Toby Doeden - Unfiltered

Episode 12

• Toby Doeden - Unfiltered • Season 1 • Episode 11

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01:04 - Trump & DOGE cleaning up corruption

05:51 - $7.5B for 37 EV chargers 

07:04 - Social Security FRAUD costs taxpayers big

11:20 - What's next for DOGE?

12:02 - Property tax is De Facto lease w/ Gov't

17:43 - Need for unified State Legislature

19:46 - Good Riddance to the PENNY

22:20 - 2025 Legislative Session

24:51 - SB12 Establishment Corruption

27:00 - Dusty Johnson - RINO EXTRAORDINAIRE

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What an amazing place we live, south Dakota. My mission statement is simple To re-energize the true conservative values of South Dakota. You're listening to Toby Doden Unfiltered. Welcome to episode 12 of Toby Doden Unfiltered. I am your host, toby Doden, and I could not be more excited. Today.

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There is a lot of stuff going on in the state of South Dakota, specifically with this legislative session, and we're going to get to that in just a little bit. There's also a lot of national news going on, specifically with Donald Trump and a lot of things that have been happening since his inauguration on January 20th. So we're going to start right there. It has been. I I could. There's never been a compressed time period in the history of this country that I can think of or that I've personally experienced. That has been anything like January 20th until today, with President Donald Trump and his staff, and specifically Elon Musk and the Department of Doge that has been set up to seek out waste, fraud and abuse at the federal government level government level and, interestingly enough, the second that Donald Trump was sworn in.

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On January 20th, elon Musk and his team of supercomputing wizards got to work and Elon Musk said it was like being in a room full of thousands of targets or bullseyes. You could shoot an arrow anywhere in the room and it would hit waste, fraud and abuse. So they didn't really know where they were going to start. Well, it became abundantly clear very quickly that the place to start was USAID. Why? Because the executives and the staff and the team at USAID through the biggest fit. How dare Elon Musk, an unelected official, how dare he question how we spend our money? We at USAID are bigger than the federal government. We are our own entities. Well, usaid, you are not. And when Elon Musk saw that you were complaining the loudest, it told him very clearly that you had much to hide. And so Musk and his team of you know super computing wizards dug into USAID, and boy did they hit the honeypot I've heard some folks talking about, oh wow, elon and his team. They found $7 million worth of waste, fraud and abuse. They found $30 million here. They found $27 million here. They found $100 million here. They found 27 million here. They found 100 million here. And they're like that's not going to do anything to help make our government more efficient. It's a drop in the bucket. These people are corrupt, these people are crazy. These people are quite literally demonic, and the fact that some people will actually believe that spin just tells you how much mental warfare has been going on through the mainstream media for years. Because $27 million, $57 million, $117 million you keep stacking that up every single day you will get to massive hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse.

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Speaking of waste, fraud and abuse, what were some of the things that they discovered at USAID? Well, our taxpayers were sending money to Morocco for pottery classes $27 million. Our taxpayers went to Morocco for pottery classes. How about environmental and social initiatives? $520 million. Consultant-driven ESG investments in Africa. Hurricane victims in North Carolina, until Donald Trump was sworn into office, got little to no help from the federal government. The citizens of North Carolina were still living, many of them in horrific conditions. Yet we can send $520 million to Africa.

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We were going to build a power plant in Haiti that was going to cost $1.2 billion. Well, guess what? That power plant in Haiti never got built. Where's the $1.2 billion? Joe Biden, gender and sexual orientation programs in Jamaica and Uganda for $7 million. And one of my favorites, and it's been widely reported Sesame Street in Iraq $20 million. Yes, our taxpayer dollars. It doesn't matter what tax bracket you're in, if you pay 10 federal income tax, if you pay 20 federal income tax or if you pay the top mere 40 federal income tax, how does it make you feel that you work your butt off all day, every day, 12 months a year, and you send taxpayer money into our federal government to get pooled together for the common good, and then we find out that this money is being shipped by the tens of millions of dollars, and in some cases, billions of dollars, all over the world for ridiculous causes.

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You might have heard about the big EV initiatives that the federal government has been working on. You want to talk about waste, fraud and abuse? Now, this doesn't have anything directly to do with USAID, but it's worth pointing out. A bipartisan infrastructure law was signed into law in November of 2021. And this particular infrastructure law allocated $7.5 billion for our federal government to build a national EV charging network. This was part of a broader plan to install 500,000 EV chargers by the year 2030. Well, at the end of 2024, you want to guess how many of the 500,000 EV chargers had been installed in the United States for 7.5 billion dollars? 37, 37 EV chargers for 7.5 billion dollars another big one people have been talking about again, not directly related to us aid, of course, but this is just gives you a sneak peek into the massive waste, fraud and abuse that has been happening under liberal leadership in our country social security administration.

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The social security administration, by their own reports, estimate that in 2022, under Joe Biden, $13.6 billion was wasted in Social Security overpayments, benefits fraud you name it. The Office of Inspector General, oig, estimates that that number is around $72 billion from 2015 until 2022. This and Elon Musk and his team just unearthed this massive fraud technique that's been being used. They found out that the Social Security Administration does not use a process called what is deduplication. Well, deduplication would prevent the same social security number from being multiplied many times over inside the social security system. Deduplication you could have an individual like mine or yours. Your social security number could be duplicated many times in the system. Thus many people receiving benefits and payments from social security off of your one social security. Massive, massive amounts of fraud. People can go in, they can steal your Social Security number, they can set up a new profile and they can immediately start receiving benefits that our tax dollars pay for. Now don't get me wrong Social Security is a great program. It has been for decades.

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Trump and his administration have been very clear. They have no plans to change anything materially structurally with Social Security. Nor should they, but they should be vetting out the waste, fraud and abuse so that fraudsters aren't collecting Social Security benefits off of your Social Security number. The liberals are fit to be tied. How dare the Trump administration delve into the Social Security system? How dangerous is that Dangerous? Eliminating waste, fraud and abuse frees up money that can help more people that actually need social security benefits.

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I was one of those kids. My dad became disabled when he was 30 years old and if it wasn't for social security, we literally could not have survived or stayed in our home. My family, my parents and my siblings we lived largely on Social Security during this phase when my father couldn't work. I, as much as anybody, understand the value of Social Security, but as a business owner that runs a very successful group of businesses, I also understand that you have to be efficient and you can't waste money. You can't let people defraud groups of money. So massive news out of the Social Security Administration. Massive fraud from these fraudsters taking individuals like you and me, from these fraudsters taking individuals like you and me, taking our Social Security numbers and then multiplying that same number across multiple fake profiles and collecting massive amounts of Social Security. So what's next for Doge Elon Musk and his team? Well, donald Trump has said what's next after USAID is the Department of Education, followed by the Department of Defense and the Pentagon. I'm going to tell you right now if you think the waste, fraud and abuse was significant in the USAID department. I have a sneaky suspicion that what we are going to see for waste, fraud and abuse in the Department of Education and specifically the Department of Defense, is going to make US aid look like peace.

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Every year, during the legislative session in South Dakota and leading up to the legislative session in South Dakota, there's these buzzwords, right? Well, this year, one of the buzzwords or phrases going into our legislative session was property tax, property tax relief. The voters in November largely the statistics bear this out are being crippled by property tax. Elon Musk recently said that property taxes are a de facto lease with the government, and he's right. And I'll add to what Elon Musk said yes, it's a de facto lease, but it's a de facto lease with the government in perpetuity. It never goes away when you sign a lease agreement with your landlord. You can kind of negotiate terms hey, will you do a three-month lease? Will you do a six-month lease? Landlord, you can kind of negotiate terms. Hey, will you do a three-month lease? Will you do a six-month lease? Will you lock in my rent for this long? This is an open-ended lease with no oversight with our government agencies.

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South Dakota is not immune to it. Brown County is not immune to it. We have seen massive property tax increases in South Dakota the last five years and even the last 10 years. So I've had people literally I've had people very close to me say Toby, why is property tax, and specifically reducing or abolishing property tax, more important than other taxes in South Dakota? And it's a great question. But the answer is simple and the answer is clear.

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The other taxes don't disproportionately affect negatively groups of people like the elderly. There are tens of thousands of elderly South Dakota citizens that have been living in their home for decades with no mortgage. Now, whether they have a mortgage or not doesn't matter to me, but many of the elderly people in this state the overwhelming majority that have lived in their home for decades have no mortgage. But what has happened the last several years is this their utilities have more than doubled, their homeowner's insurance has more than doubled and now, in some cases, their property tax on their home has doubled or at least gone up 30% to 40, 40 to 50 percent in many, many instances. This is forcing elderly people in droves to have to sell their home, their last piece of individuality, the home they shared with their spouse, the home they shared with their family, their children, their grandkids, their great-grandkids, where they spent Easter's, where they spent Thanksgiving dinners, where they spent Christmas holidays together. Thousands of memories gone because of our inflated property taxes.

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In South Dakota. Now it's a buzzword in the legislature. Every tom dick and harry wants to write a bill to be part of the property tax solution. We've got I don't know, maybe a dozen bills, I didn't even count them. A whole list of bills that are currently active in our South Dakota legislature and all of them are inadequate. It's a nice way of putting it. Minor property tax relief will do nothing for seniors. It'll also do nothing for young adults who want to capture the American dream and buy and own their own home.

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Want to capture the American dream and buy and own their own home. As a young adult in South Dakota. It is one of the proudest things you can do is to buy your first home period. They have the same issue our senior citizens do with their homes. Try 25-year-old, 30-year-old, try buying a house, a house utilities twice what they were five years ago, homeowners insurance twice what it was five years ago and now you've got to escrow this massive property tax bill into your payment. Combined with high interest rates for mortgages, it makes buying a home unforeable for almost every young couple.

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I know I have a real estate company that owns a lot of homes, that owns a lot of apartments, owns a lot of commercial properties. I also own a real estate agency that buys and sells homes and I have never seen such a lack of activity from young people trying to buy homes. It's virtually zero. Our home market for first-time homebuyers, at least where I am invested in, is the worst I've ever seen, and it's largely due to property taxes. So I don't care if you're a Democrat, I don't care if you are a moderate Republican, I don't care if you are an American first Republican.

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The voters don't care when it comes to things like property tax. What they care about is results delivering on results of the mandate that was handed down by the voters in November and our legislature has failed miserably. Moderate Republicans fighting American First Republicans Put your bull crap and your pride in your back pocket and get some bills done that actually help South Dakota residents. Same thing with school choice. Same thing with property rights. Same thing with property rights. Voters don't care what happens behind the scenes in peer. Voters don't care what this politician said or what that politician said. Voters care about results that help make their lives better, easier and safer, and this is the role I have had. This is the role Dakota First Action has had. Our role, largely, is to deliver results for the people of South Dakota period. Of course, we can disagree with lots of things that some of the other people say and do. I don't agree with hardly anything Dusty Johnson says, for example. I don't agree with much of any of the liberal Republicans, rinos, whatever you want to call them. But that doesn't mean that we can't work together to deliver results that the voters asked for in November. We have to do better.

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So, if you're anything like me, you were absolutely bored out of your mind during the Super Bowl halftime. Whatever you want to call it, I'm not going to call it a concert or show because it was terrible. Apparently, president Donald Trump thought so as well, because at halftime, while this abomination was happening, donald Trump made an executive order to stop producing the penny. Thank you, president Trump. I've been saying this for years. Why are we producing pennies? They are meaningless and they are useless in our economy. Did you know that for every penny that our federal government produces, it costs the taxpayers two pennies, and by not producing new pennies moving forward, we will save the taxpayers of America $180 million? I know this isn't a big story. I know it's not going to define President Trump's 47th President of the United States his time in office. I get that, but it is symbolic of how bloated and how ridiculous the deep state has gotten, and so thank you, president Trump, for continuing to. Every single hour of every single day, there seems to be a new report coming up where you're just like I can't run for office again. This is it. I'm doing the right thing for the people and we are going to set the tone for our country, and eliminating the penny was clearly a good choice. But liberals, of course, are furious that the penny is going away. Why? Because it wasn't their idea. Liberals will fight against anything that President Donald Trump and his administration proposed, regardless of how much sense it makes or regardless of the support of the American people. These liberals would rather burn our country to the ground than acknowledge that Donald Trump has the future of this country back on track.

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So the 2025 legislative session in South Dakota is well underway. In fact, we can kind of see the finish line in the horizon and I've got to tell you it's been a very disappointing legislative session. A lot of renewed optimism going into the session. There was a clear mandate from the people of South Dakota that said we are done with the establishment or left-leaning Republicans. Dakota First Action, my political action committee, played a big role in balancing, I think, nearly 15 incumbents and were replaced with more conservative legislatures. This in turn, changed over the entire leadership group in the state Senate and in the state House group in the state Senate and in the state House, which is now largely made up of conservatives Not all, which we have found out.

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I'm disappointed because all I have heard come out of here is fighting, infighting Republicans, fighting Republicans. I think they've lost focus on what their mission was and is, and certainly should be, which is to answer to the will of the people, and the people wanted things to get done. They wanted property tax relief that's the buzzword right Relief they wanted school choice. They want landowner rights. They want fair and accurate elections. On and on and on.

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Yet every day I am seeing these nonsensical, ridiculous bills that are being put forth in the House and in the Senate that are wasting taxpayers' time and are wasting much of the taxpayers' money. We already have a shortened legislative session, and the fact that we are spending days and days and even weeks debating some of these ridiculous bills that have nothing to do with what the people of South Dakota want makes me absolutely furious. Makes me absolutely furious. One of these bills that's been widely reported was SB 12, senate Bill 12, which was a bill that was put forth to target me. Why do I say that? Because what the bill was written to accomplish only affected one citizen in South Dakota, and that citizen is Toby Doden.

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Let me give you a little bit more detail. So I have a PAC Political Action Committee called Dakota First Action that I started in early 2024. I started it because I am a grassroots advocate. I am a grassroots activist, I believe in smaller, more efficient government and I was tired of watching what the establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle were doing to our country and were doing to the state of South Dakota. And so, as a citizen, I decided it was time to use my influence, my energy, my expertise and my money to get involved to give the little people, the voters in South Dakota, a chance against the system. So, yes, I have to date loaned my PAC $215,000. $15,000.

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The bill that has since passed the Senate and the House and I'm sure will get signed by Governor Roden, will prevent me, moving forward, starting in July, from being able to borrow or donate in excess of $10,000 per year to my PAC or any other PAC. But you know what it doesn't do? It doesn't prevent career politician and rhino extraordinaire, dusty Johnson, from raising millions of dollars nationally outside the state of South Dakota and then, with the click of a button, transferring those millions of dollars into a South Dakota account that he can use to fund his campaign or other campaigns in South Dakota. Let me say that again Career RINO, dusty Johnson and other career establishment politicians, but Dusty Johnson specifically I'm going to talk about him because he was involved in all of this Dusty has raised millions of dollars nationally since he's been in Congress I think he has close to $6 million, a massive war chest right. Dusty Johnson has one of the largest national war chests of all 435 members of Congress. He raises this money from anybody he wants, all around the country Groups, individuals, doesn't matter. So now he can take this $6 million from a national account and transfer it and drop it into a South Dakota account and then he can use that $6 billion however he wants. But Toby Doden or you can only participate with $10,000 per year. With $10,000 per year, have you ever heard of anything so unjust in your life? Finally somebody a resident, a member of we, the people in South Dakota me decides to get involved.

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I loaned $215,000 to a political action committee to help the little people in South Dakota. I didn't benefit a cent from that loan, nothing. That money went to get conservatives elected. That allowed conservatives to be elected to the new leaders of the state House and Senate. Without my $215,000 loan to Dakota First Action, we would not have new leadership in the state legislature.

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Without my $215,000 loan to Dakota First Action, we would not have beaten Amendment G the radical abortion bill in November. We would not have beaten Amendment H, which would have turned South Dakota upside down on its head, and an open primary, jungle primary state. We also used it to fight and defeat all of the other radical ballot initiatives and measures. To fight and defeat all of the other radical ballot initiatives and measures. So let's recap A lowly citizen in the state of South Dakota, me, donates $215,000, excuse me, loans $215,000 of my own money to a political action committee that goes out and fights for conservative values and wins at every level, delivering you an all-new, mostly conservative state legislature, defeating radical abortion bills, defeating jungle primary bills. That's what the money was used for. Had this bill to target me been passed a year ago, none of those things I just mentioned would have happened. We would have abortion on the ballot, we would have jungle primaries, we would still have Will Mortensen, casey Crabtree and God knows who else running our state senate and state house.

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The establishment hates you. Dusty Johnson hates you. He is a career politician who has only worked as an adult in politics, and he and his team and the RINO establishment in the state of South Dakota worked overtime to get Senate Bill 12 passed, and so we are going to see very soon if Governor Roden thinks it's okay for the establishment to attack individuals and continue to support a system where only the establishment, oligarchic politicians, can continue to get reelected. We will keep an eye on it. We will certainly report as we see things unfold in the state legislature. Thank you all for listening and I look forward to talking to you soon. Thank you for listening to Toby Doden unfiltered.