Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Day 2026.

Grand Old Partisan reminds us today of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon in 1957. They met on Capitol Hill for a discussion of ways to overcome Democrat opposition to the Republican civil rights agenda.

That’s something that you won’t hear about today from the leftist media.

Republicans led the charge on civil rights and women’s rights. Unfortunately, the truth has been buried over time.

This list was originally compiled by Michael Zak at Grand Old Partisan and then posted at Free Republic .

September 22, 1862: Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

January 1, 1863: Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect

The Democratic Party continued to Support Slavery.

February 9, 1864: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery

June 15, 1864: Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War

June 28, 1864: Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts

October 29, 1864: African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”

January 31, 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition

Republican Party Support: 100% Democratic Party Support: 23%

March 3, 1865: Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves

April 8, 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate

Republican support 100% Democrat support 37%

June 19, 1865: On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation

November 22, 1865: Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination

1866: The Republican Party passes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to protect the rights of newly freed slaves

December 6, 1865: Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified

*1865: The KKK launches as the “Terrorist Arm” of the Democratic Party

February 5, 1866: U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves

April 9, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law

April 19, 1866: Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery

May 10, 1866: U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no

June 8, 1866: U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no

July 16, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights

July 28, 1866: Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen

July 30, 1866: Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150

January 8, 1867: Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.

July 19, 1867: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans

March 30, 1868: Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”

May 20, 1868: Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors

1868 (July 9): 14th Amendment passes and recognizes newly freed slaves as U.S. Citizens

Republican Party Support: 94% Democratic Party Support: 0%

September 3, 1868: 25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress

September 12, 1868: Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress

September 28, 1868: Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor

October 7, 1868: Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”

October 22, 1868: While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan

November 3, 1868: Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation

December 10, 1869: Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office

February 3, 1870: The US House ratifies the 15th Amendment granting voting rights to all Americans regardless of race

Republican support: 97% Democrat support: 3%

February 25, 1870: Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first Black seated in the US Senate, becoming the First Black in Congress and the first Black Senator.

May 19, 1870: African American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies

May 31, 1870: President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights

June 22, 1870: Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South

September 6, 1870: Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell

December 12, 1870: Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey becomes the first Black duly elected by the people and the first Black in the US House of Representatives

In 1870 and 1871, along with Revels (R-Miss) and Rainey (R-SC), other Blacks were elected to Congress from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia – all Republicans.

A Black Democrat Senator didn’t show up on Capitol Hill until 1993. The first Black Congressman was not elected until 1935.

February 28, 1871: Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters

March 22, 1871: Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina

April 20, 1871: Republican Congress enacts the (anti) Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans

October 10, 1871: Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands

October 18, 1871: After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan

November 18, 1872: Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”

January 17, 1874: Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government

September 14, 1874: Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed

1875 (March 1): The Civil Rights Act of 1875 passes. It is the First Anti-Discrimination Law in America

March 1, 1875: Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant

Republican support: 92%
Democrat support: 0%

September 20, 1876: Former state Attorney General Robert Ingersoll (R-IL) tells veterans: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat… I am a Republican because it is the only free party that ever existed”

January 10, 1878: U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919

July 14, 1884: Republicans criticize Democratic Party’s nomination of racist U.S. Senator Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) for vice president; he had voted against the 13th Amendment banning slavery

August 30, 1890: Republican President Benjamin Harrison signs legislation by U.S. Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT) making African-Americans eligible for land-grant colleges in the South

June 7, 1892: In a FIRST for a major U.S. political party, two women – Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attend Republican National Convention in an official capacity, as alternate delegates

February 8, 1894: Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote

December 11, 1895: African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans

May 18, 1896: Republican Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting from Supreme Court’s notorious Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” decision, declares: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens”

December 31, 1898: Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools

May 24, 1900: Republicans vote no in referendum for constitutional convention in Virginia, designed to create a new state constitution disenfranchising African-Americans

January 15, 1901: Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans

October 16, 1901: President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country

May 29, 1902: Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%

February 12, 1909: On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP

June 18, 1912: African-American Robert Church, founder of Lincoln Leagues to register black voters in Tennessee, attends 1912 Republican National Convention as delegate; eventually serves as delegate at 8 conventions

*1914: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson Segregates the Federal Government and the US Military – REVERSING 50 years of previous integration

*1915: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson showcases the first movie ever shown in the White House – Birth of a Nation – The Ku Klux Klan Epic

August 1, 1916: Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, former New York Governor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, endorses women’s suffrage constitutional amendment; he would become Secretary of State and Chief Justice

May 21, 1919: Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no

April 18, 1920: Minnesota’s FIRST-in-the-nation anti-lynching law, promoted by African-American Republican Nellie Francis, signed by Republican Gov. Jacob Preus

August 18, 1920: Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures

January 26, 1922: House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster

*119 Members voted AGAINST the Bill. OF THE 199, 103 were members of the Democratic Party

June 2, 1924: Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans

October 3, 1924: Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention

December 8, 1924: Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in favor of “separate but equal”

June 12, 1929: First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country

August 17, 1937: Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation

June 24, 1940: Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it

October 20, 1942: 60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto, calling on southern Democrats to abolish their all-white primaries

April 3, 1944: U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas Democratic Party’s “whites only” primary election system

August 8, 1945: Republicans condemn Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that “[t]he use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”

February 18, 1946: Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools

July 11, 1952: Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity” of Democrats in racial matters

September 30, 1953: Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education

December 8, 1953: Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954: Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA) and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of Supreme Court for school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education

November 25, 1955: Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel

March 12, 1956: Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation

June 5, 1956: Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law

October 19, 1956: On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”

November 6, 1956: African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President

*1957 (September 9): Republican President Dwight Eisenhower passes the First Civil Rights Law in 82 years…CRA 1957

*The Democratic Party Filibuster the Bill

*Republican Party Support: 92%
*Democratic Party Support: 54%

September 24, 1957: Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools

June 23, 1958: President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights

February 4, 1959: President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many Democrats

May 6, 1960: President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats

*The Democratic Party Filibuster the Bill

*Republican Party Support: 93%
*Democratic Party Support: 68%

July 27, 1960: At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in platform

May 2, 1963: Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights

June 1, 1963: Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate University of Alabama

September 29, 1963: Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School

Moving into the Lyndon Johnson era, here’s some background:

Johnson had a long history of voting with the south against civil rights, and prior to 1957 he voted 100% with the South, including voting against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960.

After the Civil Rights Acts, the southern Dixiecrats who opposed civil rights, dissolved and most returned to the Democrat party, although if you listen to Democrat rhetoric you would think all Dixiecrats became Republicans. Some did, but most did not, and to name a few that did not: Richard Russel, Mendell Rivers, William Fulbright, Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings and Al Gore, Sr., the father of former VP Al Gore.

Meanwhile, Democrats did this…

On September 28, 1868, a mob of Democrats massacred nearly 300 African-American Republicans in Opelousas, Louisiana. The savagery began when racist Democrats attacked a newspaper editor, a white Republican and schoolteacher for ex-slaves. Several African-Americans rushed to the assistance of their friend, and in response, Democrats went on a “Negro hunt,” killing every African-American (all of whom were Republicans) in the area they could find. (Via Grand Old Partisan)

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Democrat congressman Eric Swalwell’s bid for California governor is facing fresh controversy after conservative filmmaker Joel Gilbert filed a lawsuit accusing Swalwell of misrepresenting his residency in state campaign filings. According to a Daily Mail report on the legal challenge, Gilbert alleges that the home address Swalwell listed on his election paperwork does not reflect his true residence, raising questions about whether Swalwell meets California’s residency requirements for candidates.

The lawsuit adds to a string of concerns raised by The Gateway Pundit in recent weeks, where Gilbert’s reporting has been featured extensively to show that Swalwell may be constitutionally and legally disqualified from running for governor. In those reports, Gateway Pundit has highlighted not just residency issues but also broader ethical and legal questions surrounding Swalwell, including why election officials should not certify his candidacy. As part of that coverage, Gilbert’s legal action seeks a court ruling to compel authorities to enforce candidate qualification rules before ballots are finalized.

Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign, officially announced as part of a crowded 2026 California race, has thus become embroiled in legal challenges that could sideline him before voters have their say. This lawsuit and the broader investigative effort by Joel Gilbert, featured repeatedly in The Gateway Pundit, frame Swalwell not merely as a controversial politician but as someone whose eligibility for office is being actively contested under California law. In addition, Swalwell was referred to the Department of Justice for investigation for possible mortgage fraud by Bill Pulte of the FHFA.

California governor race thrown into chaos as Democrat candidate Eric Swalwell is accused of lying about living in state:

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This Opinion Just In…
USPTO Stands Athwart Inventors Yelling: “Stop!”

US Patent and Trademark Office hammers innovators it’s supposed to help

By Deroy Murdock

LAS VEGAS – “America must once again be a country where innovators are rewarded with a green light, not strangled with red tape,” President Donald J. Trump told the Winning the AI Race forum last July. If Trump wants to see strangulation up close, he should visit the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

As if it were run by the Wicked Witch of the West, USPTO subjects pioneering inventors to a parade of unpleasant surprises. So far, no inventors report being chased by evil, flying monkeys. But tomorrow is another day.

If an airborne chimpanzee landed on Gilbert P. Hyatt’s desk and torched his files, Hyatt probably would roll his eyes and ask, “What took you so long?”

USPTO has battled the Sin City-based inventor for nearly 30 years. It has forced him through hoops, entombed him in paperwork, and even issued a jaw-dropping No New Patents for Hyatt order that sounds like hyperbole but is confirmed by federal courtroom testimony.

“The Patent Office is prejudiced against independent inventors and against pioneering inventions,” Hyatt told me over lunch, near the legendary Las Vegas Strip. “They used every trick in the book, to try and get rid of me, to delay, and to hope that I would die and then go away.” Hyatt, 87, has denied USPTO that easy victory. “I’m still here today. My patent applications are still alive.”

USPTO previously treated Hyatt fairly. From 1971 through 1997, it issued him 75 patents. His licensed patents have spawned such products as the first Canon and Nikon digital cameras, Panasonic TV sets, Sharp’s calculators and liquid-crystal displays, and Sony’s PlayStation. Hyatt’s signature achievement is U.S. Patent No. 4,942,516, for the computer microprocessor, which fuels the Digital Age.

USPTO issued Hyatt zero patents in 1998. It had done so in 1972, 1981, and 1993. Even pioneering inventors have quiet years. But in 1999, for the second consecutive year, USPTO issued Hyatt zero patents. Likewise, in 2000. Nothing.

And that’s the way it is: Hyatt has received precisely zero patents in 27 years. And not for lack of trying. Throughout that interval, Hyatt has had unfinished business before USPTO. And he still does.

The brass ring is a patent pending (but not yet issued) for artificial intelligence. USPTO’s examiners recognize the validity of Hyatt’s 1984 application for the patent on all A.I. His application faced challenges from others who claimed to have created what could become the 21st Century’s defining technology. Hyatt defeated these pretenders in court and before USPTO’s appeals boards. All judgments hold that he conceived AI first. Thus, his AI patent pending should become a patent — with all that this would entail.

Appellate bodies repeatedly have told USPTO to issue Hyatt’s patent. But the agency will not budge.

Hyatt is like a man with a reservation, a plane ticket, and his name on a jumbo jet’s seating chart. Regardless, the stone-faced gate agents bar him from the 787’s door.

Hyatt’s multifarious tortures — courtesy of USPTO — are mind-blowing. Indeed, the agency’s diverse techniques for hurting Hyatt recall President Trump’s Biden-era travails. Week after week, Trump 45’s enemies hammered him with one inexplicable indictment after another show trial after another unprecedented ruling. Trump and Hyatt should feel each other’s pain.

Agony and no ecstasy: USPTO brass order No New Patents for Hyatt 

On September 27, 2023, USPTO’s former Patent Program Administrator, Howard Goldberg, testified under oath in U.S District Court in Washington, D.C. Regarding Hyatt’s patent applications, Goldberg said: “I received two directives” from Assistant Commissioner for Patent Policy Steve Kunin in 1997 or ’98. First, Goldberg said that Kunin told him to “segregate all of his [Hyatt’s] applications into single art units, so they weren’t spread among the tech centers.”

Goldberg continued: “The second was to do whatever I could to ensure that these [Hyatt’s] cases would not get issued as a patent.” Goldberg reiterated: “I was directed to put them [Hyatt’s applications] — group them together and not allow them to be published as a patent.”

Two days later — September 29, 2023 — Edward Kazenske corroborated Goldberg’s jaw-dropping testimony. Kazenske swore under oath that around 1997-98, while he was acting assistant commissioner for patents, he discussed Hyatt’s cases with Steve Kunin, one of his USPTO employees. Kazenske testified that afterward, “I informed Mr. Goldberg that we were not going to issue those patents to Mr. Hyatt.” Kazenske added that he told other relevant staffers about Hyatt’s files. “I asked them to withdraw those applications immediately from issue.”

Hyatt has not received a patent since. In fact, at about that same time, USPTO rescinded four patents that he just had earned!

Government limits on finite benefits make sense. Since Washington, D.C. lacks bottomless resources, millionaires do not feast on Food Stamps, and billionaires do not attend college via Pell Grants. However, USPTO could issue 1,000 patents a day without depleting the total quantity of intellectual-property protection.

USPTO’s decreeing that Hyatt had received his lifetime supply of patents was as absurd as telling Clint Eastwood: “Sir, between 1971 and 2024, you have directed 40 motion pictures. That’s enough. No more copyrights for you!” Or imagine someone from Washington telling Stephen King, ”Between Carrie and Never Flinch, you have published 65 novels. That’s more than your fair share. We will issue you zero new copyrights. Have you considered sculpting?”

Even if one believes that inventors can earn no more than “their fair share” of patents, Hyatt is far short of that ceiling. America’s most legendary inventors hold far more patents than Hyatt’s 75.

• Electric-equipment pioneer Nikola Tesla: 112 patents
• Automotive visionary Henry Ford: 161
• Apple guru Steve Jobs: 300-325
• Electric-generation pathfinder George Westinghouse: 360
• Earth’s most famous inventor, Thomas Edison: 1,093
• Current US record holder – Qualcomm wireless innovator: Tao Luo: 4,332

Back to Square One

After issuing Hyatt zero new patents between 1998 and 2013, USPTO suddenly dropped its previous examination of his applications, dumped 15 years of work, and re-started the entire process. This re-do now slouches toward its 13th year.

SAWS Tried to Cut Hyatt in Two

USPTO created the Sensitive Applications Warning System in 1994. SAWS placed certain inventors in a top-secret status that put their applications into Purgatory. SAWS let USPTO’s bureaucrats saw logs rather than judge patent eligibility. Even worse, SAWS-afflicted inventors had no clue that they were relegated to that outpost.

Hyatt’s assorted applications were corralled into SAWS Art Unit 2615 (as in “state of the art”), from which they could not escape, thanks to a routine approval or some employee innocently doing his job. Indeed, Hyatt’s forms were flagged via USPTO’s Patent Application Locating and Monitoring database. PALM detected updates in Hyatt-related items and immediately escalated them to USPTO’s hostile top brass. This eased maximum enforcement of the No New Patents for Hyatt decree. SAWS allegedly was “retired” in 2015, but the Biden Administration seems to have resurrected it in 2021.

Biennial turnover of patent examiners 

Every two years, USPTO changed the personnel who reviewed Hyatt’s patent applications. One set of examiners boarded the Get Gil Express, alighted after two years, and then yet more, brand-new examiners hopped on. They, in turn, had to conquer the learning curve before having any idea what to do with Hyatt’s applications. Ironically, with Hyatt, USPTO reinvents the wheel — recipient of Patent No. 1.

Hyatt says that those who evaluated his files “were bribed with raises and promotions, from GS-14 to GS-15,” if they applied tougher, more rigorous SAWS-type criteria.

Judgment by irrelevant experts

It would be bad enough if these ever-changing examiners at least understood computers, software, and microchips. Unfortunately, since 2013, USPTO has assigned Hyatt new inspectors who are generalists or experts in other disciplines. While all must familiarize themselves with Hyatt’s applications, others first must recall their basic infotech. Hyatt’s application to patent a computerized illumination-control system was reviewed by — naturally — a chemical-coatings specialist.

USPTO’s overall approach has been to sentence Gil Hyatt to death by a thousand paper cuts. “I have filed more than 80 briefs with the Board of Appeals, to get out of the clutches of the USPTO Examining Corps,” Hyatt tells me. “I have filed more than 1,000 petitions to end the USPTO’s delays.”

This adds up. Through 2025, Hyatt estimates, he has spent “more than $10 million in fees paid directly to the USPTO, not including fees and expenses paid to others, such as patent attorneys, and prosecution support fees and expenses.” (“Prosecution” does not involve jailing criminals. Here, “prosecution” encompasses applying for, negotiating over, and — one hopes — securing patents.)

Of course, USPTO also devours an irreplaceable commodity: Time. Every hour Hyatt spends litigating is an hour he does not spend innovating. This makes the world a poorer place.

Gil Hyatt’s USPTO Hell makes Franz Kafka’s world seem like a straightforward, transparent, and predictable Heaven. Today’s biggest miracle might be that the inventor of artificial intelligence takes this so calmly. Job could take patience lessons from Hyatt.

Weaponization: USPTO’s Pit of Despair

This all reeks of weaponization. Indeed, Edward R. Martin, Jr., director of the U.S. Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group, wrote USPTO on June 23 regarding “allegations of weaponization” by that agency’s “policies and procedures against American companies and inventors.” Martin also expressed interest in “a Biden-era directive to secretly flag pending patents and allowable patent applications and claims to prevent them from issuing.”

Hyatt is not alone.

“For much of the last 30 years, the USPTO has frozen applications, blocked allowances, and manipulated prosecution timelines behind closed doors,” Gene Quinn wrote in November 18’s IP Watchdog. Quinn cites USPTO’s notorious SAWS program, “which has secretly hauled off so many applications into the pit of despair.” Quinn adds: “How many fell victim to this government-manufactured trap is not known because there has never been a full accounting.” Estimates of USPTO’s battered inventors stretch from hundreds into thousands.

Corliss Orville Burandt is another prominent USPTO victim. Like Hyatt, the creator of automotive-engineering products has struggled for some 30 years to patent several inventions. “The patent office tried to paper Burandt’s legal team to death,” Harry Goldstein wrote in October 28, 2024’s IEEE Spectrum. “As of this writing, Burandt still hasn’t seen a dime from his inventions. He subsists on his Social Security benefits.”

How did this happen?

How did a previously pro-inventor agency devolve into an IP dungeon? USPTO’s critics accuse it of having a culture of contempt toward individual inventors and small-company innovators — those who populate the suburban garages where Amazon and Apple were born. USPTO prefers to work with major corporations. Large organizations of a feather flock together. IBM and Xerox, for instance, pay USPTO millions in annual patent-maintenance fees. Solo inventors pay thousands.

There also is the federal revolving door. Making life easy for, say, Cisco Systems or Oracle could boost the job prospects for a humble USPTO employee. A recently updated May 2018 National Bureau of Economic Research study discovered that “revolving door examiners grant 12.6-17.6% more patents to firms that later hire them.” Why would an examiner scrutinize Hyatt’s applications when Hewlett Packard’s papers also occupy her desk, just as she’s plotting her next career move? Visions of a corner office at HP magically make 14th Amendment equal protection concerns vanish.

Like the hundreds, if not thousands, of pioneering individual inventors whom USPTO has shunned rather than shielded, Gil Hyatt has endured serious injustice. USPTO’s victims include him, his family and loved ones, and potentially 8.2 billion men, women, and children who are missing the benefits of his innovation.

Hyatt’s patent applications include technology to sharpen the details and improve pattern recognition in X-rays and other medical images. This should help doctors more accurately and swiftly diagnose diseases, fractures, and other health challenges. How many Americans and others have stayed sicker longer because USPTO has embargoed the patent on just this invention?

USPTO ignored requests for comment.

Saddest of all, USPTO’s foot-dragging, pain-inducing, no-response shonda deprives America of what Hyatt offers, if this agency ever issues him the AI patent that every final ruling indicates is rightly his.

Hyatt wants USPTO to turn his patent pending into a patent — period — that he promises to donate to the American people via a new non-profit. The Pioneering AI Foundation would be led by presidential appointees and prominent private-sector individuals. “I will assign these patents to the Foundation, for philanthropic purposes and to help the Trump Administration with its trade policies,” Hyatt pledges.

Hyatt says that he wants precisely $0.00 from this charity. Instead, his proposed PAI Foundation would use Hyatt’s AI patents to give the president priceless bargaining chips in his global-trade negotiations. US companies could license Hyatt’s patent for free. Foreign companies — not least China’s — would pay license fees to the PAI Foundation or face International Trade Commission-driven exclusion from America due to patent infringement. The ensuing funds would not flow into Hyatt’s pockets. Instead, they would underwrite STEM education and innovation instruction for students, especially the disadvantaged.

The fact that Gil Hyatt maintains such a constructive and philanthropic attitude after all the torture that USPTO has inflicted on him may yet yield this supremely happy ending: America in the AI driver’s seat, China huffing and puffing to keep up, and American kids enjoying STEM education financed by billions in patent-license revenue.

One call from President Trump to USPTO — “Give Gil Hyatt his AI patent already” — would set these wheels in motion.

​Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.

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Dr. Mehmut Oz is the US Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Jim O’Neill is the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Last week Dr. Oz and Jim O’Neill traveled to St. Paul to investigate fraud at a run-down building in St. Paul.

Dr. Oz and Deputy Secretary O’Neill sat down with Liz Collin from conservative Alpha News to describe their experience in St. Paul

Dr. Oz and Deputy Secretary O’Neill were threatened, followed, and had their cars surrounded as they visited an old textile business that was now used to administer Medicaid. This was another fraudulent Medicaid operation.

Dr. Oz.: It seems systemic in its nature. The building that we visited together, Greg’s building, was a textile factory, became an office building. It’s not a nice part of town. I wouldn’t take my kids there to get cared for, frankly, do much else in business But somehow they had 400 offices doing business with Medicaid charging almost $400 million to the taxpayer. That means basically each of those businesses made a million dollars. You wouldn’t walk in this building in the city part of Minneapolis. I suspect there might have been others who knew this was happening, certainly collaborating with these folks. Maybe even I wonder, the folks who were in the building, the neighborhood, someone knew… We were chased out of buildings by car honking, people giving us the finger…

…I came into this business. I’m a doctor. I want to make sure that if you’re living in the shadows in America, as Hubert Humphrey, Senator from Minnesota, so beautifully claimed, If you’re not able to help those folks living in the shadows, then you’re abdicating your responsibility.

Liz Collin: You were going to these phony businesses today and facing real threats out there?

Dr. Oz: I wouldn’t say we felt in significant danger, but we were told we wouldn’t even be allowed in the building, so we didn’t try. But we drove by, we just stood on the sidewalk, and there was menace We got back in our cars. People were hooking at us. A car followed us for a long time. It was definitely… They didn’t know exactly who we were, but we were in black cars. There was definitely a vibe that they were Just against anyone looking around, hiding something, just even all the people in the parking lot.

Liz Collin: Have you ever seen anything quite like this in your time?

Dr. Oz.: The mob mentality is stunning. I don’t even know if these folks are from Minnesota. These are professional agitators. They have a little network, not a little network, pretty big network from what I can tell. But we were only there for a minute or two, and there were already people showing up and beginning to surround the cars we were in. We got out just to look around. That didn’t last very long. Why would you not want me to look? What are you worried about? I’ll tell you, as a heart surgeon, the first thing you do when there’s a complication and someone else calls you in to help out another surgeon, you open the wound, you put the light in, because we can’t see if We can’t have exposure to the problem. To do that, you need to actually look around. I know I’ve seen footage of what’s inside this building that we weren’t allowed to go into, which is a concerning issue by itself. It’s just empty rooms with one computer terminal.

And, it’s not just Minnesota…

Dr. Oz: we’re seeing it around the country. But here’s the part I want you to hear clearly. These aren’t just small-time Americans making mistakes in their ethics. These are foreign criminal gangs that are involved in these activities. In Southern California, where there’s been a seven-fold increase in hospice I’ll say that again. Seven times more hospices just over the last couple of years. Are there seven times more people dying in Southern California? The Russian-Armenian gangs built up a massive Mafia business there. In Florida, they’ve got Cubans working hand in hand with these fraudulent durable medical equipment suppliers. There are 20 times more of these suppliers of wheelchairs and canes than there are McDonald’s. I mean, how many people need wheelchairs in Southern Florida? That was also driven by the Cuban government.

Here is the video interview.

WATCH: “The mob mentality is stunning”

Dr. Mehmet Oz (Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and Jim O’Neill (Deputy Sec. of HHS) explained how they were flipped off, followed, and their cars were surrounded while trying to investigate fraud at a building… pic.twitter.com/bIzLCTsAmS

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) January 18, 2026

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