Alan Hostetter was in the middle of nowhere in Arkansas when he hit the record button. It was late November, a few weeks after what the former police chief and more recent Orange County yoga instructor called the stolen 2020 election.

Hostetter, who founded a group called the American Phoenix Project in the spring of 2020 to oppose government restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was on his way to D.C. for the Million MAGA March in support of then-President Donald Trump . He had some thoughts he wanted to record for posterity.