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Ron Wiggins's avatar

James, I’m not in Wisconsin, but in Oregon, and the battle is so similar. Thank you for taking a stand for what’s right. It’s never up to someone else what we must do. And in the end only One is getting the glory. I love your focus.

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James, I have a number of friends in SE WI (though I’m in IL) who would (and have) willing fought these past several years for the party’s America first values. After attending the Republican election integrity meeting in Waukesha last month (with Lara Trump and Michael Whatley speaking), the goal seems to be not an abandonment of the pro-life values of the party but a down playing of the focus there. They are trying to capture a wider number of disenfranchised voters from the middle/left by spotlighting the issues less contentious: closed borders, energy independence and lower inflation, and law and order. The strategy includes an effort to “SwamptheVote” and recruit poll watchers to mobilize and expose any clear issues. They seem to feel the priority is getting Trump back in office. But the feckless party led by Vos (and the broken electoral process in WI) leaves me less than hopeful about that approach if we don’t support those strong down ballot candidates that will back Trump and truly represent us.

Since we are now less than 100 days from that day, we really do need all hands on deck to rally the troops in local races that matter.

Do you have a list of those candidates Vos and the machine would oppose (and the districts they are in)? I watched the grassroots rise up here in Lake county IL and flip our entire school board in 2022 to “we the people” candidates because we got loud and hit the pavement! The “machine” in IL came out with a smear campaign against them that threatened to upend them but it made a few of us fight harder to expose them! I think this is the way. (They won by a landslide where we canvassed and called!)

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