Timothy Blackwood just uncovered a massive human trafficking operation that no one is talking about. Now, he’s sounding the alarm about “scamming centers.” This is a “huge operation” that enslaves people and forces them to scam Americans and steal their money. “What my film does, ‘Scam Slave: From Hell to Home,’ is it follows the journey of a young Ugandan man named Gideon.” “He’s from a small village outside of Kamp…

Channel
American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times
@AmThoughtLeader
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
1,254subscribers
-9 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001261662782 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @AmThoughtLeader |
| Created | 29 January 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 5 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 11 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 5 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/AmThoughtLeader |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Sept 2026, 19:19 | 1,254 | -1 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 22:18 | 1,255 | -3 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 08:05 | 1,258 | -1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 07:35 | 1,259 | +1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 13:54 | 1,258 | +1 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 13:02 | 1,257 | -2 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 00:25 | 1,259 | -2 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 08:15 | 1,261 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 02:23 | 1,262 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 11:51 | 1,263 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:51 | 1,263 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 28 October 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 5 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
Almost every American has received a scam call. What most people don’t realize is that the person on the other end may be a trafficking victim being forced to try to scam them. Timothy Blackwood breaks down the horrifying reality behind these operations. “Many Americans have either had a family member or a friend scammed in some type of online scam operation.” “They don’t know what is behind these scams.” “The p…
Have you received random texts from strangers who seemed a little too friendly? You may have encountered a pig-butchering scam. Step 1: They befriend you — romantic messages, photos, maybe even deepfake videos, until you trust them. Step 2: They "fatten" you up. They start bragging about their crypto gains, then offer to help you invest too. You put in a little, and — surprise — you actually make money. So you put…
“Studies of children created through donor sperm… over 80% of them want to meet or know the person that gave them life.” Katy Faust argues that Big Fertility and IVF are disrupting something deeply rooted in human nature. The connection between a child and their biological mother and father. “The sperm is not a person.” “The person that results from that sperm has rights.” “There’s something that the two people …
Katy Faust believes the legalization of same-sex marriage and the rise of same-sex parenting has had detrimental consequences for children. She explains why she views the issue not through hate, but as a conflict between adult desires and children’s natural rights. “You don’t have a right to marry somebody else if it means that a child loses their fundamental, natural, God-given, self-evident right to be known and …
Since the sexual revolution and the introduction of no-fault divorce in 1969, the institution of marriage in America has undergone a profound transformation. Katy Faust, founder of children’s rights organization Them Before Us and co-author of a book by the same name, argues that marriage has changed from a permanent, child-centered union, to a vehicle for adult fulfillment. And now new reproductive technologies—fr…
The CCP understands that some American elections can be decided by just a few thousand votes. Tianliang Zhang says it is exploiting that reality to install candidates it can control. “They are using your rules to take advantage of you.” “There was a very famous Chinese scholar… he openly said, ‘There are 435 congressional districts, and if we can have our manufacturers and enterprises in every district, and if we …
The U.S. allowed the exact nightmare officials claimed they were trying to prevent. China reportedly gained access to the personal data of 220 million American voters. Tianliang Zhang says this is part of a decades-long effort by China to manipulate American elections. “I think it’s not surprising at all.” “Back to 1998, we already knew that the Chinese military was spending money to influence or support specific…
There’s a little known CCP strategy designed to subvert America from within. Many know the term “unrestricted warfare,” but it's based on a concept developed in the late 1980s by a high-ranking CCP official Wang Huning. It's called “American against America”—here’s how it works. The CCP systematically exploits American institutions—its markets, its courts, and its values—against America. “This pattern is repeated…
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"If you came from Mars & you looked at Ukraine and Israel… We tell the Israelis you can't have any collateral damage. You can't do this. And I could go on and on and on, but it's schizophrenic. …It's antisemitic that a lot of people apply rules to the Jewish state, they would never apply to any other ally.” Deep dive tonight with classicist and military historian @VDHanson 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ep…
"We had a situation in a time of peace where a thousand people were mutilated and butchered before the IDF responded. And yet that ignited these people on the campus to root for the people who were murdering & beheading…Their instinct and their training and their ideology was so perverted and out of mind that that was their natural Pavlovian response.” To make sense of the realities of the #IsraelHamasWar, we sit do…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @AmThoughtLeader. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
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Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
- Dead references
- 1
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 0
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 1
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@AmThoughtLeader named 1 handle that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
named in 1 post, 8 August 2026 – 8 August 2026
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 5 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times” (@AmThoughtLeader), 1,254 subscribers as measured 5 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/AmThoughtLeader.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.