00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:11.000Welcome to episode number two of Swing State Update here with Tyler Boyer and Austin Smith, who is actually remote today in Wisconsin, not just doing the work that's necessary in Wisconsin to win, but also celebrating his soon-to-be brother-in-law's wedding.
00:01:55.000So, we want to lead off today with the great Charlie Kirk, who obviously we work together with every single day, out in the field, out in the trenches, trying to save the country, particularly in these three states that we're focused on predominantly, but all the swing states where Turning Point Action's been.
00:02:13.000And I want to preface this by saying this: when I met Charlie Kirk for the first time about a decade ago, which is a crazy thing to think about, right, Charlie?
00:02:30.000But when I first met Charlie, the thing about Charlie that most people get when they get a chance to meet him is they understand that he's a person that's actually doing these things for the right reasons.
00:02:42.000And I'll never forget the moment that I met Charlie, actually, not far from the border of Wisconsin, is right Greenille, Illinois.
00:03:14.000So, with that preface here, we wanted to jump in, you know, talk to Charlie, have a few minutes to talk about a number of different issues, but specifically what's happening here in Arizona, the battle that Charlie has helped ignite with Arizona State University.
00:03:31.000That's the most recent, which is such a pleasure.
00:03:34.000And from there, so Charlie, thanks for being here.
00:04:25.000Yes, I have it right with Dennis, with Dennis Prager.
00:04:28.000I got somebody dates at Arizona State University.
00:04:30.000We have Health, Wealth, and Happiness 2.0.
00:04:33.000The original, of course, we came to ASU back in the spring and 30 professors signed all these letters saying that Prager and Kirk shouldn't be allowed on campus.
00:04:43.000And Austin, it turned in this whole fight legislatively, you know, at the Capitol.
00:04:49.000And now we're like, okay, we're coming back.
00:04:51.000And so I don't think Mr. Crow is very happy that we're coming back, but so be it.
00:04:56.000And it's really kind of turned into this major free speech thing, hasn't it, Austin?
00:05:00.000It's funny because so we were even, you know, in session when Charlie and Dennis Prager did the original health and wellness thing, and everybody heard about it.
00:05:08.000The liberals on campus had their panties and a wad, all this stuff.
00:05:11.000And they're the racist, the sexist, blah, blah, blah.
00:05:15.000And so actually, you know, staff got fired for it just by freedom of association.
00:05:21.000And so we had that whole ad hoc committee regarding freedom of expression at Arizona universities.
00:05:26.000I was on it, got appointed off as one of three Republicans from the House.
00:05:31.000And we had Prager and some of these other people that were involved in ASU go do that committee at the house.
00:05:37.000And if you would be so shocked about how ASU and all these other universities, they just, they, they flat out lie about how they actually don't support free speech, freedom of expression, all that good stuff.
00:05:49.000So we're happy that Charlie and Dennis Prager are going back because it's going to be a lot more fun now that we know ASU is kind of on the ropes about it.
00:05:56.000And the Board of Regents have consistently, you know, said that we can't do anything about it.
00:06:01.000They're doing everything they need to.
00:06:07.000Let's set this up for a minute too, just to revamp.
00:06:11.000So for those of you that are across the country that don't know about this issue, so Charlie and Dennis showed up to ASU to speak, invited by one of the official arms of ASU to do this event.
00:06:26.000It was the, it was the Lewis Center, which is actually supported by T.W. Lewis, who's one of the bigger home builders across the country.
00:06:35.000And T.W. Lewis is a conservative, is a person, at least a free speech supporter.
00:06:42.000And T.W. Lewis, Tom Lewis, I believe is his first name, that supports the center at ASU, has given millions of dollars to universities and including a commitment, a gift that was planned on being a future hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars in the future.
00:07:02.000And as soon as this happened, you know, Charlie, and I don't know if you've, I think you recently sat down with Mr. Lewis, did you not?
00:07:10.000Yeah, and we had a great chat and he's pulled all this funding now from the university because of what happened back in the spring.
00:07:57.000And so he's literally saying, like, I demand you take off all of our, because obviously all the professors were like going and complaining to him, like, oh, we're complaining.
00:08:20.000And here, and that's, and that's a, this is a perfect example with Michael Crowe is he's the guy who's like, ASU is the best free speech place in the country.
00:08:47.000I had finished my term on the regents.
00:08:49.000And so I was forced to sit next to President Crow every time we had a board of regents meeting.
00:08:54.000And I remember sitting there with him next to him at one of these regents meetings.
00:09:00.000And I had just recently been nominated by the extraordinarily conservative supermajority legislature that was voting me in with the governor, Governor Brewer, and then the super majority legislature had voted me in as regent.
00:09:14.000And so it was like this big hubbub about me being super conservative.
00:09:17.000And the Democrats tried to block me and they failed because they were super minority at the time.
00:10:02.000So, anyways, yeah, Charlie, this is crazy.
00:10:03.000So this is this 2.0 is big and it's big for Arizona because this is really, I mean, it's cost Arizona State University millions of dollars.
00:10:13.000Probably, you know, maybe tens of millions of dollars when all said and done.
00:10:18.000And the academia industrial complex that exists under Michael Crow and everyone else is just has to be targeted.
00:10:25.000And so, you know, God bless you for doing that.
00:10:27.000And I know that's like at the heartbeat of Turning Point USA, too.
00:10:47.000Kirk and Prager announced their return after despite months of ongoing controversy.
00:10:52.000And so then one of these professors, who's on our professor watch list, by the way, Michael Ostling, says, I need to speak out and stand in solidarity with the people that this group of trolls so delights in bullying and vilifying.
00:12:00.000I mean, but this whole thing is crazy.
00:12:01.000I mean, and this is why Professor Watchlist is so important.
00:12:04.000Um, the work, I mean, this is the brainchild of Charlie Kirk, too, by the way.
00:12:08.000And there's been nothing that's been more annoying to professors across America than the professor watch list.
00:12:15.000Yep, right, like it has just really interfered with.
00:12:18.000And by the way, it's like it, it's a, it, it gets a fair amount of traffic, not like a ton, but just the fact they're listed, they just lose their mind.
00:12:27.000Like, they lose spikes though, it spikes though.
00:12:30.000Like, it's like, we'll have like professor watch list goes up and they get they get it, they get so angry, and so, but it's free speech, that's what it is.
00:12:39.000At the end of the day, it's telling people what these professors are doing in the classroom, which is what the whole intent is.
00:12:45.000So, well, even with like how Professor Watch lists these people in Arizona, like being the swing state that it is, and the Tempe district, this, I think that's the Sun Devil precinct, Tyler, if I'm not mistaken.
00:12:57.000That's how these professors, they're the ones who mobilize all of these students to vote Democrat up and down the ballot with their mail-in ballots or at the polls at the precincts, vote centers in Tempe on election day.
00:13:09.000So, all these ones that are bastardizing Charlie and Prager and Turning Point, these are the ones who mobilize all those students to vote on election day or mail-in ballot.
00:13:18.000And they're in the heart of the way you want to call the Tomahawk, which Tyler will talk about as the podcast goes on in Maricopa County.
00:13:27.000So, these are the people that we are toe-to-toe with all the time coming to win elections in Arizona, specifically Maricopa County.
00:13:35.000It's what is necessary to save the republic.
00:14:44.000I mean, if you had to just kind of isolate it, it's Maricopa, Cobb, Fulton, Dane, Kenosha, Milwaukee.
00:14:49.000If you had to just go with that, right?
00:14:51.000It's just, and I, I mean, I live in the Tomahawk, right?
00:14:53.000I, my neighbors, not to tell my audience where I live, but the general idea is in the valley, you know, I live in Scottsdale and I'm around people that are temperamentally conservative, but they are not, they're not sold yet to pull the Republican ballot all the time.
00:15:20.000I can tell you, like, they find this whole idea of the trans stuff crazy.
00:15:23.000It's just they're very agreeable, very chamber of commerce, like business, like that.
00:15:28.000But with proper communication, messaging, and organizing, and low-propensity ballot gathering, we could do so much better in these precincts.
00:16:00.000I mean, this is where the entire thing is won and lost, right?
00:16:03.000That's the entire, that's the entire shebang, is what we call it.
00:16:07.000So, yeah, thank you for all the support.
00:16:10.000Thank you for preaching that to everybody everywhere we go, the work that we're doing at Turning Point Action.
00:16:16.000We just are so grateful for your leadership and your friendship and the way that you cast this for all activists, because every person in every community has to become an activist, even part-time, super, super part-time.
00:16:31.000That is what we talk about all the time.
00:16:33.000So, thank you so much for everything, Charlie.
00:16:40.000I mean, that's a great transition, Austin, too.
00:16:43.000I mean, look, as we start talking about the swing states and we talk about these things, and we've got a lot, we've got a big show here to talk about a number of different things coming up.
00:16:52.000But, you know, in Wisconsin in particular, you've got this concept, which is they've trained their activists in the Democrat Party to be activists.
00:17:03.000Talk a little bit about that versus, you know, what we've done with training our people to become activists.
00:17:10.000Yeah, the Democrat Party has really figured out for the last several election cycles of using their activists within the party to mobilize what we need to do.
00:17:20.000And so as we're only in episode two right now with our podcast, but as time goes on and you'll hear Tyler and I talk about this, is that the party has not always been the best mechanism for activists, but the Democrats figured it out to mobilize their activists with other organizations.
00:17:35.000So like at Turning Point Action, we've got our activists that we use to be precinct committeemen to mobilize, to knock doors, to chase the vote.
00:17:41.000The Democrats have been doing this for a very long time.
00:17:44.000And so in states like Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, the parties have farmed a lot of that workout to other CIFORs, other PACs, other nonprofits.
00:17:54.000And so that's what we're trying to do at Turning Point Action.
00:17:57.000Well, let's go to the clip to Ben Wickler, who's the chairman of the Democrat Party of Wisconsin, and what he says they're already preparing for.
00:18:10.000We'll be knocking on doors in Republican state legislative districts to make sure that voters from this spring know what Republicans are publicly threatening to do.
00:18:20.000Our volunteers will be calling voters, sending text messages, organizing friend banks where people reach out to the people that they know who trust them and make sure that the word gets out.
00:18:30.000I anticipate allied organizations will unveil a massive ad campaign in the days to come that will help educate the Wisconsin public about a move that perhaps Robin Voss thinks he can get away with in the cloak of darkness.
00:18:44.000The reality is everyone will know what Republicans are trying to do in this moment.
00:18:48.000If they try to abuse and break our Constitution to impeach Janet Protasewitz, they will reap the whirlwind.
00:18:56.000He's the chairman of the Democrat Party.
00:18:58.000And what he's saying is that they are already preparing for Republicans in the legislature in Wisconsin To impeach Janet Pratisayowicz.
00:19:10.000And Janet Pratisowicz is the recently elected Supreme Court justice.
00:19:15.000We just talked about her last episode, right?
00:19:17.000We're going to be super focused on her because she is the linchpin to Wisconsin in terms of the Democrat eyes.
00:19:25.000So she's basically more important than the governor.
00:19:28.000She's more important than the legislature.
00:19:31.000She is the most critical piece the Democrats fought so hard for to make sure that she got on the Supreme Court.
00:19:37.000So Republicans rightfully are talking about doing the right thing, which is if they're going to, if they're going to move forward and start talking about how they're going to start changing election code, last week we talked about how the Supreme Court is replacing staff members, all these things, they're talking about rightfully, conservatives are talking about impeaching her, which the legislature can do.
00:19:59.000And we're going to talk with Janelle Branchin, who's in the legislature there at some point here in the future.
00:20:06.000But I want to make sure that everybody knows a little, has a little bit more context of what's going on in Wisconsin.
00:20:12.000So you've got all of our activists on the ground.
00:20:16.000We're trying to play catch up to the Democrats, who you just heard Ben, Chairman Ben of the Democratic Party, Ben Dem, is talking about already preparing a $4 million effort to stop the threats of impeaching Janet.
00:20:32.000And Republicans are arguing with them over whether or not we should impeach Janet.
00:21:12.000And so a lot of conservatives are really upset with him because this is the type of stuff that we're talking about.
00:21:17.000The Democrats are lining up $4 million to just oppose the idea of impeaching.
00:21:23.000Meanwhile, Republicans have absolutely no balls to go do anything that is actually going to help the movement.
00:21:30.000This is the kind of stuff that matters, Tyler.
00:21:32.000And we've talked about this all the time.
00:21:33.000For those of you that don't know that I'm in the Arizona House of Representatives, every person that you vote for, everybody lives in a legislative district.
00:21:41.000Yes, you vote for them, but the most important vote that they ever make on behalf of you is who they elect for leadership.
00:21:47.000And this is when you want your speaker of the house, your senate president, your majority leaders to have the stones to be like, you know what?
00:21:53.000We're going to go out and raise another $4 million to protect our members who are being threatened that if they vote for impeachment, that we've got their backs.
00:22:01.000And this is what separates us between the Democrats right now is because they've got the $4 or $5 million on hand to be able to threaten probably some establishment members or other Republican members that are in some swing districts.
00:22:15.000When you have a Supreme Court that is willing to upend the rule of law or a member of the court that's willing to be that lynchman that Tyler is talking about to do something that is radical, that's leftist, that is not in line with the Constitution, that's willing to throw away, you know, voting laws statute, like the Supreme Court is probably more than likely going to do in Wisconsin.
00:22:38.000You've got to have a legislature that's going to step in there and say, we're going to impeach justices if they're going to break the law like this.
00:22:45.000And so if the speaker of the house, there, whatever his bucket name is in Wisconsin, isn't willing to do that, then you've got to get, they don't have a freedom caucus in Wisconsin, but hopefully there's some conservative members that are going to approach them and say, you know what?
00:22:59.000We will work our tails off to protect these members that are maybe in swing districts because at the end of the day, the Supreme Court is going to have a way bigger impact on the presidential election in 2024 than the legislature is.
00:23:13.000We got to have those kind of people to step up.
00:23:16.000So, I mean, I mean, it's a great point.
00:23:19.000You know, here in Arizona, we have, I think we're ahead of the game where we have conservatives more focused on becoming activist oriented, whether they're in the legislature.
00:23:27.000I mean, we have way more activists that are matching the number of activists that the Democrats have in the legislature, right?
00:23:58.000No one wants to, you know, attack anyone publicly for sure, but they don't even do it privately.
00:24:04.000You know, there's not even, it's just like a culture that exists within the Midwest.
00:24:09.000And I always talked about this with Charlie too.
00:24:11.000I was like, you guys kind of just like dodge around stuff, right?
00:24:14.000That's just like the way that they go about things.
00:24:16.000And so people, when you do that, you have herd mentality type things that start happening, right?
00:24:21.000Which is just like, you just kind of go with the entire herd.
00:24:25.000And that's the way that the legislature right now, Wisconsin's voting.
00:24:28.000They're voting as a block, which is great.
00:24:30.000It's great to see all the Republicans unified.
00:24:32.000And on its face value, that looks really good.
00:24:35.000But what's really critical is that, you know, in the background, they're not having, I don't think, enough conversations with enough patriots that are on the legislature, which there are a few.
00:24:45.000There's a handful of really, really great people in Wisconsin where they're pushing to the next level.
00:24:52.000Like here in Arizona, we have a really great freedom caucus that Austin's part of.
00:24:57.000That's that, they are helping, you know, change how the legislature looks at every single vote.
00:25:04.000That's not necessarily happening in Wisconsin right now.
00:25:12.000That kind of stuff does make a difference because, you know, you've got to have a legislature in these swing states, Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona.
00:25:20.000We were just talking about Georgia last week with Fannie Willis and the legislature.
00:25:24.000They're trying to do a special session.
00:25:27.000You've got the Democrat Party chair threatening these members.
00:25:29.000You actually, this is why it's so important for these activists to be in these certain areas to play just as aggressively as the left is doing.
00:25:37.000Because like Tyler mentioned, they have the Midwest NICE.
00:25:40.000They're manipulating that Midwest NICE to not fight back or to stand up or defend themselves, especially like the Republican legislature.
00:25:47.000So this should be a really important wake-up call for Wisconsin, for places like Georgia, and even here in Arizona.
00:25:54.000When the left is willing to say, like, we've got $5 million, $4 million to take some of these swing members out in a swing state.
00:26:00.000That's why it's so important for your conservative activists to say, we've got your back.
00:26:16.000And this is what's really, you hit the nail on the head, Austin, which is if there's one thing for every activist that's listening to this that needs to do is you've got to, I want you to drop everything that you're doing right now.
00:26:27.000Go to your legislator, go to the nearest Republican that's serving in the legislature right now and tell them that you have their back.
00:26:54.000It's, I mean, I get like, just from personal experience, like three or four people to be like, hey, we really want you.
00:27:00.000Like, perfect example, earlier this year, we had a really big vote on Prop 400.
00:27:03.000Three or four people that I know that are like really good conservative activists giving me that encouragement to do it really goes a long way.
00:27:10.000So, like what Tyler's talking about, just text those and be like, We've got your back.
00:27:15.000And this is, I can tell you, as a former legislative district chair, which is the person who gets elected for the Republican Party for your area, that's like your leader.
00:27:26.000And I remember when we had Medicaid expansion votes almost 10 years ago, it was about 10 years ago here in Arizona that would have aided Obamacare.
00:27:35.000We had members of our legislature that were in my community that were wanted to go vote for it.
00:27:41.000And we said, I picked up the phone and said no.
00:27:43.000And it made a big impact because it's just, there's so much that happens that you don't realize that the legislature or that doesn't happen because activists just sit by and think, oh, I'm too, I'm too sheepish.
00:27:55.000I'm too scared to call and encourage them to do the right thing.
00:29:44.000He's no longer the chair, but he received yesterday an eight-page solicitation from Wade and Campbell law firm to represent me in the Trump indictment against Fulton County and Fannie Willis.
00:30:20.000So what he says, the guy that's pictured on the cover, Nathan Wade, who is the partner at Wade and Campbell, is the special prosecutor appointed by Fannie Willis to go after Donald Trump.
00:30:37.000So, the guy who's appointed as special prosecutor, the Trump special prosecutor, appointed by Fannie Willis, has sent a solicitation to one of the guys that's been indicted that was just an elector, that was the former state party chair, a political enemy to Fannie Willis, as the person that should be his representation, the firm that should be his representation.
00:31:11.000Let's go back two weeks now when Colton Moore, Senator Colton Moore, said we need to have a special session in the Georgia legislature because there's something more at hand here with Fannie Willis.
00:31:20.000This just proves it that she's got somebody going in after David Schaefer like this.
00:31:37.000Now it's time for a Georgia special session.
00:31:39.000Colton Moore, I'm calling on you, brother, get your special session, Brian Kemp, approve it because Fannie Willis is deliberately doing this bullshit.
00:31:47.000Excuse my pardon my French to go after a political dissident.
00:31:57.000I mean, so they literally, at best for them, this is just they are so aloof and have no idea what's going on that that this was just like some kind of automated mail.
00:32:14.000This it says on there literally somebody somebody prepared this from the firm that has the guy's face on the cover.
00:32:21.000You know, either they're doing this intentionally, which I believe that there's elements of that that they're where they're just trying to laugh at conservatives or they're just so aloof.
00:32:34.000And this is why, you know, this, and there's similar things happening in Michigan, by the way, where they've tried to go after the electors in Michigan.
00:32:42.000You know, obviously, you know, I'm an elector.
00:32:45.000I was an elector here in Arizona for the Republican Party.
00:32:49.000They want to put away political enemies.
00:32:54.000And they have now sent a solicitation to the former GOP chair suggesting that the guy whose face is on the cover, who is who's going after Trump, should be the person that criminally defends him.
00:33:09.000This is, this is, you want to talk about Banana Republic stuff?
00:33:17.000And this is the reason why it should be taken out of Fanny's hands.
00:33:20.000This should be looked at at a federal level.
00:33:23.000It'll get dismissed, I think, right away.
00:33:25.000I think this thing will work its way through.
00:33:27.000But they want this thing to, they want to be able to manipulate low information voters, one, two, three percent of voters, just to try to win elections.
00:34:40.000If you were eavesdropping when James and I were talking before we went on the air, this is exactly the topic we were talking about.
00:34:45.000I was in an intelligence committee meeting today where we were discussing this issue.
00:34:50.000And we really need to focus most of the, well, first, 50% of the illegal aliens in the United States came here legally on some kind of visa that they overstayed.
00:35:01.000So that's a record-keeping problem that I think the Department of Homeland Security really has to get on.
00:35:09.000As far as the border is concerned, the real issue is asylum.
00:35:12.000These aren't necessarily people that are sneaking across the border or swimming the river.
00:35:16.000They're people that are coming under our laws, claiming asylum from being in danger for their lives.
00:35:24.000The question is: are those valid claims?
00:35:26.000And do we have the infrastructure to determine their valid claims within a reasonable period of time, not having them in the United States waiting for a determination for years and years?
00:35:37.000I mean, that's one of the problems is we don't have the judges and the courts and the infrastructure to make these asylum decisions in a timely way.
00:35:46.000And also, a question that I asked have been asking is: if somebody goes through three or four different countries claiming they're in danger in their home country, why do they have to come here?
00:35:56.000Why aren't they safe once they get to another country?
00:35:59.000I think that's a legitimate question that we have to address.
00:36:02.000Yeah, lots of questions to ask here for sure.
00:36:05.000And it is a crisis, all of these things.
00:36:11.000So if you read between the lines, what's going on here is that the legislature, Congress is talking about only funding border security, which has been a priority of this new Republican Congress.
00:36:27.000We're going to make sure that this gets in front of Biden is talking about that, but only if, you know, what Lankford said here, if we fund Ukraine, which is what they're telling us.
00:36:42.000So, you know, whispers have been happening here that first off, that first it was to drop border security and talk about it because it's just too tough to get through and get the Democrats on board for, which again, that's not what the promise was.
00:36:58.000The promise from Congress was border security.
00:37:27.000This is why the speakers' fight back earlier in the year was so important, why the Freedom Caucus held the line, is because Kevin McCarthy said that he wasn't going to do crap like this, that we weren't going to have stuff tied together when it came to funding bills or members are going to get 72-something hours to read it.
00:37:44.000But this is also why so many Republicans hate the Republican Party.
00:37:48.000And so we can't get upset and mad when other people say they want to leave the party or form their own thing.
00:37:53.000It's because of stuff like this, where Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona is facing the blunt of the border crisis.
00:38:02.000Why are there other members with our own party that are saying, like, you know what?
00:38:07.000Yes, we'll give money to Arizona, the border sheriffs, to Cochise County, to Yuma, to Pima County, and Santa Cruz County.
00:38:43.000And so I understand why all these Republicans get frustrated for it and why people get really pissed off because you've got the McCarthys who say at the very beginning, when they become Speaker of the House and they go to Sean Hannity or wherever they are on Fox News and say, yeah, we're going to fund the border, but we're also going to give another billion dollars to Ukraine.
00:39:02.000The fact of the matter is that when you come to Arizona, I know Andy Biggs is really big on this.
00:39:06.000He does a great job of bringing other Republican members of Congress down to the Arizona border and saying, like, this is where our attention, our focus needs to be, because a lot of members who run for Congress and they say, yeah, yeah, we're going to secure the border.
00:39:18.000But until you've actually been to Arizona, until you've actually seen it, you don't understand what's going on.
00:39:22.000And so you get these other members who have been in DC for a long time or who may have been, you know, big checks from the Warhawk caucus who want to fund Ukraine.
00:39:32.000Now we're in this situation where you've got McCarthy, who's more than likely, I have a prediction that McCarthy is not going to get a majority of the Freedom Caucus support for this spending bill by September 30th.
00:39:43.000And he's going to have to go buy Democrat votes.
00:39:45.000I think that's where we're at right now because they've already showed their hand that, yes, we'll get border security, but Ukraine's going to get just as much or probably more.
00:39:56.000And for the grassroots that's out there, our Freedom Caucus members are fighting the good fight to make sure that border security actually happens, right?
00:40:03.000So part of the deal that happened when the McCarthy battle happened was, and we go back, was that the border security element had to be part of this Congress, right?
00:40:16.000And that was one of their big, big issues that was on the table.
00:40:25.000The holdouts, quote unquote, that were there that led to McCarthy getting really embarrassed over this whole thing was this was one of the big issues that they were afraid was not going to happen.
00:40:36.000And so, you know, when we actually get into this, right now, Turning Point Action is supporting the Freedom Caucus members who are fighting that battle.
00:40:47.000And don't get me wrong, there's a number of activists that are out there right now going like, we actually, the Freedom Caucus could pull right now a vote to have Speaker McCarthy re-looked at, re-evaluated, the vacate the chair motion, right?
00:41:02.000Which is something that got put back into.
00:41:05.000So this is part of the reason why McCarthy is going to move on this.
00:41:08.000He is, but again, this is the games that they play.
00:41:10.000So now it's moved from, okay, we are going to fund border security, but you guys are going to have to come across the table on Ukraine funding.
00:41:20.000And so this is where, first off, we need to support the Freedom Caucus in funding the border wall, funding border security.
00:41:30.000Turning point action is actually running an Align Act where you can just with a few clicks of the button actually contact all the members of Congress just real easily.
00:41:40.000You can go to tpaction.com slash nofunding.
00:41:44.000That's tpaction.com slash nofunding and go right on, click, I believe it's take action, which is the button that's on there.
00:41:53.000It'll take you right over to the campaign and it'll just take you a couple minutes and you can let your members of Congress know that you support no funding for this government, the federal government, shut down the federal government until the Democrats agree to border security.
00:42:10.000Now, the second issue, which is the Ukraine issue, we're telling you to get out ahead of this now, right?
00:42:16.000Which is reach out to your members of Congress, just like I was talking about with Austin, a couple text messages to a member of Congress locally and say, dude, enough with the funding of Ukraine.
00:43:53.000But the bigger issue is that you got to keep your eye on these people who are going to support something like this if it does go through with this plan to support Ukraine that don't talk about the Ukraine issue at all and then just focus on border security because those are the wolves and sheep's clothing, right?
00:44:13.000Those are the individuals who are members of Congress who are just explicitly lying to you.
00:44:19.000And this is part of the reason why we're doing this show, right?
00:44:21.000This is part of the reason why we're doing this update because this matters.
00:44:41.000And, you know, we're going to be calling them out, especially if that does come true.
00:44:46.000So a hat tip to Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, and Eli Crane, who have been very vocal and publicly out in front of this because they're Arizona's delegation.
00:44:57.000And those three guys have been very vocal saying that, you know, no security, no funding.
00:45:08.000And just so you know how great Arizona is, you know, compared to other states, just try to get to your percentage levels that we have of Freedom Caucus members in Congress.
00:45:24.000So, yeah, when you get to our levels, you know, with the size of our state as a percentage of Freedom Caucus members, you can come at us.
00:45:32.000But right now, you know, Eli Crane has been such a pleasant surprise, to be honest with you, because we've had some really bad Navy SEALs get in there, like, you know, the he who shall not from Houston.
00:46:28.000So, anyways, let's move to close here.
00:46:32.000Our time is up, Austin, for this week.
00:46:34.000But we want to leave everybody with action points here, which is Turning Point Action is leading the charge here with helping people make a plan to vote, becoming precinct leaders.
00:46:43.000That's what your team is doing, Austin.
00:46:48.000So, Turning Point Action owns coalitions.com.
00:46:51.000So, you can really easily just tell a friend, go to coalitions.com to get involved in your community, attending our events.
00:46:57.000We're going to have tons of events next year, you know, particularly around ballot chasing.
00:47:03.000And then ultimately, our Chase the Vote initiative, which might be covered up here on the graphic, but Chase the Vote is the initiative that we launched to help our activists, both volunteer and full-time, identify, ballot identify, and chase votes down so that we turn out significantly more of those low propensity votes that Charlie was talking about at the top of the hour here.
00:47:27.000And, Austin, I don't know if you want to give us any updates or stories of how things are looking in the field, but we need everybody that's listening to this to get involved.
00:47:35.000Spend just a few minutes of your time getting involved.
00:47:38.000You can go to tpaction.com/slash get involved right away.
00:47:43.000So, one of our staff members will be in contact.
00:47:45.000If you're not in a key target state, meaning one of the 10 states that is purplish, you know, for the presidency, that you know, we need you to think about coming here in the month of October of next year.
00:47:59.000So, a year from now when the election exists, so that we can help put you to work to help us chase ballots.
00:48:06.000If we do, if we get just a few hundred extra volunteers here in Arizona, that can make a significant difference.
00:48:12.000And everybody that's listening to this can plan ahead now to spend a week or two potentially out in Arizona next year to help save the country.
00:48:21.000Austin, how are things going out in the field?
00:48:22.000Give us a quick update before we wrap up.
00:48:25.000A big shout out to our team in Florida who has been signing up precinct committeemen in the Tampa area.
00:48:31.000They've been showing up at gun stores, meeting local gun store owners there, signing up people to be precinct committeemen that are like-minded, that love the Second Amendment.
00:48:41.000If you're somebody who loves the Second Amendment and you want to be involved in protecting that right, you've got to be a precinct committee man.
00:48:47.000You've got to be in the PC to be able to make sure you elect a legislator that will support your right to support the Second Amendment.
00:48:53.000And so, big shout out to the Florida team who's been all over gun stores in the Tampa area this week.
00:49:01.000Thankful that our team in Florida has not given up the fight so they can get concealed carry all the way constitutional carry in a place like Florida.
00:49:10.000And we have some wonderful leaders, you know, Brett and the entire Wisconsin team.
00:49:15.000We're going to be hearing from him, I think, a lot more in the coming weeks here on the show.
00:49:21.000And then Dreanna and our and our entire Georgia team, we are putting new staff into North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan.
00:49:34.000We have some great new, incredible staff.
00:49:36.000I don't know if we have the picture pulled up here, but oh man, I think we should show this picture.
00:49:42.000And even and even, I'll mention in Pennsylvania, we've got a new guy in there, Noah.
00:49:47.000It was like his second day or first day on the job.
00:49:50.000He's out there signing up precinct committee men only after a few days of training.
00:50:57.000This was Riley who took this picture, which we have some great materials that are out there.
00:51:03.000This is one of my favorites, which is that Joe Biden tried to sniff me because he's so unpopular, right?
00:51:09.000Like actually, I think it was an MSNBC poll just came out about how unpopular.
00:51:16.000Let's throw the picture back up again.
00:51:19.000He's one of the most unpopular presidents that we've ever had.
00:51:22.000There was a MSNBC quote or article came up today that Charlie shared with me that was that they're so worried now that Trump's just going to waltz into the presidency because Joe Biden's hated so much.
00:51:36.000And you look at Michigan, dude, we're going to win Michigan if patriots step up and look at this.
00:51:42.000And we have some incredible activists there on the ground that are preaching the good word, not just about the good things that we need to do, getting people active, chasing ballots and everything that we need to do to win infrastructure-wise, but also talking about how just freaking awful Joe Biden is and embarrassing it is to support him.
00:51:59.000And there's communities all over Detroit and the Detroit metro area.
00:52:04.000I just don't think they're going to show up the same way and buy the baloney to vote for Joe Biden again.
00:52:09.000Like, I think he's just so, so unelectable the same way that Hillary Clinton was unelectable, that we have a real chance to win Michigan.
00:52:15.000So that should be, if you guys can't see, if you're listening on podcast, you can go to my feed.
00:52:23.000I think I'll pin this picture because it's so great.
00:52:25.000And Riley did such a great job with it.
00:52:28.000But it's such an incredible, incredible indictment against, you know, when we talk about indictments against Joe Biden and the criminal enterprise that his family is running.
00:52:38.000I think people in Michigan are going to figure it out.
00:52:40.000It doesn't really matter what community you come from.
00:52:43.000So, you know, with that, again, I just want to reiterate: there's some things that you need to do.
00:52:49.000If you're here in Arizona, I hope you'll show up on September 27th for the Charlie Kirk event that's happening at Arizona State University.
00:52:57.000The link for that, I believe, Austin, do you have the link that's handy?
00:53:27.000Now, your second thing that you have to do is go to tpaction.com/slash no funding and contact your member of Congress right away to tell them that we expect the border to get funded and that there will be no other federal funding if they if they can't do that, get that done.
00:53:46.000And let's hold our members, particularly the Freedom Caucus, accountable to this because they said that this is what they were demanding McCarthy did from the beginning here.
00:53:55.000So go to tpaction.com/slash no funding to get that done right away.
00:53:59.000And then, lastly, as we said, we'd love for you to get involved.
00:54:02.000Dedicate, start mentally preparing yourself to the few minutes a month, the few minutes a year that we need you to spend to get involved, to make a plan to vote, become a precinct leader, join a coalition, attend our events, and help us chase the ballots, chase the votes.
00:54:17.000You can go to tpaction.com slash get involved, or you can just download the turning point action application right on your iPhone or your Google or Android phone today.
00:54:28.000If you just go straight to the Google store or the app store, download the Turning Point Action app, not Turning Point USA, the Turning Point Action application.
00:54:40.000If you go in there and press the top left-hand corner, there's a little arrow.
00:54:44.000It's going to ask you to type in your phone number so you can get the activism tools on there to help you start knocking doors in your community.
00:54:53.000We have an application built in there so you can go right in, start knocking doors.
00:54:58.000It'll grab your geographic location and tell you the closest 15 doors to go knock, start making relationships with other good Republicans and ask them to help you get involved.
00:55:13.000It'll save those contacts in your phone.
00:55:15.000You can follow up with them later, but you can start knocking doors today.
00:55:19.000Nothing's holding anyone here back from knocking doors and talking to good, active Republicans and getting them involved, recruiting them to become precinct committeemen, precinct captains, and helping us win in 2024.
00:55:33.000So with that, Austin, I don't know if you have any final parting words here before we sign up.
00:55:38.000tpaction.com slash get involved go there at the end of this podcast get involved you're not actually in the republican party unless you're a precinct committee man or a preaching chair so thank you guys for tuning in for episode two god bless we'll see you guys next week thanks so much hope you enjoyed the swing state update everybody make sure you subscribe god bless For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.