The group behind the Conservative Political Action Committee released its annual analysis of Congress’ voting records and slammed Senate Republicans, giving Minority Leader Mitch McConnell the lowest conservative rating of his 38-year career.
Through the coronavirus-fueled spending spree, Democrats were often “aided by RINO/establishment Republicans, many of them Old Bulls who announced their retirement,” chairman Matt Schlapp wrote, calling it “shameful” that a “$1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill passed two days before Christmas with Republican leadership’s acquiescence.”
The American Conservative Union&#8217;s <a href="http://ratings.conservative.org/people?state=US&amp;year=2022&amp;level=state&amp;orderBy=rating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ratings</a> for 2022 reveal a sharp contrast between the leadership of McConnell, who received a 56%, and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who received a 91%. Scott led the National Republican Senatorial Committee and repeatedly sparred with McConnell, while cultivating his own group of emerging leaders that called themselves the “breakfast club.”
Breakfast Club members included Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana, who both received a perfect 100% rating from CPAC. (<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/breakfast-club-gop-senators-calling-official-conference-meeting-wednes-rcna61597" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC</a> reported that Braun is an “unofficial” member of the club.) Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky also received a perfect score. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, another member of the Breakfast Club, received an honorable mention at 97%.
McConnell’s lieutenants in the current Republican leadership included Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota, who received an 81%, Conference Chairman Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, at 89%, Policy Committee Chair Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, at 74%, and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who was vice chair of the Republican Conference despite having a conservative score of only 53%.
McConnell is 81 years old and joined the Senate in 1985. Scott is 70 and joined the Senate in 2019 after serving as governor of Florida. McConnell&#8217;s ACU score was down eight points from 2021.
Thomas Bradbury, who helped craft the ratings for the American Conservative Union, said who is in leadership is “really important” in part because the tone for what it means to be conservative is set “from the top down.”
In the House, the members who received a perfect score were Reps. Michael Cloud and Chip Roy from Texas, Bob Good of Virginia, Jody Hice and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Debbie Lesko of Arizona, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Mary Miller of Illionis, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Matt Rosendale of Montana, and Greg Steube of Florida.
The average Senate Republican got a 78%, while the average House Republican got an 80%.
Moderate Republican senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine received 43% and 38%, respectively.
The lowest-scoring House Republican was Brian Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent from Pennslyvania, at 24%. Second-worst was John Katko of New York, at 26%. Third-worst was former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed to the anti-Trump January 6 committee and who is now a CNN contributor.
The scores were based on congressmen’s votes on key bills, including ones that CPAC opposed and described as federalizing elections, bailing out the postal service, and nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
The list also included votes on bills that CPAC supported, including ones they described as blocking vaccine mandates, killing earmarks, and sending billions to Ukraine without oversight.
The Senate was split 50-50 among the parties in 2022, meaning that Republicans had little chance of passing a bill unless all of them were united.
Dozens of Senate Republicans voted for a “continuing resolution” that CPAC said gave Democrats leverage by giving them another week to negotiate a spending deal before a government shutdown kicked in.
CPAC’s ratings have proven crucial to determining whether Republicans voted the way they campaigned. The group also rates state lawmakers, and The Daily Wire used those voting scores for a multi-part analysis of state legislatures that found that, shockingly, the more of a majority that Republicans had in a state, the more moderate its Republican lawmakers behaved once in office.
Montana Republican lawmakers, for example, behaved more moderately than California Republicans, essentially just putting an R behind their name so they could win the election.
In some states, an establishment of moderate Republicans allegedly retaliated against conservative members, with the South Carolina legislature booting “Freedom Caucus” members from the Republican caucus.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Did Wyoming Kill School Choice? Deep-Red States Often Don’t Act Like It, Data Shows</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Legislatures In The Deep-Red States That Sent Romney And Cheney To Washington ‘Vote Like Liberals’</a>

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CPAC Releases Conservative Rankings–Mitch McConnell’s Lowest In 38 Years

CPAC Releases Conservative Rankings--Mitch McConnell’s Lowest In 38 Years

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The Daily Wire podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-knowles">Michael Knowles</a> said that he expected the media to come after him for his comments about transgender ideology, but accusations of genocide took him by surprise.
Knowles joined Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his Monday evening broadcast to discuss the comments he made at last weekend&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) — along with the media&#8217;s quick and virulent response.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> on being accused of genocide by media outlets: 
&quot;They just put words into my mouth that I never said&#8230;The libel laws in the United States have quite a high threshold to actually sue. This meets that threshold.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HCMKEt0voK">pic.twitter.com/HCMKEt0voK</a>
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&#8220;The dumber the lie, the more viciously obedience to that lie must be enforced. So now all of a sudden you are expected to believe that anyone, even children can change their biological sex at will,&#8221; Carlson began.
He then shared a clip of Knowles <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/knowles-at-cpac-there-is-no-meeting-halfway-between-truth-and-falsehood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking at CPAC</a>, saying that the approach to transgenderism had to be &#8220;all or nothing&#8221; — it was either true or it wasn&#8217;t, and he was certain that it wasn&#8217;t.
<blockquote>If transgenderism is true — if men really can become women and women really can become men — then it is true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false, as it is — if men really can&#8217;t become women, as they cannot — then it&#8217;s false for everybody too. And if it&#8217;s false, then we should not indulge it, especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people. If it is false, then for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, “transgenderism” must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.</blockquote>
But shortly after Knowles spoke, critics began to accuse him of wanting transgender people to die and promoting genocide — when what he actually said was that the ideology that promotes transgenderism as a real thing was what had to be eradicated.
&#8220;Were you surprised that The Daily Beast, really the filthiest organ in American &#8216;journalism,&#8217; accused you of pushing genocide?&#8221; Carlson asked, turning to Knowles.
&#8220;I have been called all sorts of nasty things by the liberal press, Tucker, so I tend to expect everything,&#8221; Knowles began, conceding, &#8220;But I have to admit being accused of genocide did take me by surprise. That seemed extreme even for the fake news media.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it surprised a lot of lawyers as well,&#8221; Knowles continued, noting that a number of outlets ran with the accusation in bold-type headlines.
&#8220;You heard exactly what I said. I said that for the good of these people in particular — so presumably I don’t want to murder them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I talked about an ideology in particular. I’m not talking about eradicating any human beings. I’m talking about an ideology here. They said I wanted to commit genocide. I said this is libel, this is actionable libel. The libel laws in the United States have quite a high threshold to actually sue. This meets that threshold.&#8221;
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Knowles went on to say that as the day went on and headlines began to change, he got the impression that some of the outlets had received calls from their lawyers advising them to make changes or risk getting sued.

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Michael Knowles Tells Tucker Carlson Accusations Of Genocide Surprised Him: ‘Extreme Even For The Fake News’

Michael Knowles Said Accusations Of Genocide Surprised Him

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A top official at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-national-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic National Committee</a> (DNC) on Saturday attacked critics of “woke” ideology as “anti-black.”
Lindy Li, the women’s co-chair and mid-Atlantic regional chair at the DNC, appeared on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/msnbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC</a> over the weekend to attack conservatives and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conservative Political Action Conference</a> (CPAC) that took place last week.
“Let’s be clear what anti-woke means. It’s anti-black. And I think people are very reluctant to say it, but I don’t mince any words, and that’s the truth. That&#8217;s their way of, you know, sounding the dog whistle without being extremely explicit,” Li said.
“Woke” as it is currently used refers to leftist policy and ideas, such as Critical Race Theory, transgender ideology, social justice, and political correctness. Many on the political Right use the term to denigrate policies that aim at speech censorship or equity, such as editing books for “sensitivity” or affirmative action policies that take race into account.
Defenders of “woke” policies say they are necessary to help disadvantaged groups.
Li also targeted a series of high-profile Republicans, CPAC, and the American Conservative Union (ACU).
“Let’s also not ignore the fact that CPAC has become a gathering of sexual predators,” Li said, before targeting ACU chairman Matt Schlapp and a group of conservative lawmakers over allegations of misconduct leveled against them — which have yet to be proved.
Li called former President Donald Trump, who delivered a keynote address at CPAC, a “serial rapist.”
“And then finally tonight, we have Trump, a serial rapist. And so this is the party that claims to be the party of Christian family values, and I have nothing to say or do but laugh at that,” Li said.
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After Li’s comment, the host of the show paused for several awkward moments before clarifying the network’s position on Li’s allegation against Trump and the others.
“I just want to be clear here, though, that it’s important to put out there that we understand the accusations that have been made, of course, against the former president,” the host said. “But I want to be clear, of course, that none of that has actually rung true as of yet. They’ve all been accusations, so far.”
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I dropped some truth bombs about the (alleged) sexual predators at CPAC and what &quot;anti-woke&quot; really means
It may not be pretty but this is the unvarnished truth
Please share widely
Huge thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/yasminv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yasminv</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/YasminMSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YasminMSNBC</a> for having me on! Warm shoutout to my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/only1deja_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@only1deja_</a> <a href="https://t.co/AMdjt00t8r">pic.twitter.com/AMdjt00t8r</a>
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Li is a Democratic Party partisan who at times has found herself the target of ire from the Left. She resigned her position as treasurer of the Pennsylvania Young Democrats in 2020 after making a series of social media posts critical of self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (I).
“This is like Bernie Bro behavior in real life,” said Li, blaming aggressive behavior by Sanders supporters for her departure. “I wasn’t always like this. They drove me to this.”

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Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-knowles">Michael Knowles</a> addressed his viral CPAC comments on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transgenderism</a> Monday, saying the remarks would not have been controversial before the Obama administration started pursuing pro-trans policies. 
Knowles opened his podcast on Monday by telling the audience that he was surprised by the firestorm that ensued, considering his comments match what he’s been saying about transgender ideology all along. 
“I was giving a speech on the main stage,” Knowles began. “I said something that I&#8217;ve said for many, many years. Something that everybody in the entire country agreed on until about five minutes ago. And I said that men and women are different and we shouldn&#8217;t pretend otherwise for the purposes of public life.”
“Put simply, eradicating transgenderism from public life would mean behaving as American society did before, say, 2015 &#8230; [when] we did not have any acceptance of transgenderism in public life,” Knowles continued. 
“And it started to be introduced into public life around 2015 when Barack Obama instituted transgender military policies and some liberals in North Carolina decided to invite men into the women&#8217;s bathroom and pass all sorts of weird ordinances about bathrooms.”
Knowles mentioned how several media outlets took the opportunity to distort his remarks, making it sound like he was calling for the eradication of people who identify as transgender when really he was talking about the concept of transgenderism itself.
“The press decided to call me a genocidal maniac. I have been called many crazy things by the libs over the years. I&#8217;ve been called all sorts of nasty names. Genocidal is a first,” he continued. 
Knowles recalled how the original Rolling Stone headline said, “CPAC speaker calls for transgender people to be eradicated,” and also mentioned similar headlines from The Daily Beast and Huffington Post, which were also later revised.
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“The idea that I or anybody else called for trans people to be eradicated is obviously a total lie,” Knowles said. “I choose my words, generally speaking, pretty carefully. I&#8217;m pretty precise in my language.” 
“If you want to eradicate a medical condition, you&#8217;re not saying you want to eradicate the patients. I don&#8217;t see how they could get that,” he continued, claiming the editors likely understood what he meant but intentionally misled their audiences with the erroneous headlines.
“I think they were acting with actual malice to libel me,” Knowles said. 
Knowles said that approving of transgenderism in adults but not in children is a losing strategy for conservatives, too. 
“You can&#8217;t deal with transgenderism only by saying we&#8217;re not going to trans the kids,” Knowles said. “I think there are a lot of conservatives who say, okay, look, if transgender adults, if a man wants to identify as a woman, he&#8217;s an adult, that&#8217;s fine. Just don&#8217;t do it to the kids. That&#8217;s missing the point. I actually think this is what motivated these news outlets to lie about what I said.”
He continued: “… If you want to deal with the transgender issue, it&#8217;s kind of all or nothing. Furthermore, the argument that the liberals make for trans the little kids is they say, transgenderism is real. A man can be a woman secretly, or a woman can be a man born into the wrong body.”
“You&#8217;re born that way. And so if you&#8217;re born that way, if it&#8217;s real, if that&#8217;s a true anthropology, then it&#8217;s got to be real for everybody. If transgenderism is real, then we certainly should trans the kids because the kids are already trans. And so to deny their true nature would be cruel.&#8221;
&#8220;The issue is transgenderism is not real for anybody,” Knowles concluded. “A man can&#8217;t really become a woman, and a woman can&#8217;t really become a man.”

Michael Knowles Doubles Down On Trans CPAC Comments That Set Internet Ablaze

Michael Knowles Doubles Down On CPAC Comments That Set Internet Ablaze

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Michael Knowles touched off a firestorm with his call for an end to the ideology of transgenderism Saturday, but many people on social media agreed with him – especially after hearing what he actually said and not the erroneous claims by leftist media sites.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-reveals-what-conservatives-must-do-to-defeat-radical-gender-theory-during-cpac-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowles told a crowd at the conservative event</a>, formally known as the Conservative Political Action Conference, that men simply cannot become women, and women cannot become men, adding that society must help gender dysphoric people, not encourage them to seek sex changes.
“For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology — at every level,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-reveals-what-conservatives-must-do-to-defeat-radical-gender-theory-during-cpac-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowles told the gathering in Maryland</a>.
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He is of course completely right about this. Trangenderism as a concept and an ideology is false, poisonous, and destructive to both the individual and society. It needs to be destroyed entirely. The fight to save children from this lunacy is but one phase in the overall war. <a href="https://t.co/vn2YpIjiLW">https://t.co/vn2YpIjiLW</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1632391192523464705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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By Saturday night, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-falsely-frames-michael-knowles-call-for-end-to-transgenderism-as-genocide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several outlets were falsely reporting</a> that Knowles called for transgender people to be “eradicated,” even though he was clearly targeting an ideology, not a group of people. Some publications, including Rolling Stone and HuffPo, edited their headlines and stories to acknowledge that Knowles never called for “eradication” of any group of people. And when the dust began to settle, it turned out that Knowles had plenty of support for his argument.
“Transgenderism isn&#8217;t an orientation or anything we historically recognize; it&#8217;s an overwhelmingly new mimetic ideology where confrontationally transgressing against norms is part of the kink,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1632447458679595011?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted journalist Mark Hemingway</a>. “The trans community are the aggressors here.”
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Transgenderism isn&#39;t an orientation or anything we historically recognize; it&#39;s an overwhelmingly new mimetic ideology where confrontationally transgressing against norms is part of the kink. The trans community are the aggressors here. <a href="https://t.co/MaMxxH2hjJ">https://t.co/MaMxxH2hjJ</a>
&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1632447458679595011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Podcast star Liz Wheeler seconded Knowles’ call, saying the ideology he spoke out against is destructive toward children.
“Good day to everyone especially michaeljknowles who was absolutely correct when he said we should eradicate transgenderism &#8211; the cultural practice of indulging psychiatric delusion to the point of mutilating children’s healthy bodies &amp; erasing women,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1632462547365376000?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted Wheeler</a>.
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Good day to everyone especially <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> who was absolutely correct when he said we should eradicate transgenderism &#8211; the cultural practice of indulging psychiatric delusion to the point of mutilating children’s healthy bodies &amp; erasing women.<a href="https://t.co/klc9t305HL">pic.twitter.com/klc9t305HL</a>
&mdash; Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1632462547365376000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Joel Berry, managing editor of The Babylon Bee, also echoed Knowles’ appeal.
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Transgenderism has a horrific suicide rate. And radical gender ideology is inducing gender dysphoria in record numbers of autistic kids and kids who are actually gay. Transgender ideology is literally killing kids.
&mdash; Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1632199097015758849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Transgenderism has a horrific suicide rate,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1632199097015758849?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berry tweeted</a>. “And radical gender ideology is inducing gender dysphoria in record numbers of autistic kids and kids who are actually gay. Transgender ideology is literally killing kids.”
Knowles “didn&#8217;t call to ‘eradicate transgender people,’” wrote Jim Hanson, former Army special forces operator and author of “The Myth of White Fragility.” “Rolling Stone changed their headline to avoid a lawsuit. But Transgenderism, better known as Queer pedagogy Should be removed from public schools. It&#8217;s part of the destruction of normal.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> didn&#39;t call to &quot;eradicate transgender people&quot;
Rolling Stone changed their headline to avoid a lawsuit But Transgenderism, better known as Queer pedagogy Should be removed from public schools 
It&#39;s part of the destruction of normal<a href="https://t.co/62wk19FSvm">pic.twitter.com/62wk19FSvm</a>
&mdash; Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1632377565695340549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire has taken a strong stance against what the Left dubs “gender-affirming care” for minors, in which teens are encouraged to change their identities, given puberty blockers and even cross-sex hormones after displaying confusion about their genders. Many experts say these treatments can cause irreversible harm. Girls have even been put through double mastectomies at several clinics around the country.
Knowles&#8217; fellow Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh, who has been a leading voice against the movement to help minors &#8220;transition,&#8221; said Knowles was on target with his comments at CPAC.
&#8220;He is of course completely right about this,&#8221; wrote Walsh. &#8220;Trangenderism as a concept and an ideology is false, poisonous, and destructive to both the individual and society. It needs to be destroyed entirely. The fight to save children from this lunacy is but one phase in the overall war.&#8221;

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‘He Is Of Course Completely Right’: Walsh, Wheeler, Others Back Knowles’ Call To End Transgenderism

'He Is Of Course Completely Right': Knowles' Call To End Transgenderism Backed By Conservatives 

Ousted Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe resurfaced Saturday at CPAC with the whistleblower he said made his former investigative organization’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pfizer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">huge Pfizer sting</a> possible.
O’Keefe, who was ousted last month by Project Veritas’ board of directors, introduced Debbie Bernal at the Maryland event, formally known as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conservative Political Action Conference</a>.
&#8220;Stand up,&#8221; Bernal said. &#8220;Be brave. Do something for this country or we are all doomed.&#8221;
O’Keefe said Bernal helped set up the undercover encounter in which Jordon Walker, who leads research and development for mRNA projects at Pfizer, allegedly revealed that the company’s COVID vaccines are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-exec-appears-to-admit-there-are-concerning-impacts-on-female-reproductive-health-from-vaccine-in-round-two-of-project-veritas-sting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impacting</a> women’s menstrual cycles and that the company uses “directed evolution” to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-pfizer-official-physically-assaults-james-okeefe-destroys-ipad-showing-undercover-recordings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mutate</a> coronaviruses for the creation of more potent variants and vaccines.
&#8220;We need brave whistleblowers,” O’Keefe said. “We need people on the inside. There were people on the inside of Pfizer who helped us obtain this.&#8221;
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NEW: Pfizer Whistleblower reveals identity, joins James O’Keefe on stage at CPAC:
“Stand up. Be brave. Do something for this country or we’re all doomed.”<a href="https://t.co/U7hy19psiN">pic.twitter.com/U7hy19psiN</a>
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O’Keefe said Bernal was initially reluctant to come forward, even after tipping off Project Veritas as to Pfizer’s inner workings. He said that in the days after he was ousted from the organization he founded in 2010, she decided to go public with him.
“She was a little reluctant to go public,” O’Keefe said, claiming that she was interrogated and harassed after the story broke. “Rightfully so, she was scared.&#8221;
It was not clear what role Bernal had at Pfizer or specifically what she told Project Veritas to lay the groundwork for its bombshell scoop. Bernal told the crowd the series of events left her &#8220;scared for my life.&#8221;
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&#8220;I was worried that I would end up in a body bag, or in a car accident,” she said. “But I realized that the spirit of fear is not from the Lord. As a believer, I knew that I couldn’t just sit there, I couldn’t just sit there and watch. People get lied to, people get gaslit, it made me angry.&#8221;
O’Keefe, who spearheaded a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exposing-corruption-how-james-okeefe-and-project-veritas-delivered-a-decades-worth-of-bombshell-stories">long list of undercover scoops</a> while heading Project Veritas, has not revealed what he will do next, although he has strongly hinted that he may set up another investigative journalism group.
&#8220;Courage is the virtue that sustains all others, and without that you really can’t do journalism,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not stopping or giving up.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Former President Donald Trump</a> touted his White House experience and vowed to “deal with the RINOs” in a marathon speech Saturday at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conservative Political Action Conference</a>, where he easily won the 2024 presidential straw poll.
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Trump seemed eager to settle scores with members of both parties after a turbulent first term and his re-election loss in 2020. Calling the 2024 contest “the final battle,” Trump acknowledged in the event&#8217;s keynote address that he is wiser now about the way Washington works.
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&#8220;We&#8217;ll appropriately deal with the RINOs,&#8221; he said, referring to &#8220;Republicans In Name Only.&#8221; &#8220;We will never go back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.&#8221;
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Trump won the support of 62% of respondents at the annual event’s straw poll, held this year in Fort Washington, MD. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-tread-on-florida-ron-desantis-tells-ben-shapiro-how-he-turned-florida-into-the-freedom-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida Governor Ron DeSantis</a>, who did not attend, came in second with 20%, and third place went to Michigan billionaire Perry Johnson.
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The support for Johnson, whose bid to be governor of Michigan was scuttled last year before the general election, was a blow to other Republicans who have announced or are believed to be considering runs, such as former Vice President Mike Pence, ex-UN Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. DeSantis has not announced a 2024 bid but is widely expected to in the coming months.
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In a separate poll for vice president, Kari Lake, who lost the Arizona governor’s race last year, led with 20% support, followed by DeSantis at 14%. More than 2,000 attendees completed the poll, according to organizers.
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Trump’s strong showing at CPAC was somewhat predictable, as the annual gathering of conservatives attracts many activists from the GOP’s “MAGA” wing. Many of the other potential GOP candidates, including DeSantis, opted to attend an overlapping, three-day Club for Growth event in Palm Beach, Florida. That event, to which Trump was not invited, attracted major GOP donors.
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In his nearly two-hour speech, Trump warned that some of his potential primary competitors could support reforms to Social Security and Medicare.
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&#8220;We are never going back to the people that want to destroy our great social security system … even some in our own party, I wonder who that might be,&#8221; he said.
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Trump warned that the U.S. could be headed toward a World War III due to the metastasizing war in Ukraine and said he believed he could broker a peace deal with Russia. Trump also blasted the never-ending investigations and prosecutions that have been mounted against him, including a current probe into his potential role in the January 6 riot, separate cases against him in New York and Georgia, and the FBI raid last August on his Mar-a-Lago home.
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&#8220;Every time the polls get higher and higher, the prosecutors get crazier and crazier,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;They&#8217;re not coming after me, they&#8217;re coming after you, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m standing here today. I&#8217;m standing before you because we&#8217;re going to finish what we started. We&#8217;re going to complete the mission.&#8221;
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A day before the speech, Trump released a four-minute video in which he laid out ambitious plans, including building up to 10 &#8220;freedom cities&#8221; on federal land and promoting the development of &#8220;flying cars.&#8221;

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Defiant Trump Easily Wins CPAC ’24 Poll, Vows To ‘Deal With RINOs’

Defiant Trump Easily Wins CPAC '24 Poll, Vows To 'Deal With RINOs'

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The following speech has been adapted and was delivered by <a class="c-link" href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Michael Knowles</a> at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland on March 4, 2023. This full length version includes a portion not heard on stage.
Thank you! It is an honor to be back at CPAC. Thank you to Matt and the rest of the team for the invitation. It is especially a pleasure to be here this year because I think I may be the only speaker who is not actively planning to run for president in 2024. Obviously, President Trump is running. I’m noticing a lot of other people on the docket seem to be at least interested: governors, senators, businessmen &#8230; Candace. A lot of people. But not me. (I am not old enough!) The political stakes this year for me personally are not very high, but the political stakes for our country have rarely been higher.
This is why, I suspect, so many people want to run for president. They’re seeing what we’re all seeing: That when it comes to protecting our country, Joe Biden has failed on every front. That is not hyperbole. That is not a cheap political shot. It is just plain fact.
Our country faces mounting threats on every single front: inflation at 40-year highs, illegal immigration at all-time highs, and for the first time since World War II, the outbreak of a major war in Europe — a war that we are funding to the tune of over $100 billion with no end in sight. (The only silver lining in that particular storm cloud is that I’m pretty sure we can now list Zelensky as a dependent on our tax returns.)
Basic aspects of life are breaking down in our country. Marriage rates and birth rates are at all-time lows. In recent years, for the first time in history, our nation’s life expectancy has declined, driven largely by suicide and drug overdoses. Our nation, allegedly the most advanced on earth, cannot even protect its citizens from street criminals. The murder rate has reached its highest level in nearly three decades.
Many conservatives are tempted to throw up their hands. The challenges seem too enormous. The conservative optimists differ from the conservative pessimists only inasmuch as the conservative pessimists say things can’t get any worse, and the conservative optimists say, “Oh yes, they can.” And things might get worse, but they do not have to. These problems are not as complicated as many people would have us believe. Most of these problems are pretty simple.
The patron saint of this conference, Ronald Reagan, was once mocked for making this point. The liberals, he said, “say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.”
President Reagan did his part. But we don’t need to look back to the 1980s to see the wisdom of his words. We can look around today and not all that far from home. Until recently, El Salvador was the most dangerous country on earth. Today, it is one of the safest countries in Latin America. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, cut the nation’s murder rate in half in just one year. How did he do it? He built a big prison and put all the criminals in it. (Pretty simple!) He humiliated the most notorious criminals in the country, he knocked down their symbols and monuments, and he enforced the law to protect his people. I’m sure it wasn’t easy, but it was simple: Demoralize the bad guys, encourage the good guys, and pursue a national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
President Bukele explained the secret to his nation’s improbable success. He said his nation was turning back to God — turning back to the most important values: honor, loyalty, courage, love for our fellow man. He said those values had been degraded in El Salvador, as they are now degrading in our own country. But it was not too late. “How,” he asked, “could a nation not rise up with values such as these?”
If one of the weakest countries on earth can turn its fortunes around, why can’t we? I think we can. But many conservatives do not. Because conservatives, though we have many virtues — we are intelligent, funny, devilishly handsome — sometimes, I am sorry to say, we lack imagination. We suffer from low expectations. We believe that the very best we can hope for is to halt the Left right where it is, preserve the status quo, and hope we do not lose any more ground. It sometimes seems as if all conservatives ever do is defend the policies that the liberals fought for 10 years ago.
The clearest example of this is the battle over transgenderism. On one side of the debate, you have the liberals who argue that third-graders ought to be taught to change their sex; on the other side of the debate, you have the conservatives who argue that schools ought to wait until the fourth grade to start trans-ing the kids. Not much of a difference if you ask me.
The problem with transgenderism is not that it is inappropriate for children under the age of nine; the problem with transgenderism is that it is not true. The problem with transgenderism is that it puts forward a delusional vision of human nature that denies the reality and importance of sexual difference and complementarity. The problem with transgenderism is that its acceptance at any level necessarily entails the complete destruction of women’s bathrooms, women’s sports, all of the specific rights and spaces that women currently have for themselves.
There can be no “middle way” in dealing with transgenderism. It’s all or nothing. If transgenderism is true — if men really can become women and women really can become men — then it is true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false, as it is — if men and women really are different, as we are — then it is false for everybody too. And if it is false, then we should not indulge it, especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people. If it is false, then for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, &#8220;transgenderism&#8221; must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level. 
Simple. It is as simple as the advice Don Corleone gave to Johnny Fontane: “You can act like a man! What’s a matter with you?” We talk a lot about rights. And rights are important. But so are duties. And men have a duty to act like men. It’s not that complicated. But some people — maybe not in this room, but in the online and television audience — are probably clutching their pearls at such a clear and simple statement. I’m not sure why. Transgenderism did not even exist as a political issue until about eight years ago when Barack Obama and some liberals in North Carolina proposed this lunacy through military policy and bathroom ordinances. Eight years ago, the notion that a man of any age had some sort of “right” to strap on stilettos and read a book to your child at the library would have met nothing but laughter and scorn from pretty much everyone in the whole country.
And then a handful of devoted, radical left-wing activists pushed relentlessly to normalize this crazy notion. The craziest part is that now many conservatives want to meet them halfway. But there is no meeting halfway between truth and falsehood, between reality and delusion. There is no neutrality either. We are either gaining ground or losing ground. Meeting the liberals halfway will always take us all the way down their road to perdition in the long run. That’s the story of the last 50 years.
It goes like this: The liberals introduce some crazy idea. The conservatives briefly oppose it. The liberals stand firm. And then the conservatives give up. The conservatives say, “Okay, we’re fine with that idea — but this new idea the liberals are proposing, that’s crazy!”
In the ‘70s, when the feminists started burning their bras and claiming that women need men like fish need bicycles, the conservatives said that was crazy. Then, pretty soon, the conservatives caved. They said, “Okay, feminism is fine — but all this sexual revolution stuff, all those Village People over there — that’s crazy.” Then what happened? Pretty soon they said, “Okay, most of this sexual revolution stuff is fine, but we’ll never let you liberals redefine marriage — that’s crazy!” And then what happened? You know what happened: The liberals redefined marriage, the conservatives briefly stood firm, then many of them caved. They said, “Okay, this radical new definition of marriage is fine — but transgenderism is crazy!” And now we have reached the stage in which many conservatives are fine with transgenderism for adults, just so long as they don’t trans the kids! Now, in fact, there are some conservatives who are fine with trans-ing the kids, just so long as we don’t trans the really young kids.
And so it goes. And so our culture moves ever further to the left. It was ever thus. It was ever thus from the moment conservatives accepted the liberals’ premise. The moment conservatives accepted the liberals’ premise back in the ‘70s that men and women are interchangeable, it was only a matter of time before we got to transgenderism. It all flows naturally from the premise. Conservatives became nothing more than “progressives driving the speed limit,” to quote my friend Michael Malice. They “offered voters, not a choice, but only an echo,” to quote Phyllis Schlafly.
There is one issue on which conservatives haven’t caved, haven’t squished even one little bit. And it’s an issue on which we achieved an historic victory just this past year. That issue is life — protecting babies in the womb from being murdered. Conservatives have not compromised on that issue. We never agreed to meet the liberals halfway because on that issue at least we understood that one cannot split the baby. We held firm: Murder is wrong. We held firm, we didn’t give up, and now Roe v. Wade is no more.
It is no coincidence that one of the only issues for which conservatives have kept things simple is one of the only issues on which we have been able to hold our ground.
National decline is not inevitable. It is only inevitable if we believe it is. If we give up and give in to popular and destructive fashions as though they could ever supplant simple and eternal truths. As Cardinal Manning said, “There is a day to come which will reverse the confident judgments of men.” Those men say we offer simple answers to complex problems. I hope we still do. I hope we still have the simplicity and the courage to say that men ought to act like men. That criminals ought to go to jail. That marriage — real marriage, the kind between a man and woman — is the fundamental building block of society, the basic, unchangeable political unit. That our republic was built for a moral and religious people, and so our country, founded as a shining city on a hill, should always give glory to God and relentlessly pursue what we know in our hearts is morally right — no matter the odds, no matter the consequences, and no matter the passing fashions of the day. Thank you very much.
This article has been updated for clarity.

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Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/michael-j-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> spoke Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CPAC</a>) in Maryland and detailed how conservatives can defeat radical gender theory, saying that conservatives should not compromise and meet the Left halfway.
Knowles began his speech by saying that President Joe Biden has “failed on every point” before moving on to discuss the issue of transgenderism.
“There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing. If transgenderism is true, if men really can become women, then it&#8217;s true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false, as it is, if men really can’t become women, as they cannot, then it&#8217;s false for everybody, too,” Knowles <a href="https://rumble.com/v2bpiyo-full-speech-michael-knowles-cpac-2023-washington-d.c.-342023.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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Knowles went on to say that the whole ideology of transgenderism should be “eradicated” from society, especially for the benefit of those people who have been harmed by it. He said that the problem with transgenderism was not just that it was “inappropriate” for children, but that it “wasn’t true.”
“The problem with transgenderism is that it puts forward a delusional vision of human nature that denies the reality and importance of sexual difference and complementarity. The problem with transgenderism is that its acceptance of any level necessarily entails the complete destruction of women’s bathrooms, women’s sports, all of the specific rights and spaces that women currently enjoy.”
Knowles also said that the issue of transgenderism was a relatively recent political phenomenon, noting how much society has shifted in the last several years in large part due to a small number of Left-wing activists.
“There is no meeting halfway between truth and falsehood, between reality and delusion. There’s no neutrality. We are either gaining ground or we are losing ground,” Knowles said. “Meeting the liberals halfway will always take us all the way down their road to perdition in the long run.”
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He then said that conservatives had frequently “caved” on issues like feminism and marriage, paving the way for the transgender movement. Knowles contrasted that with the issue of abortion, where conservatives have seen success recently, especially with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Knowles concluded by saying that with moral courage, conservatives could fight back no matter the consequences or “passing fashions of the day.”

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Footage from the American Conservative Union’s recent Conservative Political Action Conference (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CPAC</a>) event in Texas was removed from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> last week, according to the conservative group.
The conservative conference told The Daily Wire that YouTube pulled the video for “misinformation&#8221; and gave CPAC a “strike” on September 23 — a sanction prohibiting CPAC from posting for one week, with two more strikes leading to the account’s removal. The CPAC <a href="https://na.eventscloud.com/website/34479/home/">event</a> in Dallas, Texas, which took place from August 4 to 7, featured <a href="https://na.eventscloud.com/website/34479/speakers/">high-profile conservatives</a> such as former President Donald Trump, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
&#8220;The removal of CPAC Texas is yet another example of YouTube censoring conservative voices,” CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp told The Daily Wire. “This cannot continue. The Silicon Valley monopolies abuse their control over the flow of information to prop up the Democrat Party. It’s time we rein in Big Tech.”
In recent weeks, YouTube has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-bans-steven-crowders-exclusive-interview-with-kari-lake">banned</a> conservative comedian Steven Crowder for two weeks after he interviewed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. The company, a subsidiary of Google, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-appears-to-update-policy-banning-claims-that-masks-dont-stop-the-spread-of-covid">amended</a> its policies earlier this year such that users are now permitted to express skepticism about mask wearing.
Last year, YouTube issued a strike against CPAC’s account and banned the group from posting for one week. The video included coverage of a class-action lawsuit against large technology platforms spearheaded by Trump, in which the American Conservative Union is a plaintiff.
“It is clear that YouTube censored CPAC because we stood with former President Donald Trump on his lawsuit against Big Tech,” Schlapp said in a <a href="https://www.conservative.org/2021/07/10/youtube-censors-cpacs-america-uncanceled-episode-removed-video-of-former-president-donald-j-trumps-major-class-action-against-big-tech/">statement</a> at the time. “This is yet another example of Big Tech censoring content with which they disagree in order to promote the political positions they favor.”
YouTube cited “medical misinformation” concerning COVID as the reason for removing the video, according to the American Conservative Union, although the social media company did not specify which remarks constituted misinformation.
Lawmakers have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-senate-weighs-antitrust-bills-apples-ceo-called-ted-cruz-with-significant-concerns">repeatedly debated</a> antitrust and data privacy regulation in recent months. However, proposals such as the Open App Markets Act and the American Innovation and Choice Online Act have so far failed to become law.
Indeed, technology companies have repeatedly suspended or otherwise repressed conservative content. In one example from earlier this year, Libs of TikTok — an account known for reposting videos of leftist activists — was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-suspended-from-instagram">suspended</a> from Instagram because the account or “activity on it” did not follow the platform’s community guidelines.
After satire website The Babylon Bee posted an article that jokingly named Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, who identifies as a transgender woman, as “Man of the Year,” the publication was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-contacted-the-babylon-bee-before-buying-9-of-twitter">locked out</a> of Twitter. According to Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, Elon Musk consulted with The Babylon Bee before purchasing a 9.2% stake in Twitter.
The platform has thus far refused to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-responds-to-babylon-bees-appeal-keeps-them-locked-out-of-their-account">revoke</a> its decision to lock The Babylon Bee’s account. According to Dillon, the company wrote: “Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision.”
Likewise, conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey was suspended from Twitter on two separate occasions — once for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-suspends-conservative-pundit-allie-beth-stuckey-for-stating-that-transgender-weightlifter-is-a-man">saying</a> a transgender Olympic weightlifting competitor is “still a man,” and again for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/allie-beth-stuckey-suspended-from-twitter-after-challenging-fox-news-segment-that-went-viral">denouncing</a> a Fox News segment that highlighted a family who claimed their child was transgender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-a-complete-betrayal-at-fox-news">before she could speak</a>.
With respect to the latter incident, Twitter claimed that Stuckey had violated the platform’s “rules against hateful conduct.” Twitter eventually apologized and claimed staff had made an “error.”

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Conservative groups are condemning Walmart&#8217;s funding of “woke policies,” warning that “no self-proclaimed conservative official or conservative organization should accept funding from Walmart while it supports the policies of the woke left.” 
In the letter, sent Wednesday to Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer of Walmart, leaders of some of the top conservative groups in the nation slammed news that the nation&#8217;s largest retailer has begun paying for employee abortions.
That list of leaders includes CPAC Executive Board Member William L. Walton, Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Woman for America (CWA), former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, the chairman of the Conservative Partnership Institute, the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s President Kevin Roberts, and Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. 
“Surely as board members with a fiduciary responsibility to your shareholders, you must understand the Walmart’s increasingly woke policies are alienating millions of your customers who will take their business elsewhere,” the letter, first obtained by The Daily Wire, warns. “Your founder Sam Walton would be appalled.”
“CPAC and other conservative leaders are changing tactics,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of CPAC. Once allies, these companies that fund Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood are as big an adversary as the woke socialist groups they support.”
“Large publicly held companies need to realize conservative groups and officeholders will no longer do their bidding,” he added. “We are shelving our polite silence and in full-on battle mode. After November, it will get much worse for these woke corporations.”
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The letter follows an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walmart-will-pay-for-some-employee-abortions-out-of-state-travel-expenses-leaked-email-shows">August 19 memo</a>  stating that “effective immediately, the Walmart self-insured healthcare plans will cover abortion when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or lack of fetal viability.”
The memo appeared to be in response to the June overturn of Roe v. Wade, which sent the power to decide abortion back to the states. Walmart did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s requests for comment as to why it is instated this policy.
“As the nation’s largest private employer and grocer, Walmart touches the lives of hundreds of millions of people throughout the freedom-loving world,” the letter said. “Yet, millions of American consumers do not realize that by patronizing Walmart, they are funding woke policies they morally oppose.” 
“A perfect example is abortion,” the letter continued. “In a recent revision to its leave policy, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/walmart-expands-abortion-coverage-employees-rcna44063">Walmart will now provide virtually unrestricted abortion benefits</a>.”
The conservative leaders reminded Walmart that “in prior years, the company policy was to offer benefits related to abortion only in cases &#8216;when the health of the mother would be in danger if the fetus were carried to term, the fetus could not survive the birthing process, or death would be imminent after birth.&#8217;”
“This lawyer-engineered language specifying health in this context means abortion on demand and they know it,” the letter warned. “&#8217;Health risks&#8217; unrelated to the baby being carried to term covers mental stress, missing work, or any other reason whatsoever. Walmart is effectively providing funding to their 1.6 million employees and their dependents to cover abortion on demand, including expenditures for the abortion procedure and travel costs and when not available within 100 miles.”
The letter says that “Walmart-supported abortions” will increase in the next few years, meaning that “more babies laid at the altar of  &#8216;choice&#8217; because of” Walmart&#8217;s financial contributions.
“It also does not escape our attention that supporting such a heinous policy conveniently keeps women at their Walmart jobs rather than at home caring for themselves and their babies,” the letter adds. “Not only is your pro-abortion policy reprehensible, but your touting of a small increase in adoption benefits as a way to atone for what you know to be an immoral, anti-woman policy is offensive, especially for women. Why was the increase not offered before? Why now? Americans know why.” 
The conservative groups also pointed to Walmart&#8217;s pricey <a href="https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2022/07/22/walmart-org-center-for-racial-equity-update-focusing-on-food-to-advance-health-equity">racial equity</a> campaign and its “effort to punish Republicans for questioning the integrity of the 2020 election.”
“In the past, Walmart has relied on conservative organizations and office holders to further policies that benefited Walmart, its shareholders, and its customers,” the letter continued. “And when anti-capitalist politicians and activists attacked the company for its success and profitability, we stepped up to defend Walmart.” 
“We stood by the company because it was generally pro-family and because we embrace free enterprise and believe in the benefits of capitalism,” the conservative leaders said. “We can no longer tolerate your leftist policy agenda – particularly when it facilitates the harming of innocent human life.” 
Conservatives will neither condone nor forgive Walmart&#8217;s choice, the letter said.
“Conservatives who seek a government that reflects their values should take their business elsewhere,” it added. “And no self-proclaimed conservative official or conservative organization should accept funding from Walmart while it supports the policies of the woke left.”

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The American left has a new bogeyman these days. This latest grave threat, as progressives see it, is an emerging international coalition of conservative politicians, pundits and thinkers who are loosely working together to preserve and protect the Western values that animate the right. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, delivered a speech at CPAC this month that occasioned much sturm und drang from American liberals, and has become the latest tool for fear mongering from the left.
Another speaker at CPAC in Dallas, Nigel Farage, also stands in the company of the New Right. The former British MP and UKIP leader was the face of the Brexit battle in the UK in 2015. Many political commentators viewed the successful fight to get Britain out of the European Union as a tremor that presaged the earthquake of Donald Trump’s stunning 2016 victory in his run for the White House.
The throughline between Farage and Trump was a deep suspicion of trade deals and global organizations trying to create a one world approach to problems like climate change, poverty, and migration. And there is an important point here. The global left has long formed international coalitions to achieve their goals. The official song of socialism is literally called, ‘The Internationale.’ But apparently when conservatives use similar tactics it is suddenly dark and nefarious.
The current iteration of fear regarding a rising global right centers on Orban. His approach to leadership has focused on Hungary as a Christian nation, promoting family formation (often with generous government subsidies) and on maintaining cultural cohesion by strictly limiting immigration. The latter issue got him in some hot water recently as he criticized the “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/04/viktor-orban-cpac-dallas-speech/">race mixing</a>” of much of Western Europe. For Americans and others in the West this understandably raised eyebrows, but it is important to understand that Hungarian is an ethnicity, American is not, and so prying apart cultural and ethnic identities is not so clear cut.
Another supposed terror spun by the left is that the global New Right seeks to impose a Christian theocracy. And yes, Christianity does lie at the core of much of this new coalition. Importantly though, there is a scale at work regarding the place of religion in Western states. Many Americans are appalled that Hungary would allow the teachings of Christianity to be at the center of so many of its policies. In our own system a state religion is barred by the constitution. But the UK has Christianity as its official religion, and even has a Church of England. This has never made Americans view the British system as a scary, illiberal theocracy ripped from the pages of the Handmaid’s Tale.
The fact is, it is impossible to even discuss the history and values of the West without discussing the role of Christianity. For most of its history the West was known as Christendom. When conservatives in the West seek to conserve its traditional ideals, those ideals cannot be divorced from the 2,000 year old religion which gave them shape and form. To surrender the core Christian underpinnings of our societies and cultures out of vague fears regarding separation of church and state would be to surrender the battle for our civilization itself without firing a shot.
The central idea animating the Trumps, Orbans and Farages of the global political scene is that the nation state must remain the primary source of power in a world increasingly given over to global institutions. If much of 20th century American conservatism was a battle to maintain power in the states against a jealous federal government, in the 21st century this battle has shifted to maintaining the power of the American state in a sea of creeping globalism.
Here is how Farage put it in his CPAC speech, “this battle on behalf not just of America, but on behalf of the whole of the free world [is] to save everything our forebears built, designed and defended against the world.” Part of this is of course economic, but the more important part, the piece that drives this global conservative mission is cultural. Something like the fight over the definition of what a woman is does not know clean national borders. As leftist international organizations work to codify transgenderism it is necessary for the forces aligned against such redefinitions to cooperatively confront them.
This has led to some leading figures on the American New Right being castigated for foreign alliances the left deems unholy. Fox News host Tucker Carlson has come under blistering attack for his embrace of Orban, and for broadcasting his show from Budapest. Others like Compact Magazine founder Sohrab Ahmari have been lambasted for finding elements of Chinese communitarianism that they believe America could emulate.
Disagreement with Carlson, or Ahmari, or anyone else is fine obviously, but the idea that they represent some grave threat to American democracy is laughable. In fact, the opposite is true. Their overwhelming concern is that Americans, Brits, and Hungarians decide for themselves and their nations what their future should hold rather than a global leviathan.
Hysteria in the US has reached a bizarre fever pitch. All over social media are images of a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in the 1930s, the left seems to truly believe that international New Right politics is a harbinger of fascism. It’s absolutely absurd. There is no call for dictatorship, for expunging anyone from the body politic, for the persecution of minorities. All of this is invented by a global left that sees the emerging global right as a check on their heretofore unchecked power. 
For decades now the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and a whole alphabet soup of international organizations from Denver to Davos have pushed a far left agenda across the globe.
This new scrappy band of international conservatives is nothing for Americans or the people of any nation to fear. The only people who should be afraid of it are those trying to enforce a top down globalism on the nations of the world. But we are not citizens of the world, we are citizens of our countries and the New Right aims to keep it that way.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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