The Stand with Meg Show

Meg

🎙️ The Stand With Meg Show Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Hosted by Meg🎙️  Home of the FIRST EVER Family Rights survey. Evidence over silence.I'm Meg, investigative journalist and mom of five. I haven't seen or heard my kids' voices since January 29, 2024, and I learned this system the hard way, pro se. My story isn't unique, and that's the problem.I built Stand With Meg alone, a public record of 5,000+ family-reported submissions from all 50 states, DC, and 18 countries, documenting $950M+ in reported losses. Each episode exposes the patterns families report, elevates protective parents, mothers and fathers, and demands accountability.🎙 Includes The Shawn Lee Report: general legal education with criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee, not legal advice. Episodes premiere live with public Q&As.📢 Follow the Money: with Chandini Kumar Portteus, I'm calling for a federal audit of how Title IV-D money moves through family court. Call for a freeze and audit in your state: my.StandwithMeg.com/take-action📍 Start at StandwithMeg.com, and share the FIRST EVER Family Rights survey while you're there. Every voice makes the case stronger.📲 Follow on social media:Instagram: @StandWithMegTikTok: @StandWithMegYouTube: @StandWithMegFacebook: Stand With MegX: @StandWithMeg 📲 Follow on social media: Instagram: @StandWithMegTikTok: @StandWithMegYouTube: @StandWithMegFacebook: Stand With MegTwitter/X: @StandWithMeg

  1. 16h ago

    Untitled EpisodeIt's Not an App. It's Social Media. What's Actually in Your Parenting App's Terms. | Ep 12

    Is a court-ordered parenting app just an app? Shawn's argument: it is social media, with profiles, messaging, monitoring, and mandated costs, and once you call it what it is, the legal questions change completely. In Episode 4 of The Shawn Lee Report, criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walks through what is actually in the parenting app's terms of service, who profits from the professional contracts around these platforms, what the Meta lawsuits could mean as precedent, and why he reads mandated digital communication through the lens of "scheme or artifice to defraud." His framework, his analysis, taught at a kitchen-table level. In this episode: • The 'Scoundrel' experiment and the high cost of digital communication (0:00) • Scheme and artifice to defraud, and why parenting portals are social media (2:58) • Professional contracts, AI "high conflict" flags, and sponsorship conflicts (7:22) • The new generation of lawyers and the Meta precedent (12:41) • The 'Cash for Kids' analogy and auditing legal bills (19:45) • Debtors' prison, due process, and the right to trial (28:21) • Wire fraud memorandums and the rise of tele-justice (37:21) Episode 5 premieres LIVE on Facebook Sunday, August 16 at 4 PM CT, with a public Q&A with Meg and Shawn right after the episode inside the same broadcast. Stay up to date on every story and share the survey: https://standwithmeg.com I'm Meg, investigative journalist. Stay up to date at standwithmeg.com, and share the survey, it's blowing up. General legal education, not legal advice. No attorney-client relationship is created by this content. The fraud framework presented is Shawn Lee's legal analysis. Family experiences described are family-reported. Support the show Thank you for listening to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Join the movement at StandWithMeg.com . Follow us on all platforms @StandWithMeg for more truth, tools, and action.  If this episode spoke to you, share it — because together, we fight for justice.

    Untitled EpisodeIt's Not an App. It's Social Media. What's Actually in Your Parenting App's Terms. | Ep 12
  2. Aug 4

    Why Won't The Cops Do Anything? The Exact Words That Get A Detective Assigned. | Ep 11

    Families ask this more than any other question. I filed a report, so why won't the cops do anything? Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee answers it by laying out every player in American law enforcement, patrol officer, deputy, detective, SWAT, state police, FBI, task force, and walking a single report from the moment you dial to the desk where it usually stops. He gives the exact escalation he has personally used to get a detective assigned, why there's a shortage of detectives and a surplus of SWAT, and why complex fraud needs a task force rather than one overloaded investigator. Plus the 1922 court record and prison letters of Charles Ponzi, who ran a scheme that had no name until he was convicted, and the Kids for Cash case out of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. 0:00 Cold open. 1:19 Go get a new lawyer. 3:28 Charles Ponzi and the scheme with no name. 6:20 Child labor and why children are a target. 9:05 Why nobody is reporting family court fraud. 10:31 The cast of characters in law enforcement. 13:00 What the patrol officer actually does. 13:53 Getting a detective assigned. 15:39 Why everybody wants to be SWAT. 17:34 Why fraud takes a task force. 22:07 How to file a federal tip that gets read. 24:11 The FBI is hiring lawyers. 26:16 Kids for Cash. 30:49 InfraGard and critical infrastructure. 35:36 What's coming in Episode 4. Share your story on the survey at standwithmeg.com. Follow us on all platforms @StandWithMeg for more truth, tools, and action. If this episode spoke to you, share it, because together, we fight for justice. General legal education, not legal advice. No attorney-client relationship is created by this episode. Support the show Thank you for listening to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Join the movement at StandWithMeg.com . Follow us on all platforms @StandWithMeg for more truth, tools, and action.  If this episode spoke to you, share it — because together, we fight for justice.

    Why Won't The Cops Do Anything? The Exact Words That Get A Detective Assigned. | Ep 11
  3. Jul 23

    Why Shawn Calls Virtual Court a Fraud — Rule 8.2, the Cast of Characters, and the $50,000 Invoice

    Open courtrooms forced settlement and kept everyone honest in public view — Shawn's theory on what Zoom court took away. Plus the ethics rule that stops lawyers from naming names, the fictional cast led by Robert Baratheon that lets Shawn teach the patterns anyway, and auditing a guardian ad litem's bills for wire fraud clues. Education, not legal advice — and the characters are fiction. Meg hosts. Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee teaches his framework for organizing records and understanding possible fraud questions — his theory to evaluate, presented as general legal education, not legal advice. The cast of characters is fiction. 💬 Want to ask Shawn and Meg YOUR questions? Subscribers join the LIVE tapings on Sundays and ask directly — that's the subscriber difference. The episodes are free for everyone; the live room is yours. $5/month on Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok: https://my.standwithmeg.com/shawn-lee-report/subscribe.html ▶ Watch every episode free: https://my.standwithmeg.com/episodes I'm Meg — investigative journalist with The Stand With Meg show. Visit standwithmeg.com to stay up to date on every story we're breaking. And please — take and share the survey while you're there. It has gotten HUGE, and every voice we add makes the case stronger. General legal education — not legal advice. Support the show Thank you for listening to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Join the movement at StandWithMeg.com . Follow us on all platforms @StandWithMeg for more truth, tools, and action.  If this episode spoke to you, share it — because together, we fight for justice.

    Why Shawn Calls Virtual Court a Fraud — Rule 8.2, the Cast of Characters, and the $50,000 Invoice
  4. Jul 23

    How to Report Fraud — You're Going to the Wrong Court · A Criminal Attorney on Motions vs. Complaints

    Families pay for motions when what they may need is a law-enforcement complaint. Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walks through wire fraud, mail fraud, and honest services in plain English — where to send a complaint, what belongs in it, and the $8.75 billion math on the survey complaints. Shawn's framework, presented as education, not legal advice. Meg hosts. Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee teaches his framework for organizing records and understanding possible fraud questions — his theory to evaluate, presented as general legal education, not legal advice. The cast of characters is fiction. 💬 Want to ask Shawn and Meg YOUR questions? Subscribers join the LIVE tapings on Sundays and ask directly — that's the subscriber difference. The episodes are free for everyone; the live room is yours. $5/month on Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok: https://my.standwithmeg.com/shawn-lee-report/subscribe.html ▶ Watch every episode free: https://my.standwithmeg.com/episodes I'm Meg — investigative journalist with The Stand With Meg show. Visit standwithmeg.com to stay up to date on every story we're breaking. And please — take and share the survey while you're there. It has gotten HUGE, and every voice we add makes the case stronger. Support the show Thank you for listening to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Join the movement at StandWithMeg.com . Follow us on all platforms @StandWithMeg for more truth, tools, and action.  If this episode spoke to you, share it — because together, we fight for justice.

    How to Report Fraud — You're Going to the Wrong Court · A Criminal Attorney on Motions vs. Complaints
  5. Apr 6

    Family Court Isn’t Justice. It’s a Machine.

    You’d be safer walking through a dark alley at midnight than through the doors of an American family courtroom. Let that sink in. Description We’re told family court is where families go for protection. For fairness. For justice. But what if that isn’t true? In this episode, we break down the data behind more than 2,251 submissions from families across all 50 states, and the picture is devastating. This isn’t just about one bad judge. Or one bitter divorce. This is bigger than me. Bigger than one family. Bigger than one state. This is systemic. We expose how family court cases drag on for years. How endless motions, court-appointed professionals, Guardian ad Litems, evaluations, and legal games turn family court into a financial destruction machine. Families aren’t being helped. They’re being processed. Monetized. Broken down until they run out of money, run out of hope, and are forced to fight alone. And then it gets worse. We dig into the patterns survivors keep reporting: false accusations. Weaponized CPS calls. Ex parte orders. Perjury ignored. Protective parents silenced while abusers are rewarded. Read that again. No evidence. No accountability. No due process. And children are the ones paying the price. This episode also exposes the trauma being inflicted on kids when courts force contact with abusive parents in the name of “best interest.” Suicidal ideation. CPTSD. Dissociation. Lifelong scars. This isn’t reform around the edges. This is a full system failure hiding in plain sight. And no one is talking about it loudly enough. If you’ve ever felt like you were the only one, you’re not. If you’ve ever been told your case was “unique,” you need to hear this. Because the data says otherwise. Real stories. Real data. Real proof that what is happening in family court across this country is not isolated. It is happening everywhere. This episode is about exposing the truth, breaking the silence, and showing exactly why campaigns like Stand With Meg are pushing to unlock state reports and build a public record the courts can’t bury. They count on your silence. We are changing that. Visit StandWithMeg.com to learn more and submit your story. Subscribe to the show so you never miss an update. And stay in the know—join our email list at StandWithMeg.com. Courage to Stand. Power to Change. Support the show Thank you for listening to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Join the movement at StandWithMeg.com . Follow us on all platforms @StandWithMeg for more truth, tools, and action.  If this episode spoke to you, share it — because together, we fight for justice.

  6. Apr 3

    The Weaponization of American Courts: James O'Keefe Silenced | Stand With Meg

    Welcome to the Stand With Meg show! In this explosive episode, we uncover how Miami’s domestic violence court was just weaponized to silence investigative journalist James O'Keefe. After publishing the truth about Matthew Tyrmand, O'Keefe was hit with a restraining order by Judge Marie Elizabeth Mato, forced to surrender his firearms, and placed under an unconstitutional prior restraint order. We break down O'Keefe's emergency appeal citing Near v. Minnesota and how this blatant violation of First and Second Amendment rights exposes a deeply broken judicial system. But this isn't just about James O'Keefe—it's a nationwide epidemic. Whether it is family court and CPS removing children without due process, or probate and civil courts bleeding families dry, unchecked judges are operating behind closed doors with zero transparency, zero oversight, and zero accountability.  Have your rights been stripped away by a judge? Your data is our greatest weapon for change. Go to standwithmeg.com to fill out our survey about court corruption and help us expose the system. Support the show Thank you for listening to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Join the movement at StandWithMeg.com . Follow us on all platforms @StandWithMeg for more truth, tools, and action.  If this episode spoke to you, share it — because together, we fight for justice.

  7. Mar 26

    America's 50-State Nightmare: The Data Behind the Family Court Engine

    Welcome to another episode of the Stand With Meg podcast. In this episode, we are diving into our massive, newly updated 50-state data report. We have now collected testimonies and data from 1,979 families across all 50 states, and the findings expose a coordinated, nationwide crisis. Listen in as we break down the shocking national statistics of America's Family Courts and Child Protective Services (CPS) to reveal the true scope of the damage being done to parents and children. We discuss: The 50-State Scope: How 1,979 documented cases prove this is a systemic, multi-billion dollar industry, not just a series of isolated incidents.The Double Jeopardy: The terrifying reality for the 779 families forced to navigate the conflicting rules of both Family Court and CPS simultaneously.Financial Ruin: How the system bleeds parents dry with an average attorney fee of $61,308, forcing over 52% of parents to fight unrepresented (Pro Se) against an endless machine.Weaponized False Accusations: We expose how malicious reports and false accusations in Family Court and CPS are the primary engines of family separation.This isn't just data; these are stolen childhoods and fractured families. We also discuss how you can take action by downloading the specific data packet for your state to show local legislators exactly what is happening in their own backyards. Call to Action: Go to StandWithMeg.com to download your state's PDF data packet, featuring local statistics, top allegations, and judge patterns. If your state hasn't hit 30 submissions yet, add your family's story to help unlock it! Support the show Thank you for listening to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Join the movement at StandWithMeg.com . Follow us on all platforms @StandWithMeg for more truth, tools, and action.  If this episode spoke to you, share it — because together, we fight for justice.

  8. Mar 25

    How Melissa Buescher Proves Kansas Family Courts Are Broken

    Welcome to The Stand with Meg. In this powerful episode, we expose the shocking reality of the Kansas family court system through the harrowing custody battle between Petitioner Melissa S. Buescher and Respondent Michael B. Buescher. Melissa breaks down her compelling testimony before the Kansas Judiciary Committee on Child Support and Child Custody Oversight, detailing what she describes as a complete collapse of systemic oversight. We trace her case's troubling transfer from a Pottawatomie County IV-D child-support jurisdiction to a non-IV-D Trustees case in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, Third Judicial District. Listeners will hear exactly how Melissa proves these systemic failures, backed by evidence of unrecorded counsel-only phone conferences, missing court transcripts, and denied due process under the 14th Amendment. This deep-dive examines the documented roles of all the key actors involved in the litigation. We discuss the controversial ex parte filings and alleged ethical violations by opposing counsel Sarah Snyder, the bypassed authority of Court-Appointed Case Manager Julia Butler, the struggles with Petitioner's counsel Rebekah Phelps-Davis and Allison Hibler, and the refusal of the Guardian ad Litem to accept crucial evidence. From filing a Motion to Set Aside or Vacate under K.S.A. 60-260(b) to calling out "fraud upon the court," Melissa details her relentless fight for constitutional rights, immutable audit trails, and judicial accountability in Kansas. Support the show Thank you for listening to The Stand With Meg Show — Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Join the movement at StandWithMeg.com . Follow us on all platforms @StandWithMeg for more truth, tools, and action.  If this episode spoke to you, share it — because together, we fight for justice.

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🎙️ The Stand With Meg Show Defending Parents’ Rights. Protecting Children. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Hosted by Meg🎙️  Home of the FIRST EVER Family Rights survey. Evidence over silence.I'm Meg, investigative journalist and mom of five. I haven't seen or heard my kids' voices since January 29, 2024, and I learned this system the hard way, pro se. My story isn't unique, and that's the problem.I built Stand With Meg alone, a public record of 5,000+ family-reported submissions from all 50 states, DC, and 18 countries, documenting $950M+ in reported losses. Each episode exposes the patterns families report, elevates protective parents, mothers and fathers, and demands accountability.🎙 Includes The Shawn Lee Report: general legal education with criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee, not legal advice. Episodes premiere live with public Q&As.📢 Follow the Money: with Chandini Kumar Portteus, I'm calling for a federal audit of how Title IV-D money moves through family court. Call for a freeze and audit in your state: my.StandwithMeg.com/take-action📍 Start at StandwithMeg.com, and share the FIRST EVER Family Rights survey while you're there. Every voice makes the case stronger.📲 Follow on social media:Instagram: @StandWithMegTikTok: @StandWithMegYouTube: @StandWithMegFacebook: Stand With MegX: @StandWithMeg 📲 Follow on social media: Instagram: @StandWithMegTikTok: @StandWithMegYouTube: @StandWithMegFacebook: Stand With MegTwitter/X: @StandWithMeg