The Subpoena Woodchipper

On March 11, 2026, ZeroDarkTony revived a familiar threat: subpoenas to unmask anonymous critics. He framed it as his “Sixth Amendment right” and claimed only guilty people would fear it. But the courts already tested that theory. In this episode of Hero Not Zero, Zoey and Cody rewind to the 2025 subpoena battle in Willens v. D’Amato, where sweeping information demands targeted non-party commentators and ZDT critics including Dodge Landesman, True Crime with Nora, Scientology Audit and HeroLightCody. With Mindy Willens and attorney Merritt McKeon pushing back, a motion to quash turned into a legal woodchipper—chewing up the subpoenas, exposing Tony’s own livestream threats, and ending in sanctions for ZDT's attorney Steven Tamer.