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AFP - Fight Socialism 10/7/2026 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I am good to be with you. So we're fighting socialism.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I.
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  Speaker 1: I look at what's going on in Europe. You have
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  Speaker 1: open borders and the reality of the changing culture there.
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  Speaker 1: You have their wedded to green policies, which has resulted
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  Speaker 1: in massive increases in the cost of energy and, of course, brownouts, blackouts.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how long is the list? France facing financial difficulties.
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  Speaker 1: They're in a state of financial collapse, kind of reminiscent
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  Speaker 1: of what the United States or suggestive of where the
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  Speaker 1: United States is going, given our $ 40 trillion debt. The
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  Speaker 1: Democrat Socialist America policies want to move us more in
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  Speaker 1: line with what they embrace in Europe. And then we
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  Speaker 1: look to our southern friends down in South America where
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  Speaker 1: almost every single opportunity that citizens have to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of socialism, they've done it. You've got Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile.
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  Speaker 1: One after another, they've experimented with socialism. It sucks. The
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  Speaker 1: economies are bad, so people reject it. How come we
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  Speaker 1: haven't learned lessons yet? How come it is that we
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  Speaker 1: are worried that the socialists are taking over, that they
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  Speaker 1: have invaded the Democrat Party so much so that any
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  Speaker 1: Democrat like Sherrod Brown we know will vote with any
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  Speaker 1: weird leftist policy the Democrats come up with. We can't
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  Speaker 1: afford it. We know what the cost is going to
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  Speaker 1: be if we end up trying to implement the policies
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  Speaker 1: that they're arguing for. How is it, Donovan or Neil,
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  Speaker 1: that they have any traction in the United States of America?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's for the same reasons that it
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  Speaker 3: has traction in all those places you just listed, Brian, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because when people are hurting, and quite frankly, right, fuel prices,
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  Speaker 3: pasta living, some of the challenges we've been facing as
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  Speaker 3: a nation over the last several years, right? This is
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  Speaker 3: where those ideas of socialism flourish, right? Because you have
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  Speaker 3: these angels from on high, right? These politicians, these experts
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  Speaker 3: who come in and say, hey, if you just give
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  Speaker 3: me more control, if you just, we centralize this power,
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  Speaker 3: if we put government in control of your lives, we
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  Speaker 3: go take this money from these people over here who
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  Speaker 3: are obviously doing better than you, and we just, we
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  Speaker 3: socialize uh, our, our, our welfare and our, our nation, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it'll get better for you, but you're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to yield a couple of things, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yield a little freedom, yield a little Liberty, yield a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of your wealth, even right.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna take it from that guy too, but we're
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  Speaker 3: going to, that's where these ideas percolate. And it, we,
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  Speaker 3: but we see what the end game is, right? From
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  Speaker 3: all those examples you gave Brian, right? We see how
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  Speaker 3: that end game, uh, plays out. And the challenge we
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  Speaker 3: have and what we're out there doing and fighting every
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  Speaker 3: day through our Fight Socialism campaign is pointing out that
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  Speaker 3: the reason we're in the problem we're in today, from
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  Speaker 3: inflation to energy to healthcare costs, are because we've played with.
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  Speaker 2: These ideas of socialism. We've done socialism light.
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  Speaker 3: And, uh, you know, if we go socialism hard, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's just going to get worse. We actually need to
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  Speaker 3: go back to the freedom, liberty principles that resulted in
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  Speaker 3: the most prosperous nation and known to mankind over the
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  Speaker 3: last 250 years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I, what, what, what I struggle with Donovan is
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  Speaker 1: that the idea that a politician pick a Zoran Mamdami,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's the probably just the greatest illustration of
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  Speaker 1: what can happen. You get the most populous city in,
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  Speaker 1: in the world, New York city, or at least one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest is now run by a full on
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  Speaker 1: socialist that they promise things and they say, well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: just have rent control. Like, oh, there's the answer. We're
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  Speaker 1: just going to fix the rent. So it doesn't go
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  Speaker 1: up anymore. I mean, doesn't anybody just immediately come up
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  Speaker 1: with something like, well, what about inflation? I mean, we've
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  Speaker 1: been dealing with every year inflation is there and some percentage,
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  Speaker 1: except we're in a stagflation period of time, then that's different,
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  Speaker 1: but okay. It's up 2%. It's up three and a
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  Speaker 1: half percent. Inflation is a reality for landlords as well.
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  Speaker 1: They've got to be able to maintain and upkeep the property.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, fixing the rent is not an adequate
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  Speaker 1: solution or isn't really a solution of any type because
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  Speaker 1: it results in, well, buildings falling apart because there's no
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  Speaker 1: profit in it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can do that. You can do health care, right?
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  Speaker 2: The long west.
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  Speaker 3: That our friends at the Democrat left have been pursuing
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  Speaker 3: on health care, right?
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  Speaker 2: I agree. Health care should be affordable. I agree, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: We all agree health care should be something that everybody
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  Speaker 3: has access to.
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  Speaker 2: But the question is, do we centralize that control? Do
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  Speaker 2: we try to fix those costs?
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  Speaker 3: And are we, you know, the trade-offs that come with that, right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, from innovation and development in the healthcare sector,
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  Speaker 3: that would be stifled by centralizing and assuming that Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 2: Knows better where we should invest.
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  Speaker 3: Our R & D for healthcare than, you know, Cincinnati
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  Speaker 3: and all these other places around the country that have
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  Speaker 3: healthcare sectors. to people being able to pick their doctor, right?
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  Speaker 3: Or the rationing of care, which we see in places
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  Speaker 3: like Canada and England where these smooth experiments are occurring.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't ultimately result in, it may result in me
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  Speaker 3: not paying more out of my pocket in healthcare necessarily
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  Speaker 3: when I go to get the doctor, but I may
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  Speaker 3: struggle to see the doctor.
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  Speaker 2: I may not be given the.
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  Speaker 3: Care I desire when I go to see the doctor
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  Speaker 3: and finally get in there. There are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: tradeoffs that occur with these that if we embrace a
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  Speaker 3: free market abundance approach to policymaking here, we actually can result.
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  Speaker 3: We can achieve that same goal of affordable, accessible health care, affordable,
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  Speaker 3: accessible housing under the rent control or non-rent control example.
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  Speaker 2: But we have to recognize that.
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  Speaker 3: Government doesn't just suddenly solve these problems for us. It
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  Speaker 3: actually creates more problems downstream.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and there is. Think about it. Countries who've gone
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  Speaker 1: to socialist health care, government-controlled health care, have to ration it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get as much. Isn't that just a painful
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  Speaker 1: acknowledgment of real economic forces at work? Because if it
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  Speaker 1: really didn't cost anything and this was just some big
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  Speaker 1: magical solution, the government, oh, the government will take care
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  Speaker 1: of it, then everybody would get whatever they want by
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  Speaker 1: way of health care?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a lie. Yeah, 100%.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and in Canada's situation, right, they're literally offering their
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  Speaker 3: citizens the option to opt out of life, right, suicide,
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  Speaker 3: to begin to solve some of their healthcare problems, right?
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  Speaker 3: It's the scary reality that is government controlling and deciding
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  Speaker 3: who gets what, when, where, and how. I'd rather leave
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  Speaker 3: it to the market. I'd rather leave it to the people,
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  Speaker 3: and those closest to the problems know best how to
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  Speaker 3: solve them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you also point out in FightSocialism.com, which is
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  Speaker 1: linked to Americans for Prosperity's site, the public education system,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a tragic train wreck for children who've been
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  Speaker 1: victims of the public education system, in many places anyway,
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  Speaker 1: not all. But this is government at work. They're delivering
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  Speaker 1: mediocrity at best. So that's what you can count on
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  Speaker 1: from government. At best, you're going to get mediocrity. And
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  Speaker 1: you want to apply that to your health care?
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  Speaker 2: No. No.
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  Speaker 1: Choices, choices resulted in better educated children.
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  Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: We've had government run schools and some of them get
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  Speaker 3: great results for students. But by and large, we've seen
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  Speaker 3: grades decline. We've seen outcomes get worse.
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  Speaker 2: We all know it.
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  Speaker 3: We all talk about it. If you're a parent, you
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  Speaker 3: see it firsthand. But where we've seen choice occur, right?
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  Speaker 3: Parents are able to put their kids in the education
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  Speaker 3: that best meets their needs. When we have a market
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  Speaker 3: that flourishes in education, results in better teacher pay, results
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  Speaker 3: in better educational outcomes, results in happier families, right? you know, that's,
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  Speaker 3: we've seen what happens when we get government out of
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  Speaker 3: that monopoly just in the last few years since COVID, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. We've seen what happens when we get.
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  Speaker 3: Government out of the way of people and allow individuals
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  Speaker 3: to flourish and thrive.
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  Speaker 2: Good things happen. We know it, Brian, and that's.
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  Speaker 3: The fight we've got to take to the So the
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  Speaker 3: proverbial streets here and make sure folks understand what's at
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  Speaker 3: stake if we take the socialist path, not just this November, right,
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  Speaker 3: but over the next few years, because.
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  Speaker 2: This doesn't end in November. This is a problem that's
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 1: No, and the socialists will even take it on the
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  Speaker 1: chin and have defeat in November if we deliver on votes,
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  Speaker 1: but they're not going away. I want to emphasize that point.
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  Speaker 1: They are willing to take baby steps, any baby step
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  Speaker 1: forward they can get. They'll have to take a step
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  Speaker 1: backward every once in a while, but they're never going away.
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  Speaker 1: This is a constant battle for the future of the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America, so we could seriously take it seriously.
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  Speaker 1: FightSocialism.com is the site, isn't it, Donovan?
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  Speaker 2: It is, and we're going to do a webinar next week.
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  Speaker 3: We've been doing trainings around the state, but if you
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  Speaker 3: can't join us at one of those next Tuesday, I'll
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  Speaker 3: actually be giving a state of play, and we'll have
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  Speaker 3: a great program. You can sign up at FightSocialism.com and
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  Speaker 3: join us.
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  Speaker 1: And please do so, FightSocialism.com. God bless you, Donovan O'Neill.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate what you're doing each and every day, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk next week. On Wednesday at the same point at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. Take care of my brother. 739 right now.
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  Speaker 1: Stick around because Steve Belzo, Clement County Veterans Service, is
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  Speaker 1: going to be in the studio to talk about some
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  Speaker 1: wonderful things for the veterans in my listening audience. Bob
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  Speaker 1: Drury with his book, The Phantom, The American Marine the
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  Speaker 1: Nazis Could Not Kill. That'll be at 8.05, and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll hear from Judge Ed Napolitano in the 8 o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be right back.