Candace Owens exposes the Eastern European clipping operation funding anti-Candace campaigns online
Candace Owens presents her solo investigation into a coordinated, funded social media campaign using a Latvia-based clipping service to promote Erica Kirk and suppress coverage of the Charlie Kirk assassination investigation.
Summary
Candace Owens presents a detailed investigation into a coordinated social media operation she argues has been used to attack her reputation and promote Erica Kirk in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. Drawing on a published Atlantic article by journalist Ali Breeland and independent research, she identifies a Latvia-based company operating under the names Monster Lab and Clippet, run by a man called Matt Servius, which pays subcontractors — many in Eastern Europe and the Global South — to create and post short video clips designed to look like organic grassroots conservative content. She reveals that Google Drive folders connected to the campaign contain Erica Kirk videos uploaded just five days after Charlie Kirk's death, with digital footprints leading to Blake Wyn, the 26-year-old nephew of billionaire Steve Wyn, whose company Enclave and Key appears to have supplied the content. Owens also discloses that a Department of Defense special government employee, Jennica Pounds, posted a major anti-Candace thread on X during the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing week — without disclosing her government role — and that this thread was immediately amplified by Andrew Kolvet and Bill Ackman. She further notes that Wayback Machine archives of the Monster Lab website from September 12, 2025 — two days after Charlie Kirk's assassination — show only a loading screen, which she argues represents a deliberate deletion of evidence about when the site went live.
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Opening remarks and nanny jokes
Candace Owens: Happy Tuesday, you guys. I do want to address right at the top here the many of you in the comment section yesterday suddenly applying to be a nanny for me. Let's pull up a few of these comments. We got Kell Kell the Truth, who writes: "Candace, I'll volunteer as a tribute to live in the mansion and take care of baby number five, since you know that he will need his own nanny. Two nannies per child. Pardon you. I'm not an illegal, but I'll identify as one." Kimberly echoed this. She wrote: "I'm not illegal, but can I work for you so I can live in a mansion?"
The answer is no. You guys, you are either illegal or you're not. We only hoard illegals. Please pay attention. And you must also come through an elite Jewish agency. This is not hard. Our answer is no, unless you either crossed the border and got away with it or you didn't. It's just because I can't underpay you and abuse you in the way that I need to if you're an American citizen.
Introduction: the coordinated campaign against Candace Owens
In other news, what we are covering today — get ready, ladies and gentlemen — because at long last we have found out exactly how it is that Turning Point USA, or rather their close associates and friends, are funding the internet against me and promoting Erica. And it makes for a hell of an interesting story. I have to tell you guys, I've just been mind-blown all day. You absolutely must lock in. This is a big one.
Jennica Pounds and the Department of Defense
Welcome back to Candace. Let's start with this chick. Do you guys remember Jennica Pounds, aka Data Republican, who — unbeknownst to the public — was presenting like she's just an independent investigator? We find out that actually she was hired by the Department of Defense back in July of this year, right at the commencement of the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing. We were hit with a lot of propaganda that week. And it seems that right after she got hired, her first task as a so-called special government employee was to construct a really long thread about yours truly.
It was a very long thread on X attacking me. It was also attacking you guys back at home, my audience, and our treatment of the widow. That was the theme that week. It was also a staunch defense of the narrative that Tyler Robinson most definitely could have killed Charlie with a .36 that did not penetrate a human neck — because look at this deer. Look at this deer that was not shot in the neck at all, but was hit by a .36 and it didn't go through. That was part of that broader operation, because we are meant to believe that not only did it not penetrate his neck, but the force of the bullet — which is 1,500 pounds of energy coming at you — did not send Charlie backward. Remember, he went just up and to the side. We have to believe in a lot of things to get behind the Department of Defense's story or narrative.
Anyway, in her thread, Miss Pounds was reinforcing the NCRI report, which was dropped the day before — a step-by-step guide of how I am responsible for the dehumanization of Erica. The problem is that Jennica didn't think it was worth mentioning that she was doing this assignment for the DoD. And of course, her thread was instantly boosted by the likes of Andrew Kolvet and Bill Ackman, pretending to have casually stumbled upon it. "Wow, what a totally unique and definitely organic thread about Candace. Everybody should read this." This is what they always do. That's Bill Ackman's favorite move: "Wow, the internet is so stunning and amazing. Everybody should read this." And it's going to tell you that Charlie Kirk definitely was not murdered by Israel and Candace is a really bad person for investigating. It's a common theme.
So the question remains: why was it that during this crucial week of the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing, our nation's defense budget was being allocated to destroy my character and blame me?
In case you missed the update, I do want to let you know that just recently, Ms. Jennica Pounds has announced her resignation from the DoD. She wrote this on X: "I have submitted my resignation from the Department of Defense. It has been an honor to serve the mission of the department. I remain a strong supporter of our nation's military and Secretary Hegseth's leadership. I'm stepping back to focus on my book tour and midterms analysis in the months ahead. I do want to say that I'm disappointed by how special government employees — not just myself — have been treated in public discourse."
Blah blah blah blah blah. We don't care. You're a fraud — for not revealing that you were working for them. That is what makes you a fraud. And no one will ever believe anything you say ever again now that this has been revealed.
I do want to add here that my only question for Data Republican is: where were you on 9/10? We are never going to let this go. It is uncanny. I've never seen anything like it. It's like a twin sister. I kid. I kid. Kind of.
The coordinated attack campaign during the preliminary hearing week
But Data Republican's DoD-directed attacks against me were not unique that week. I was away in Spain. That's why it was even more odd. The show was off air for two weeks, and despite this I was being inundated from every direction with these sorts of attacks. I remember turning to Carrie Peen Bowler, who was traveling with me and my family at the time. Both of us were just saying we had never seen anything like it. Obviously coordinated, absurdly over the top. Clearly there was a big budget to smear me and to paint me as a digital assassin. Genuinely, if you were just on the internet, you would have thought that it was me that killed Charlie Kirk. They didn't even care about Tyler Robinson.
And of course, their favorite thing to say when we point out that this looks funded and coordinated is: "We are not being paid to attack Candace. There's no money in it." This is what I actually think. "I've happened upon $300,000 to debate her about a topic that I know nothing about." Okay.
What this actually means, by the way, when people say they're not being funded — or "Turning Point doesn't pay me" or "this group doesn't pay me" — it means that they're just keeping their hands clean. It's very easy to do that. In the case of Jennica, the Department of Defense is paying Jennica. In many other circumstances, it's a PR firm that's in the middle. So they pay the PR firm and then the PR firm hands the money over. So then they can say — Turning Point can say — "Oh, we never paid that individual ever."
Monster Lab, Clippet, and the Discord clipping operation
Well, I've got to tell you something. About a month ago, maybe a little over a month ago, we received a flurry of email tips. We weren't looking for them — that's what made it even more interesting. And we suddenly had to welcome ourselves to an entirely new world of how people are being funded to attack others. We were sent emails from people who claimed that they had participated and had proof that an impossibly high bounty of money went out over the internet — millions of dollars — for people to make videos about me during that week, the preliminary hearing of Tyler Robinson. And this money was being orchestrated by Discord.
The assignment was going out on Discord. I was like, Discord? Really. I'll plead a little bit of millennial ignorance here. I'm not hip with Discord. All I really know about Discord is that that's apparently the place that Tyler Robinson published his alleged confession saying, "I did it. I did it. I'm so sorry to my friends to tell you this, but yeah, it's me. I'm going to turn myself in."
I thought, "Surely Turning Point USA is not using Discord to go after their enemies." Well, officially you'll see they can say no, they're not. They aren't offering the money, but someone surely is doing it on their behalf. The email informed us — again, it was millions, $1.5 million being offered to make anti-Candace videos here, there, this week, the other week. What?
So I'm going to now walk you guys through how it works. We've confirmed this. The company behind this is doing business as Clippet and Monster Lab. If you're an editor and you edit videos and you like to make money, you can simply head to the Monster Lab website and you'll be welcomed and invited to a long list of offerings — campaigns that you can clip for. So check this out. Look at this Monster Lab. You see debates clipping, Elephant Clipping, the shorts, the podcast clipping. If you're an editor, you can pick one of these campaigns. And when you pick one, you are then thrown into Discord. Discord is then going to give you details about the campaign — certain dos, certain don'ts, how long the campaign is running for.
Now, you should know that the person who runs Monster Lab and Clippet is a man from Latvia. His name is Matt Servius. He is also the number one person creating these campaigns on the website. His biggest political campaign channel is known as Elephant Clipping. This is where all the anti-Candace campaigns are happening. People make edits on videos and then they get paid by Monster Lab based on how many impressions those videos get. They'll see the campaign, create an Instagram account, put their code in the Instagram bio so that Monster Lab knows it's them to pay, and then say, "Look, I got this many impressions for making a video."
The August campaign: clipping instructions and the Andrew Wilson debate
I'm going to now walk you through an example. Here is one campaign which was leaked to us where they wanted Charlie Kirk video clips. It was a generic campaign, but they had specific instructions. The amount offered is $120,000 for the month — that's the total budget. The rate they're offering is $300 per every one million views that you get. And it was due to run from August 3rd through to August 31st.
In the details of what they were looking for, they were very explicit that you cannot clip Candace Owens. You can see: "Only include approved Turning Point affiliates. Do not include anyone outside of Turning Point USA or Charlie Kirk's close associates." And you can see in red: "Candace Owens, Dean Withers, or others are not approved figures. They are not allowed."
But of course, in August, mid-month, something happened. I debated Andrew Wilson on August 14th, to be specific. So this campaign had its instructions changed. They wanted people to stop clipping generic Charlie Kirk and to instead focus on clipping Andrew Wilson to make him look good. I kid you not. Again, they communicated these instructions over Discord.
Here is what was communicated from Elephant Clipping about the sudden campaign shift, which was going to last one week. They were offering $75,000 — that's the pool — for people to try to make Andrew Wilson look good. No easy feat. You can see they're getting frustrated because people are not acknowledging this campaign change. It says: "Yo guys, I'm still seeing a lot of you posting old debates from Charlie Kirk or Turning Point USA. That is not allowed this week until August 23rd. The only thing you can clip is this debate." The instructions are very specific. You can see that little section says about Candace: "Clips can feature her, but only where she looks bad and Turning Point looks good. Any other way and it gets rejected."
How weird that they would say Turning Point looks good. $75,000 to make Turning Point look good in an Andrew Wilson debate — when he said that he wasn't working with them. What? I'm so confused. Aren't you confused? $75,000 on top of the $120,000. It's a lot. It's absolutely pathetic, by the way. It's also hilarious.
You'll recall Turning Point USA publicly communicated that they had nothing to do with that debate. Discord tells a different story. They said they were not funding Andrew Wilson. Semantics, semantics, my dears.
The Atlantic article: inside the operation
Now they are aware that someone in their orbit is spending serious money to promote them. So the question becomes: who is willing to fund something like this? Who on earth would put up money to make Andrew Wilson look good? And who would be willing to allow Turning Point USA to feign ignorance publicly?
Fortunately, we no longer have to use our imagination, because a journalist over at the Atlantic did a deep dive after they also received a tip. In addition, they received access to this group's closed Discord server from someone who wanted to expose what was happening. And believe it or not, it is going to be an operation with strong ties to Eastern Europe. And the videos are being supplied by a very close friend of Erica Kirk's.
So let's jump into this article. Credit to Ali Breeland. It is entitled "Inside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social Media Feed." The subtitle says: "A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support."
It reads: "If you're short on cash, there is someone in Latvia who can help. 'You can literally make $100K a month with this campaign,' a young man with blonde curls and a thick accent says into a camera. 'All you have to do is post on social media video clips of anything that supports Republican. Unfamiliar with US politics? No problem. If you're not from the USA — like, what the f*** is even Republicans, like me — then simply go to Gemini or ChatGPT,' he suggests, 'and be like, "Yo, Gemini, I want some videos promoting Republican values. Give me ideas." Then go to Gemini, get ideas. Boom.'"
The man who goes by Servas — to be clear, that's Matt Servius, who I mentioned to you earlier — is promoting a campaign called Elephant Clipping that is run by his company, Clippet. Now, I'm going to interject here to say that we cannot confirm that this is his company. The website itself makes it clear that Clippet is not the true company name, but rather the trade name they're doing business under, along with Monster Lab. And also, according to Matt Servius's LinkedIn, he says that he's just running it, not owning it.
We continue with the article: "The company pays subcontractors, many from poorer countries in Eastern Europe and the Global South, to chop up videos that the company provides into bite-sized pieces in the hopes that the clips will go viral online. Many video clipping services operate in relative secrecy so that the public is not aware of the manipulation of their social media feeds. But the services also need to attract potential clippers. They typically rely on chat servers on Discord, an internet messaging app that was initially developed for gamers. After an anonymous tipster flagged Elephant Clipping to me, I was able to access its Discord server and other related political clipping campaign chats just by clicking join, noting on a forum that I was based in the US, and answering some questions about my availability and desire to clip. Once I was in, I could see the mechanics of the campaign, which pays huge sums of money to people — many of whom appeared to be outside of the US — to push video clips from accounts that are designed to look like those of ordinary Americans spontaneously touting reasons to favor the GOP. Elephant Clipping's operation is the newest version of astroturfing: orchestrated messaging designed to look like genuine expressions of grassroots support. Many of these campaigns involve private chat rooms, and Matt Servius seems to have been running the campaign for some time. Discord records for Elephant Clipping's budget go back only to April, but the campaign has been going on for about a year now, Servius said in a video posted that month."
Let's pause there, because wow. This article was published last month — September of this year, September of 2026. The Latvian man who is running these campaigns admits that they began this Elephant Clipping in September of 2025. That's going to become very relevant, because it also happens to be the very month that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. What a coincidence.
And you guys, it's about to get even more coincidental. The writer continues: "My examination of Elephant Clipping led me to several other similar clipping campaigns that appeared linked to Servius and that all appeared to be pushing conservative content. One political clipping campaign that ran in February displays a $900,000 budget."
Let me jump in here. Wow, that's very high. Who the heck was offering a million dollars for a campaign back in February? Coincidentally, by the way — if I may mention my own life — that was the month that I launched our Erica Kirk series, Bride of Charlie. Sure wish he would have named who that campaign was aimed at.
Anyway, the article continues: "Two other campaigns that ran in March and April, which involved making clips of a famous US political commentator, also each listed a $900,000 monthly budget."
Wow. I wonder who was the famous US political commentator that those clips were about, because that happens to be the month that I was enduring what looked like a targeted harassment campaign — which even featured the President of the United States calling me the most vile person of the year, while I was being confirmed in the Catholic Church. I endured an absolutely psychotic campaign while I was in Italy: influencers claiming that my husband was hitting people while driving drunk, that he was an alcoholic gay man, that we were living in a separate house, that I was hosting podcast influencer summits at the Vatican funded by Russians. That was my March and April. I don't know about yours. But maybe we shouldn't jump to conclusions. Maybe the next few lines could provide some further insights as to who these clipping campaigns are aimed at.
It then says: "Yet another campaign that ran last month" — so they're referring to August of this year — "had a $120,000 budget and instructed clippers to post videos edited from the YouTube channel of Turning Point USA, the conservative nonprofit organization co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk."
So for clarity, that's the campaign that we just showed you — the generic August campaign that was then edited for one week to focus on making Andrew Wilson look good. Not an easy task.
The Google Drive, Erica Kirk, and Blake Wyn
And here is where the journalist makes a remarkable discovery regarding the Google Drive folder that was connected to this Turning Point USA campaign. The article says: "It links to a Google Drive folder with videos, mostly of his wife, Erica Kirk, that were uploaded on September 15th, 2025 — five days after her husband's assassination."
It tells us Andrew Kolvet, a Turning Point spokesperson, told them: "I can pretty much guarantee that we aren't working with a Latvian company," and that none of the contractors that the nonprofit works with are familiar with the clipping company.
Oh. Oh, really, Andrew? You're not familiar at all? You're saying somebody's got a server of Erica Kirk clips and they are attaching this server to this website that has an Eastern European running it, and you don't know who's spending upward of a million dollars a month to do that? Just like someone from the kindness of their heart — you have no idea. I don't know about that. Let's keep going. I think there could be more here, you guys.
I do want to point out how beyond disturbing that timeline is. Elephant Clipping began a year ago — so September of 2025, the month that Charlie died. Now we are learning that one of their first tasks was selling Erica Kirk to the public, just five days after her husband had passed. So on September 15th, they're doing an Erica Kirk campaign, and that's going to be one of their first campaigns. How strange. Why? Who had that on their mind? Why did she need to be sold to the public five days after her husband's assassination? This is before we knew anything about her. This is even before the "I forgive him" speech. They already had a server dedicated to Erica Kirk clips and a budget that was being handed over to this Latvian.
I'm wondering who would do that, because somebody's got to be giving them access to these videos. What were the videos that were being sold to us? I think it's probably the aggrieved widow — the clips that we kept seeing, the ones that were just captured the month before by Mikey McCoy and his wife on vacation. I would personally love to know which clips of Erica were put into that server on September 15th. I think it's the one of Charlie and her walking with the kids. I think it's her at the casket. Everything we saw in those early days was by design. That's my guess.
And what do you know, you guys — the writer of this article is about to tell us that when they looked into this Google server, one of Erica's dear friends seems to be supplying the content. The article continues: "The Discord server doesn't specify who is paying Elephant Clipping or the other right-leaning political clipping operations, but Google Drive folders in each of the campaigns are filled with files uploaded by what appears to be three employees of Enclave and Key, a Las Vegas-based marketing company. Jules Katz, the chief of staff; Benjamin Goodman, a vice president of operations; and Jack O'Hara, the head of media production at an Enclave and Key subsidiary. O'Hara and Katz seem to have uploaded videos to the Google Drive with their company email addresses. In at least one instance, O'Hara also used what appears to be his personal email address. It's not specified what role, if any, Enclave and Key plays in the campaign."
Now we should learn about Enclave and Key. Who's running this company? Well, it turns out this article tells us: "Enclave and Key's CEO and founder is Blake Wyn, the 26-year-old nephew of the billionaire and conservative mega-donor Steve Wyn. When I reached out to Blake Wyn with a list of questions, he responded, 'There are a number of inaccuracies,' but declined to offer further clarification and did not follow through on an invitation to talk. Enclave and Key told me in an emailed statement that news has been clipped and shared for generations, and described itself as an American company engaged in a routine, long-standing, and lawful practice, despite attempts to sensationalize it by invoking high-profile conservative names and portraying it as something nefarious."
Blake Wyn. Okay, we're warming up a little bit now. In case you don't know who Blake Wyn is, he's very close to Erica. He's been by her side a lot since Charlie's passing at various events. I'm giving you a few: the White House Presidential Medal of Freedom on October 14th — remember that medal which was given to Charlie by the President; she obviously invited him as a guest. Turning Point USA's annual winter gala — he was there as well. Also for the opening of Club America in Little Rock, Arkansas on March 11th, 2026 — I feel like a random place for him to be, but he was there. Blake Wyn was by her side when she was being used as an emotional asset for the Department of Defense, and she said, "I want to go home." He would be a great person — by the way, this clipping machine would be a great person for the Department of Defense to work with as they're making her the emotional asset. And this moment just suddenly appeared all over the internet. He was there by her side, walking out with her, holding her bag, next to Kash Patel, and they were outside by the cars. We still never got an answer as to who recorded that video that went so viral, and then we all got screamed at for not protecting her — as if we told her to go out that night.
In any case, in case you are not understanding how much he adores and values his relationship with Erica as a friend in his life, here is Blake Wyn. He did a podcast and he was speaking with a guy named Jeff Fargo. The podcast is called Fargo Talks. And here is what he had to say.
Blake Wyn: I was with you at breakfast when I found out about Charlie Kirk being shot. And it's one of those things that — you separate from that situation — I've sort of asked myself why was I with you. And you fit into a very small bucket of people that I have in my life where it's so easy to look up to people. I've been very fortunate in my life to get to know a lot of my business heroes very well personally — people like my uncle Steve, people like my grandfather, and then also people who have just become major successes, a lot of our clients and things like that. But then there's this much more rare bucket. Erica Kirk fits into it. You fit into it. And a couple of other people fit into it. Which is that I look up to you guys as human beings. You guys are wonderful people, and it's really fun, the friendship we've developed in the last couple of months.
Candace Owens: It's a rare bucket indeed. I would describe Erica as a rare bucket. I think that's a fair description of her. I also want to be really clear — because I know there were some rumors floating around that him and Erica were in some sort of a relationship — I do not believe that. I don't want anybody walking away thinking that I'm implying that in any way. I believe this is a business relationship between him and Erica, and that this friendship is based on the sorts of things that they're working on behind the scenes.
But the most crucial piece of this that I want to drive home to you is that when this Google Drive was discovered — with these Erica videos showing us that they were being uploaded on September 15th, with footprints back to Blake, Las Vegas, Eastern Europe, a trail so to speak — they attempted to delete it quickly when they got wind of this article.
How do we know? The article tells us: "Steve Wyn, Blake's uncle, did not respond to a request for comment. Shortly after I first reached out to both Wyns, Enclave and Key, and others that were involved in the campaigns, the deletions started. By Thursday afternoon, video folders for clippers that had been uploaded to a Google Drive by Katz and O'Hara had disappeared — though the same files were then posted by Goodman, who used an email address not linked to Enclave and Key. The Discord channels for US Politics Clipping and Elephant Clipping were also delisted from the publicly visible campaigns in the Clippet and Clippet Discords. The campaigns were still visible on Monster Lab, but descriptions explaining the purpose of each campaign were gone. On Friday morning, Enclave and Key Google Drives for the campaigns were taken down as well."
"Blake Wyn has connections beyond his uncle in the conservative media sphere. During a November 2025 interview on the sports-focused podcast Bring the Juice, he said that he and Enclave and Key do a lot of work in politics. Wyn also said that he regularly speaks with FBI Director Kash Patel and that he was good friends with Kirk. In the same podcast, Wyn recounted sitting next to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on election night in 2024 alongside Elon Musk, UFC CEO Dana White, and Steve Witkoff, Trump's friend and special envoy. In the past several years, he's posted pictures of himself on Instagram at small gatherings, the White House, and at Mar-a-Lago alongside the Kirks and Tulsi Gabbard, the former director of national intelligence."
"Elephant Clipping has some areas that are out of bounds for reasons that aren't made clear. Clippers are instructed not to post videos of journalist Megyn Kelly, the commentators Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., or the anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, among others. Banned subjects include the January 6th, 2021 attack on the Capitol and cryptocurrencies that members of the Trump family have promoted. In the Turning Point USA campaign, clippers are barred from posting videos of Candace Owens, who has become an Erica Kirk antagonist. Two sub-campaigns in the Discord offer extra money for clippers to post favorable videos about Vivek Ramaswami, a GOP candidate for Ohio governor, and Gabbard. Servius also manages clipping campaigns for the conservative influencers Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder. Both campaigns are listed on Monster Lab with $30,000 budgets for last month. And Crowder's campaign also links to an Enclave and Key-connected Google Drive. Neither Shapiro nor Crowder responded to requests for comment."
You know what I think, you guys — and I'll direct this to Andrew Kolvet. Andrew, if you don't know who is behind these campaigns, I don't know. You say, "I can tell you we're not working with anybody in Latvia." Maybe talk to your friend Blake. You guys have been on a private plane together before. I feel like you guys know each other. I feel like he might have a clue.
And I have to tell you guys, it is always the audacity of the gaslight. It's the audacity of the gaslight that they just keep pretending that they're not behind this, that no one is being funded, that there's no campaign — when we suddenly wake up one day and I'm being accused of this or accused of that, and it's everywhere, and Tyler Robinson is taking a back seat, and the "digital assassin" narrative is there. It's just staggering to me that they're able to behave like such sociopaths. No, this was totally organic. We weren't prepping for Erica to be announced as the CEO. We weren't already getting this campaign together and uploading clips of her onto a server five days after her husband was publicly assassinated. No, she's just a widow at home with her kids. She doesn't have access to all of this power that was prepping her for this moment. It's the audacity of them continuing to blame and shame us for noticing their lies.
Romania, Monster Lab, and the Wayback Machine
And you guys, there is more. Because when they said that they deleted stuff — deleted the server — and we recognized that we could not crack who owns this company at the top, you've got this guy, you've got Enclave and Key uploading the videos. By the way, guess where they have a footprint on Enclave and Key? Romania. Romania. I kid you not.
But there was something that we noted that is maybe even beyond disturbing about Monster Lab and this process of deletion that took place. I have never seen this before. That's why we were late today. I was trying to research on Wayback Machine and something crazy came up.
So we have a guy from Latvia who is running the clipping campaigns for all of these people who have been a part of the "Israel didn't do nothing, nothing to see here with the Charlie Kirk assassination" narrative. By the way, Candace bad. Really focused on demonstrating to the public that Candace is bad — which is unbelievable. By the way, these are the people who accuse us of being funded overseas. And I keep telling you, we don't do any of this. There's nobody that's been paid. There's no clipping campaign. What you see on my socials is an employee that is being paid to create clips on my socials that are identifiable. We don't have any underground campaign ever being funded by Candace Owens or an affiliate, an associate, an in-between PR person, nothing. We do not partake in that.
But the very people who accuse us of it — like Ben Shapiro, we now know he's $30,000 a month on this website. Steven Crowder — we told you he effectively snuck in his producer, wouldn't tell us who was coming into my house to back up Andrew Wilson. This looks like we've cracked the "Israel did nothing involving Charlie Kirk" syndicate functioning on this Monster Lab website. We've got this Latvian guy who is doing this for them and finding people all across different countries — this is a lot of money to them. $300 for a million impressions will feed their family. This is how it's working and they don't care. They're using ChatGPT. "I don't care about Candace Owens. I don't care about Republicans. What do you want me to say? Make her look good, make her look bad. I'm on top of it."
So I got interested in what we've learned from the article. How curious that this website — or this person who's running it — claims that he started in September, and yet one of the earliest campaigns was on September 15th to promote Erica Kirk. Why is this about or around the Charlie Kirk assassination when this website went live?
So I go on to Wayback Machine and we see that Monster Lab was not a website where somebody was just sitting on the domain name. It just said Monster Lab in the corner for all of 2024. You can show them — May 3rd, 2024. It stayed like this beginning May 3rd, 2024, if you want to call this a splash page of sorts. It's just sitting there. And then it is not live all the way through 2025. And then something very mysterious happens, because we know this website is live on September 15th. We see that it has been archived on September 12th. We think September 12th might have been when this website went live, because on August 3rd it's still the splash page. This is 2025. So on August 3rd we still have a splash page. On September 12th, though, we've got some action.
Except, ladies and gentlemen — I'm not kidding, I've never seen this before, ever on Wayback Machine — there are all of these captures from September 12th, 2025 moving forward of this website, and it's been wiped. So people did capture the website, but all you can get is: loading. Loading. You can't see what was captured. So you cannot confirm. You can see someone captured on that date. It just tells us loading.
We know for a fact that on September 15th it was active for Erica Kirk. My assumption, based on the details of what was just given to us, is that September 12th is when this website went live. Two days after — maybe it's even September 10th, but nobody archived it. My assumption is that on September 12th, since that is the date that they are deciding they're going to delete it moving forward — because they didn't want us to have a precise idea of when it went live — suddenly this website goes forward and it is paying people to create effectively slop. And I distinctly remember Kash Patel, who we've learned is friends with all these people, was talking about how they needed to go out and figure out who was running archive.ph — one of these archive websites, a different one from Wayback Machine — because something happened. He was basically like, "We need to put an end to these archive machines."
Have you ever seen Wayback Machine just show you a loading sign going forward so you can't pinpoint when this website went live? I've literally never seen this. That feels to me like power. Somebody said — I don't know who owns Wayback Machine — "I see that you have all these archives. We just wanted to say loading. Just say loading so people cannot see what the first podcast clipping was on my channel."
I've got a feeling, guys. This is not a fact. It's a feeling. Call it a dream. I've got this dream feeling that Erica Kirk might have been the first campaign on that website. I can only think of her as having this amount of power surrounding her — that people will continue to gaslight us, that have an unlimited budget, that have the DoD coming to her defense, positing her as some sort of an emotional asset, that is being forced upon the public. Our skin is crawling everywhere. And now we can say rightfully so. We sensed the Elephant Clipping campaign from the very beginning. And I have a sense that this website was actually created to promote Erica Kirk. That's my sense.
We would like more information about this. I'd like to know who sits at the top of the chain. We can show the chart of how this is flowing about the Elephant Clipping. So we know Monster Lab and Clippet — that's the DBA of this company. We do not know who is running the company. When you go to the website and you look at the terms and conditions and the about section, it just tells us that they are using the trade names Monster Lab and Clippet. Finding out who that person is at the top — we've looked through LLC docs, we've tried to discover it. One of you guys might discover it.
And then we have Matt, who is running it. People in the campaign — we learned from the article: Tulsi Gabbard, Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, Vivek Ramaswami, President Trump, JD Vance.
The Las Vegas connection and the clip economy
And there's something to be said about the fact that we're back in Vegas. Because if you watched our episode where we talked about the so-called Mormon mafia — a term that was used to describe vultures who were surrounding Howard Hughes in his life, turned into a movie I'm going to assume in no way reflects real life, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring regarding Howard Hughes, his incorporation, the vultures that surrounded him, allowed him to rot in his bed as they took over his company — the guy that you could say actually built Las Vegas, but didn't intend for it to be a place of debauchery and federally covered crimes against children and prostitution and gambling. It wasn't his vision for Las Vegas.
We spoke to you about this thread of the Howard Hughes Las Vegas thing after his company got chopped up. Adelson got a piece. The Wyn family got a piece. They took — actually the Wyn family took over the actual hotel, if I remember correctly, that he lived in. You had Bill Ackman, who was on the board of Howard Hughes Inc. today. Kash Patel, who's from Las Vegas. Now we know that Erica's dear friend Blake Wyn is connected. He's got the Google server. His employees have the Google server with the clips of Erica ready to go on September 15th. That's some friend. Why? Why couldn't it be organic? Why did you think it required a campaign? Why did you think we need to put clips out at all of Erica Kirk on September 15th? I have questions. I think it's weird.
We got Miriam Adelson who purchased the presidency. Congratulations to Miriam. I respect it. I kind of respect it. At least we know how much it costs. It's aspirational. Look, if you've got $300 million sitting around, why not? I mean, I'd purchase all of DC if I could. Why not? These are the new rules. Here are the new terms. Nothing can be fake and gay. I don't want to do Congress anymore. They've got the money. Why not?
By the way, I guess that's why they can't clip RFK, because big pharma is a big piece of that wealth. You can see a lot of cross-contamination between big pharma, the Adelsons, methadone, etc. But all roads seem to be kind of running into this Las Vegas syndicate, and that people would have that kind of money — a million dollars. Andrew Kolvet could play stupid. "I don't know. Just must be a nice person. He's a nice person. Just wanted to put a million dollars against Candace and pro-Erica during this week." And people at the Department of Defense are just nice people. They just are all attacking Candace. "I don't know anything about it. It's not us. Never heard of it." It is the audacity of the gaslight.
I am telling you guys, if I write a book one day on all of this, it will be called The Audacity of the Gaslight. Maybe I like that title. Because you had Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope. Mine's going to be The Audacity of the Gaslight. As we find out all of these things and they keep pretending like we're all just too stupid to figure this stuff out.
I would like to know who runs this company. We should be able to figure it out because this person purports to be based in New York. What happened here — in case you don't know — is this was effectively what Andrew Tate built with Hustlers University, which threw him into contention with the state because it was massive. It was a platform that he built which was positively massive. I don't know what the state of things are today with Hustlers University, but there were people that were even discussing how they just stole this idea and then decided, "We're going to take this and recreate it in the likeness of Erica Kirk." I don't know. But this is an interview that I want you to listen to from Edson about the rise of the clip economy and how it was pioneered by Andrew Tate. Take a listen.
Guest: But there's one person who really pioneered this and who turned it into a real operation, and that is Andrew Tate.
Host: Yeah, walk me through that. How did he stumble upon this as a business model?
Guest: I don't purport to know how he figured it out, but he figured it out and he was the first one to figure it out, and he did that in 2021. He created this community that he called Hustlers University and he said that this was going to be — if you want to escape the matrix, which is his sort of tagline — then join Hustlers University and I'll teach you how to do it. And what happened when you joined Hustlers University is he gave you instructions and he said, "Watch my live stream and use these clipping tools, and I want you to clip up as many segments of my live stream as you can possibly imagine. I want you to get up on social media, create a social media account that is related to Andrew Tate and Hustlers University, and I want you to post as many clips as humanly possible from those accounts. And at the end of each clip, you're going to add an affiliate link to Hustlers University. You're going to get people to join the group, and they'll pay a little subscription fee to join the group. And I will pay you a commission for getting people into the group." And eventually, he was getting billions and billions of views on TikTok — not from his own account, but from many different accounts. Eventually, Andrew Tate gets banned because he's racist, he's sexist, he's misogynistic, he says a ton of awful, awful things. TikTok decides to ban him, and yet his clips live on because he has a clipping army that is out there on TikTok, out on the platform, that continues to post the clips for him. The same thing is true on Instagram. You'll notice a lot of these guys are actually banned from platforms. Nick Fuentes is banned from Instagram. He's banned from YouTube. So then the question is, why is Nick Fuentes all over Instagram? How is that possible? It's because other people — clippers — are posting his content all over Instagram, and that's how people who are on Instagram are finding Nick Fuentes despite the fact that he is banned.
Candace Owens: The backstory of that is very interesting, and there's a lot more that I need to take time to unpack and explain to you about what happened in Romania with Andrew and Tristan and the allegations from the state against them. I do want to wait until I can actually get down and read these new filings that are coming out of the UK so I know what's happening. That will be the appropriate time to do it.
But this clipping economy is fascinating, and I just wanted to show you this because it's important for you to know that you are not imagining things. The internet is purchased. These people — think about Vegas — have unlimited money to do this. Turning Point USA is obviously in cahoots with them. They were taking her around on private planes and they were trying to get Erica into a position where they were selling her to us. And I think ultimately because she wanted the White House. I genuinely believe Erica had high political ambitions. And did she know about this on September 15th? If this site went live on September 12th, are we supposed to believe she didn't know about this? She was CEO and chairman by September 12th. I think actually September 12th is also the day that vancekirk.com was purchased. We don't know who purchased it, but it was purchased.
Audience comments and reflections
All right, you guys. Do you know what makes me feel so good? Knowing that everything that happens here is organic. I love that. I just love knowing that's how much money — $30,000, $120,000 campaign, clip, make Candace look bad — and we don't engage in it. There's something that just feels so fresh and so clean about that. It feels so fresh and so clean to know that I don't do it. I don't get down in the mud with these people. And that's what drives them crazy. They're all liars. They're all backstabbers. They're all getting paid to say these things. Nobody — oh, 20 accounts suddenly all noticed that Candace mispronounced a word at the 30-minute mark of episode 397. They're paid. It's all inorganic. Of course. And you should laugh at these people. Pathetic. Pathetic.
I'm not getting paid. I've never taken a single dollar from Turning Point USA. What about Monster Lab? What about the PR firm? What about Enclave and whatever? Anyway, that feels good to know. And that's the only way I think we win — by staying in the light and not engaging in this stuff. There are so many things that I could put out about these people as they attack me personally and take money to do it. I know a lot. I've come up through the industry. But I always say to myself, I'm not going to lower myself to it, because I think it leaves a yuck, and I do believe it comes back like a boomerang and hits you smack in the face. And we're seeing that now. People know your game. The jig is up. They'll recognize these campaigns, these Monster Lab campaigns.
Now, I do want to comment on a comment. This is a comment that we got yesterday. We were speaking yesterday about the fire truck, and I did think there was something weird about the fact that CPR was done by a fire captain who was meeting them there. Because at that point, you would think that if you're in communication with the hospital, you could just have a surgeon meet you outside to do that if that's the case. Now, Brian did say that the hospital didn't know they were coming, but it certainly sounds like the hospital knew someone was coming, because we're listening now to the audio and the chats and they're redirecting to Tenet Nogales. They know that they're going to Tenet Nogales, right? They see the car.
Somebody commented this: "In the entire history of fire trucks, how many times has a fire captain ridden in a fire truck to a hospital ER to perform CPR on a corpse that has been deceased for 15 minutes? Did the hospital have no medical personnel whatsoever on duty?"
And I have a similar question. I don't think it's weird that they are highly qualified to do CPR. And you could see a million and one circumstances where you might imagine that if a fire truck rescued someone and helped transport and they're following the ambulance, they may help with CPR potentially on the spot. Actually, you would think the paramedics would have that covered. I actually don't know. I was envisioning that as well — this is a lot that's happening, especially since it seems to be the one CPR thing that happened that nobody has spoken about. That's the dog that's not barking. And we want to know who that person was. That person feels very significant. I will have to venture through the emails and see if we got anything.
Now we would also just like to know who's sponsoring the Latvian. Who's doing the Clippet? That feels significant. Who can help us figure out why Wayback Machine is suddenly malfunctioning? Why we can't see what was up on September 12th? Where my techies at? It ain't me. Hit your girl up at moretips@candace.com. I don't know how to work the internet, but I do know how to work Wayback Machine. And that's the first time I have ever seen that where there are archive days and it's just loading. Can't tell you anything. They don't want us to see what campaign was live on September 12th. That is a cleaning up of the tracks. I'm interested. I think it's going to be campaigns that are anti-Candace. Am I seeing myself too much in this? Well, seems like we were right. It's a lot of money to clip.
Audience comments section
Now, top comments from yesterday's episode. Miss Maya writes: "Candace is apparently paid by the Saudis. She's working with Russia. She's a lesbian. Her husband is gay. She was also madly in love with Charlie. She has eight nannies. She has two mansions on the same street. She has secret wealth that's hidden. She's hoarding immigrants. Candace, I can't keep up here. I thought she was just a podcaster in her basement."
Yeah. Well, the Elephant Clipping be clipping. You see the narrative can shift. First, don't clip her. Clip her. Clip her. Get this debate. Make her look bad. It's a lot for them to keep up with. I feel bad for these people that are in countries all around the world who are like, "What do I have to say today?" They're like, "She's funded by the Saudis. The Pakistanis are funding her. She's a Russian-speaking lesbian. Her husband's gay. She's madly in love with Charlie." No, never mind. Go back to her being a lesbian. It is dizzying, but somebody's got to do it. And apparently somebody is in Eastern Europe.
Pam Besley writes: "Hi, Candace. Catholic homeschooling wine mom here. I've got six kids. Can you throw me a bone and let me borrow a nanny? I actually heard you secretly have 20, because why not? They fit in your mansion."
I want to be very clear. I can't spare any of them. My kids are clearly very bad. Each one requires two despite the fact that they're in school the majority of the day. They require two nannies and they just stand on the side and assist. Anyway, my kids are out of control. I would not be sparing it. I am sorry. No expense spared. And the mansion is a nice bonus. I abuse them. It's a nice bonus for the mamacitas that we have living there. And the mamas aren't happy. They're talking about the house and the habit and stuff, but we're going to keep them there. And nobody better look into my Jewish elite agency either. Those are the real ties. I'm sure they'll spin up a story about that. Maybe that feels like a George Soros story they'd spin up. "Her husband speaks Hebrew." He took a class that he had to take at Oxford. We were the first couple that was shamed for doing our homework at university. It makes me sick.
Now for comments on today's episode. We Woke Now writes: "You are hitting it on the nail. I exposed who I call the 1948s. They manipulate key information about them on the Wayback Machine, which should not happen. Articles about their origins."
That's very interesting. I didn't know about this. You're talking about the 1948ers. You're probably referring to the creation of Israel. Stacy Chapman writes: "We don't know that Theo Von said Erica Kirk doesn't have kind eyes, but we know." Well, we said she who should not be named. For those of you, by the way, Theo Von dropped our episode. It's like my thing. I feel like I book Theo Von and then I book Tim Dylan when I'm super pregnant. Then the baby comes. I don't know. I think it's our thing. So some women are like, "I just try walking. I take castor oil." I'm like, "Have you tried podcasting with Theo Von and Tim Dylan? It's great." Anyway, that was released yesterday on Theo's channel and people have really loved it. I think it passed a million views and it's just really been put up. So thank you guys for indulging us. We have a blast. I absolutely adore Theo. My children absolutely adore him. They call him Uncle Theo. And it's fun just having somebody so authentic in your life, because I kind of abstain from the world of famous people because everyone's weird and chasing something. And Theo is just exactly what you get on his show. His brain has just taken different routes than the rest of ours.
The One You Feed writes: "Moral of the story: do not engage on X or elsewhere with any of these sellouts that are taking money. Starve them."
That is true. I thought about that. I'm going to stop engaging because now you realize why they get so crazy — because they actually need the videos to make impressions. So if you're arguing with them, they don't care. They'll argue with you all day. It's an impression. It counts. If you're sharing it to comment on it, it's an impression. It counts. The best thing you can do is starve the little rodents. That's what you should do.
Seven Sheets writes: "Wow, hardly shocked. Turning Point has fallen off so hard, but we see through their dirty elephant droppings. Nasty elephant droppings." I agree with you. Charlie, with your help, organically created a juggernaut. They spoiled his message and integrity at every turn. You really are his best friend. Shame on his so-called friends. It's so gross that they would engage in this and then gaslight us. This is like such a Blake Neff thing. "I don't know what you're talking about. We don't have friends in high places."
Chrissy Raffé writes: "The disturbing part of all of this clipping nonsense is the why. I don't know the answer. I could guess, but just the question: why would Turning Point USA be paying to obstruct the investigation into the murder of their founder?"
That is what sends chills up my spine. Yes. And when I got looking at that date and I saw, "Oh, okay, they've wiped the September 12th archive," that shot up my spine too. It did. When you see who they are attacking and who was a part of it — look, it's Israeli-aligned interests. There's no question about it. "No, the .36 could have totally done that. The bullet could have split in the air. Clip it. Make it sound smart or something."
Jag 899 writes: "This is just the worst. I appreciate you so much. Trying to digest all of this is almost impossible. The way that you deliver the information so calmly and clearly is so appreciated and noticed. I cannot imagine what you have gone through emotionally."
I mean, it's a lot. But I'm stronger today, and I do feel that Charlie's energy is helping us fight. It was hard over the past year, and then I don't know why, but when I went to Spain I felt ready. And I saw how evil they were and the attacks that were coming against me, and it just further committed me to the cause. And of course you guys obviously kind of held my head up through all of this, and feeling like we're all a part of this investigation — you just know that we're winning. Look what they're doing. We're not doing that. We're winning. Everyone who is commenting on a Candace video is doing so organically. People who are defending me are doing so organically. We don't need fake bots in comment sections to pretend to hate people that we hate. We don't really hate people. We just feel bad for them. We don't need to fund millions upon millions of dollars to get the public to think one way or the other. And that's freeing — to live a real life and not a fake life that's being curated. That's freeing.
Ali writes: "Ian, Carol, and then Baron are great choices for baby number six. I nominate Jimmy Dore. He's always supportive and doing great work fighting the feds and sloppers."
Wait — nominate them for what? Oh, for baby number six. I've lost count, you guys. I thought I had six kids. I thought this was number six and then I was like, wait, what's the difference? No, this is number five. You just sort of lose count after four, you know? You really do. It's amazing. It's going to be crazy. I'm so excited to meet him. I will say that. Just a couple more weeks here.
This person writes: "Anyone working on behalf of Israeli interests should have a disclaimer that they are working on behalf of a foreign state actor."
Well, I'm not a person that advocates for more government, but I would be very interested in a congressional investigation into Monster Lab. I think that would be appropriate to figure out who's behind it. Somebody might find it. You guys are way more internet-savvy than I am to figure out. There's got to be some LLC docs somewhere. Maybe they're in Romania. I don't know. But if they have a DBA and they're doing business as Clippet, there's something out there. Email us moretips@candace.com with any information.
Alli Folz writes: "It is terrible that people are willing to bankrupt their souls in order to feed their families. Our government is to blame and it's so disgusting. I pray that everyone realizes that money is expendable and people are not. I pray that God gives people courage to speak the truth and not lie."
Well, that's why they are going to poorer countries where that money is a lot, and they are going, "Yeah, I'd rather do this." But you are absolutely correct. The people that are engaged in this here are despicable. They are. There's no reason for them to do this. They have more money than they can spend and yet they're a part of this anyway. What is their pursuit? How do you look away from all of the flaws in the Charlie Kirk assassination? And the answer is because these people aren't real. These people were funded into the positions that they're in today. They themselves are not organic. Their existence is not organic on the internet. And so the exposure of all of this threatens their being. They just keep making podcasts. They will just pay people to pretend they're popular, do clips, do all this stuff. They actually despise the free markets. These are Trotskyites. These are communists. These are not people who, despite presenting themselves as believers in the free markets, have demonstrated over and over again that they don't. They're trying to manipulate the free markets. This is an example of crony capitalism plus an emotional asset that we are supposed to feel bad for.
And every time we discover these stories, I walk away feeling less and less bad for Erica. Less and less bad. I don't believe she's a real person. Remember that clip of the woman on the plane? I don't know. She had a couple of drinks. She was like, "You are not a real person." And she got — that's me. That's me on the plane to Erica. That person is not real.