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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: February 11, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | February 11, 2025
- Well good evening, i'm alan jackson,
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- And welcome to nashville.
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- It wasn't long ago
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- That from east to west, many were worried
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- You wouldn't know who won on election night.
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- But we did.
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- The interference in our elections
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- Has been building for years, and it's not over.
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- In some states, non-u.s.
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- Citizens have been allowed to register to vote,
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- And they've been doing so.
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- Foreign money has been used to push state ballot issues.
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- Voting stations have been set up by outside funding groups
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- To drive turnout in specific party zones.
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- But plans for any sort of national voter
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- Id have been stymied every time they've been pushed forward.
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- Well, weeks
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- After most elections, we still see
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- The stories about people who've died
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- And who supposedly got to the voting booth anyway.
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- Obviously, somebody stole their name and used it to vote.
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- With all the problems and few resolutions in sight.
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- The former attorney general of virginia, ken cuccinelli,
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- Launched election transparency, dawg.
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- And he's here with us tonight.
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- Thank you for sharing this time with us, sir.
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- Glad to be with you.
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- For the first time in a long time,
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- There were no big headlines
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- About election interference last november,
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- But i'm guessing that there were issues that came up.
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- Tell us how you think it went.
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- Yeah, there were issues that came up.
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- And, you know, people started paying attention to this in 2020
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- Because it was so colossally, badly run.
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- And, i would give america a d grade for our 2020 election.
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- And i think through the work
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- Of a lot of us at the election transparency initiative
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- As well as other organizations who are on the right,
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- Where we've never focused on elections before,
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- While the left has for 20 years,
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- We helped improved elections in those four years.
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- I'd give us a b-minus for how the election ran in 2024.
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- A lot of the reason, pastor, you didn't
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- Hear much about problems in 2024
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- Is because donald trump had such a sufficient margin to win,
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- That it wasn't close enough anywhere for those differences
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- To matter.
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- Unlike in 2020, where you had several states
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- In the 10 to 20,000 vote range with allegations,
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- Very credible allegations
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- That more than that number of people voted
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- Who were not appropriately registered.
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- Well, i'm curious if you gave us a b-minus grade.
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- What would we need to do to get an a-plus?
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- Well, we'd need to have voter id everywhere.
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- We'd have to have enforceable basis
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- For cleaning non-citizens off the voter rolls.
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- Congress is working on that with the save act.
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- I expect that that will be voted on in the house
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- In the next month or two.
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- And then we'll see what happens in the senate.
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- The save act passed the house previously,
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- But chuck schumer running
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- The senate never brought it up for a vote.
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- Presumably john thune would do that.
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- But that's a presumption on my part.
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- I don't just assume
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- Because a republican is leading the senate,
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- That they're going to do everything.
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- The way i would like to see it.
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- So we're still going to need to keep pushing
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- On that front, and we're going to need bipartisan support.
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- The same at ted, bipartisan support last time.
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- I think
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- We'll have a lot more this time after the 2024 election.
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- I think a lot of democrats sort of got the memo on
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- Not having citizens vote and on protecting our border
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- And so forth, and this is part of that whole effort.
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- With the enormous number of people here illegally.
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- I would have thought
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- That some voter id laws would have been approved by now.
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- The president certainly has a very clear idea
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- Of how bad the problem is.
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- Listen to his comments
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- About how with no law, the citizen voters suffer.
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- Well, in california i have a condition in
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- California.
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- We want them to have voter id
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- So the people have a voice because right now
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- The people don't have a voice
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- Because you don't know who is voting.
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- And it's very corrupt.
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- Ken, in addition to california, has anything changed in
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- Any state yet?
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- Well, yes.
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- In fact,
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- I mean, the reason we've gone from a d to a b
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- Minus is we've gotten voter id in a number of states,
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- Including swing states that tend to at least
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- At the current moment, tend
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- To determine the outcome of presidential races.
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- Some of those have been obtained by referendum.
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- Nevada, while having a very close presidential
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- And senate race in 2024, had a blowout of a referendum.
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- Over 70% of voters in nevada supported voter id
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- In a referendum.
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- So, this is, broadly popular.
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- This is not just a republican effort.
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- Republicans, independents,
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- Democrats, libertarians, vegetarians.
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- Everybody supports voter id, except a very narrow,
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- Loud, left wing political elite.
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- And those are the people who run for office
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- In our state legislatures.
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- So they don't really reflect the will of the people
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- In this respect, which is why when you get it on the ballot,
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- You have such a blowout election,
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- Because when everybody can express themselves on it.
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- Over 70% in this case of nevadans.
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- But that's consistent with the number all over the country.
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- Support voter id and why not?
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- I mean, we're one of the only countries in the first world
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- That doesn't require voter id for everyone to vote.
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- But i'd like to get your opinion on how the president is doing
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- With his full scale effort to find
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- And evict people who are here illegally.
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- Kristi noem, thom home, and pete headset, they're all involved.
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- From what i've seen, it's a strong start.
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- Do you agree?
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- It's a very strong start.
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- And let's just zero in on pete hegseth as an example.
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- If you you don't even have to just compare this
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- To joe biden's term, for which this is night and day,
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- Even the first trump term,
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- No defense secretary ever visited the border
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- And no defense secretary said what pete hegseth said that
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- Anything this president wants to defend
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- This border, the department of defense is going to snap to.
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- That is not what happened
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- In even the trump department of defense in his first term.
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- They resisted, resisted, resisted.
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- And of course, they did nothing to stop the flow
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- Of illegals into our country in the first entire trump term.
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- And president
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- Trump promised that that would change in his second term.
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- And it has it. it already has.
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- Now i'm waiting to see what are these members?
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- What are these marines?
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- What are these soldiers doing at the border?
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- Are they actually turning people away?
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- That that would be useful.
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- It doesn't do any good for them to back up border patrol.
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- We've heard that before from joe biden
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- From the first term of donald trump.
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- But so far, that's outstanding.
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- And, you know, marco rubio, secretary of state, i'm
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- Not sure any secretary of state in trump's first term even
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- Went to a country
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- South of the united states in the western hemisphere.
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- And if they did,
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- They sure as heck didn't mentioned immigration issues.
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- And marco rubio right off the bat has started doing that.
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- He's been aggressive about it.
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- That is that is, represents a whole new world for america
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- Positioning this as a high priority foreign policy issue.
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- Can you help us understand how foreign money
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- Is used to tilt our elections?
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- Sure.
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- So most states don't have a
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- They have a ban on foreign funding of candidates.
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- But what ends up happening and this focus is on
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- A particular swiss billionaire who's a radical left winger
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- In the soros and world economic forum sort of genre.
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- He's been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars
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- Into a very, polarized referendum like abortion
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- Referenda that are on state ballots, for example.
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- Well, if you're turning out extreme pro abortionists
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- In ohio, you're turning out democrats.
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- And so it's used for and funding
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- Is used supposedly in the referendum.
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- And, and i don't allege that it isn't used in the referendum,
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- But it has the result of the fact
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- All the other elections on the ballot, and it's being used
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- Strategically by left wingers from around the world to fund
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- And to, skew the outcomes of american elections.
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- Well, in a moment we'll discuss how you've managed
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- To get national partners in this mission.
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- In the meantime, please jump in with your thoughts
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- By writing me an email
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- And sending it to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We're back now with the head of election
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- Transparency.org, ken cuccinelli.
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- A group by the name of american principles project has joined
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- Your efforts.
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- They focus on family issues, religious liberty
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- And now election laws as well.
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- What specifics are they looking for?
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- Yeah, we partner with ap as we refer to it,
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- American principles project and its leader, terry schilling.
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- They have been
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- The leading organization
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- In fighting successfully the transgender agenda.
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- And, and they know their members and, their supporters
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- Want to know that their efforts in that space
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- Are going to count.
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- And to do that, they know they need fair elections.
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- So ap doesn't ignore the election issue.
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- They partner with us at the grassroots level.
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- We talked to their members all the time and roust them out
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- On election issues in their home states.
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- So that that's how we partner with them.
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- We do the same with other groups like susan b anthony, pro-life
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- And, and, we work with election integrity groups
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- Across the right side of the spectrum.
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- And i have to tell you, as someone who's worked
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- At the national level for, you know, a decade and a half,
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- I have never seen so much cooperation
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- For such a long time among all the groups.
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- Right of center,
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- I've never seen it on any other issue other than what
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- I've seen in the last four years on openness,
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- And it's important for people watching you and eye to realize
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- That just because donald trump won in 2024
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- Doesn't mean we now have fixed our elections.
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- We have a lot more work to do.
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- We have voter id to get all over the country.
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- We have 22 more states to get rid of.
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- Zucker box in.
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- We have an awful lot of transparency we need to achieve.
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- So every one of you can see what happens in your elections,
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- And you can decide for yourself whether you think it ran well,
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- I think that's what it's
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- Why we're named election transparency initiative,
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- Because we believe transparency provides confidence
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- In the outcome of the election, no matter who wins.
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- Do you have an explanation why there was this heightened sense
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- Of cooperation this time?
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- Well, i think a lot of other,
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- You know, we just talked about american principles project.
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- I mentioned susan b anthony as well.
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- The members of all of these groups
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- Are saying, look, i care about fill in the blank issue.
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- If you belong to the nra, you want to protect gun rights.
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- You know, and so on.
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- If you belong to sba, you want to protect life,
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- And so forth.
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- But they all know that that battle
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- Takes place in the election arena.
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- The election marketplace.
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- And if that arena is rigged against us,
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- Then there's no point to them putting their time and money
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- Into supporting these efforts.
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- So it goes along with, we can call it a prerequisite
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- To dealing with any other issue
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- Is we have to know that we have sufficient
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- Lee clean elections, that we can win on our issues,
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- That the marketplace of ideas that we call the political arena
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- Is sufficiently fair that we can win
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- When we put up good candidates, run good campaigns,
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- And sell our ideas convincingly, sincerely,
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- Incredibly to the american people.
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- There's been a big push for
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- Early voting and even expanded mail in and absentee voting.
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- Another one of the president's appointments made clear
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- That she's going to take this on.
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- Listen to the new attorney general, pam bondi.
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- No one from either side of the aisle
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- Should want there to be any issues with election
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- Integrity in our country.
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- We should all want our elections to be free and fair,
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- And the rules and the laws to be followed.
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- Do the officials from both sides
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- Of the aisle agree with her?
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- They wouldn't admit that.
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- They don't.
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- But it's hard to explain.
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- Opposing something like voter id
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- Any other way, other than that you're willing to accept
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- A much higher chance of fraud.
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- And you know, the jimmy carter,
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- You know, just passed away, god rest his soul, the jimmy carter
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- Jim baker commission back in 2005, bipartisan.
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- A lot of luminaries.
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- They found that mail-in
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- Voting was far and away the most vulnerable to fraud.
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- That has not changed.
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- In fact, it's probably gotten worse
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- Because our post office is now performing worse and worse.
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- And the more people rely on mail for voting,
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- The more likely their vote
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- Is never going to arrive and never be counted.
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- And, there are eight states
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- Right now that do only mail in voting.
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- They're all in the west.
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- And that is a terrible, terrible idea.
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- A thousand utah
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- Votes weren't weren't counted because they weren't
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- Dated by the particular post office in question.
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- They went
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- Out of the state to las vegas and then came back to utah.
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- And that's the post office's business.
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- That's just how they handle mail in that part of the of utah.
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- But those people, because they didn't have the
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- The postmark date and their ballots didn't arrive in time.
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- Their votes are gone.
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- That's a thousand votes gone.
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- Well, utah is proposing legislation
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- To stop that by mailing out ballots, but requiring people
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- To bring them in in person and show a voter id,
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- So they're looking to solve two problems at once.
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- They're the voter identification problem.
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- And to solve the security insecurity, really,
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- Of mail in ballots.
- 00:14:54.616 --> 00:14:56.051
- Well, just one more quick question on security issues.
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- The police always say if you see something, say something.
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- Should that practice also be used for voter integrity?
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- It absolutely should.
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- And different states, frankly, have a different level
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- Of aggressiveness about dealing with election issues.
- 00:15:10.833 --> 00:15:14.737
- You know, harmeet dhillon is going to be
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- Donald trump's voting rights section chief.
- 00:15:18.040 --> 00:15:20.809
- She is an extremely experienced and aggressive
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- And intelligent lady.
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- She knows this space like the back of her hand.
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- And so even at the federal level,
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- You're going to get intelligent, meaningful enforcement
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- That's consistent with what you heard pam bondi
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- Testified to right there.
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- It isn't to tilt the the playing field.
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- It's to clean the playing field.
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- And i look forward to hermy dhillon getting there.
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- And as more and more states, frankly, get more aggressive
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- In enforcing their own election laws, we get better outcomes.
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- And i can tell you, as a former attorney general,
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- More people are deterred
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- From doing wrong when they know they may be caught.
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- It's the likelihood
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- Of being caught that really changes behavior.
- 00:16:06.655 --> 00:16:10.592
- And with transparency, that likelihood
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- Is going up and up and up.
- 00:16:13.328 --> 00:16:14.930
- And now we need just more transparency and more states.
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- And that's what we're going
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- To keep working on at election transparency.org.
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- And people are welcome to join us
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- And follow what we're doing and participate in it.
- 00:16:24.073 --> 00:16:27.309
- Well, ken cuccinelli, thank you for your hard work
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- On this important issue and for joining us
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- To help us understand.
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- My pleasure.
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- Always a pleasure to be with you.
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- God bless.
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- You know, without elections,
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- We can trust our democracy will ultimately fail.
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- I hope you stay in touch.
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- Absolutely happy to do it.
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- In a moment, i'll have some thoughts
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- Of my own on how we can help.
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- Of my own on how we can help.
- 00:16:53.005 --> 00:16:53.712
- You know, i think back to the election in november.
- 00:16:54.713 --> 00:16:57.116
- I can't help but think that the result
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- Was an expression of god's grace and mercy towards all of us.
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- God heard the prayers of his people
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- Through the heartland of our nation,
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- From one coast to the other.
- 00:17:07.259 --> 00:17:09.428
- People who still subscribe to a biblical worldview
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- Prayed and voted accordingly.
- 00:17:12.264 --> 00:17:14.666
- We haven't seen that in a long time.
- 00:17:14.666 --> 00:17:16.902
- In many ways, we're living in the fruit of that.
- 00:17:16.902 --> 00:17:19.538
- We're in a season of rapid change with policies
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- That seem to better reflect a biblical worldview
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- On key issues shaping our culture.
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- That's why we have to continue efforts
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- To ensure voter and election integrity.
- 00:17:30.215 --> 00:17:32.818
- One fraudulent vote one stolen vote can nullify one
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- Legitimate vote of a praying christian
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- Who might vote according to a biblical worldview.
- 00:17:38.824 --> 00:17:41.527
- What about our own lives?
- 00:17:42.094 --> 00:17:43.929
- You know, we have an assignment to stand for the truth.
- 00:17:43.929 --> 00:17:46.598
- It's not just the politicians
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- That need to stand for the right thing.
- 00:17:48.300 --> 00:17:50.068
- God's people need to do that to search for the truth,
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- Because the solution to society's ills
- 00:17:53.639 --> 00:17:56.108
- Ultimately are not political.
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- They're spiritual.
- 00:17:57.743 --> 00:17:59.511
- You see, god's truth carries a weight
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- That can overcome the opinion of god's adversaries.
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- It doesn't even require a majority.
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- There is an authority in the truth of god.
- 00:18:06.652 --> 00:18:09.755
- So we have to be determined to be champions of the truth.
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- To not be deceitful or deceptive.
- 00:18:12.925 --> 00:18:15.194
- We have to practice the truth.
- 00:18:15.194 --> 00:18:16.562
- Put it on, wear it, live with it,
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- Even when it's awkward and uncomfortable.
- 00:18:18.697 --> 00:18:21.433
- If we're determined to tell the truth
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- About what we believe, that we believe in jesus,
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- That we believe that there's an authority in his word,
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- That we want to serve him with our lives,
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- That our hope is in him.
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- Then we have far more reasons for hope than despair.
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- A promise when we return.
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- I'm going to read some of your emails.
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- I'm going to read some of your emails.
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- Thank you for sharing your emails with us.
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- We always look forward to reading your opinions.
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- Sherry from maine wrote thank you for your show.
- 00:18:52.729 --> 00:18:54.898
- There's a new sense of hope across our nation
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- And it's encouraging.
- 00:18:57.634 --> 00:18:59.536
- I agree sherry, it feels like we've been given
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- A breath of fresh air and perhaps a new future.
- 00:19:01.705 --> 00:19:05.141
- Just a reminder,
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- We can't leave all the change to the politicians.
- 00:19:06.243 --> 00:19:08.578
- We've got to be change agents in our homes, around our kitchen
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- Tables, around our holiday tables, in our congregations.
- 00:19:11.381 --> 00:19:14.951
- We're going to have to have the courage
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- To stand up for the truth.
- 00:19:15.885 --> 00:19:17.320
- Washington can't fix this mess.
- 00:19:17.320 --> 00:19:19.122
- They didn't create it all.
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