"The Hobson's Pledge Production Line" - 13 June 2026
Lobby Group Writes the Law, Plants the Candidate, Sends the Invoice
Lobby Group Writes the Law, Plants the Candidate, Sends the Invoice
How Christopher Luxon Is Building a Māori Cage the Size of a City
Polling manipluation the Far-Right Pipeline and the Fight for Truth
How Karen Chhour Billed Taxpayers $16,686, Gutted Oranga Tamariki, Repealed Te Tiriti, and Called It All "Saving Money"
They took Gareth Morgan's promise to Māori, quietly shredded it in a rebrand, and handed you a $20,000 cheque that doesn't cover rent — and called it the future.
Behind the TikTok haka and the polished performance, Te Pāti Māori increasingly looks less like a people’s movement and more like John Tamihere’s tightly controlled political vehicle
They tell whānau the cupboard is bare while they eat from silver trays, bankroll their own comfort with public money, and call the feast "service". Red or blue — same trough, same hands, same contempt.
Lobby Group Writes the Law, Plants the Candidate, Sends the Invoice
How Christopher Luxon Is Building a Māori Cage the Size of a City
Polling manipluation the Far-Right Pipeline and the Fight for Truth
How Karen Chhour Billed Taxpayers $16,686, Gutted Oranga Tamariki, Repealed Te Tiriti, and Called It All "Saving Money"
Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern
When the Crown says there is no money for whānau but finds billions for war machines, the ledger itself becomes a confession.
HOW GERRY BROWNLEE TURNED THE PEOPLE'S PARLIAMENT INTO HIS PERSONAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO
He walked into schools bearing gifts. The swag bags are in the bin. The damage to our tamariki is not.
A system that calls itself a health service but functions as a sorting machine — and tāngata whaikaha Māori are being sorted into early graves.
How David Seymour Paid the Fundraiser, Gutted the Māori Voice, and Called It Governance
How Christopher Luxon's Office Concealed Corporate Climate Lobbying — And What the Evidence Shows
How Gerry Brownlee Turned the Speaker's Chair Into a Shield for a Thieving Minister — and What It Will Cost Every Whānau Who Dares to Be Poor
They couldn't beat us at the ballot box. So they changed what the ballot counts for.
How Luxon Plugged Aotearoa Into Musk's War Machine While 170,000 Tamariki Went Hungry
While Fonterra's lawyers drafted the legislation that killed your right to sue them, Christopher Luxon's chief policy adviser deleted the email that proved it — and called the cover-up a "teachable moment."
This white supremacist neoliberal government cannot feed the children, house the kuia, or honour the Tiriti — but it will move mountains of borrowed money to satisfy a war criminal in Singapore.
THE HOBSON'S PLEDGE PRODUCTION LINE: Lobby Group Writes the Law, Plants the Candidate, and Sends the Invoice