Hundreds of <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-08/trump-supporters-march-in-peaceful-demonstration-in-beverly-hills">peaceful demonstrators</a> from the #WalkAway movement marched from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills, California, over the weekend to show support for President Donald Trump and law enforcement.
The movement is comprised of former Democrats who have &#8220;walked away&#8221; from the party, though some argue it was the party that left them. #WalkAway members encourage other free-thinking liberals to leave the party, too.
During the rally, #WalkAway supporter Shameka Michelle, who is black, encountered a white male counter-protester supporting the far-Left &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; movement.
Michelle told the BLM supporter that she does not need him to use his so-called &#8220;privilege&#8221; to validate that her life matters and went on to rip the organization for not elevating black men and fathers while also turning a blind eye to disproportionate abortion in the black community.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t need you to tell me my life matters,&#8221; Michelle tells the BLM supporter. &#8220;I don&#8217;t need your privilege to tell me or to justify who I am in America. This is my country. This is my land. My ancestors built this country, so I&#8217;m gonna walk around here as bold as I want to.&#8221;
&#8220;And I don&#8217;t have to have you to cosign and tell me my life matters,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;That right there insinuates that your voice is bigger and better than mine.&#8221;
&#8220;You are supporting an organization that does not like black men,&#8221; Michelle claimed. &#8220;And as a black woman, I can tell you how important black men are to the black family; without them we are nothing. So when you support and organization that doesn&#8217;t push them up the way we need them to be, you ain&#8217;t s***.&#8221;
The #WalkAway member also said that the official site for BLM does not mention the abortion of black babies, nor does it &#8220;talk about fathers.&#8221;
&#8220;We kill more black babies than are born every year,&#8221; Michelle said. &#8220;You said &#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217;; what about black lives in the womb? They don&#8217;t matter? They don&#8217;t matter? So how are you pushing an organization that doesn&#8217;t care?&#8221;
&#8220;They don&#8217;t talk about fathers,&#8221; the activist added.
According to the &#8220;What We Believe&#8221; page for BLM, the group advocates for the national defunding of police and pushes the disruption of the nuclear family.
&#8220;We&#8217;re doing these rallies because we wanted to show the radical left who&#8217;s been smashing windows, committing acts of violence, committing acts of vandalism they do not own America&#8217;s streets,&#8221; #WalkAway founder Brandon Straka <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/hundreds-of-demonstrators-join-rescue-america-rally-in-beverly-hills" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> on Saturday, <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/rescue-americarally--walkaway-movement-beverly-hills">according</a> to The Blaze. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to fight for the heart and soul of America, so this is our third one. Next week we&#8217;ll be in Milwaukee and we&#8217;ll basically be doing &#8216;Rescue America&#8217; rallies around the country for now through the end of the year.&#8221;
According to the Los Angeles Times, Michelle was one of the speakers at the event; other speakers included musicians and vocal Trump supporters Joy Villa and Ricky Rebel, actors Scott Baio and Lorenzo Lamas, and politicos Brandon Straka, Mike Harlow, Blaire White, and Karlyn Borysenko.
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🇺🇸 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WalkAway?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WalkAway</a> Rally Beverly Hills:
💊 Red Pill <a href="https://twitter.com/ShemekaMichelle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShemekaMichelle</a> vs. Basic BLM White Beta 🤡 <a href="https://t.co/jYefx98lS5">pic.twitter.com/jYefx98lS5</a>
&mdash; Incredibly Diverse Latina O&#39;Crazio CornPop (@jetrotter) <a href="https://twitter.com/jetrotter/status/1292323901234503680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Generally, politicizing tragedy is a scourge that should be avoided. But sometimes, the cause of the tragedy is so obvious that it becomes impossible not to trace it back to politics.
For the last few years, parts of New York, including much of New York City, have become <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/nyregion/anti-semitism-brooklyn-new-york.html">hotbeds</a> of anti-Semitic attacks against Jews at random, ranging from beating Jews in the streets to <a href="https://abc7ny.com/vandals-break-window-at-synagogue-in-brooklyn/5142611/">throwing</a> bricks into synagogue windows.
However, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/29/us/jewish-attacks-week-new-york-trnd/index.html">this week</a> saw a new, unprecedented wave of anti-Semitic attacks in New York. An elderly Jew was beaten by a Latino assailant in broad daylight in Midtown Manhattan. A few days <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/28/suspects-released-without-bail-after-shocking-attacks-on-jews/">later</a>, a homeless black attacker hit a Jewish woman in the face with a bag of groceries in front of her son. And over the weekend, multiple Jews were stabbed by an African-American attacker near a Monsey synagogue during a Hanukkah celebration.
This is horrifying, to say the least. I grew up in Monsey. To say I never thought I’d see the day a tragedy such as this one would occur in my own hometown is an understatement.
But this should cause Jews, both in New York and throughout the country, to truly question who in power has their best interests in mind. And it’s becoming increasingly obvious that, try as they may to <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1211376731422113792">deny</a> it, it is the Left that truly has no interest in helping to stop this epidemic of anti-Semitism.
To his credit, however, after the Monday attack, far-left New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted the following:
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Hate doesn’t have a home in our city. 
In light of recent anti-Semitic attacks, the NYPD will increase their presence in Boro Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg. 
Anyone who terrorizes our Jewish community WILL face justice.
&mdash; Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1210529913004015617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Still, leftists, even Jewish ones, pounced:
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in a decision that impacts both Black and Jewish New Yorkers, how many Black Jews have you consulted before deciding occupying Black and Jewish communities with more NYPD makes everyone safer?
— rafael (@rafaelshimunov) <a href="https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1210613561065705473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
One may wonder why Jews would be upset by this. After all, it seems insane that Jews would be against the notion of protecting their own co-religionists. But the Left’s obsession with race and identity politics leads directly to this logical conclusion.
To the Left, African-Americans and Latino Americans are a perpetual victim class, no matter the progress each community makes over time. As such, leftists feel a visceral guilt about these communities and will excuse any action in which people of these ethnicities participate. And even though Jews are a minority as well, their disproportionate success in America puts them on a pedestal above other minorities, such as African-Americans and Hispanics. As such, leftists will side with the supposed “oppressed” group, no matter what the truth actually is.
Even The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/nyregion/jewish-bias-safety-nyc.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">admitted</a> the conundrum for progressives in fighting anti-Semitism, noting that &#8220;[I]t is the varied backgrounds of people who commit hate crimes in the city that make combating and talking about anti-Semitism in New York much harder.&#8221;
How else do you explain New York’s new law <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/new-york-prosecutor-abolishing-bail-will-lead-dangerous-crime-waves-witness-intimidation/">abolishing</a> bail, which clearly will lead to spikes in crime, rampant witness intimidation, and more criminals out on the streets? Or the fact that the endorsement of Rev. Al Sharpton, infamous for his role in the Crown Heights riots of the early 1990s and the 1995 Freddy&#8217;s Fashion Mart massacre, is a de facto <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/the-run/articles/2019-04-02/2020-democrats-flock-to-al-sharptons-national-action-network-to-address-race-gap">gateway</a> to qualifying for the Democratic Party presidential nomination? Or that Democrats in the House leadership have <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/anti-semitism-louis-farrakhan-democratic-party/">met</a> with the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and none have denounced him as the racist he so clearly is?
The answer is that intersectionality and identity politics are sacred cows to the Left. It is a golden rule that the color of a perpetrator’s skin is always more important than the actions they take. As such, as long as the culprit is not a white supremacist, as white Christian males are on top of the intersectional totem pole, Jewish blood becomes cheap to the Left.
We as Americans cannot let this stand. The cancer to the civil society that is identity politics must end now.

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On Saturday, the #WalkAway movement is hosting a “Hispanic American” town hall. The event, which will be held in Congressional District 14, will feature speakers and panelists including Anna Paulina, Drew Hernandez, Gabriel E. Montalvo, among others.
For the uninitiated, the #WalkAway movement was created by former progressive Brandon Straka. On May 26, 2018, Straka released a video titled, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-speaks-walkaway-founder-brandon-straka-frank-camp">Why I Left The Democratic Party</a>.” It has since been viewed more than 2.7 million times on Facebook.
In the video, Straka explains his exodus from the Democratic Party. Many more former progressives have followed suit. A cursory YouTube search for “Walk Away” brings up video after video of individuals telling their own stories about leaving the Democratic Party or progressivism more generally.
Straka has hosted numerous town halls over the last seven months focusing on minority communities. I was able to attend and cover the very first #WalkAway town halls (one in Harlem, and another for the LGBT community) in March of this year in New York City. 
While the Harlem town hall proceeded smoothly, leftist activists protested the LGBT town hall. You can check out my coverage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walkaway-campaigns-first-ever-town-hall-harlem-frank-camp">here</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-protesters-and-attempted-censorship-frank-camp">here</a>.
I spoke with Anna Paulina, Gabriel E. Montalvo, and Brandon Straka about Saturday’s town hall.
Paulina, who is the Chairwoman of Hispanic Initiatives for Prager U, as well as a congressional candidate in Florida’s 13th district, told me that while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been “branded by the mainstream media as the voice of Americans of Hispanic descent,” that’s simply untrue.
She stated that the Hispanic community at large holds conservative values, and that the only reason the Democratic Party focused on them in 2016 was “not because they care about immigration or us as a people, but because we are the largest voting minority in the country – which to them translates to power.”
According to Paulina, the Hispanic town hall is important because it will “showcase some of the largest conservative Hispanics voices in the country who will fight for our constitution and against socialism.”
“This event smashes any identity politics the DNC and MSM try to play,” she added.
As for the reason she decided to join the event, Paulina said:
<blockquote>I realized that if I did not speak up against the manipulation of Hispanic Americans, I was part of the problem. We can no longer expect others to fight this ideological war for us. We have to take a stand for our culture, for our people, and most importantly, for our country. The United States is America is the greatest country in the world. We are here to make sure we remain a constitutional republic and a free nation.</blockquote>
Gabriel E. Montalvo, a Specialist in the NY Army National Guard and New York State Vice-Chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, told me that this event is vital because “the RNC and New York GOP, in my opinion, are not doing enough in regards to Hispanic outreach. Hopefully, this event sends a message to them.”
<blockquote>We are here from all over the country to show that Hispanics are ready to walk away from the Democratic Plantation. We are in Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s district to show that we are against socialism as many of our countries of origin suffered from those policies.
I think that what drives #WalkAway are the testimonials. A movement that gives people a platform to share their stories is vital. It shows that there are like-minded individuals who will not judge you for thinking differently. Everyone has a unique story, and the civil exchange of ideas is what moves the country forward.</blockquote>
Straka, who has lead the movement to where it is today, spoke about why the event will be held in the 14th district:
<blockquote>This being our first of what will be many Hispanic American town halls, we felt it was important to kick off this outreach in District 14 of NYC, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s district. The reason being, not only are minorities in America being told that they have no option but to follow the Democrats, the messaging now is subtly changing to one that says, “If you belong to a minority class, you must embrace socialism, globalism, and the increasingly extreme policies being embraced by the political Left.”</blockquote>
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On Fri. I went to <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>’s office, was surprised to find her there &amp; hand delivered this invitation to our event this coming Sat. I told her &amp; her team HISPANIC AMERICANS DON’T HAVE TO BE SOCIALISTS &amp; DON’T HAVE TO BE DEMOCRATS. Hope 2 see u there, AOC. 
TIX: <a href="https://t.co/w6qAmuwrmi">https://t.co/w6qAmuwrmi</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ctkah6h2vi">pic.twitter.com/Ctkah6h2vi</a>
— Brandon Straka (@BrandonStraka) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1191430202229813255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
Straka noted that “Hispanic Americans, who are traditionally known for a culture that celebrates family and faith, are being told that conservative values are racist and contradictory to their best interest, while ironically also being told to embrace extremist abortion stances and policies that directly oppose their faith and the integrity of the family.”
<blockquote>We are launching our outreach for Hispanic Americans in the constituency of the most celebrated socialist and extremist Democrat in America today to give this community a powerful message that isn&#8217;t being delivered effectively by anybody else. No, Hispanic Americans do not have to follow the Democrats off a cliff. There is a better choice.</blockquote>
The location of the event has yet to be announced due to a previous incident in which activist protesters convinced a certain venue to pull out of hosting just days before the LGBT town hall was slated to begin. For more information on the Hispanic town hall, click <a href="https://give.walkawayfoundation.org/event/walkaway-hispanic-americans-town-hall-new-york/e254481">here</a>.

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#WalkAway Founder And Panelists Discuss Hispanic Town Hall Taking Place Right In Ocasio-Cortez’s Congressional District