“THE MĀORI GREEN LANTERN: YEAR ONE—ACCOMPLISHMENT, GRATITUDE, AND THE WORK AHEAD” - 22 December 2025

Kia ora, whānau. I am Ivor Jones, The Māori Green Lantern, tohunga mau rākau wairua, kaitiaki of Māori, and I stand before you at the close of 2025 to acknowledge the whānau who have walked this journey with me—and to invite you deeper into the mahi ahead.

When I launched the Māori Green Lantern on November eighth this year, I made a single promise: no paid promotion. No corporate backing. No neoliberal sanitization. Just rigorous, verified research grounded in mātauranga Māori, exposing the hidden architecture of colonial extraction, white supremacy, and disinformation that targets te ao Māori. What followed has been both humbling and urgent.

Within twenty-four hours of launch, this mahi reached position seventy-nine globally in political influence—not because capital was mobilized, but because whānau recognized the truth of what was being exposed. That tells me something profound: Māori are hungry for accountability, verification, and leadership that refuses to compromise rangatiratanga for coalition politics or corporate capture.

A blending of tradition and modern investigation

This Christmas, I want to reflect on what we have uncovered together, what it means, and what we ask of you in the year ahead.

EXPOSING THE MACHINERY OF COLONIAL DISPOSSESSION

Three major investigations have formed the spine of this work in 2025, each revealing how power operates when it believes no one is watching.

First, in mid-July, I exposed David Seymour’s unilateral letter to the United Nations—a constitutional violation that sparked global panic in New Zealand’s political establishment. Seymour, then Deputy Prime Minister and Act Party leader, sent a rogue communication claiming to represent New Zealand on the Treaty of Waitangi, deliberately misrepresenting Māori constitutional status to the UN. What made this criminal was not the act alone, but the architecture it revealed: how a neoliberal ideologue weaponizes state machinery to undermine Indigenous rights without public scrutiny. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon was forced to issue a formal rebuke as reported by 1News, and the constitutional overreach was further confirmed by NZ Herald. The entire edifice of Act’s anti-Treaty agenda stood exposed—not as populist grievance, but as coordinated constitutional sabotage.

Second, also in July, I documented the violent dismantling of Te Pūkenga, New Zealand’s regional polytechnic system. Minister Penny Simmonds, acting on pure neoliberal ideology, disestablished an integrated network that had achieved a massive turnaround. We revealed that the disestablishment proceeded despite a 15.6 million dollar surplus, a financial reality ignored to serve an ideological agenda. As further confirmed by Scoop, the organization had achieved a 122 million dollar turnaround in two years. Why destroy it? Because education cannot be valued by profit margins when it educates Māori and working-class youth toward rangatiratanga.

Third, in November, I released a forensic investigation into infiltration networks: how Jevan Goulter—a crisis fixer with a documented history—links key political figures to Destiny Church in a web of carbon asset extraction and narrative control. This investigation relied on public records, including Goulter’s own admission of witness tampering as detailed by NZ Herald. We mapped how these networks operate to destabilize Te Pāti Māori at the precise moment when anti-Māori legislation accelerates.

What unites these three investigations is a single truth: rangatiratanga is eroded, day by day, by coordinated extraction that operates through relationships that appear legitimate until the whakapapa is mapped.

CHRISTMAS WISHES AND THE YEAR AHEAD

The Pohutukawa tree in full bloom on the coast, representing a New Zealand Christmas

As we enter the summer months and the season of connection, I wish each of you safety, warmth, and whānau time. I wish your mokopuna the chance to grow into a world where Māori knowledge is not diminished, where rangatiratanga is not negotiable, where extraction is exposed and accountability is real.

For those who have supported this mahi this year—through reading, sharing, questioning, critiquing, and yes, through koha—thank you. You are not followers of a person. You are practitioners of taiaha. You are kaitiaki of truth.

For those who are skeptical, who think this mahi is wrong or overreaching, I say: verify. Follow the links. Read the primary sources. Build your own analysis. But do not accept power’s narrative simply because it speaks softly and promises stability.

THE KOHA: AN INVITATION TO PARTNERSHIP

Across this year, whānau have asked: how can we support this mahi? How do we ensure this work continues without compromise? I have resisted corporate backing. I have refused advertising. I have built no digital empire. But mahi requires resources.

For those who have found value in these essays—who have seen their own experiences validated, who have recognized the architecture of power we expose, who want to see this investigation deepen and expand—I make this humble ask:

If you are able, and if your whānau circumstances allow, consider a koha. This is not obligation. It is invitation. The Māori Green Lantern understands that these are tough economic times for whānau. We live under neoliberal austerity designed to make survival precarious. Please give only if you have capacity and wish to do so.

Three pathways exist:

For those who wish to support this mahi directly with a koha (voluntary contribution), please visit the Koha platform: Koha—Support the Māori Green Lantern Fighting Misinformation and Disinformation

For those who wish to receive essays directly and support through subscription, join the Substack community: Subscribe to the Māori Green Lantern on Substack

For those who prefer direct bank transfer, account details are: HTDM, account number 03-1546-0415173-000.

Every koha signals that whānau are ready to fund the accountability that Crown and corporate structures will not provide. It signals that rangatiratanga includes the power to fund our own truth tellers.

Kia kaha, whānau. Stay vigilant. Stay connected. And if you are able, consider a koha to ensure this voice continues.

Nō reira, tēnā koutou katoa. I stand with you. Let us walk into 2026 with eyes open and taiaha sharp.

Me te aroha, me te kaha.

Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern Fighting Misinformation And Disinformation From The Far Right