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What Causes Someone To Leave The Democrat Party And Start An Exodus? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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Five minutes past the hour. Good Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston.
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That's Grant running the program. Thursday, October fifth, Day nine eighty
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eight of America held a hostage day fivey twenty one of this radio program.
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It's great to be with you. I'm Preston, and I'm delighted to have
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back with us. It's been a few years since we had Brandon Strock on
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the program. The first time I had Brandon on the show was shortly after
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the startup of something called the walk Away Campaign. And if you followed my
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blog at all over the years, you know, for as long as Brandon
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has started this endeavor to try to help people see what's happening inside the Democrat
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Party, the hard swing to the left, the liberal movement of the left,
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you know that I have been posting testimonials and stories about the effort.
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And it's great to have Brandon back on the show. Brandon, how are
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you hey there? I'm jan Well, how are you. I'm doing terrific.
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I want to start at the beginning point, give people kind of the
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cliff notes version of how this all started for you, you know, take
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us back to the election of twenty sixteen. Yeah, so you know,
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I'm a lifelong Democrat. I was a two time Obama voter and was very
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much looking forward to Hillary Clinton becoming our next president. I was firmly behind
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her, and honestly didn't really think there was much of a chance at all
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that she would not be elected, because of course, that's what the media
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that I had trusted my entire life was telling me. And so went in
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cast my vote for Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen, and then obviously was shocked
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at how the election turned out, and I mean truly did kind of go
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into shock, and it was kind of a you know, a combination of
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emotions and reactions. I mean, I was angry, I was outraged.
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I was very very scared that Donald Trump had been elected. And again mostly
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because once again, you know, the media that I trusted, had you
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been saying that this was a rise in bigotry and white supremacy and racism and
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all of these things that I believed all of it. I thought it was
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true. And so you know, I spent several weeks after Donald Trump was
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elected just being absolutely miserable and totally confused and upset, and so I kind
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of made this decision that I needed to try to understand how this happened.
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And my journey was never about trying to like Donald Trump or his supporters or
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be okay with it. I just wanted to try to understand it. And
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I wanted to try to understand how the media that I trusted was saying that
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he had like a three percent chance of winning. How did they get it
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so wrong? And so I started going on this sort of journey of research
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to figure that out. But there was this final straw moment for me where
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I had gone on Facebook in January of twenty seventeen and posted something, you
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know, about how I would never understand how anybody could vote for a man
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who was capable of mocking a reporter's disability. And that's when somebody reached out
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to me privately. A soft Christian conservative who I've known my entire life reached
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out to me privately and said, you know, I'm not trying to start
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a fight with you. I'm just asking have you seen this? And she
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sent me a link to a video that was entitled debunking that Trump mocked the
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disabled reporter, and I watched the video, which was a compilation of footage
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that showed very clearly and tellingly that that day when Donald Trump was accused of
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mocking a reporter's disability, he was engaging in kind of a gesture and a
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bit that he's done many times throughout the years when he was imitating anybody who
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was flailing because they were caught in a lie. And that day at his
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rally, he was imitating somebody who happened to be disabled, but he wasn't
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making fun of that person's disability, but the fact that that person who was
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disabled was caught in a lie. And it was the first time that my
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eyes started to be opened to the reality that I had been trusting a very
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dishonest media system that was manipulating the truth and at times blatantly fabricating things that
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did not happen, and being, you know, engaging in very deceptive practices.
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So over the next couple of months, I really dug into that,
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and I ultimately came to realize that it was not Donald Trump that was my
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enemy. It was the media that I had been trust and that was kind
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of what, you know, ultimately made me walk away from the Democratic Party.
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And then the next thing was that I decided to take a lot of
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people with me on the journey. Like being told what to believe by the
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liberal media. Get a refreshing dose of truth. It's the Morning Show with
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Trustin Scott on news Radio one hundred point seven WFLA, eleven minutes past the
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hour of the Morning Show with Drustin Scott. Walkaway campaign dot com is a
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website where you can learn, you can support the movement. I will be
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very transparent with you and tell you after I met Brandon on the show and
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after I learned about what they were doing, I've supported this program for many
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years. I'm not right now, but it's not because of anything that they've
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done or have done. It's just resources get limited in times like we're in
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because of Joe Biden. But Brandon is his spear. I had a movement,
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But Brandon I mentioned the cost detailed just a little bit of that kind
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of what you observed as you started kind of sharing what you were learning with
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others. Oh well, so there have been many costs. I thought we
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were talking about a different kind of cost. But yeah, the cost back
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then was really the loss of friends, yea, and sort of the life
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that I knew. So yeah, I mean around the time that I started
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sort of waking up, speaking out about it, asking questions. The cost
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at that time was that fellow friends, liberals, coworkers, even going back
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to people that I knew my entire life, going back to elementary school,
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started turning on me. And I mean it was very swift, and it
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was very obvious and extreme. You know, I stopped getting invited to parties,
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people stopped returning my phone calls and text messages, People start speaking out
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against me on social media. And it was and not just it wasn't even
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necessary. It was so extreme that at times it wasn't even honest. You
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know, I had people that I thought were my friends going on social media
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saying that I was having a nervous breakdown, that I was, you know,
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that I joined a cult, that I was drinking and doing drugs and
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all of these different things. And you know, people know I've been sober
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for over eight and a half years, So it was vicious, and I
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would estimate that over the course of the next year, I lost about ninety
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percent of my friends. And that is kind of the thing that led me
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to It was almost a year after I made the decision to walk away from
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the Democratic Party and start to be a little bit outspoken about it. It
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was almost entirely a year later before I put out a six minute video where
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I detailed all of the reasons why I was walking away from the Democratic Party
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and started the walk Away campaign. And the reason why I put that video
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out in the initially was because so many people had were turning on me and
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being so nasty that it almost gave me, you know, almost like an
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anxiety kind of condition, because every time I would speak out, there would
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be some big backlash. And at this you know, I was in a
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public figure at the time. I didn't have walk Away backing me up or
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any of this. It was just me, and so I thought, you
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know, what, to hell with it, I'm going to just kind of
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make a video where I talk about literally everything that I that I realized,
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that I that I've learned, that I'm feeling, and I'm going to put
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it out so anyone else who wants to exit my life can just do it.
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Let's just get it over with, so I know who's love. And
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that was kind of the main driving force of why I created that video in
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the first place back in twenty eighteen. But it you know, of course,
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turned into something much bigger than that. You know, it's interesting because
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you you've learned the irony. I have said for many, many years,
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Brandon, I've got you by by quite a few that illiberals are always what
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they accuse others of being, and they've always accused people like me, people
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like you at this stage in your life, like many of the people that
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you're talking to right now, of being so intolerant, of being so hateful,
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when it's in fact just the opposite. And I take it you've learned
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that firsthand. Well, yeah, I mean I've definitely learned that firsthand on
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both fronts. I mean, when I made the decision to walk away and
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my videos started blowing up and walk Away started blowing up. Initially I started
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getting apps to go on radio shows, and then a few weeks later it
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was TV shows, and then it was I started getting invited to speak at
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different clubs, and so then when it kind of became a thing where I
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was entering into different rooms and different groups and different clubs and on the conservative
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side of the aisle in the real world, there was this very warm embrace,
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you know, and a lot of support and a lot of kindness and
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a lot of people kind of coming to me, oftentimes those tears in their
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eyes, just saying, you know, thank you so much for waking up,
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thank you for realizing that we're not what you've been led to believe that
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we are. And then the flip side of that, of course, is
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that the bigger my name became and the bigger my operation became, the more
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savagely, evil and vicious the left has become. And that's why I kind
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of laughed at the beginning of the segment when you were talking about the cost,
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I thought you were referring more to the cost the costs in the last
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couple of years, which is next level. I mean, we're so far
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beyond now, like losing friends and not getting invited to parties. I mean,
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it's it's savage. At this point. You know, we're going to
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pick up right there, Brandon Straka with us. He's going to be with
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us for most of this hour. We're chatting about the Walkaway campaign. Find
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out more Walkaway campaign dot com. There's an event coming up in Florida you
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want to know about. We'll tell you about that as well. Check off
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air and we're back joining me Brandon Straka. He is the founder of the
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Walkaway Campaign, and again the website is really easy Walkaway campaign dot com.
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People on the left hate it, and Brandon I told people, I'm not
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asking you to come to the Republican Party. I don't care. I'm telling
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you leave the Democrat Party. What's your chief argument right now, all these
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years later, because it's not gotten better. The left has gotten more brazen,
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more illiberal, and to me, more destructive. You're asking, what
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is my argument for people to leave the left? YEP, at this point,
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I would say that my argument at this point is, you know,
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we went through four years of Trump as our president, and up until twenty
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twenty, I think if people were actually being honest and assessing the situation fairly
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and accurately, they would say that things were much much better than things are
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today. You know, we had this elaborate ruse to get rid of Trump.
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Okay, we got rid of Trump. Here we are and things are
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really disastrous in a way that I think even the left can honestly assess our
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disastrous, even if they don't want to articulate that out loud. Add to
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that the fact that everything that the left said, they feared might happen under
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Trump has actually come to fruition under Biden. They kept saying, oh,
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you know, this man is the closest thing to a dictator and Hitler and
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all of these different things, and he's going to weaponize our justice system,
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and he's going to and that's literally all things. In fact, Trump,
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I would say, was actually overly gracious and forgiving of his enemies, including
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people who really did, I think, go way outside the bounds of the
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law to try to prevent him from becoming the president. Meanwhile, now we've
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got Biden in office, who is rounding up Trump supporters, and we're reading
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this week that the FBI is dedicating for dedicating resources just to basically pursuing MAGA
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Republicans over the next year or two years, whatever we are. I think,
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at this point at the closest thing that we've seen to fascism in America.
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And if that's something that the left is so scared of, truly and
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they're so frightened of, then they need to take a good, long,
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hard look in the mirror, because this is coming from their party, not
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ours. You mentioned that you lost roughly ninety percent of your friendships and relationships
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over this transition in your life. What about that other ten percent? Did
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they just become accepting and they were cool with different thoughts and all of that,
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or did they come along? No, those ten percent are gone now
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too, I would say, no, no, no, you misunderstood.
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No, they just held out a little bit longer than every Wow. No,
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I mean honestly, what I would say is that, you know,
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from I lost about ninety percent of my friends throughout the year of twenty seventeen.
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Then when I started walk Away, which would have been May of twenty
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eighteen, That's when I launched the video and the Facebook group. And then
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it was literally within six weeks after I started walk Away, it was on
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July second, I was invited to go on the Tucker Carlson Show, and
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that starting then Fox News had me on every day that week, and then
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started having me on you know, at least a couple of times a month
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right probably the next two years. And so my name and my you know,
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the walk Away movement just became you know, I think a household name
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for people in the world politics for the most part. And so then two
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things were happening at the same time. It was you know, these people
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who were my friends were saying, Wow, he used to be one of
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us. He betrayed us. He's a trader, he used to be a
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Democrat and now he's not. But then, to make matters worse, I
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also became very successful doing it. So then there was also this element I
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think of envy and rage and jealousy about it. And so over the course
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of the next couple of years, the remaining ten percent who were a little
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more loyal, the majority of them, I think, eventually turned on me
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as well, especially after January sixth. And one of the important, many
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many unfortunate things about January sixth was that it gave people on the left sort
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of this excuse to point and say, see, this is exactly what we
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knew you guys were. This is exactly you know what we always what we've
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been saying all along, that maga Republicans are, even though it was mostly
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Ruminators back with you two more segments with Brandon Straka, the founder excuse me
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of the Walkaway campaign. You can learn more walkway campaign dot com. Talk
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about a big event coming to West Palm here in Florida in just a few
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minutes. But first, Brandon, you mentioned January sixth, and I have
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long believed that it was as much of a setup as anything that we could
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possibly imagine. Big picture. What's your takeaway from the events of that day?
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I mean, I can only tell you based off of the experience that
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I had that, you know, it's very simple. I think it's the
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truth is as terrible as you would like people to believe it is, then
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you wouldn't have to lie to add to that. And that's what my experience
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has been. You know, obviously there's not time to get into everything I
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went through, but I know that I was the subject of a hideous narrative
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of lives trying to connect me to the events of January sixth, and so
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I have no reason to believe that the government hasn't done that to other people
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as well. And I do believe fullheart, wholeheartedly that you know, there
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were people planted in the crowd to agitate people, and I hope that someday
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we learned the full truth about why things happened. I mean, I definitely
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think that there are, you know, people on our side who got swept
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into making some really bad decisions. Absolutely, And I think the majority of
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the people, you know, just thought that they were walking inside of the
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building through open doors, which was what I and it's from the outside.
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I of course did not go inside the Capitol on January sixth, but was
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still treated like a domestic terrorist just for being there. But yeah, no,
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I think that the narrative is incredibly dishonest, whether it's on your website
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Walkaway campaign dot com or your YouTube channel. I mentioned I have availed myself
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of many, many dozens of testimonials over the years. Did that just evolve
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because I think people would be absolutely struck by the powerful nature of the numbers
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of people that have put their story, their testimonial of walking away on tape.
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Yeah. So, you know, we started as a Facebook group,
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but on January eighth, twenty twenty one, Facebook banned the Walkaway Campaign the
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same day that they banned President Trump and hundreds of thousands of conservative accounts.
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So I got to work building our own social platform called Walkaway Social, which
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we launched a few months ago, earlier this year. You know, growing
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your own social platform is much slower than growing a Facebook group because you don't
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have the organic traffic and people have to intentionally load the app. But I
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would really encourage people to support it because you know, we just hit twenty
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thousand members on the app, so it's exactly I mean, literally, if
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you loved Walkway campaign on Facebook, you're gonna love walk Away Social because that's
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essentially exactly what it is. It's people. It's a social platform very similar
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to Facebook. People are sharing their stories, their videos, their written testimonials
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about leaving the Democratic Party. We have hundreds of new stories again on the
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new platform, So if you love the testimonials, I would highly encourage you
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to check it out because literally every day people are uploading new videos and new
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stories. But yeah, altogether, I mean we've grown to over five hundred
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and eleven thousand on Facebook when they banned us. You know, now we're
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kind of starting from scratch with this new platform. I really don't want to
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relaunch movement on Facebook, but we'll see. I mean, that may end
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up being the choice we have to make the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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On News Radio one hundred point seven double USLA Walkaway Campaign dot com and now
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we take you to walk Away Anniversary dot com. Brandon tell us about it.
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Yeah, so Walkway turns five years old this year, and you know,
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we're doing basically a three day long event in West Palm Beach, Florida
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that I want to encourage everybody listening, especially if you're in the Florida area,
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This should be very easy for you to come and join us November ten
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through the twelfth. So we're calling this weekend long event walk a con,
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much like Politicon or coma con or right, you know. And of course
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you know people they're like, oh god is because you know we're all going
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to be convicts soon under the Biden administration. Well yeah, kind of right,
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Uh no, not really though, I mean, honestly, we wanted
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to do kind of like a take on a three day conference, but you
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know, ours is going to be a little bit different. So we kicked
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the entire thing off on Friday, November tenth. They're at the uh Hilton
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Palm Beach Airport location. We're going to do an extravagant, extravagant stage show
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presentation and we have Laura Trump, Matt Schlapp, Tutor Dixon, David Harris
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Junior, uh Misha Menor Sjamika Michelle, Katie Hopkins. We're going to be
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adding more speakers Dan Ball from Oaan, I mean literally dozens of incredible speakers.
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But I think what's really cool about what we're doing is that it's going
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to be about half and half of you know, big name uh great driving
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forces in the conservative movement, mixed with real people telling real stories. And
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this is something I really wanted to do is kind of pluck people who have
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created amazing Walkaway testimonial videos and put them on stage and let them share their
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stories with people telling their story of why they were Democrats and why they're walking
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away from the Democratic Party so Frida, and of course we're also mixing that
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in with videos and kind of a trip down memory lane of what walk Away
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has done, while also focusing on what we're going to do in the future
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to ensure that we see ourselves to victory in twenty twenty four, because I
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firmly believe that we cannot win in twenty twenty four without a walk away movement,
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without people leaving the left and those people in the center saying, you
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know what, I'm not going to support the Democratic Party anymore. This is
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a path to disaster and we have to come over and support the right.
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And then the next couple of days we're kind of mixing it up. Saturday,
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we're going to do an out or patriot rally. It's Veterans Day.
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We're going to celebrate our veterans. We're going to just get people from all
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over the country together to kind of lift up our voices, you know,
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engage in our First Amendment rights, and celebrate the unification of being together as
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people who love our country and want to fight for it and not see things
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fall apart. Saturday night, we're going to chill out a little bit and
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do a really fun comedy event. We're flying in conservative comedians from all over
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the country. Actually a lot of them are walkaways, which is really cool.
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A lot of people who were former left wing political people who now have
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walked away from the Democratic Party and in many circumstances, walked away from that
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side of the entertainment industry and now they're on our side of the aisle doing
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stand up comedy or you know, performance comedy. So we're going to do
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a comedy roast event on Saturday night. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
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Sunday, we're going to start the day off with brunch with Carrie Lake.
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Carr is going to be our keynote speaker there at the brunch and she'll
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also be signing books and taking pictures. And then the last thing that we'll
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do immediately after brunch is we will we will do a panel discussion which is
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the True Stories of January sixth. We're actually having January sixth defendants there to
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tell their stories about what really happened that day, what they've been through and
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gone through at the hands of the FBI and the DJ and what this has
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done to their lives. People can ask questions here that you people are saying
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to me all the time, we can't get the truth about January sixth,
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and no one will talk about it. Well, we're going to bring it
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to you right there from the people who actually experienced it. So it's really
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six events over three days because we kick it off with a VIP cocktail or
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durb reception on Friday Night where people can meet all of our speakers, take
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pictures with them, have drinks. It's going to be a lot of fun.
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And then that Friday night show, the Saturday Rally, Saturday Night comedy
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show, Sunday Carry Lake Brunch, and then the January event. So six
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events and three days. It's literally we've priced this so inexpensively. Yeah,
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you have the I mean it's crazy literally where people can do the entire weekend,
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all of those events for a total of two hundred dollars all of it.
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And then of course we have VIP options as well. If people want
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to do the VIP and get some extra perks and things like that, I
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highly encourage people to participate in the entire weekend. They can go to Walkaway
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Anniversary dot com. Remember it's our fifth anniversary, so this is Walkawayanniversary dot
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Com to get tickets to the event. But look, I'm gonna look,
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I'm gonna say something that I probably shouldn't say, but I'm gonna say it
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because it needs to be said. One thing our side of the aisle often
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struggles with is understanding an opportunity to send a message. And you know what
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the left has done to me, and so what they're doing to Donald Trump,
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what they're doing to so many people by weaponizing the justice system to try
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to destroy people. They tried to destroy me, they tried to destroy walk
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Away. But I made a decision to rise from the ashes and fight back
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and keep going and keep going. What we need to do now is send
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a very loud and clear message to the left that we're not going to allow
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our people or our grassroots organizations to be destroyed by their viciousness. And the
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way that we do that is by supporting one another. If I really want
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to encourage conservatives, get out of your garden, get off of your couches,
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get off of you turn the TV off for one weekend, and come
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and support walk Away to go to Walkaway Anniversary dot com, get your tickets,
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and spend the weekend with us at this event. That's how you support
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the people in your movement who are fighting. Brandon, thanks for the time
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this hour. I appreciate it and hopefully we'll follow up soon. Sounds great,
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Thanks so much for having me. Thank you, Brandon Straka with us
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this hour in the morning. Show with Preston Scott,