be “better, smarter.”

But he added that if Trump helps the GOP win the House and Senate in 2022, there will be less urgency to run again.

Spicer looks at it differently. “A couple months ago I wasn’t sure” of a new Trump bid, he said. “Now,” he added, “there needs to be something that will keep him out.”

Fauci Oversaw Dangerous, Torturous Experiments On Dogs

“Fauci is increasingly becoming Dr. Evil. Over and over again”

In addition to overseeing funding of gain of function coronavirus experiments in Wuhan, and then lying about it, it has now emerged that Dr Fauci was in charge of funding horrid experimental research on dogs, including purposefully infecting the animals with parasites known to be contagious to humans.

The report from the White Coat Waste Project draws on information gleaned from a FOIA request which revealed that $400,000 was pumped into National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Disease experiments to infect beagles with parasites from biting flies.

The report outlines how the dogs “endured months of pain, and once researchers were done with them, they were killed.”

The NIAID task order states that “28 beagles were to be allowed to develop infections for three months before being euthanized for blood collection.”

The records obtained under the FOIA request show the dogs “vocalized pain” during the experiments.

Torturing and killing dogs, the most loving and innocent creatures on Earth, with deadly parasites that are also extremely dangerous to people. 

Can this guy get any more evil?

What’s next? Funding for research on what temperature it is best to roast new born babies?

Breaking down the report, Fox News host Ben Domenech noted that “If Dr. Anthony Fauci thought Rand Paul was mad at him, wait until the animal activists see this.”

As noted by Justin Goodman, one of the authors of the report, experimental and cruel research on dogs was ended a long time ago by the EPA and other agencies, because there’s very little of use to us that can be gleaned scientifically from it, yet Fauci’s agency continued with it nonetheless.

Host Lara Logan chimed in, commenting “How could you not love dogs? This has to be something that people everywhere are united on,” adding “In fact, they’re supposed to be far fewer experiments on animals, particularly dogs, because so many people are really just horrified by it. There’s ethical considerations, moral considerations and of course, there’s the practical considerations.”

“We know these things happen, but should they be happening with taxpayer money? Dr. Fauci is increasingly becoming Dr. Evil. Over and over again, the decisions that he made that have just destroyed millions of lives all over the world are becoming more apparent by day,” Logan added.

Logan further pointed out “We still don’t know so much about what he’s doing. We don’t know what they’re doing at the NIH with animals. We don’t know what research they’re funding with gain of function.”

Fox News states that unsurprisingly neither Fauci nor the NIH has responded to requests for information on this matter.

Christian Olympian Credits God For Her Comeback Bronze Win After Bout With PTSD

A revelation from the Lord led this Rio gold medalist to return to wrestling and win another medal at the Tokyo Olympics after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 2018.

Outspoken Christian and Olympic wrestler Helen Maroulis beat Khongorzul Boldsaikhan of Mongolia and claimed the bronze for the United States on Thursday.

And Jesus said to him “anything is possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23) ⁣

Never lose faith, never give up. ⁣

2x Olympic medalist!!! Pinching myself!! What a gift to be able to do this on the biggest stage again. My heart is full (heart emoji) thank you everyone!! pic.twitter.com/KoeWgGVods

— Helen Maroulis OLY (@helen_maroulis) August 6, 2021

In a statement to Sports Spectrum, the athlete disclosed that it was God who helped her get back to the sport following a brief hiatus due to brain injuries.

“I just kind of felt like He revealed to me that if wrestling is where your pain and trauma happened and you run away from it for the rest of your life, you’re not ever going to heal from it,” she said.

“I thank God so much just for making me healthy,” she told USA Today.

Helen Louise Maroulis of #USA takes #bronze in the women’s freestyle 57kg #wrestling. #StrongerTogether | #Tokyo2020 | @wrestling pic.twitter.com/rOPuDUij17

— Olympics (@Olympics) August 5, 2021

She also uncovered to the media outlet that the reason why she pursued to fight in the 2020 Olympics, despite a lot of setbacks along the way, is because of the promise that God gave her the day after she won in Rio.

“If I didn’t have that, I would have quit so many times throughout this whole quad. I really held onto that. I know I made a commitment,” she stated.

Maroulis had a concussion during a match with Pooja Dhanda of India in January 2018. She suffered another brain injury during a practice just after a few months of recovery that year. Later on, sport psychologists diagnosed her with PTSD. She then underwent treatment.

But after competing at the world championship in Budapest in October 2018 and injured her shoulder, the athlete decided to continue her treatment and moved back with her parents in Maryland to complete the healing process.

She resumed competing in February last year and won all her matches at the Pan American Olympics Qualifier in March 2020.

In 2010, Maroulis came to know the Lord when a coach invited her to church, where she was moved with the preaching.

She shared about her journey as a Christian athlete in an interview with the Baptist Press in 2016.

Maroulis disclosed that she was disappointed with losing at the 2012 Olympic Trials, since she had been planning to use the platform to share about her faith and God’s goodness. But after reading the Bible, she realized that wrestling had become her highest priority which turned into a god.

“I think I used God as a good luck charm or a rabbit’s foot. It was like I couldn’t let go of my grasp on wrestling…” she said.

Her faith had grown since then and finally grasped the purpose of the sport in her life.

“I think God taught me that wrestling is a tool that He’s using to shape my character. It’s not something that I need. I love what I do, but with every little step of the way, God’s showing me something, teaching me, challenging me in some way,” Maroulis declared.

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