Patriots, Before I tell you what is going on behind the scenes, allow me to share the story of Patriot Depot. I started Patriot Depot in the basement of our home on December 7, 2007. I fondly remember driving down to the old courthouse in Dallas, Georgia to acquire my business license. I built the website, ordered the products, started advertising, and my wife packed and shipped all orders in between homeschooling our children. One of our first hit products was a DVD called, Hillary Uncensored. At the time, we believed Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee for President. Then, out of left field came a radical junior Senator from Illinois… Barack Hussein Obama. We pivoted and started selling the infamous “NoBama” bumper stickers. We could barely keep up with the orders! Eventually Patriot Depot outgrew our humble basement, and we moved to a big warehouse in Powder Springs, Georgia. Leading up to the 2008 Election, we sold tens of thousands of anti-Obama products to a hungry conservative base. We thought for sure Obama would lose. How could a Marxist Senator beat a war hero and the beautiful governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin? Simple: The Media. We underestimated the radical leftward shift taking place in America because of the Media’s influence. Obama won and I thought our business was over. But it wasn’t! During the 8 years of Obama, Patriot Depot continued to flourish and grow. Eventually, the American political pendulum swung back to the right, and Donald Trump was elected President in 2016. That’s when Big Tech decided to step in and stop the conservative comeback for good. Facebook started deleting conservative pages to try and silence our voice. Google, Twitter, PayPal and YouTube joined in as well. The economic impact on our business was devastating. 90% of conservative websites vanished overnight. Sadly, I was forced to sell Patriot Depot to one of the few surviving conservative companies. From 2017 - 2021, the new owners did a phenomenal job supporting and growing Patriot Depot. Meanwhile, my business partners and I started several more conservative stores such as store.FlagAndCross.com, ThrasherCoffee.com (featuring Trump coffee), and ValloraniCigars.com (featuring Trump cigars). Every day is a fight when companies like PayPal, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Twitter seek to silence our voice. Even credit card processing companies held our money and even cut us off! There were days when I thought we would not make it. |