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0:05I know we've got 25 days before this
0:07election. Y'all are fired up and I think
0:10you've heard a lot of speakers tonight
0:12talking about what's at stake.
0:15I want to share a few stories with you
0:16and a few things that I'm most concerned
0:18about in the hopes that you take those
0:21home as things to reflect on and things
0:23that I hope will inspire you and remind
0:27you about how much power every single
0:30one of you has in your own voice.
0:36I will start with one of my favorites,
0:38Abraham Lincoln. when he was 28 years
0:41old, he gave an iconic speech that
0:44people don't really talk about enough
0:47because he wasn't president at the time,
0:49but it's it's has been one of the most
0:51impactful speeches for me. It was in
0:53Springfield, Illinois,
0:55and it was at the lysum, and I'll give
0:57you one line from it, but encourage you
0:59to go and look it up. He said, "If
1:01destruction be our lot, we must
1:04ourselves be its author and finisher."
1:09As a nation of free men, we must live
1:12through all time or die by suicide.
1:18As a nation of free men, we must live
1:21through all time or die by suicide.
1:26It doesn't get much more direct than
1:27that. As we think about every one of us
1:30and our own individual and collective
1:33responsibility
1:34to carry on the legacy of freedom that
1:37our founders envisioned for this great
1:40country. And what better time to do that
1:43than now as we head into this election
1:45and now as we observe and celebrate 250
1:48years since our country declared its
1:50independence.
1:53We saw a lot of big celebrations in
1:55Washington DC. Maybe some of you were
1:56there and a part of them. But along with
1:59all of those celebrations, it's it's
2:01essential that we are cleareyed and take
2:04an assessment of where we are and what
2:07the next 250 years needs to look like.
2:10And in doing that, we need to address
2:13the very real and direct threats that we
2:15face to our freedom today.
2:18these threats to the very vision that
2:21our founders had for us. A free nation
2:24where our God-given rights are enshrined
2:26in our founding documents where we have
2:28a constitution that exists not to grant
2:33us rights and powers, but specifically
2:35to keep our government in check from
2:38overreaching and abusing its power to
2:41undermine our freedoms and our liberty.
2:49To guarantee our right to speak freely,
2:52to guarantee our right to worship as we
2:56choose or not at all, to guarantee our
2:59right to bear arms, to guarantee our
3:02right to privacy and protection from
3:05warrantless search and surveillance.
3:12So if we want to keep living free in
3:15this amazing country that we love, every
3:18one of us has to heed Abraham Lincoln's
3:20warning and take that responsibility
3:23upon ourselves. When we look at our
3:26constitution and we look at those who
3:28who drafted the constitution, they were
3:30very intentional in the first three
3:32words that they chose in writing the
3:34preamble. What is it?
3:37>> We the people.
3:39We the people. You got it.
3:44But what does we the people mean? It's
3:46more than just three words. It is a
3:48reminder and a call to action to every
3:50single one of us.
3:52To every single one of us, reminding us
3:54that the power that this government has
3:57comes from us. It's not the other way
4:00around.
4:02>> And that is where our responsibility
4:04comes into play. not only to choose who
4:06we want to vote for in an election, but
4:09once the election passes to ensure that
4:13those leaders are carrying out the
4:15promises and their responsibility to
4:18that oath that they take to the
4:20constitution.
4:22Now, when we go back to Philadelphia in
4:241787, the constitutional convention, uh
4:28the the crafters of the constitutional
4:30had just wrapped up days and days and
4:31days of work behind closed doors.
4:33Benjamin Franklin walks out of
4:35Independence Hall and he gets stopped by
4:36a woman named Elizabeth Powell and she
4:39says,"Well,
4:40what do we have? A republic or a
4:43monarchy?"
4:45And Franklin says, "A republic if you
4:48can keep it."
4:50If you
4:52can keep it,
4:55that's us talking to every single one of
4:58us. And so I want to talk a little bit
5:00about a few of what I view as the
5:02greatest threats that we face
5:03imminently.
5:05When we look at how our freedom is
5:07eroded, we can look in in where we are
5:09now. We can look throughout our
5:11generation's history and generations
5:13before. When it happens, it's usually
5:16not something that is just glaring and
5:18blatant and in your face. Usually, it's
5:20something that's traded away bit by bit
5:22and eroded slowly here and there. But
5:24almost every time you look at each of
5:26these examples,
5:29we are told, uh, this is in your best
5:32interest. We need to take away a little
5:34bit of your liberty, a little bit of
5:35your freedom because it's for your own
5:36good. It's for your own safety. It's for
5:39your own security. How many times did we
5:42see this during CO? Over and over again,
5:46people were censored because they dared
5:48to ask questions or challenge Dr.
5:50Fouch's manufactured lies.
5:56We saw how doctors
6:00uh whose oath is to do no do no harm,
6:03how they were stripped of their board
6:05certifications. How in California I
6:07heard Ken Paxton talk about uh you know
6:09not wanting Texas to become like
6:11California. Well, back then California
6:13passed a lot of punished doctors who
6:15disagreed with the so-called science
6:17that apparently only Dr. Fouchy was
6:19allowed to define until a federal court
6:22blocked that unconstitutional law. We
6:26saw the Biden White House. They censored
6:30uh and directed social media companies
6:32to censor people who were daring to
6:35challenge the Fouchy narrative and
6:37daring to put out other information that
6:39they found based on their own research.
6:42Zuckerberg confirmed this even though no
6:44one in the Biden administration has. I
6:47remember when they they they created
6:49this very shortlived disinformation
6:51governance board. You guys remember
6:52that?
6:54>> I went back and read Orwell's book and
6:57and the similarities between the
6:58disinformation governance board and the
7:00ministry of truth were glaring where
7:04only the government gets to tell you
7:05what is true and what is not. You guys
7:08heard from Riley Gaines earlier where
7:09only the government gets to tell you and
7:11this is the irony of it. They they
7:13created this disinformation board where
7:15they they are the ones who get to tell
7:16us what is true. But this is the same
7:18Biden administration that cannot tell us
7:20what a woman is and rejects the
7:22objective truth of a difference between
7:23a man and a woman.
7:27It's crazy.
7:30And what did we hear every step of the
7:32way throughout this whole period? We're
7:34looking out for you. We are protecting
7:36you. This is for your own health and
7:39your own safety. when in many cases the
7:41opposite turned out to be true.
7:44>> We go back to
7:46the terrorist attacks on 911.
7:50Maybe half the room wasn't alive, wasn't
7:53with us yet when that happened. But when
7:56that happened, in just 45 days,
8:00Congress passed the Patriot Act.
8:03hundreds and hundreds of pages of new
8:07policies, new authorities that gave the
8:10government unprecedented
8:12surveillance power.
8:16Since when does Congress do anything in
8:1845 days?
8:21They were able to move so quickly
8:22because these provisions were things
8:25that the government had wanted to pass
8:26for years
8:28but couldn't find that that window that
8:32justification to do so. The attack
8:35happened on 911 and they took advantage
8:37of it.
8:39With those powers, the NSA started
8:42secretly collecting phone records on
8:44virtually every phone call in America.
8:47Every one of us. They know who you
8:48called, when you called, and how long
8:50that call lasted for. And when they were
8:53busted for this, they did this in
8:54secret. It was because a senator uh
8:57asked then the director of national
9:00intelligence under oath, "Does the NSA
9:03collect any type of data at all on
9:06millions of Americans?" And guess what
9:08his answer was?
9:10No.
9:11Not wittingly.
9:14He was lying.
9:16He knew he was lying and eventually was
9:20caught out on it.
9:22Later, a federal appeals court ruled
9:24that that program went beyond what the
9:26law allowed. Surprise, surprise. The
9:29government's own privacy board, they
9:32couldn't find a single case where this
9:35overreaching surveillance on everyone's
9:38phone calls in this country made any
9:40difference in stopping a potential
9:43terrorist attack.
9:45That program's gone now, but I can tell
9:47you from firsthand experience that this
9:49massive surveillance state that they
9:51built is very much alive and well and
9:53it's growing.
9:56But just like after 9/11, as we've seen
9:58throughout history, war is the most
10:02often used tool by those in power to
10:06erode our liberty.
10:08What's so incredible, and I see this
10:10time and time again as I go back and
10:12read the Federalist papers and go back
10:13and look again at our founding
10:15documents,
10:16how how visionary our founders were.
10:20James Madison, the father of our
10:22constitution, wrote, "Of all the enemies
10:24to public liberty, war is perhaps the
10:28most to be dreaded
10:31because it compro because it comprises
10:33and develops the germ of every other."
10:36And he went on to say that no nation
10:38could preserve its freedom in the midst
10:40of continual warfare.
10:44George Washington in his farewell
10:45address he warned us to avoid overgrown
10:48military establishments which he called
10:51inospicious
10:52to liberty.
10:54So they were warning us about things
10:58that we have seen generation after
10:59generation to be proven true. That when
11:02we are in a perpetual state of war, it
11:04costs us in blood and treasure and in
11:08freedom.
11:10And in the meantime, the surveillance
11:12state grows more powerful and the war
11:13profiteeers get richer.
11:18I want to transition and bring it right
11:20here close to home. Our Fourth Amendment
11:24right to privacy and protection from
11:25warrantless surveillance every day is
11:27being stripped away in broad daylight.
11:30Once again, we're told, "Give up a
11:33little liberty. Give up a little privacy
11:35so that we can keep you safe."
11:39How many of you on your drive here
11:41noticed cameras taking pictures of your
11:44license plate and cars? I'm noticing
11:48them more. I didn't notice them before.
11:49Now I'm scanning and I'm keeping an eye
11:51out for them. But we don't know is the
11:53answer. None of us knows. There is an
11:56estimated just flock cameras alone and
11:58flocks in the news a lot, but there are
11:59other businesses that are doing the
12:00exact same thing. But it's estimated
12:02they have 13,000 across the state of
12:04Texas alone. More than 80,000
12:06nationwide. And when you look at all the
12:08other companies that are doing the same
12:09thing, it's no one knows, by the way,
12:11how many there are. No government entity
12:13knows. No government entity is tracking
12:15this. But it's estimated that there are
12:17probably around 300,000 all across the
12:20country that are logging where we were,
12:23what time we were there, and where we're
12:25going
12:27at every step of the way. And all of
12:29that is being fed into this database
12:31that law enforcement across the country
12:33can search without cause, without a
12:36warrant, without any kind of judge
12:38getting involved.
12:41So when we we look at the fourth
12:44amendment,
12:46great reminder. It says, "The right of
12:47the people to be secure in their
12:49persons, houses, papers, and effects
12:53against unreasonable searches and
12:55seizures shall not be violated,
12:59and no warrants shall issue but upon
13:02probable cause."
13:05And we look at, you know, people like to
13:06argue, well, we don't know if this is
13:08unconstitutional or not. what we're
13:09seeing happening now, but in 2018 is the
13:11most comparable precedent from the
13:14Supreme Court that said tracking a
13:16person's movements over time quote
13:19achieves nearperfect surveillance
13:22as if it had attached an ankle monitor
13:25to them.
13:26Now, that case and that ruling was about
13:29cell phone tracking.
13:31But a camera network that logs
13:33everywhere our car goes over a period of
13:37time does that exact same thing. Now,
13:41I've heard people say, "Well, who cares
13:42if you're following a law? What's the
13:45problem here?"
13:47Lindsay Issac's would disagree. She's a
13:4923-year-old woman, lives in Florida, and
13:53one Saturday last October, she spent the
13:55day cooking with her mom at her parents
13:58house. She left her parents house that
14:00night, went to the store, came home, ate
14:03dinner, called her mom and dad to say
14:04good night. And then at 1:00 in the
14:07morning that night, police officers
14:10knocked on her parents' door. And what
14:12they told her parents is, "Your daughter
14:14has been involved in a crash that killed
14:15three people." How many of you have
14:17heard about this story?
14:21Witnesses of the crash said that the car
14:24involved was maroon in color.
14:27A flot camera took a picture of
14:29Lindsay's black Dodge Durango two or
14:33three miles from the scene of the
14:35accident. Now, people who called 911
14:38gave a partial license plate number.
14:41They didn't have the full license plate
14:42number. When you look at Lindsay's car,
14:45it was brand new, did not have a single
14:47scratch on it, and it was black. And the
14:50car that was involved in the accident
14:51was maroon. They arrested her anyway.
14:54They not only arrested her, they charged
14:57her with three counts of vehicular
14:59homicide and they put her in solitary
15:01confinement for 86 hours.
15:06They did not allow her to postpone.
15:10She spent 13 days in jail
15:13because of that picture.
15:17And she testified before the US Senate
15:19Judiciary Committee recently and talked
15:21personally about her experience. It's
15:23it's deeply troubling to watch. But in
15:27one part of her testimony, she said, "At
15:29my lowest point, I did not want to be
15:32alive."
15:35Charges were finally dropped. Lindsay
15:38was able to go home. Someone else was
15:39charged with the crash. But imagine the
15:41trauma. Imagine going through what she
15:43went through
15:45because of that photograph.
15:48Unfortunately, she is not a lone
15:51incident or a lone example in this. In
15:53Aurora, Colorado, there was a license
15:55plate reader that flagged a mom's SUV as
15:58stolen. The stolen vehicle was actually
16:01a motorcycle from Montana. But police
16:04pulled her over and they took her and
16:06her four daughters who were in the car
16:08with her, the youngest being six years
16:10old, put them face down on the pavement
16:12and handcuffed them.
16:16There are too many examples of these
16:19kinds of mistaken identities, I guess
16:22you could call it. Let's go to the abuse
16:24of power and unchecked power.
16:29tremendous opportunity for those like a
16:31police officer here in Texas, Katie
16:33Texas, who allegedly searched his
16:35exartner's license plate 2,386
16:39times over 11 months, trying to keep
16:41track of her, see where she was going,
16:43what she was doing, who she was seeing.
16:46Now, he was fired and he was indicted
16:48with crimes as he should be, but
16:51unfortunately, there are many other
16:52cases like this. And so as this mass
16:55surveillance is going on, who has the
16:57authority to run those searches on whom?
17:00Who has access? We don't really know.
17:03Now, the biggest argument for them is
17:05that they help law enforcement catch
17:08criminals.
17:10I know people in law enforcement and I
17:12know that this is true.
17:14But the Constitution stands. Our
17:18founders put these checks and balances
17:21on power in place for a reason.
17:24to protect us from such abuse. And yes,
17:28it can come at a cost.
17:31But this is why we cannot we the people
17:35cannot accept that we have to choose
17:39either liberty or security
17:42>> and must hold those who are charged with
17:45upholding the Constitution to the
17:47highest standards possible.
17:50Now,
17:58the good news in all this is because so
18:01many patriots are speaking up about this
18:03very concern. We've seen huge reforms
18:07here in Texas alone, as well as in other
18:09counties and states across the country.
18:12Governor Abbott pulled state funding for
18:14these cameras, specifically citing
18:16citizens concerned about Fourth
18:18Amendment rights. There are at least 14
18:20cities and counties across Texas who've
18:23cut their contracts completely with
18:25Flock. More than 900 cameras have gone
18:28dark. Other counties are putting this to
18:30a vote at county council meetings. But
18:33it all started with people realizing
18:36that if we don't stand up for ourselves,
18:38we will wake up in a world where we no
18:40longer have our freedom.
18:52It requires constant vigilance. So even
18:54in this example, our work is not over.
18:57There are many people who aren't even
18:58aware that this is happening. And
19:01Congress is introducing some
19:02legislation. We have to remain vigilant.
19:04Flock would stand to lose billions of
19:07dollars if they were forced out of
19:08business because of these reforms. So
19:11you can imagine uh the allout uh uh
19:14press they are pushing to try to keep
19:16the status quo in place. I want to move
19:20to what I view as the greatest near and
19:23long-term threat to our freedom and
19:26western civilization and that is the
19:28rapid spread of Islamism.
19:41This political ideology
19:44is fundamentally incompatible with our
19:47nation's foundational principles, our
19:49core of who we are as Americans and who
19:52we are as a country.
19:58This political ideology, the the spread
20:01of Islamism, their goal is to seek
20:03power.
20:05They will silence any voices of
20:07opposition.
20:09This ideology is what continues to fund
20:12jihadi terrorist groups like al-Qaeda
20:14and ISIS, Hamas, al-Shabaab, al-Nusra,
20:17and many, many more.
20:20Their goal is a global caliphate
20:23where their Islamist ideology governs.
20:27And one of the reasons why we've seen
20:29this spread over time is because too
20:33many leaders and too many of their
20:34friends in the propaganda media are
20:36afraid.
20:37>> They minimize this threat even when it's
20:40right in their faces and refuse to call
20:43it for what it is. President Obama
20:46changing the term Islamist extremism to
20:49violent extremism.
20:52Why? Because they're afraid to be called
20:54Islamophobic.
20:56They're afraid that if they speak the
20:57truth, they will be targeted and
20:59attacked and they'll be called bigots.
21:02>> They refuse to address this reality that
21:05Islamism says the law comes from their
21:08clerics, not from the people.
21:10>> They preach that speech must be policed
21:13to force compliance with Sharia law and
21:16Islamist doctrine. And any criticism of
21:18Islamism or speech they disagree with,
21:20they believe must be silenced and
21:22punished.
21:24This is antithetical to freedom. And the
21:27explicit truth,
21:34the explicit truth that is enshrined in
21:36our Declaration of Independence, that we
21:38are all created equal and endowed with
21:41certain inalienable rights by our
21:43creator. Among them, the right to life,
21:46liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
21:48They refused to recognize that our
21:50freedom comes from God and no one else.
21:54Our founders understood this absolute
21:57truth. It is up to us to live that truth
22:02and to use our voices and our energy to
22:05defeat those who seek to undermine our
22:07God-given rights and freedoms. Because
22:10if we do nothing, if we do nothing, we
22:13put our head in the sand because people
22:15are afraid to be called names.
22:18We will find ourselves waking up in a
22:20country where like in the UK it will be
22:23illegal for anyone to pray in public
22:25aloud or silently unless you are Muslim.
22:30If we do nothing
22:33if we do nothing we too will be faced
22:36with being arrested for what we post on
22:38social media. If we do nothing, we too
22:41here in the United States will see what
22:43has already become become the norm in
22:46places like France where the Muslim
22:48Brotherhood
22:50controls over a hundred mosques, over
22:52200 local associations, and are imposing
22:56policies and public schools that require
22:59the wearing of burkas.
23:02It's not too late for us, but we cannot
23:05be complacent or naive or afraid about
23:08how direct this threat is to the way we
23:11live our everyday lives and the country
23:14that our children will grow up in.
23:25>> We have to name it. We have to call it
23:28for what it is. We have to have the
23:30courage to defeat this ideology with our
23:35superior ideology that is rooted in our
23:37constitution, our declaration of
23:39independence.
23:43>> It cannot survive.
23:45Our free society cannot survive if it
23:50refuses to defend itself. But it also
23:52can't survive if in the name of
23:55defending itself, if in the name of
23:58safety and security,
24:00it gives up the very freedom that it was
24:03supposed to protect.
24:10Life is short
24:12and every day
24:15that we have with breath in our bodies
24:17is a blessing.
24:20How we choose to spend that time is up
24:23to us.
24:25I want to share with you a little bit
24:26about my first deployment to Iraq. Uh we
24:30flew from Kuwait into Iraq January of
24:332005. It was pitch black, middle of the
24:36night, getting close to dawn. I was
24:39strapped in a seat in a C130
24:42with all the soldiers in our unit,
24:44shoulder-to-shoulder, body armor in
24:46hand, uh wearing our body armor, rifle
24:48in hand. No one was talking. All we
24:50could hear were the propellers. It was
24:53pitch black except for the red lights
24:56that were in the plane. And all of a
24:58sudden, as we as the plane started to
25:01head into land, it started corkcrewing
25:03and zigzagging so that it wouldn't be an
25:05easy target for any of the terrorists
25:07there who might try to take it down.
25:10We landed at our camp, which was about
25:1340 miles north of Baghdad. And the very
25:16first night
25:17got into our C's, sleeping bags in a
25:20tent,
25:22and very quickly the sirens went off,
25:24notifying us that a mortar attack was
25:27coming.
25:28We got up, probably 25 of us in the
25:31tent, grabbed our rifles, and ran into
25:33the bunkers. This would become almost a
25:35daily occurrence for the year that we
25:37were deployed there.
25:39The next morning, I got up and walked
25:41around the camp, check out our
25:43surroundings, and I came to one of the
25:46main gates that our security patrols
25:48went in and out of every single day. And
25:50right next to the gate was a sign that
25:53in big block letters read, "Is today the
25:58day?"
26:01It stopped me in my tracks. And and it
26:03it it caused me to to really
26:06have that eyeopening moment about the
26:08reality of where we were and that
26:11reality that any day could be our last.
26:16And for too many of our brothers and
26:17sisters in uniform,
26:20their last day
26:22was there.
26:25And the loss of every single one of them
26:28hit hard.
26:30I turned to God every day for strength
26:35and for clarity and understanding and
26:37for peace
26:39and courage. And I was reminded every
26:42day about how short life actually is.
26:46That my time could come at any moment.
26:47And it caused me to pray and to reflect
26:50on what am I doing with my life?
26:54Am I making the most of every day that I
26:58have? Am I doing all that I can to serve
27:00God, to be pleasing to God?
27:05I came home from that deployment a
27:07little over a year later.
27:09The nights were quiet. There were no
27:11more sirens and no more mortars.
27:14But the the sign that was next to that
27:17gate stuck with me because I knew and
27:20understood that no matter where I was,
27:23no matter where we are, none of us knows
27:26when that time will come.
27:30But what we are in control of is what we
27:33choose to do with every day that we are
27:35blessed with.
27:38And today is the day. Today is the day
27:41where we make that choice to maximize
27:45all of the blessings and tools and
27:48abilities that God has given us.
27:51And this is what I want to leave you
27:53with. Our freedoms are under attack.
27:56It is up to us. we the people to stand
27:58up and defend them. It is up to us to
28:03remind ourselves that we cannot be
28:04prosperous without peace. We cannot be
28:07free, truly free if we are in a
28:10permanent state of war. And we the
28:12people are the only ones who can make
28:15the change.
28:26It's easy to fall into a sense of
28:28complacency.
28:30It's easy to sit back and say, "You know
28:32what? I'm busy. I got a lot going on in
28:35my life." Or maybe for some of you,
28:37maybe you think, "Well, I'm too young. I
28:39can't make a difference. I I I'm not
28:40even old enough to vote yet, maybe." And
28:43there are others who say like, you know,
28:45I'm just not the one. I know someone
28:47else will do something. Someone else
28:49will step up to the plate. someone else
28:51will take action.
28:54Dr. Martin Luther King had an answer for
28:57that. He said, "The time is always right
28:59to do what is right. And today is the
29:01day. Now is the time for every one of us
29:03to show up, to vote,
29:12to make sure that our elected leaders
29:14hear our voices, to pick up the phone
29:17and make a phone call, to send an email,
29:19make a post on social media. I will tell
29:21you from firsthand experience.
29:24I understand why it feels like, hey, I'm
29:26just one person. My voice won't make a
29:28difference. But I will tell you when we
29:31all take that responsibility in
29:33ourselves, when I was in Congress, votes
29:35were changed in real time because people
29:38were lighting up the phones and lighting
29:40up X and Instagram and social media. It
29:45makes a difference as we've seen with
29:47flot cameras, showing up to town halls,
29:49showing up to council meetings, holding
29:51leaders accountable, not allowing them
29:53to take away our freedom in the dark of
29:56night because we failed to do our part.
30:00Engage in conversation. I think about
30:03Charlie Kirk often during these times
30:06and how he welcomed those who disagreed
30:08with them. He listened to them. He
30:09showed them respect. And then if their
30:12arguments were weak, he defeated their
30:14arguments with the truth.
30:20And he did so he did so with love and
30:24with compassion
30:26even for those who express hatred toward
30:29him. We cannot allow ourselves to be
30:32intimidated into silence
30:35because it is our lives, our freedom,
30:37and our future that's on the line. It is
30:40up to us to find ways that we can serve.
30:42And there are so many ways that we can
30:45serve. Whether you're called to run for
30:47office, amazing. Whether you're called
30:49to support someone who is, maybe you're
30:51called to to serve in a different way
30:54that's completely outside of the
30:55government, and you use your voice to
30:57inspire others to step up and be the
31:00change.
31:03No one is too young or inexperienced.
31:07Jonathan Dayton was the youngest de
31:09delegate to the constitutional
31:11convention. How many have heard of
31:12Jonathan Dayton?
31:16One. Okay. I was about to be really
31:19impressed. He was 26 years old.
31:2326 years old. James Madison was 25 in
31:271776 and just 36 when he helped write
31:30the Constitution. Alexander Hamilton was
31:33barely 30 years old. They put their
31:36lives and reputations on the line to lay
31:40the foundation for this free republic,
31:43but they knew it was fragile. Which is
31:45why Franklin said, "A republic if you
31:48can keep it."
31:52Is today the day? That is not just a
31:55question for people who are deployed
31:56into combat zones and war zones in other
31:59parts of the world. It's a question that
32:02we have the privilege of being able to
32:05ask ourselves every single day because
32:09we don't know how much time we have.
32:12Charlie Kirk didn't know how much time
32:14he had, but God, he made the most of
32:17every day that he was with us.
32:28We have
32:30that same opportunity
32:34and that same freedom to choose how we
32:37spend our lives. Lincoln told us, "A
32:40nation of free people must live through
32:42all time or die by suicide." I say we
32:45choose to live free.
32:49Today is the day.
32:57We have no time to waste. There is 25
32:59days until election day and then the
33:01work begins again the day after
33:04election.
33:05Stand up. Speak up. Don't be afraid
33:07because we stand on the side of truth,
33:10peace, and freedom. And our country
33:13needs us now. Thank you so much
33:15everyone. God bless you.
33:19God bless the United States of America.
33:21Thank you.

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