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Andrew Crowley was a Guest on today's episode of 'Up Your Brave' Natalie Cutler-Welsh talks to Andrew Crowley of Rock the Vote NZ about his background and the group’s aim to register a political party by 2026. They discuss the erosion of national and individual sovereignty in New Zealand, especially during COVID-19, and the risks of digital IDs and government overreach. They also touch on financial pressures such as rising debt and taxes, stressing the need to protect individual sovereignty,...

By Andrew Crowley, Rock The Vote NZ Party Leader During the late 1700s, English soldiers stationed in the Irish town of Kilkenny supposedly amused themselves by tying two cats together by their tails and hanging them over a clothesline to watch them fight. To avoid getting in trouble when an officer approached, one soldier quickly cut the tails off with a sword. When the officer arrived and asked what had happened, he was shown only the two severed tails—the cats themselves had vanished. The...

The Seduction of Easy Money By Andrew Crowley, Rock The Vote NZ Party Leader Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has become the darling of heterodox economics. It promises governments that issue their own currency—like the US, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand—an escape from fiscal limits. “You can never go bankrupt in your own money,” say its advocates. It’s a seductive idea. But seduction can be dangerous. At Rock The Vote NZ, we argue that MMT, if misapplied, threatens both individual sovereignty...