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[00:47] Kim Monson: Joe Biden was a facade of trying to, I think in some ways, trying to assure the American people that things are okay when we realize that things are really off the rails.
[01:03] Kim Monson: And so it was a facade of a press release and a press conference.
[01:08] Kim Monson: And again, that is spelled F-A-C-A-D-E.
[01:10] Kim Monson: your challenge is to use that in a sentence today.
[01:16] Kim Monson: And normally on Fridays, our quote of the day will be from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values.
[01:25] Kim Monson: And I would highly recommend that you all have this Medal of Honor quote book in your home, in your Freedom Library, and it's quotes from many of our Medal of Honor recipients.
[01:35] Kim Monson: And today we're going to be starting into Medal of Honor recipients from the Vietnam War.
[01:45] Kim Monson: He died just this last January in 2024.
[01:49] Kim Monson: And he and Drew Dix, Drew Dix is a Medal of Honor recipient as well, is a co-founder with Brad Padula, who is a documentary filmmaker.
[02:04] Kim Monson: They said, we need to remember, first of all, these Medal of Honor recipients and what they've done, and also the foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism that are foundational to America, to the American idea.
[02:18] Kim Monson: And so they founded the Center for American Values.
[02:23] Kim Monson: And be sure and check out their website.
[02:27] Kim Monson: Presentations that they have almost monthly are really fantastic and would love to have you join us when we have those.
[02:35] Kim Monson: And so you can find all that information out at AmericanValueCenter.
[02:39] Kim Monson: But Roger Donlon was the first Medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War.
[02:44] Kim Monson: His citation is extremely long, so I'm not going to read all of it, but it's very impressive what happened.
[02:54] Kim Monson: But the conflict was the Vietnam War, and U.
[02:59] Kim Monson: Army and the Medal of Honor action date was July 6, 1964, born near Nam Dong in the Republic of Vietnam.
[03:06] Kim Monson: And this is what Roger Donlon said.
[03:09] Kim Monson: He said, what we are is God's gift to us.
[03:18] Kim Monson: And I think that's why, every day, we get up and we strive for excellence, to do our very best.
[03:23] Kim Monson: That doesn't mean that we get to perfection.
[03:27] Kim Monson: It doesn't mean that we don't make mistakes and that we sin because we do.
[03:29] Kim Monson: And that's why the redemption of our Savior, Jesus Christ, is so important.
[03:37] Kim Monson: But again, what we are is God's gift to us.
[03:45] Kim Monson: This day in history is interesting.
[03:50] Kim Monson: In 1679, Britain's King Charles II ratifies habeas corpus.
[03:56] Kim Monson: Allowing prisoners the right to be examined or the prisoners that are imprisoned have the right to be examined by a court.
[04:10] Kim Monson: 1804, former United States Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr.
[04:23] Kim Monson: And Alexander Hamilton, They're not sure when he was born.
[04:30] Kim Monson: He died in 1804, so he was in his late 40s.
[04:38] Kim Monson: Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor.
[04:41] Kim Monson: Again, this is before naturally occurring fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal that we use on a regular basis in our modern life.
[04:52] Kim Monson: 114 degrees Fahrenheit in Basin, Wyoming.
[04:57] Kim Monson: And then in 1909, the 16th Amendment was passed by Congress, which was the power to tax incomes.
[05:05] Kim Monson: This was a real change in property rights at that particular point in time, because what in essence it says was that Congress had the power to tax our incomes, which is the fruits of our property.
[05:22] Kim Monson: I really think that we need to walk that back.
[05:25] Kim Monson: And that is one of the things that really started to change.
[05:30] Kim Monson: This whole American idea was the ratification of the 16th Amendment.
[05:37] Kim Monson: Probably the big news that we want to talk about is the press conference of Joe Biden yesterday, last evening.
[05:46] Kim Monson: And as I was watching, well, I actually I had to watch it a little bit later.
[05:51] Kim Monson: And so I took one for the team, my friends, and listened to the whole thing with the raspy voice.
[05:59] Kim Monson: And I'll give you some of my takeaways.
[06:03] Kim Monson: One of the first things he talked about was NATO and protecting NATO.
[06:09] Kim Monson: And I'm concerned that that whole conversation, he talked about it many, many times, is going to be an excuse to escalate the United States and NATO's involvement in all that is happening regarding Ukraine and Russia.
[06:29] Kim Monson: And so I and the thing about it is these leftists and he clearly did not write this.
[06:35] Kim Monson: He used teleprompters for his speech, and then he had a list of press that he called on for their questions.
[06:49] Kim Monson: But the thing about it, and under Obama, they tell us what they're going to do.
[06:54] Kim Monson: So that's why I'm concerned, all of this action regarding NATO.
[06:59] Kim Monson: I'm very concerned about that was the first thing out of the shoot there.
[07:06] Kim Monson: Next thing, he said that inflation is down.
[07:09] Kim Monson: Well, maybe it's not been increasing as much as it has, but we've had this huge increase.
[07:18] Kim Monson: And so now to say that inflation is down after the government spending with the inflation, and it's not reduction, but increasing act, all of those things.
[07:31] Kim Monson: And it's out of control spending all of these illegals coming in the spending on that.
[07:36] Kim Monson: He had the gall to say that inflation is down.
[07:39] Kim Monson: He said that his competitor is considering tariffs, which that's a whole nother issue, but tariffs were really how we, we financed our country at the very beginning of our country.
[07:53] Kim Monson: He said he's been successful at the border.
[07:57] Kim Monson: It's like, well, what planet are we living on there?
[08:01] Kim Monson: He's calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East, which we'll just leave that at that.
[08:08] Kim Monson: Then for the press questions, he had a list of people to call on.
[08:15] Kim Monson: And if I were a betting woman, I would bet 95%that those questions were given to the press.
[08:22] Kim Monson: And some of them were very fawning, which was interesting.
[08:25] Kim Monson: He called Vice President Kamala Harris a Vice President Trump.
[08:35] Kim Monson: He said that this NATO conference was the most successful conference ever.
[08:42] Kim Monson: And this is one of the other things that I was very concerned that he had to say.
[08:48] Kim Monson: And I think that he might be telegraphing exactly just like Obama did in that speech, fundamentally changing America.
[08:55] Kim Monson: Several times he said he is in it, in this race, to complete the job that he started.
[09:03] Kim Monson: Well, the job that he started seems to be the decline of the American middle class.
[09:08] Kim Monson: It seems to be the decline of America.
[09:10] Kim Monson: It seems to be taking down America.
[09:11] Kim Monson: And I'm concerned that he was telling the truth on that.
[09:16] Kim Monson: And then many times he would take a criticism and then he would say, find me, find me somebody else that would actually say that.
[09:25] Kim Monson: Or and then again, he would say, finish the job.
[09:33] Kim Monson: Oh, he said at one point, as I feel like he was starting to go off script, he said, I'm going to catch hell for my wife.
[09:44] Kim Monson: And he said that there's so much that we can do.
[09:46] Kim Monson: He did use the terms fundamentally change.
[09:49] Kim Monson: And then again, he said, we're going to finish it.
[09:58] Kim Monson: Oh, one of the, I can't remember now which person from the press said this, but it was almost like the equivalent of what ice cream do you like?
[10:08] Kim Monson: He says, the press said, your answer is clear.
[10:10] Kim Monson: and please answer the next part of the question.
[10:14] Kim Monson: Oh, and this was interesting when Joe Biden, during some of these questions, he said, oh, this is unscripted as he started to go off script a little bit.
[10:24] Kim Monson: And then he said he has a thousand volunteers throughout the country working on his campaign.
[10:32] Kim Monson: Oh, then he went into a little bit on gun control.
[10:34] Kim Monson: Oh, he said, we want to control guns, not girls.
[10:39] Kim Monson: And he said, our democracy is under...
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[13:42] Kim Monson: There is a lot happening in our world right now.
[13:45] Kim Monson: In the first hour, we had some technical difficulties.
[13:48] Kim Monson: I was going through my comments regarding Joe Biden's press conference.
[13:53] Kim Monson: And I think the thing that I wanted to finish up with is that he many times said he wanted to finish the job.
[14:00] Kim Monson: And I'm concerned that he's telling the truth.
[14:03] Kim Monson: And that is finishing the job of decimating the American middle class, continuing to facilitate the decline of America, putting America in a very dangerous position.
[14:13] Kim Monson: So when he has said that he wants to finish the job, I'm concerned that he was telling the truth.
[14:21] Kim Monson: He is the president of the Conservative Caucus, and there is so much happening out there.
[14:32] Kim Monson: Boy, there is a lot happening out there.
[14:34] Kim Monson: And I thought the first thing I'd like to hear from you is regarding the upcoming RNC convention.
[14:41] Kim Monson: What's your ear to the ground saying about the convention?
[14:45] Jim Paff: Well, I will say in candor, there are people in the conservative, particularly pro- lifemovement, that are a little dismayed about the platform situation.
[14:57] Jim Paff: I had talked to a few people that I knew who were on the platform committee, and it was kind of frustrating.
[15:05] Jim Paff: They passed it and took out some things that were important to people.
[15:10] Jim Paff: But that having been said, that one blip downward, I think everything is very positive right now.
[15:17] Jim Paff: I think people are buoyed a little bit, you know, kind of feeling really good about the fact that Joe Biden and Democrats are imploding.
[15:26] Jim Paff: But we can certainly talk about this because it's a bet that they've made for themselves.
[15:30] Jim Paff: And I don't think they're going to get out of that bet.
[15:32] Jim Paff: And on the other side of it, they still see Donald Trump as a fighter.
[15:36] Jim Paff: I think that Republicans are very excited about the fact that we have this guy at the top of our ticket, who has gone through hell and has continued on to a point right now where everything seems to be going his way because he stuck it out and most Republicans stuck it out with him.
[15:57] Jim Paff: And so I think you go into the convention with a lot of positive energy.
[16:01] Jim Paff: I think the naming of a vice president is going to be a positive thing.
[16:05] Jim Paff: I mean, unless it's someone like Doug Burgum or Nikki Haley, at least in my mind.
[16:09] Jim Paff: But there are plenty of good options there.
[16:12] Jim Paff: And I think he's smart enough to know which ones to go with.
[16:14] Jim Paff: So I think there's a whole bunch of positive going into the RNC convention.
[16:19] Jim Paff: And frankly, I think it's going to be another coming out party for Donald Trump.
[16:25] Kim Monson: Question, Jim, because I have heard we've had a lot of conversations with a number of my friends regarding this change in the platform.
[16:34] Kim Monson: And there are those that said basically it is...
[16:42] Kim Monson: Watering down the stand on a life to protect life and also watering down the definition of marriage between a man and a woman.
[16:50] Kim Monson: What what what do you say to that, Jim Path?
[16:53] Jim Paff: Well, it's not a watering down.
[16:56] Jim Paff: They've removed both of those from the platform.
[16:59] Jim Paff: So there's just no statement at all in the platform related to either life or marriage.
[17:04] Jim Paff: These are both, and I've been involved in Republican politics since 1992 in terms of jobs that I've had, and all the way back into my days in college in the 1980s, when I was obviously highly inspired by Ronald Reagan.
[17:24] Jim Paff: We had a pro-life plank finally put into the Republican Party's platform in 1984, and Ronald Reagan supported that.
[17:36] Jim Paff: So that plank is gone now, and some people like myself are a little concerned about that.
[17:42] Jim Paff: The marriage thing, I think we got that.
[17:45] Jim Paff: I can't remember which year it was, but that was sometime in the 1990s, a little later than that, when the marriage battle was starting to roll up, that that was placed in there.
[17:55] Jim Paff: It can be dispiriting for those who are paying attention to it.
[17:58] Jim Paff: But there's one other thing that's important to note, which is that party platforms don't even really matter.
[18:04] Jim Paff: Like on both of those issues, for example, we've got a lot of Republicans who are in elected office, both in Washington and in state legislatures and elsewhere, who haven't really held up to that standard anyway.
[18:17] Jim Paff: So the big battle always is in legislative action more than party platforms, because no one reads them, no one cares about them, no one thinks about them.
[18:27] Jim Paff: But activists do sometimes, and that becomes an important thing to be paying attention to in that regard.
[18:34] Kim Monson: So, Jim Paff, where I really do think that we need to be making the case for both life and marriage is in the culture.
[18:43] Kim Monson: And I think that's where we really need to engage in the battle.
[18:46] Kim Monson: I was with some friends last night, and I was talking about life, pro-life, and in some ways we have acquiesced for many years to our young people through Planned Parenthood, teaching sex ed in schools at a young age where kids are being taught that if you find yourself in an unplanned pregnancy that your hopes and dreams and your life is over.
[19:14] Kim Monson: and we've not been in that space as much as I think we should be for life.
[19:20] Kim Monson: And then you fast forward to a point where young people find themselves in that situation of unplanned pregnancy.
[19:26] Kim Monson: And then at that point, we as pro-life say, oh, you should choose life.
[19:31] Kim Monson: I think we should be in that conversation long before with our young people.
[19:41] Jim Paff: Listen, these are marriage and life are fundamental factors to a healthy society.
[19:49] Jim Paff: I mean, the real sad thing when you see all these radical pro aborts who are pushing for the elimination of life in the womb all the way up to conception, which is really the Democrat position.
[20:04] Jim Paff: There are, I'm sure, some Democrats who say that they don't want to go that far, but that is what they do.
[20:09] Jim Paff: They want to destroy human life all the way up to conception if it's the woman's choice, so to speak.
[20:14] Jim Paff: Well, the people who push that really do hate life.
[20:19] Jim Paff: I mean, the people who push it hard, not everyone that supports that does.
[20:23] Jim Paff: But but that's the that is the logical conclusion.
[20:27] Jim Paff: If you're willing to abort a child up into the ninth month, you really have not just a problem of what choices you want to make, But you also have a problem of not valuing what is obviously life.
[20:43] Jim Paff: You know, it can get fuzzy for someone in the first few weeks of pregnancy when you don't notice you're pregnant.
[20:51] Jim Paff: And so maybe that's a harder thing to argue for the average person.
[20:55] Jim Paff: I think they still intuitively understand that life begins at conception.
[21:03] Jim Paff: So that's a general principle.
[21:05] Jim Paff: It's good for society to have babies and to have marriage.
[21:10] Jim Paff: Marriage is a fundamental good to any society.
[21:12] Jim Paff: I mean, for those listening to you in the Colorado area, many of them know that I ran the marriage amendment effort in 2006 when I was working for Focus on the Family.
[21:22] Jim Paff: We put a lot of effort into that because we know how good marriage is for society.
[21:28] Jim Paff: And that's another problem that Democrats have.
[21:30] Jim Paff: They hate marriage, they hate relationships, and they hate children.
[21:33] Jim Paff: And then they do in their policy.
[21:36] Jim Paff: But the fundamental core thing that needs to happen in this society is the church.
[21:42] Jim Paff: Those who claim Christ, those in the Jewish community, even those in the Muslim community.
[21:48] Jim Paff: I mean, I think there are many conservative minded people in these on these issues.
[21:52] Jim Paff: At least they should be pushing for these in society.
[21:56] Jim Paff: I look at the Christian church, and by and large, we see these denominations moving away from the value of marriage, which is God's design, and away from a clergy perspective that is biblically based, which would support this way of thinking.
[22:20] Jim Paff: And I think this all, much of this, maybe not all of it, much of it lay at the feet of the church.
[22:26] Jim Paff: that need to suppress these things in society and stand up for them.
[22:30] Jim Paff: They got really weak because it got really political in the 1990s, but it was Democrats who made it political, and they cowered and shied away, and it's time for them to rise up and take action again, in my opinion.
[22:41] Kim Monson: And I don't know if I'm in– here in Colorado, we have such a kind of interesting landscape right now between the politics and church, and I see some churches standing up, but I'm not sure that there's a lot yet.
[23:00] Kim Monson: We saw so much during COVID, Jim, where churches agreed to close because of these coercion by local government.
[23:11] Kim Monson: I think we should take lessons from that.
[23:14] Kim Monson: And are you seeing churches stand up or what are you seeing happen?
[23:19] Jim Paff: There is a remnant of churches around this country that are passionate about doing what's good in society, that understand the critical role that they play when we see these major political and cultural battles taking place, and they engage in it.
[23:39] Jim Paff: But there's a large portion of the body of Christ and of churches and pastors who have withdrawn from society for whatever, for many reasons.
[23:50] Jim Paff: Most of them being they don't want to be involved in what they consider icky issues.
[23:56] Jim Paff: But you can't read scripture without understanding that every issue is icky when it comes to what the Bible says about life and society.
[24:07] Jim Paff: And that becomes difficult for a lot of folks and they back away.
[24:11] Jim Paff: When I ran the marriage amendment in 2006, we had a consortium of churches all over the state, and I'm talking about not just conservative white evangelical churches.
[24:22] Jim Paff: We have a large portion of church of god in christ churches and of hispanic churches.
[24:29] Jim Paff: They were very concerned about the value of marriage.
[24:32] Jim Paff: They believed in it firmly.
[24:34] Jim Paff: And they actually put effort into it, not by always getting so political, but by registering people to vote in their churches and letting them know that we needed to protect the value of marriage in the state constitution.
[24:46] Jim Paff: And they rose up to the occasion to the point where we won Pueblo County, which is a moderately Democrat, fairly strong Democrat county.
[24:56] Jim Paff: We passed the marriage amendment there with 60% ofthe vote.
[24:59] Jim Paff: 60% of peoplein Pueblo County voted for our measure.
[25:02] Jim Paff: So and that was because we put a coalition of churches together who weren't thinking about the candidate, the Republican or Democrat candidate.
[25:11] Jim Paff: They were thinking about the value of marriage.
[25:12] Jim Paff: I believe that much of that has been whittled away in Colorado.
[25:16] Jim Paff: And we see that around the country.
[25:18] Jim Paff: And my challenge to those people is to get back in the game and recognize that it is uncomfortable to be in the game.
[25:26] Jim Paff: But you are called to be because you are called to be light and salt to the earth.
[25:29] Jim Paff: I think that that's an important value that so many people run away from.
[25:33] Jim Paff: And that's why so many churches closed down and just gave in during COVID, when they've got this stinking First Amendment right there that says the free exercise of religion cannot be impaired in any manner by government.
[25:47] Kim Monson: Well, and you probably know that there will be a ballot question on the ballot here in November in Colorado to walk back that marriage amendment.
[25:54] Jim Paff: And they and every the same coalition that was put together back in 2006, when we, when we took this on, should come back together to oppose this.
[26:09] Jim Paff: It doesn't take a whole lot of uh well, let me put this way: it's simple to do.
[26:16] Jim Paff: It'll take a lot of effort to again get people registered to vote in your churches and to make them aware of why that's wrong.
[26:24] Jim Paff: But honestly, that effort is almost superfluous when you look at the Supreme Court decision that wrongly, in my judgment, made homosexual marriage a fundamental right somehow in the Constitution, in the penumbra of the Constitution.
[26:44] Jim Paff: It's not even in the penumbra of the Constitution.
[26:47] Jim Paff: It just was outright, we're going to unilaterally do this.
[26:50] Jim Paff: That's what Anthony Kennedy said when he wrote that opinion.
[26:52] Jim Paff: So Obergefell took away a lot of that structure.
[26:57] Jim Paff: And the sad thing is that Democrats in Colorado, they don't stop.
[27:01] Jim Paff: See, this is what bothers me with Christians.
[27:06] Jim Paff: Democrats in Colorado, they don't stop trying to undermine the church, undermine conservatives, and to make that state a radical leftist bastion.
[27:14] Jim Paff: They have no compunction, nothing that holds them back from doing whatever they want to do.
[27:20] Jim Paff: And yet we've got so many conservatives in that state who do hold back, or when they do get in the game sometimes, don't act in a smart way to win and recognize that you can't take the whole thing immediately.
[27:31] Jim Paff: You have to take everything you can vociferously and purposefully right now.
[27:35] Jim Paff: So hopefully that attitude changes and people are going to rise up when they see stuff like that on the ballot.
[27:42] Kim Monson: Well, Jim Paff, president of the Conservative Caucus, let's stay in touch.
[27:46] Kim Monson: It's going to be a really interesting next week here with the Republican National Convention.
[27:55] Kim Monson: And, again, how can people get more information about the conservative caucus?
[27:57] Kim Monson: They need to go to theconservativecaucus.
[28:00] Jim Paff: org, theconservativecaucus.
[28:03] Jim Paff: If theywant to volunteer in the states, they can sign up there.
[28:11] Jim Paff: We have an entire citizen action portal that can train them how to do grassroots politics.
[28:16] Jim Paff: and be active and effective in their communities, and we'll be glad to help.
[28:24] Kim Monson: And a lot is happening in our world, that is for sure.
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[31:35] Kim Monson: It's the NAACP League of Women Voters and Me Familia Vota put the First Amendment on trial in Colorado.
[31:42] Kim Monson: Harrison Floyd, welcome to the show.
[31:53] Kim Monson: So set this up for us, Harrison Floyd, and tell us how you're involved with this.
[31:57] Harrison Floyd: So I'm involved with this case because I'm one of the co- defendants in Georgiain the Georgia RICO case.
[32:08] Harrison Floyd: We saw that this lawfare that's grabbing the country is, we need to fight back.
[32:19] Harrison Floyd: So I tried to bail some people out of Fulton County Jail, and they stopped us.
[32:25] Harrison Floyd: So we created a nonprofit organization, and that's what the Statesman Project is.
[32:31] Harrison Floyd: This is one of the first cases that we're supporting and helping.
[32:36] Harrison Floyd: And so essentially, you know, this is a voting rights lawsuit that's going to federal court in Colorado, And it's raising public questions about private rights and of action under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the NAACP and the League of Women Voters, me familiar.
[33:10] Harrison Floyd: The canvassing activity was intimidating Colorado voters because they were claiming.
[33:23] Kim Monson: So what this is, this case, again, you mentioned it.
[33:27] Kim Monson: This was filed in March of 2022 by the NAACP, League of Women Voters, and Mi Familia Vota against US EIP, the U.
[33:37] Kim Monson: Election Integrity Project, and three Colorado citizens, Ashley Epp, Holly Kaysen, and Sean Smith.
[33:43] Kim Monson: And as you mentioned, it says the complaint alleges that their canvassing activity is inherently intimidating to Colorado voters.
[33:52] Kim Monson: But my understanding, Harrison, is that the project was just trying to ascertain going to different houses and homes to ascertain who the voters were in at that location and trying to match this up.
[34:14] Kim Monson: And the other thing is, is when it says it was intimidating voters, this canvassing didn't occur till after the election.
[34:27] Kim Monson: How can you be intimidating a voter if the elections already occurred, Harrison?
[34:35] Harrison Floyd: What they're really what this really is, is legal blackface is what I would call it.
[34:41] Harrison Floyd: they were, they did a FOIA request and they got the voter rolls and they were just checking to see if people really voted.
[34:51] Harrison Floyd: And they found out that a lot of folks weren't, they were asking them to sign affidavits.
[34:57] Harrison Floyd: And then they were taking them to the Colorado Secretary of State's office saying, hey, there was voter fraud here.
[35:04] Harrison Floyd: And what they're doing to cover it up is they got the NAACP involved to say, hey, these people were openly armed and they were intimidating voters, Indian and black voters in Colorado, and it was wrong.
[35:30] Harrison Floyd: So it's very unfortunate that they're going through this.
[35:35] Harrison Floyd: But I think in the end, whether it's with a trial or on appeal, they're going to win.
[35:41] Kim Monson: So why do you think the NAACP, League of Women Voters, and Me Familia Vota brought this lawsuit?
[35:57] Kim Monson: I guess I know the answer, and I guess you probably have answered that.
[35:59] Kim Monson: But answer it again, please, Harrison Floyd.
[36:05] Harrison Floyd: One, they want to cover up election fraud that took place in Colorado because they were out canvassing, checking, seeing if people actually voted.
[36:17] Harrison Floyd: Folks were saying they didn't, and they had affidavits, and they were submitting them, and they found out they were getting caught.
[36:24] Harrison Floyd: So it's one part of covering up voter fraud, the other part too.
[36:29] Harrison Floyd: You know, if you can prove that people aren't voting, then you're also proving that the state probably really isn't as blue as what the public believes it to be.
[36:42] Harrison Floyd: It's actually more purple, so it's creating a lot of political.
[36:48] Harrison Floyd: What they were doing by exposing what really took place is creating a lot of political problems in the state.
[37:00] Kim Monson: So this group, USEIP, they got the voter rolls, and then they looked at the voter rolls, and how did they do the canvassing, and what was the criteria for the canvassing?
[37:15] Harrison Floyd: Yeah, so uh, the the people who are, uh, the defendants here is actually holly and sean.
[37:29] Harrison Floyd: Um, they were a part of the organization but they weren't the only three involved.
[37:35] Harrison Floyd: But essentially just what what took place was, uh, a FOIA request was done, Freedom of Information Act, voter rolls were received and they just went.
[37:49] Harrison Floyd: It's the same thing as going and asking someone to vote for a particular candidate, or if they're going to go and vote.
[38:06] Harrison Floyd: They were knocking on doors just saying, hey, the rolls say this.
[38:17] Harrison Floyd: Or in some cases, the people didn't even live there.
[38:24] Harrison Floyd: Are you willing to sign an affidavit saying that you didn't vote and that this is wrong?
[38:30] Harrison Floyd: Sign it and then have a whole stack of them, right?
[38:34] Harrison Floyd: And then they took them in, and one thing led to another, and here we are with this lawsuit.
[38:42] Harrison Floyd: They were just very active and engaged citizens, concerned citizens, being civically engaged.
[38:50] Harrison Floyd: And when you go against the grain and find out things that they probably would like to be kept swept under the rug, they will attack you.
[39:01] Kim Monson: Okay, so Harrison, I think I'm getting exactly what they happen.
[39:06] Kim Monson: So through the Freedom of Information Act FOIA request, they get the voter rolls.
[39:11] Kim Monson: And then do they determine that maybe there's an anomaly or they are just going, basically maybe in the neighborhood, door to door?
[39:24] Kim Monson: Smith, it says that you voted in this last election.
[39:28] Kim Monson: Did you vote in this last election?
[39:33] Kim Monson: But the voter roll showed that a vote was cast.
[39:37] Kim Monson: And so they say, OK, would you sign an affidavit?
[39:43] Kim Monson: Smith and it says, oh, it says on the on the voter voter rolls that Joe Baker lives here and Joe Baker voted.
[39:58] Kim Monson: Smith says, no, Joe Baker doesn't live here and hasn't lived here for 10 years or whatever.
[40:03] Kim Monson: And he said, well, you sign an affidavit.
[40:14] Kim Monson: So they have these affidavits, and they take them, what, to the Secretary of State?
[40:22] Kim Monson: Or who does that go to to say that This would be undermining our elections when this occurs.
[40:28] Kim Monson: So then what was their next action?
[40:37] Harrison Floyd: So I can't, you know, provide you, like, very step-by-step details of what took place.
[40:50] Harrison Floyd: But what generally takes place, right, when organizations are door-knocking, Let me just also backtrack and say that this has been political activity, door knocking and canvassing, that has taken place since the inception of our country.
[41:05] Harrison Floyd: This is citizens getting involved, getting engaged, going and talking to one another and engaging.
[41:15] Harrison Floyd: So what typically happens in situations like this is when you find out something's wrong, what do you have to do?
[41:24] Harrison Floyd: So the right entity, the right legal entity in this case would be a secretary of state's office.
[41:31] Harrison Floyd: It could also be, right, if anyone's listening and they're wondering what to do, right, you could also take it to the party, whatever political party you're affiliated with, and then they can get a lawyer on board to take the next appropriate legal actions.
[41:50] Harrison Floyd: But the next thing to do is you have to submit it to somebody with the credibility to be able to take it forward and have stand in court.
[41:56] Unknown Voice: Right.
[42:03] Harrison Floyd: It became evident to this when the ball started rolling that this was going to cause problems.
[42:09] Harrison Floyd: And then all of a sudden, here comes the NAACP waving a flag, crying foul, saying that, you know, black people and brown people in Colorado were being intimidated with people who were canvassing armed.
[42:33] Kim Monson: I'm talking with Harrison Floyd, and he is a co-defendant in a case in Georgia.
[42:41] Kim Monson: He started the Statesman Project, and this is regarding a trial that's going to start here in Denver this next Monday.
[42:49] Kim Monson: It's scheduled for Monday through next Friday at the Colorado Federal District Court.
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[42:57] Kim Monson: And so I want to learn more about this particular court case, and we'll continue that here in just a moment.
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[46:19] Kim Monson: He's a co-defendant in a case in Georgia.
[46:24] Kim Monson: And tell us just a little bit more about that case, Harrison Floyd, and starting the Statesman Project.
[46:31] Kim Monson: And then I've got some other questions as well regarding this trial.
[46:34] Kim Monson: And you'd really like to have people show up at Colorado Federal District Court to support Holly and Sean and Ash in this trial next week, yes?
[46:47] Harrison Floyd: Oh, yes, absolutely, because, you know, it's pretty clear through some of the key developments of this case already of what's going on, right?
[46:57] Harrison Floyd: So originally they had a judge who would have more than likely been very fair, but now they have a newly appointed more leftist and activist judge.
[47:08] Harrison Floyd: USEIP was dropped as a co-defendant, and now they're solely focusing on Holly, Sean, and Ash because they want to stop individuals and people from doing this.
[47:21] Harrison Floyd: they've been denied a jury trial, which is incredibly important because that's just a key part of our judicial process, right?
[47:32] Harrison Floyd: The plaintiffs, they only have one witness, and it's a sworn statement of the Act of Mesa County, but actually, well, Hawley has never even canvassed in Colorado or any state.
[47:46] Harrison Floyd: And the organization, USCIP, they weren't even in the county where this witness claims that they were from or where they're claiming where all this activity took place.
[48:04] Harrison Floyd: They want to stop people from Democrats, want to stop people from engaging in the First Amendment activity.
[48:11] Harrison Floyd: And this case could set that precedent and have a nationwide effect.
[48:18] Harrison Floyd: So people, if you're available or can show up and support Denver, it would be greatly appreciated.
[48:25] Kim Monson: Okay, and that starts on Monday, July 15th at Colorado Federal District Court.
[48:31] Kim Monson: How can people get more information about where that is exactly?
[48:37] Kim Monson: Can they get that at the Statesman Project?
[48:39] Kim Monson: or where can people, because I'm sure people say, oh, gosh, I'd like to go, but then you think about parking, da-da-da.
[48:45] Kim Monson: So are there details where people can get more information about where to go exactly?
[48:51] Harrison Floyd: Yeah, so you can, on the Statesman Project, if you want to sign up on the website, you can email and ask for more information.
[49:00] Harrison Floyd: Also, I'm going to be tweeting stuff out on my personal Twitter and the project's Twitter is going to be tweeting out as well.
[49:08] Harrison Floyd: So if you want to follow me, HW underscore Floyd on Twitter, the Statesman Project on Twitter.
[49:30] Kim Monson: You said something along the line in the other segment that they, I thought I'd taken the notes, But they, and I'm wondering who they are, realized that something might be going on and so that they wanted to stop it.
[49:54] Harrison Floyd: So it's the Democrat machine, the Democrat political.
[50:04] Harrison Floyd: And the plaintiffs can canvass, but they want to stop the defendants and other folks, conservatives, anyone who doesn't align with them from canvassing.
[50:15] Harrison Floyd: Canvassing is, you know, as I mentioned before, well-protected First Amendment right.
[50:20] Harrison Floyd: And with a body, there's a body of case law built over decades showing support on both the right and the left, right?
[50:31] Harrison Floyd: It's the freedom to go out and to knock on people's doors and engage with them personally one-on-one, right?
[50:40] Harrison Floyd: They're stopping individuals from creating their own organizations and being protected in a different way through the sort I'm looking for, a different legal structure, right?
[50:54] Harrison Floyd: Because when you create an organization or a nonprofit and you go and engage in activity through that, it holds you.
[51:03] Harrison Floyd: Well, it depends on obviously what the case is, but it's a level of protection.
[51:07] Harrison Floyd: As you can see what they've done here with this case is they stripped away our USEIP from this, and they're specifically attacking Holly, Sean, and Ash, because what they want to do is use individuals to make examples out of them.
[51:26] Harrison Floyd: The same thing that they're doing in Arizona and Georgia and in Michigan where they're attacking electors, right?
[51:34] Harrison Floyd: They're going after people, getting them involved in lawfare and having to pay these crazy legal fees and legal bills to want to get you to back down, to get you to take a plea deal and, in a way, admit guilt or put you under so much legal debt that you're not going to want to engage in this activity again.
[51:58] Harrison Floyd: Our justice system has been weaponized against the American people.
[52:03] Kim Monson: And this Democrat Party, I think it's important, Harrison, to note that this is not the Democrat Party of your grandparents.
[52:10] Kim Monson: This Democrat Party is radical activists with a radical activist agenda.
[52:14] Kim Monson: So what is it that they're so concerned that would be unearthed with this canvassing?
[52:24] Kim Monson: And why are they so concerned about it that they would pull out all stops against Hawley and Ash and Sean?
[52:33] Harrison Floyd: They have been cheating in elections, not just in Colorado, but it's also coming out in Georgia and Arizona and Michigan and Wisconsin.
[52:53] Harrison Floyd: But when they keep winning these elections, people assume that other people around them are going for it and that they should go along with it, too.
[53:03] Harrison Floyd: You know, they were literally where the rubber meets the road.
[53:09] Harrison Floyd: You know, when you ask someone, hey, the Secretary of State's office or whoever is saying that you voted in this election, did you even vote?
[53:21] Harrison Floyd: And they sign an affidavit to that effect saying, I didn't do that.
[53:24] Harrison Floyd: Okay, now you're proving there are violations of election law.
[53:30] Harrison Floyd: you're proving that there is voter fraud at the lowest level possible.
[53:35] Harrison Floyd: And they clearly don't want that because now that messes up, whether it's mail-in ballots or whatever it is that they're doing, however they're doing it in that specific area, that messes up their whole flow and order of operations.
[53:47] Kim Monson: And what that does, we want every person that can legally vote to have the opportunity to vote.
[53:55] Kim Monson: I think that there needs to be some effort and responsibility instead of just getting a ballot in the mail.
[54:02] Kim Monson: But it's important for moderate Democrats, Republicans, unaffiliated conservatives, libertarians to understand that if there are those that are voting or if there are votes that are being cast illegally, that dilutes legal votes.
[54:19] Kim Monson: And that's really voter intimidation.
[54:21] Kim Monson: And I think that's important to understand that.
[54:25] Kim Monson: Again, how can people follow all this, Harrison Floyd?
[54:27] Kim Monson: I so appreciate you joining us today.
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[54:45] Harrison Floyd: And so, again, just like you said, it doesn't matter what your political identity is.
[54:53] Harrison Floyd: You can support this case by following us on signing up on the statesman project.
[55:02] Harrison Floyd: Thank you guys for listening and please, regardless of how you feel, stay engaged and vote.
[55:10] Kim Monson: And that's harrison floyd with the statesman project.
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[58:49] Bill Federer (American Minute): Born a slave around this date, July 12, 1864, George Washington Carver became a black scientist of international renown.
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[59:47] Dr. Larry Arnn (Hillsdale): Contrary to the modern understanding of that term, the Founders understood welfare to mean public good or happiness.
[59:53] Dr. Larry Arnn (Hillsdale): This was understood in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
[59:57] Dr. Larry Arnn (Hillsdale): Such happiness is contingent on securing to each citizen his natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[60:04] Dr. Larry Arnn (Hillsdale): Because this requires the government be limited, the powers of the federal government were enumerated, and local matters were reserved to state authority.
[60:10] Dr. Larry Arnn (Hillsdale): This was precisely intended to secure these inalienable rights and in turn promote the general welfare.
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