TJ Martinell
Reporter, Blogger, Researcher
TJ [send him email] is an award-winning reporter from Washington state. He has written for the Tenth Amendment Center since 2014 on a wide assortment of constitutional issues, particularly the right to keep and bear arms. He lives in the heart of Cascadia and hosts the weekly Mountain Pass Podcast.
Latest Articles
Totally Dissolved: The Forgotten Vote for Independence
James Madison’s Speech that Set the Stage for the Bill of Rights
Limited or Absolute Power: Warnings from Anti-Federalist Agrippa
Mercy Otis Warren: Constitution Would “Terminate in the Most Uncontrolled Despotism”
Deciphering the Commander-in-Chief Clause
What The Constitution Means By “Declare War”
Informing the Founders: A Short History of Standing Armies in England
“If we adopted the attitude of the Founders, all guns would be ‘undetectable.'”
Latest Blog Posts
- New Hampshire Senate Passes Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act
Titled the Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act, the proposed law would prohibit a payment card network from requiring a New Hampshire merchant to use a […]
- To the Governor: Alabama Passes Bill to Prohibit Credit Card Codes to Track Firearms Purchases
Titled the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, the legislation would “prohibit a financial institution from requiring merchants to use a merchant […]
- Georgia Governor Signs Law to Prohibit Credit Card Codes That Track Firearms Purchases
Titled the “Georgia Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act,” the law prohibits financial institutions from requiring the use of a firearms code that […]
- Tennessee Governor Signs Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act Into Law
It prohibits any financial institution operation in the state from requiring or permitting “the assignment of a firearms code in a way that distinguishes a […]
- New Hampshire Committee Advances Bill to Prohibit Credit Card Codes to Track Firearms Purchases
Titled the Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act, the proposed law would prohibit a payment card network from requiring a New Hampshire merchant to use a […]
Books
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Novel
The Stringers
Decades in the future, America is in the midst of a new Prohibition Era. This time, the contraband is information. Free press has been replaced with journalism licenses and a formidable federal censorship agency. Reading newspapers is now a crime.
The Stringers Book 2
The Informers
Roy Farrington continues the search for his imprisoned father and quickly rises in the ranks of his newspaper, even as he maintains an uneasy alliance with his old friend Casey Novak, now a federal censorship officer.
Novel
Men Who Walk Alone
The year is 1934. Rampant crime. Ethnic feuds. Gangland violence. Such is life in Beverly, a small East Coast town reeling from economic deprivation in the midst of the Great Depression.