Hero of the Year 2025: Susan Luschas
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“Susan Luschas plays to win.”
~ Catherine Austin Fitts
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A New Media ally recently paid members of the Solari team a kind compliment, characterizing the team as people who “walk their talk.” In the wider Solari network, the person who exemplifies that principle more than almost anyone we know is Solari subscriber and Solari Hero of the Year, Susan Luschas.
Susan’s name is undoubtedly familiar to anyone who has been following Solari’s steady promotion of cash as a singularly effective form of pushback against the control grid. As the ringleader for what she has modestly nicknamed “Team Cash” in her adopted state of South Dakota, Susan’s practical, roll-up-her-sleeves efforts on behalf of cash—including helping get legislation passed that requires South Dakota’s schools to accept cash at school events—have not only borne fruit at the local and state levels but have served as a profound source of inspiration for cash warriors everywhere.
An MIT-educated PhD electrical engineer who once loved nothing better than to immerse herself in work at her lab, Susan might at first glance seem like an unlikely recruit to the cash cause. However, Susan credits her professional and scientific background with building and reinforcing what she considers her greatest strength: the ability to apply critical thinking and systematically “figure things out.”
Over 15 years ago, Susan began by “figuring out” the limitations of allopathic medicine. When her oldest daughter (and later, the entire family) developed serious health problems, Susan’s resolute commitment to identifying and resolving the root causes of their illness gradually steered the family back to robust health. On the educational front, Susan “figured out” that public school would only ever be part of her children’s educational equation, which also includes rigorous homeschooling and family dinner-table discussions designed to foster critical thinking skills in the next generation.
Susan’s willingness to swim against the tide and “figure things out” came into major play once again when the events of 2020 rolled around. At the time, Susan, her husband Manuel (also a PhD electrical engineer), and their two daughters were ensconced in Silicon Valley; as she now freely admits, “We saw the digital control grid coming because we built it.” Susan’s instant reaction—not just to masking, lockdowns, and testing but also to the unconvincing official narrative and related fearmongering—was, therefore, an emphatic “NO.” Unwilling to accept such restrictions, Susan conducted a nationwide search for a school district where the girls could attend school unmasked and in person, and came up with a single option: Brandon, South Dakota. Mother and daughters immediately hopped on a plane, rented an unkempt and unfurnished townhouse, and, with Manuel later joining them, launched their new from-Prius-to-farm-truck life in the American heartland.
Susan deeply understands the power of “coming clean” and intuits what can happen when each of us takes responsibility and shifts our money, time, and attention toward high-integrity, decentralized solutions. Her pragmatic and reality-focused bent also makes her an ideal ambassador for cash, and her unabashed goal is “to get everyone paying with cash all the time.” When Solari began committing in a major way to the cause of financial transaction freedom, and, in particular, doubled down on working with legislators and other state leaders, Susan inspired me to make the “asks” simple and understandable by going “all in for cash.”
The legislative victory in South Dakota was significant, but as Susan commented in one of Solari’s legislative briefings:
“For me, cash legislation is an excuse to bring awareness to cash…. I thought it was a real win last session when one of our representatives said, ‘It seems like all we do is talk about cash.’ I said, ‘Yes, that’s exactly what I want the legislature talking about is cash.’”
When it comes to promoting cash at the grassroots level, Susan observes that cash has a “low barrier to entry”: “If everyone just paid for gas and groceries with cash, we would win.” Her creative strategies to spread the cash message in her community include:
- Handing out dollar bills and cash stickers instead of candy on Halloween (making her house one of the neighborhood’s most popular destinations)
- Giving cash for Christmas and putting cash and cash messages inside Easter eggs
- Repeatedly getting the word “cash” into local news headlines—even when an article represents an opposing viewpoint, Susan deems this a win because it keeps conversations about cash alive
- Going on a “speaking tour” for cash (in 2026, she plans to bring home the reality of the digital control grid by beginning her talks with a screening of the 15-minute “horror movie” UTOPIA)
Forthcoming with her time and input, and without even a hint of hubris, Susan is someone who saw a need and humbly decided to rise to the occasion. The word “failure” is not in her vocabulary. We, on the other hand, have no trouble finding vocabulary words to describe Susan—and “brilliant,” “tenacious,” “optimistic,” “generous,” and “action-oriented” are but a few.
In my view, the word that best describes Susan is integrity. As soon as 5% to 10% of people in the Western world adopt Susan’s level of personal responsibility to stop the digital control grid and make sure our children have what they need to be healthy and free, human liberty will triumph.
As we enter 2026, we hope you are as inspired by Susan’s leadership as we are at Solari—it’s the power of one—and that is the power that makes the difference.
Note: For those interested in meeting Susan Luschas in person, consider attending the next Rogue Food Conference, February 5-7, 2026, in Rapid City, South Dakota, where Susan will be representing Solari.
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Turtling for Cash with Susan Luschas
Action of the Week: October 5, 2025: Get Ready to Promote Cash on Halloween
Financial Transaction Freedom: Team Cash
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Keeping Cash in Circulation – A Key Tool against the Digital Control Grid
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Congratulations Susan! Thank you for all you do!
-Jennifer
Jennifer- I also very much appreciate and thank you! You have brought so much light to the Solarians in your health advocacy for your family and in the health series you have hosted!
❤️
Susan- I hope you are able to read this comment. THANK YOU
Yes, I am loudly expressing my thanks to you for all the fronts you have covered- family true health advocate and of course cash is king!
Your website about healing is helping me today as I am trying to find answers for personal health challenges. Wishing you “joy for the journey”.
Spectacular work Susan! Thank you for your dedication to the effort!
Many thanks to Solari and all the amazing Subscribers out there who are paying with cash everyday! It takes a village and I’m blessed to have found one!!!
Congrats Susan.
And also, thank you for hosting the meet and greet with Catherine.
It was a pleasure to meet you and Manuel.
I sent that picture with
with me holding your turkey to my brother. And right away he got back to me and said
that it was tame. We both hunt wild turkeys. So tame did not count. He has always been a better hunter than I. So even still, I think he was a little shaken.
Also, I have a cousin, Mark, who lives in
South Dakota. I mentioned your name to him at
my brother Larry’s 50th wedding aniversary
this last summer. And right away, he perked up and said I know her!
His wife Chandra knows you too.
Small world.
Mark and I had a mutual friend to talk about.
Congrats on Hero of the Year!
Keep your feet moving.
Best wishes,
Steven and Beverly Antonich
New Hope, Minnesota
Congratulations Susan–you are an inspiration and role model–we all can do it!
Thank you Sandy Boyce and Susan Luschas and Solari for the inspiration. To share the inspiration more widely I’ve mentioned it in a forthcoming book. I included the excerpt here, and apologize that the formatting doesn’t transfer – hopefully it is still readable:
Chapter 15. Treatment: The Great Resist
February 2026 begins the lunar year of the fire horse. The fire horse is foreseen in Revelation 6:3-4 and its rider’s mission is described as the Great ReSet. It comes with a warning. Don’t fight fire with fire. That will only result in a melee of brothers. Instead fight fire with a firewall of intention. When people join together, their collective intentions form the Great Resist.
My treatment plan is three intentions towards forming the Great Resist. 1. Make the ox the mascot. 2. Follow David’s lead. 3.Look up as Pax Aquarius dawns.
The unbudging ox as a mascot
India is the country with the most people. Wyoming is the least populous of the United States. After traveling to India I took a job in Wyoming, where I was surprised to discover what these vastly different places had in common – cows in the road. In India the cows are protected by religious traditions. Wyoming is a fence out state, with open range laws that give cattle the right of way. When a cow plants itself in the road you don’t have much recourse. Basically, you are in a traffic jam even if yours is the only car on the road.
Jesus compared Himself to a lowly, well-tempered ox (Matthew 11:30), and said He’d teach us, in how to resist the devil (James 4:7). Drawing from my travel experience, I pictured Jesus and me as roadway resisters. My pictures were not of picket signed demonstrations, but as follows:
Cash cows: Money is like traffic. It’s being rerouted from dollars to digital. On Solari.com I learned about Susan Luschas’ efforts to pay in cash. So I joined the resistance.
Data cows: Sandy Boyce took on the Flock Safety roadside surveillance cameras. What if states with open range laws stationed cows like sentinels in front of every Flock camera? AI would get ample data of big brown eyes calling, “Mooooove.” That image can inspire us to take more feasible actions, such as writing to our legistlators and exposing why Flock cameras are called “safety” cameras – keeping the elites safe when the masses rise up.
Bullocks of our lips (Hosea 14:2): Words flow and shift over time, the way traffic does. When my children were picking up expressions that seemed to be right out of the Great ReSet handbook, I prayed for wisdom about how to protect them from the propaganda. I took the unbudging ox approach and set two roadblocks.
First, technology is not human. My words will not imply otherwise. All technology goes by “it.” Alexa, Buddy, Scout and Sophia are all “its.” Conversely, people are not technology. The only time a person is “it” is when playing tag. My brain does not shut down and I do not unplug. My name is Ingrid, not “in grid.”
Secondly, just because something is a common expression, doesn’t mean it is okay to use. Expressions that speak curses are popping up like mushrooms these days: “That’s crazy,” “Unbelievable,” “dying for a piece of cake,” “feet are killing me,” “d*^% __,” etc. I try to block these expressions from my lips and counter the words by quietly speaking the opposite: “I have the mind of Christ.” “All things are possible with God.” “I’m alive for cake, especially berry pie a la mode.” “That person’s feet are wearing gospel shoes of peace.” “my house, my car, my __ are blessed by the Almighty.”
Reflecting on my four-year thought experiment, I realized it brings light and change. Light is how Jesus described His ox-burden (Matthew 11:30). When I choose my words unbudgingly, the atmosphere around me feels less heavy, my senses feel more fresh, and my mind is more bright as though morning light were streaming through its curtains. By choosing to act fencelessly, I am not defenseless. I am pushing back, resisting, and holding the line. As I join communities of unbudging oxen, we can see the change manifest as we form the Great Resist…..