Weather Pause, Strong Start: Free Local Journalism Training through The Assembly Ledger

Peacekeeping Task Force Launches Bi-Weekly “Newshouse & Newsroom Basics” for Community Reporters

The Assembly Ledger, in cooperation with the Peacekeeping Task Force (PKTF), is opening a new, free bi-weekly training series for those who feel called to serve their communities as local journalists, investigators, reporters, and writers.

This new effort is designed for adults who want a serious but accessible pathway into the craft of journalism—without tuition, grades, or college bureaucracy, but with the same level of care for truth, structure, and professionalism that any respected publication should demand.

Because of an active winter weather advisory affecting key areas, and because PKTF personnel are currently committed to emergency network monitoring and D10 radio traffic on the emergency channels, the first live training session scheduled for this evening at 7:30 p.m. Eastern will need to be postponed. The same weekday and time will be held in reserve two weeks from now to serve as our new opening night, once the immediate concerns of the passing weather system, road conditions, and home-front responsibilities have eased. Safety, clear communication, and peacekeeping must come first; education and training will follow right behind.

In the meantime, PKTF will begin releasing short, easy-to-digest tutorial audio and video segments on its Rumble channel and other platforms. These brief lessons will introduce the vision behind The Assembly Ledger, the idea of a local “newshouse,” and how a modern newsroom can be built on platforms such as Substack, Ghost, Beehiiv, Medium, and similar publishing tools. Each segment will be designed so that even a brand-new student of journalism can follow along and begin to see how their own local reporting could one day appear in the pages—and on the channels—of The Assembly Ledger.

When the first full live meeting begins two weeks from now at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, participants can expect a welcoming, “Journalism 070” style orientation into the world of local news.

The focus will be on the basics: what journalism is, what it is for, and how a fair and balanced newsroom is built from the ground up. Attendees will hear about the essential roles—student, journalist, investigator, reporter, and writer—and how each step builds toward producing work that readers can trust and that editors can confidently publish. Rather than overwhelming people with jargon, the training will emphasize plain-language explanations, real-world examples, and simple first steps that anyone can take to start practicing the craft.

Future sessions in the series will move deeper into the practical “ins and outs” of the work: how to recognize a newsworthy local story, how to prepare and conduct respectful interviews, how to write strong, clear leads that draw readers into the article, and how to shape a finished piece that is worthy of placement in The Assembly Ledger or similar outlets.

Participants will also be introduced to the process of getting their work considered for publication: how to present a story idea, how to respond to editorial feedback, and how local pieces can be prepared for syndication so that Assembly progress and American local businesses are highlighted and preserved in print.

This training series is meant to serve those who want to build their own small newsroom—whether on Substack or another newsroom-style platform—and who want that newsroom to stand for free speech, honesty, and a measured, fair-minded view of their community. It is also for those who simply want to understand how serious journalism is done, even if they have never written an article before.

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All are welcome: the curious, the cautious, the bold, and the already-experienced.

The Assembly Ledger and PKTF invite you to watch for the upcoming short tutorials, mark your calendar for the rescheduled first live session two weeks from now, and consider whether you might be one of the men or women who helps build a new generation of local American Free Press newshouses.

When the weather clears and the lines are secure, the newsroom lights will come on—and your opportunity to engage in real time during the training will begin.

Crafting Insightful Content: A Labor of Love

Honoring the Researchers, Editors, and Supporters Behind the Peacekeeping Task Force BlogSpot and PKTFnews.org

We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who has contributed their time, talent, and untold volunteer hours to the success of both the Peacekeeping Task Force BlogSpot and PKTFnews.org.

Everything combined has risen to enhance the quality of our content and site traffic, enabling readers to take valuable information back to their Assemblies as part of their outreach resource centers. These projects are crucial to bringing awareness and development to County and State Assemblies, bringing attention to the issues that truly matter.

Special thanks are given to Justice Anna Von Reitz and The Living Law Firm. This team of experts, with decades of combined research experience, law, and historical analysis, has made navigating the complex research landscape far less daunting. Their dedication provides a solid foundation for much of what we bring forth, ensuring accuracy and substance.

We also want to acknowledge our junior researchers and community journalists who are working diligently at the grassroots level. Their commitment to digging up stories and reporting on community issues is absolutely invaluable. The process of writing articles themselves takes hours of meticulous research, especially while investigating historical documents or technical legal vs lawful matters. For example, creating a well-researched article about early American history can take up to 10-12 hours, even for experienced writers. This includes researching archives, compiling findings, creating content from scratch, proofreading, and undergoing obligatory editorial approvals.

For perspective, traditional newsrooms would spend 4-8 hours producing a 300-600 word piece, depending on the subject matter complexity. Our operation takes it one step further from traditional standards by incorporating in-depth research from sources like The Living Law Firm and Anna Von Reitz's archives, as well as other trusted sources currently available around the world wherever they are found reliable.

We also leverage modern tools like Grammarly for grammatical polish, Hemingway Editor for readability checks, Zotero for citation management, and Trello for project coordination. These tools help us significantly streamline our workflow without sacrificing accuracy, professionalism, and well-spent hours pulling everything together before publication deadlines.

To all those who contribute—whether through research, editing, or outreach—thank you for your dedication. Together, we are building a resource that educates, informs, and empowers communities across our developing nation states and to all remaining corners of our beautiful earth! Your efforts do count tremendously!

Together, truly remarkable achievements can become am ongoing reality.

Most Sincerely,

Joseph Hayse

Executive Director,

The Peacekeeping Task Force 

Why Does PKTFnews.org Sponsor Independent Research Like MyLunchBreak?

 

Following intriguing, thought-provoking research like what is found from the Content Creator known as MyLunchBreak (MLB) on Rumble and other popular, current Freedom of Speech advocacy platforms testing other limitations by offering compelling research!

MLB is reported to have started out his own research journey while sharing personal contemplations about matters of concern during his own brief lunch break while at work. Early-on videos reveal such humble beginnings when MLB took the limited time, he had to express his disappointments in life. While at the same time of sharing his thoughts and ideas on how to move forward, MLB decided to make a more positive change. Not only for himself, but for the research he found extremely important that other people around the earth might also enjoy - and promote.

The Peacekeeping Task Force (PKTF) does most certainly relate to many aspects of the concepts underlining grass roots research, and those who conduct such work in return for modest reader's support and information share.

The work that MLB puts together is, indeed, compelling! And the detailed subject matter displayed from each weekly episode is apparent. Grass roots research providing intensely thought provoking, paradigm shifting, useful information-share that is substantive, can be considered rare in our current day and age! The uncovering of errors found hidden-in-plain-site regarding mainstream narratives can be most helpful to other researchers working in the same fields of study. And, so, MLB illustrates extreme dedication in his cause of unearthing such narratives with backstories, visuals, locations, practical contemplations, reasonable cross-comparisons, and fair logic while utilizing the basic scientific method - starting with "observation."

PKTF, (although focusing its research exposure and service renderings elsewhere) directly relates to similar methods of approach and delivery. The time required to facilitate exposure to such work can easily total dozens of hours each week. PKTF has also endeavored to utilize multiple platforms to help cater more towards the fact that numerous groups of people and schools of thought are found across a wide spectrum of information platforms worldwide. So, by combining both multi-platform share-utilization, and the valuable time required to descriptively provide our work we are able to measure and justify the tremendously dedicated effort needed to accomplish the tasks at hand!

We would like to thank MLB for providing the world his information-gathering journey and share campaign. The collective work, in our professional opinion is extremely vital - if only in terms of supporting ground-level research that pushes the narrative in a healthy, objective direction.

Both readers of our peacekeeping work here will find PKTFnews.org  listed during each MyLunchBreak episode within the "Honorable Mentions" section of each weekly episode, in exchange for our own continuous monthly support. PKTF has been a consistent sponsor of MLB since December 2023. The 54th Episode is where PKTF does its part by helping to support MLB. The title of the episode is shared with the realization of discovering antique structures alleged to have been manufactured by designers and architects - not necessarily by modern man. Finding hidden structures of The Old World originated by people who were far more advanced than people are purported to be in our modern time, or by some other enormously unexplained phenomena, through continuous dedication on the topic like with MLB will tell!

To help PKTF further support complimenting, newsworthy Content Creators like MLB and others outside our American State Assembly, we humbly encourage our own dedicated readers to aid in our monthly support to such Content Creators by contributing at our Direct Donations Cash App. From here PKTF is able to more quickly maintain our immediate expenses toward gathering research, cross-referencing our findings, drafting our results, scheduling time to edit, and publish final work, along with helping to support other realms of hard-hitting research.

Many thanks to all our readers and those able to support by any nominal amount!

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The Peaceful Dismantling of The "sovereign citizen" Pejorative

 Our work is just beginning on this topic, but our collective research over the past few years has returned numerous resourced findings on this contrived, social/political obstacle.

As we now struggle to schedule adequate time needed to pour over our gathered resources, then construct the necessary thought-provoking rebuttals we return to the key factor of time deprivation.

Nevertheless, The Peacekeeping Task Force (PKTF) will meet the challenge head-on as the only current American peacekeeping service capable (with the correct status, standing, and charter) to address each point one by one.

The pejorative term, touted as being a significantly (extreme) criminal element known loosely as "sovereign citizen" may have very well met its proverbial match in terms of valid talking points in debate format.

The key elements found fueling this pejorative are commonplace when entities who construct them are intent on seizing a narrative with blatant falsities riddled with well-placed, disingenuous, partial truths.

Seizing the narrative is vital in this manufacturing!

And so, we lean into this construct with what should be the obvious at this time - which is - the catch-all itself.

Sovereign  < & >  Citizen 

We ask our readers of this series to recognize that the two words are, indeed not congruent. This fact is what further establishes it's characteristics in use as an oxymoron (or "moronic" < which is known as a feebleminded diagnosis placed into practice during the early 20th century in America (further detail on this research in later articles)).

In future series on this topic, PKTF Directors and Staff Liaisons who work within our Liaison Office will be dedicating our time and energy on flushing out all known details about this type of linguistic weaponization.

Our PKTF volunteers will attempt to reveal why a decades long, worldwide propaganda campaign has been maintained to merge these two, mutually exclusive words together. Along with the manner in which the words combined have been sculpted to form a destructive narrative for boths words simultaneously, our team of researchers will work to properly dismantle it's crafty framework.

And so, let our current and future detractors (as well as those genuinely misled law enforcement and criminal investigators) be notified:

For the sake of peace and proper recognition for a safe environment for everyone, the lawful, peaceful people and People of the world are eager to set the true narrative upright. In this, we ask that the people and People of the world decide the facts and evidence as each decide for themselves - first in the court of Public Opinion, then (when need be) within a lawful Common law Court of Peers with a proper Trial by Jury.

As of this month through 2024 and 2025, our teams will be compiling all known, and future research findings for all to read, discuss, and share on all known social networking platforms.

We feel the time is long overdue! And that the pejorative (along with it's equally demeaning narrative) has certainly gone on largely unabated for far too long!

This newly launched, dedicated work will be found here, as well as on our main site at pktfnews.org - monthly magazine.

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If our readers would like to contribute early to the ongoing effort of this rebuttal series, and would like to share the findings published herein, please consider supporting this work with a small gift at the following link  🔗 https://cash.app/$PKTFgift 

to show your support.

As an added measure, PKTF will also like to offer an honorable mention to each supporting man, woman, or family unit along with their State Assembly on our PKTFnews.org website under the States Page map for added Assembly support exposure to compliment each donation. We will be writing further about this added appreciation measure in future articles as well.

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Thank you all, in advance for your interest and support!