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Dark Side of the Bidens Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep 616
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Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Gill.
I'm Dinesh D'Souza's son-in-law and I've been hosting his podcast this week while he's taking some very much deserved time off.
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We've got a great episode for you today.
We're going to dive into the Biden family and see that it looks disturbingly similar to the dark side of the Kennedy dynasty.
We've got Kenny Zhu coming on later to discuss his work bringing down the left's pro-diversity, anti-meritocracy agenda.
Then we have political analyst and founder of the 1776 Project Ryan Gerdusky joining us.
It's going to be a full show, so let's get started.
I'm Brandon Gill and this is the Dinesh D'Souza podcast.
The times are crazy in a time of confusion, division, and lies.
We need a brave voice of reason, understanding, and truth.
This is the Dinesh D'Souza Podcast.
We like to think of our elected officials as likable people, relatable people you or I might want to have a beer with.
We like to think of them as having dogs they play with in a backyard they grill in, just like we do.
We want them to have the same priorities we have.
Americans love a good family man.
You've probably seen politicians even center their campaigns on it.
That's the image we see all the time.
But for America's most powerful political families, our political dynasties, you might say, the ones with more power and influence than we could ever imagine, there's usually a darker reality.
That's because in a cutthroat Machiavellian political world, that kind of power is rarely acquired tastefully.
And this isn't new.
It's been true in America for a long time, and it's worth taking a look back at one of America's most prolific political dynasties to learn a bit more.
Joe Kennedy Sr.
was the patriarch of his family.
He made a fortune in business in the early 1900s and later served as an ambassador to the U.K., But he's perhaps best known for his children.
He had nine, and they were exceptionally talented.
One, JFK, became president.
Two were U.S. senators.
One was a noted philanthropist, and another was a U.S. ambassador.
He was known for pushing his family hard.
Joe Kennedy was ambitious and competitive, and he knew his children were going to do great things.
Except for one, his oldest daughter, Rosemary.
Rosemary was known as a placid, easygoing, and friendly little girl.
She was eager to please.
She once wrote her father Joe when she was a teenager, I would do anything to make you so happy.
But she didn't make him happy.
Rosemary wasn't like the rest of her family.
She wasn't as quick-witted.
She had difficulty in school.
She got private tutors, but she was always several grades behind.
And at times, her behavior was erratic.
It became obvious that she would never measure up to the Kennedy name.
And by her 20s, she began to attract suitors.
She was a pretty girl and that worried Joe Kennedy.
He feared that she might cause a scandal that would hurt her siblings' political careers.
So in November 1941, against the advice of his daughter Kathleen and secretly, without telling his wife, Joe took 23-year-old Rosemary to a doctor at George Washington University.
They performed a procedure on her called a lobotomy where they severed nerve endings in her brain.
It was something that even at the time was known to be extremely risky.
But it seems for Joe Kennedy, it worked just fine.
After the procedure, Rosemary never spoke coherently again.
In fact, she had the mental capacity of a toddler.
For the rest of her life, Rosemary walked with a limp and her left arm was disabled.
So the Kennedy sent Rosemary to an institution in New York, then to a school for the mentally handicapped in rural Wisconsin, where she spent the rest of her life.
She was out of the political spotlight, out of Kennedy's social circles and away from the cameras.
That was the goal.
So they completely abandoned her there and moved on.
It's what they had to do.
They were an important political family and Rosemary was a liability.
It's an utterly heartbreaking story.
And luckily, you might think it's a story from another era.
Presidents now don't abandon their family members.
Biden certainly never would.
He's a family man.
He loved his late son, Beau, and his other son, Hunter, may have had his problems, like with hard drugs, prostitutes, lying about his taxes, illegal firearms ownership, alleged money laundering and influence peddling.
But Joe is a loving father.
According to Anna Navarro of The View, quote, the Hunter Biden story is a story of a father's love.
He's a father first.
Take it or leave it. That's who he is.
That's part of his heart.
He's such a family man, he regularly talks about his grandkids.
They're crazy about me, he says, and I'm crazy about them.
Last April, during a Take Your Kids to Work day, Joe Biden told us, quote, I speak to them every single day, not a joke.
And if they don't answer his calls, he tells us he leaves messages.
I have six grandchildren, he says, and I'm crazy about them.
It's heartwarming, or at least it might be if it were true.
Joe Biden doesn't have six grandkids.
He has seven. But unless you watch conservative media you wouldn't know that.
Biden's seventh granddaughter doesn't take part in the annual Easter egg hunt.
Her stocking isn't hung next to the other grandkids on the presidential Christmas tree.
She doesn't visit her family at the White House at all.
She's not allowed. In fact, apparently, the Bidens have ordered their staff not to talk about their seventh grandkid, Navy Joan.
They're not even allowed to acknowledge she exists.
Navy Joan's father, of course, is Hunter Biden.
Her mother is a former stripper Hunter hooked up with while he was in the middle of a romantic relationship with the ex-wife of his recently deceased brother.
The Bidens have never met her.
Hunter Biden didn't even admit she exists until he was forced to take a paternity test in 2019, which proved he was the father.
And Navy Jones' father, neither her father nor her grandfather, the President of the United States, have ever publicly acknowledged her.
According to the little girl's maternal grandfather, The girl is aware that her father is Hunter Biden and that her paternal grandfather is the President of the United States.
She speaks about both of them often, but she has not met them.
Unfortunately for little Navy Joan, being the illegitimate granddaughter of a US president doesn't mean much when you're a political liability.
Not only have the Bidens done everything in their power to keep Navy Joan out of their lives, they've also fought tooth and nail to do as little as possible to help the girl's single mother, London Roberts, raise her.
Last week, Hunter Biden settled a legal dispute with Roberts.
Hunter was fighting to lower his child support payments.
He said $20,000 a month was more than he could afford.
Never mind that he made millions upon millions of dollars from opaque business dealings in foreign countries.
You can forget that he recently sold paintings, art as he calls it, for upwards of half a million dollars.
$20,000 was too much for Navy Joan.
Roberts was also fighting to allow her daughter Navy to keep her birthright, her last name, Biden.
But the Bidens don't want any connection to Navy.
She's an embarrassment.
It doesn't look good politically.
It probably wouldn't pull well.
They eventually settled.
Instead of paying $20,000 a month, Hunter will pay an undisclosed amount, reported to be as low as $5,000.
In lieu of the higher monthly payments, Hunter will give young Navy Joan a few of his paintings.
She also won't take the Biden name.
It's unclear exactly why London Roberts would agree to a deal like this.
Perhaps it's difficult for a single mother to keep up a court fight against one of the most powerful families in the world.
Either way, young Navy is too young to realize what happened.
She's too young to realize that Daddy and Grandpa just wiped the floor with her in court.
She's too young to understand the stress her mother is undoubtedly going through, but eventually she will.
It's a reminder that the dark side of politics, especially in Democrat political dynasties, hasn't gone away.
It's still here. The Kennedys threw away their daughter out of ambition for their other children.
It was a Faustian bargain and it paid off well, at least for a few years.
And no matter what kind of image the Bidens want to portray, they did something similar.
Young Navy will probably never know her father or her grandfather.
They abandoned her.
She'll never have the advantages in her life that half of her other siblings do.
But that's just the Bidens.
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Alright, welcome back to the Dinesh D'Souza podcast.
This is Brandon Gill filling in for Dinesh this week.
We talked yesterday about the affirmative action ruling on the Supreme Court, and we've got Kenny Zhu with us now.
Kenny Zhu has been on the front lines of the fight against affirmative action against DE&I, diversity, equity, and inclusion for several years now.
Kenny's the founder and president of Color Us United, which advocates for a race-blind society.
He's also the author of two books, An Inconvenient Minority and School of Woke, which is coming out in a few weeks now.
So, Kenny, thanks for joining us.
Awesome. Thanks for having me.
Kenny, tell us a little bit about your background and how and why you got into this fight and why this means so much to you.
I got into this fight because this is one of the issues out there that Asian Americans in general really need to get behind and they don't.
They didn't. When I first started in this fight, the awareness among Asian Americans on this issue was very strong, but the activism surrounding this issue was very low.
In fact, the lefty Asian Americans were dominant in this discourse.
They were saying things like, well, you know, don't you know Asian Americans support affirmative action?
And don't you know that we need to help the black community and Asians are privileged anyway?
And I just felt very compelled in my life to debunk those lies.
Asians did not come from privilege in this country.
70% of them come off of the same immigrant visa that all minorities do.
They come with the average wealth of $0.00 and a lot of debt as well.
The reason why many of them end up becoming educated and many of their kids end up becoming educated at a higher rate than even whites now is because of culture.
It's because of Asian American study habits, family structure, two parent families, low rates of crime, low rates of drug use, which are all interlinked to good educational outcomes.
So that's not privilege, guys.
That is hard work.
That is the fruit of their efforts.
Their admissions to schools, which is something that Asian Americans have always desired, should be given to them based on their hard work and accomplishments.
Right. I mean, we like to think of America as being a meritocratic place where the people who work the hardest and are the most competent can kind of rise to the top.
but under a DENI or a diversity regime under affirmative action, that's not really the case, is it? No. In fact, under a diversity regime, merit is placed on the back burner in favor of racial concordance. Harvard's diversity policies discriminate against Asian Americans, as they argued in my first book, An Inconvenient Minority, which was released back in 2021. And if you look at the current Supreme Court decision today, it bears striking resemblance to my first book.
The...
The Harvard diversity regime purports to support racial diversity, but really only supports the increase of black applicants and Hispanic applicants at the expense of Asian and white applicants.
An Asian, of course, has to study 273 points higher on the SAT to have the same chance of admission as a black person.
Asians are rated lowest on the personality score to compensate for their exceedingly high academic and extracurricular scores.
Harvard uses all kinds of metrics, methods whatsoever to discriminate against Asian Americans.
Right. Why do you think they're doing that?
Especially whenever you lay out the statistics like that, it seems so flagrantly racist.
It's so obviously wrong.
It's hard to imagine anybody can actually support this.
So what do you think the goal is?
We nailed the goal, which is the DEI regime.
DEI is an ideology based on race.
Harvard invented DEI.
Harvard wants to train citizen leaders, but to them, aesthetically, citizen leaders should globally represent the global representation of the world, which of course still doesn't make sense because Asians make up like 50% of the world, and Chinese people make up like a third, a quarter of the world.
So, you know, it still doesn't make sense, but in Harvard's twisted mind, race is the aesthetic characteristic that they want.
They don't actually care deeper than race, which is merit.
Right, right.
Right.
Right, right.
So last week we got a huge ruling on the Harvard case.
You've been following that. You've been involved in the case, too.
Tell us a little bit about your response to the big news.
Thrilling. Vindication is how I felt.
I wrote a whole book about it, and other things, too, of course.
An inconvenient minority.
An inconvenient minority.
But what Harvard did deserved to be shut down.
And Roberts really laid on the opinion that university regimes cannot use race as a factor directly or indirectly.
Yeah. I think that this is going to lead to a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth among the DEI sphere.
But remember, it's because they're prejudiced.
It's because they do want race.
Yeah. I'm sorry, but if there's weeping and gnashing of teeth of prejudiced people, so be it.
Harvard's admissions officers are prejudiced people.
That should be called out, and I'm glad the court finally called them out on that.
Right. And where do we go from here?
I mean, I was talking to Josh Hammer yesterday and I just don't think that Harvard overnight is going to become or implement, I should say, a race-blind admissions policy.
They've been so wedded to affirmative action and to this kind of discrimination for so long.
What are the next steps for us in this fight against affirmative action?
The next steps are to monitor what policies Harvard does use, what outcomes they lead to, whether they're consistent with the merit-based treatment that Asian Americans deserve to ask for data to continue legal action when Harvard refuses to submit the data so that we can get the data and then compare and contrast their admission policies with the actual data based on the evidence and ensure that they remain in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling.
Right. So it's going to take very close vigilance on our part to make sure that these people follow the law.
Yeah, or just any vigilance because now precedent is on our side.
So we have an easier battle ahead.
I don't think people are kind of overdoing this.
Harvard is going to flout this regime.
If they flout this regime, a single lawsuit will...
We'll put them in compliance again.
The Supreme Court ruling, if you read it, does not leave room for Harvard to discriminate on race.
You cannot use race in the essay.
You cannot accept to talk about your individual experience, which is fine.
You can talk about whatever you want in your individual experience.
But you can't use race as a factor, criteria.
You can't use it to lower standards.
Harvard will not be able to get away with this if any legal action is taken, which it will be because Harvard is a rich university and there are a lot of rich alumni that are willing to support that.
And it's really not just Harvard.
It's happening all over the place.
And I know you've been involved in a case at the University of North Carolina, which you've been pretty successful in.
Tell us about that. My organization, Color Us United, which fights for a race-blind America.
Merit-based principles.
Race-blind America.
Think about that, you know?
We want race out of the equation in our country.
We want people to be treated on the basis of merit.
At UNC Medical School, they were promoting doctors based on their melanin, basically.
If you were a black doctor, you were promoted.
If you're a white doctor, you weren't.
Even with higher standards, they were forcing unconscious bias trainings upon their people to find racism inside ordinary white people.
And they were all justifying it through this framework called the Task Force to Integrate Social Justice into the curriculum.
Well, Color Us United, my group, we gathered the signatures of over 5,000 North Carolinians, testimonies of doctors, personal appeals to board of trustee members, and we were able to force UNC to walk back the DEI framework that made their diversity regime so odious.
And you can find that success story on colorusunited.org, as well as if you just search Color Us United UNC, you see many articles about it.
Yeah, it's amazing.
I think for most people, the last place you want to see somebody rise to the top based on the color of their skin rather than merit is in the medical field.
Nobody wants to be operated on by somebody who's less than very competent.
Exactly. Right.
And that's the contrast that we were able to successfully make in the medical field.
Because a lot of Americans, they really just needed to get it.
Like the whole DEI, consequences of DEI needs to click for them.
And the contrast that you can show in doctors is that DEI leads to lower health outcomes because you're promoting doctors based on race, not merit.
And everybody knows that they want the best qualified doctor, not a doctor of a certain race.
They couldn't care less whether a doctor was black, white, or green.
Right, exactly.
Well, Kenny, you've got a new book coming out.
It's called School of Woke, and you go through critical race theory, the history of it, where we're going from here.
Tell us about the book. School of Woke comes out August 1st.
It's a successor to an inconvenient minority.
It really talks about the decline in standards in K-12 education and We're good to go.
We'll also show how 40 years of spending three times as much public funding adjusted for inflation to help black schools has not helped.
In fact, it's harmed the racial achievement gap because the money has been going to patronage businesses.
I've been following the data.
I went into two different school districts, Loudoun County and Santa Barbara County in California, just to give a cross-sectional comparison.
I tell those stories, and you will see the insider look as As to how we need to reclaim our K-12 education to actually help minority achievement in this country.
School of woke. And I think that's the thing.
These are not unbiased people, and you talk about that in the book.
There's a lot of people making a lot of money off of critical race theory.
Right, exactly. And I even start the book with an introduction about Merrick Garland, the Attorney General.
His own son made a business that was invested in by Mark Zuckerberg to put in bullcrap, BS... Social emotional learning surveys into the lives of third and fourth graders that asked horrible questions like, are you transgender? To these kids.
And how was it paid for?
It was paid for from school board contracts with the woke industrial complex.
That is a phenomenon that people need to understand that's going on in the schools.
That's not about education.
That is about rewarding political partners and indoctrination.
Right. And this is something that's been going on for a while, right?
Critical race theory wasn't invented yesterday.
It may have just hit the news a couple years ago, but it's been around for quite a while.
And you talk about that in the book, don't you?
Right. Although it has gained recent steam in the curriculum because of Black Lives Matter activism.
So I felt the need to really write this book once I was starting to see the content that was coming out in core curricula courses across American history, in English, in math.
The new phenomenon that math teaches white supremacist traits because it prioritizes things like objectivity, and one answer is correct.
Evidently, those are white traits now.
Could you imagine? And the horrible, horrible, sickening patronization of Black math students by saying that these are white traits is something that has to be erased because if you're actually going to teach kids to strive to their fullest excellence capacity, you have to teach them that it can be done by anybody.
Right. I mean, the racism of saying that the scientific method or being analytically correct is based on the color of somebody's skin, it's based on whiteness, is hard to comprehend, but that's actually what they're saying.
Kenny, a lot of people are listening and they're wondering what they can do to stop this.
There's a lot of opposition to critical race theory.
How can people get involved?
What can they do to help get rid of critical race theory, get it out of our schools?
I talk about...
what you can do in the last part of School of Woke. It starts in the home. I believe that critical race theory and queer theory are going to be two issues that are just that every parent in the United States are just going to have to know they're just going to have to understand and deal with it over the next 20 years. It'll become like body image in the 2000s, you know, or talking it's it'll be a trend, it'll be a trend that parents should learn how to talk about, they need to
tactically engage this with their kids. One strategy that I suggest is for example, if a kid comes home and says there's racism, you know, you should tell your kid right, you should be judge people on the content of their character, not the Right, little Johnny?
Yeah, of course. But my teacher told me that this Hispanic-looking kid faces disadvantages because of racism.
And he said, have you gotten to know this Hispanic kid?
Have you talked to him? Yeah.
You don't see him as Hispanic.
You see him as a friend, right?
Yes, I see him as a friend.
So we got to get people to see beyond race because they're trying to contextualize the curriculum solely through the lens of race right now.
That is one strategy and tactic.
I also talk about the school board elections, how to win school board elections, and how to even win gubernatorial elections like the way that Glenn Youngkin did in 2021.
And it's all in the book School of Woke.
It comes out August 1st.
I think you can pre-order it on Amazon.
Where else can people find it?
You can find it on Amazon, Barnes& Noble, IndieBound.
IndieBound is a great place to help the author, IndieBound.com.
And of course, follow me on Twitter at KennyMSHU, KennyMXU, and then ColorUsUnited.org.
Perfect. Kenny, great.
Thank you for coming. We appreciate it.
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This is Brandon Gill filling in for Dinesh this week on the Dinesh D'Souza podcast.
We talk a lot about woke schools and revisionist history that's being taught and some of the more uncomfortable things around gender and sexuality that's being pushed on schools.
And we've got our next guest here.
It's Ryan Gerdusky.
Ryan is actually doing something about it.
Ryan is the author of a sub-stack, which I highly encourage you to read.
I think it should be required reading for conservatives.
It's called the National Populist Newsletter.
I read it every week.
He's also the author of They're Not Listening, How the Elites Created the National Populist Revolution.
And he's the founder of the 1776 Project.
So Ryan, thanks for joining us.
Thank you for having me, Brandon.
Ryan, let's just jump right in.
Tell us, what is the 1776 Project?
So I found the 1776 Project in 2021.
My godson was going to school at home, as most kids in America were, because of the COVID pandemic and the lockdowns.
And his mother and father were really horrified by what he was learning.
He was reading books like It Happened in Our Town.
And race cars, which tell stories of systemic racism, white privilege, and race essentialism to fourth graders.
Completely inappropriate material, especially during a pandemic where children were having immense consequences of learning loss from From COVID, as well as just general trauma from having to be locked in their homes all the time.
So I started this pact to help flip school boards from liberal to conservative.
And the original idea was about mask mandates and lockdowns and CRT. And it just expanded as the issue expanded.
So, like, mask mandates obviously aren't a thing anymore.
But we talk about trans issues.
And then we go into other things, disciplinary issues, the fact that we don't, because there are some very violent children in schools that, you know, are a threat to students and adults.
We focus on things like curriculum as an overall thing.
We focus on the trans issue and the idea of protecting biological women's sports and biological women's spaces.
So we've done over 250 elections.
We've won about 140 of them in 2020.
Many states, like about a dozen states from all the way from the East Coast to about Texas and Colorado, as far west as Colorado so far.
But we're doing more this November, so it's very, very exciting and people should check it out.
Yeah, I mean, tell us about what we're up against here.
I think we're well aware of generally what's happening in schools, but most people don't really understand the mechanics.
Who's pushing this? Why they're pushing this?
Is it coming from the school boards?
Is it coming from the teachers?
I mean, what is the opposition that we're up against?
So, one thing people don't understand what education is.
It is an enormous, ludicrously enormous business.
There's a huge business model.
Teachers and administrators will spend...
You know, thousands of dollars going to conferences throughout the year where people push stuff on them constantly.
And when a person becomes a member of a school board, it's like I'm becoming a member of Congress almost.
There's already a system in place that is already running and that you're kind of moving through.
A lot of people blame what's going on in schools on woke teachers, and there are a handful of woke teachers for sure who are pushing this.
Most teachers are not.
A lot of this is being done administratively through the superintendents, through the DEI officers, through the racial equity officers that are being pushed in throughout the school.
School districts spend Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year looking for racism and looking for problems of racism.
That administratively can be taken care of if the school board, because the school board hires the superintendent.
So a lot of that could be changed with that.
But there's bigger issues when it comes to the woke stuff as far as the CRT stuff goes.
Some of it is being pushed by the school board members.
Some of it is being pushed from the superintendents.
Some of it is being pushed from the teachers' union.
So it's kind of a combination of all three.
The school boards have control of the budget and the hiring process and the book purchasing process.
So a lot can be taken care of as school boards split from liberal to conservative.
And we saw this just last week.
Last week was an enormously successful week, not because we won any elections, but because members that we had gotten elected have started governing.
So in Frisco ISD, which is in Texas, they banned We're good to go.
Another school district that I've recently been involved with recently pushed a new bill on bullying when it comes to apps.
And that's super important for mental health of children.
And I think the question is...
The question I think conservatives should ask when it comes to education overall is how do we produce the most well-rounded, if we can, children who know the basics not only to become good stewards of this country and good citizens,
but also to become efficient workers, a member of the workforce, and assimilated into our culture, which happens And that's the work that we're doing with getting these members elected and seeing how they help change education.
Right. And it's funny, you were talking about races in Texas and in Florida.
And I think this isn't just happening in left-wing San Francisco or in New York.
This is happening all over the country.
It's happening in red areas.
The schools in West Texas aren't always that much better than some of the schools in liberal areas of the country, for example.
That's such an important point because it is a wall that I've had to fight through constantly.
I'll tell you a very quick story.
In 2022, we decided to get involved in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Bentonville is part of the Bible Belt.
It's in the Ozarks.
It is voted Republican forever.
It's where their governors and their senators come from.
It's a wealthier part of the state.
And you would think—and it's where Walmart was founded.
So you would think Walmart, Ozarks, Arkansas.
I mean, this is Republican, Republican, Republican, conservative.
It would be, if any place would be immune from CRT, it would be a place like that.
And what happened was, in Fayetteville and in Arkansas, and in Bentonville, Arkansas, the Walmart Corporation was funding DEI trainings, diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings to teachers, three-hour-long trainings for For all teachers in K through 8, at some point, I don't think they did K, but maybe it was like 4 through 12, something like that.
And especially for history, history teachers had like two or three trainings.
And they would go over what systemic racism was, how they were racist, how to break from white supremacy, everything, all the tropes that, you know, being on time, being competitive, that systems of white supremacy, the most insane things that's a part of race essentialism and ultimately critical race theory.
And it was called Operation Groundwater.
And it was called Groundwater because groundwater can be toxic like white privilege.
And it's in Benton Mill, Arkansas.
Amazing. And I did.
We were like, okay, we're going to commit to the school board.
And when we did, it was a huge backlash against us.
The local media slammed us saying this is not true.
There's no CRT in the school system.
There's no CRT in Arkansas.
The local Republicans wouldn't help us.
We asked literally everybody to help get involved.
No one would help us because the answer was it's not happening in our school.
Right before the election, which was the midterm, so no one was paying attention to school boards, but right before the election, a student recorded his teacher explicitly saying CRT can be used to positively change America, and here's what it is, and here's what it's not. It's not Marxist.
It's not anti-American. We're trying to improve the system.
Literally teaching CRT. There was no nuance, no nothing.
He literally did a PowerPoint on how CRT is a positive use for us.
And I couldn't get traction for it in that moment.
And in the end, we just won one of the five seats.
But if it happened in Bentville, it could happen in literally everywhere.
And I'm lucky that now we've had a lot of people in Arkansas reach out to us and say we want to help because the situation has become so much more well-known.
But if it can happen there, I'm telling you, it could happen in any red county, in any red state.
You should approach your elected officials like you're a Republican in a blue state with a lot of hesitancy and demanding accountability, and there's nothing wrong with that.
And that seems to be the pattern, is we say critical race theory is being taught.
They say, no, it's not being taught.
And then you say, yes, it is.
Here's proof it's being taught.
And they say, okay, that's an isolated incident.
And then we say, no, it's actually...
Right. How is it being practiced is effectively how it is.
So, you know, no, they're not teaching introduction by critical race theory, which is an NYU press book, to fifth graders.
They're just taking that, pushing it on the teachers who are learning how to implement curriculum with that idea in mind.
Right. So how do we find this?
I mean, if they're not being straightforward about what they're teaching, we don't have cameras in classrooms, how can a parent or even just a concerned community member find out what's going on in schools?
So school board members should pass audits on their districts.
This is super important.
This is what many districts are trying to do.
I have a podcast on the 1776 Project podcast.
And basically, we go through one issue of education, only one issue every week, and it's like a 20-minute episode.
It's very quick and efficient of what to do.
So part of it would be to do a full audit, and a full audit would show where the money in your school district is going.
A lot of people are focused on textbooks, and rightfully so, because that's how most people have learned throughout time.
Most kids do not learn on textbooks today.
And fighting over textbooks is important, but it's also fighting the last war.
Currently, most schools, for example, have smart board technology of some sort or the other, smart technology of some sort or the other.
And they spend money that goes from Silicon Valley, from private organism companies that have almost no oversight on them whatsoever, Um, aside being a vendor to the state where they get these local contracts.
And if you have, uh, like one of those popular apps is brain pop brain pop does teach about George Floyd and about how black lives matter is a good thing.
Um, and it's, it's in, it's a four K through eight schools.
It's for young children to learn these videos.
And it's probably the most popular app for education in the country.
Legos bought it for a billion dollars last year.
I think it's in 60% of our schools.
That would be a thing worth auditing and seeing if their money is going there and if there's a positive alternative.
That is a very, very important thing.
That's an important thing to get an alternative that's more, I guess, reflective of your values.
The one thing that conservative states could do, and this is what I've really been pushing some conservative states to do, is rather than having the school districts purchase the technology, let the state purchase the technology.
Because of the state contract, which is so valuable and so large, a school district has to go to Silicon Valley and say, okay, what do you have?
And shop with what's available.
A state like Oklahoma, a state like Texas, a state like Indiana, a state like Florida could say, here's what we're looking for.
Here's what our English language arts requirements are.
You build it for us and you get awarded with this multi-million dollar contract.
That is a much more tactical way of doing it than what's currently being done as far as districts purchasing one by one.
But anyway, audits are a very, very effective thing.
Super important.
Attend a school board meeting.
It's not far.
are they happen probably twice a month in your district.
And vote in your local school boards, like really get informed on the issues because turnout on a local school board about 8% of the electorate.
It's almost no one turns out for it.
And then it's usually.
Yeah, I mean, it's funny because we don't typically think or we haven't historically thought about school board elections as being the kind of political hotbed of where we need to get involved.
but it is. So, what would you say if one of the listeners, for example, wants to run for school board?
How do you start? How do you do that?
Well, you have to find out when you're school board.
School board elections are all throughout the year, all throughout the country.
It's not like a November every other year.
I mean, in Texas, for example, their school board elections are in April, May, and November.
It's just randomly they'll have a school board.
Texas loves a school board election.
They do them all the time. But a lot of states have them in the spring, and some have them in the summer, and some have them in the fall.
So one, find out when is your school board election, because they're not every November.
And secondly, find out when, if there's any openings, and what are the systemic issues in your district.
Don't presume that everything you've ever seen on social media is the problem within that district, right?
Some districts are. Some districts have CRT problems and trans issues, but some districts just have kids who can't read.
They're falling behind in education literacy.
Some school districts have disciplinary issues.
I spoke to some suburban parents in Oklahoma recently, and they said their biggest fear is the violence in public schools.
There are issues that are throughout our education apparatus that really need to be addressed in a very smart way.
In a very nuanced way.
And I think sometimes conservatives get very lost in the sexy issues.
We had the same day that the Keller School Board in Texas banned transgender men in women's locker rooms.
Miami-Dade also did the classical curriculum.
And that is a huge, huge, huge...
That is the biggest curriculum win we have had for a major school district in probably decades.
And it was our school board candidate.
And that would get like 100 likes on social media and the other one would get like 10,000 likes.
Because people are attracted to sexy issues and not so much attracted to really...
How can we get kids to really learn and be better at learning?
So I think finding out what's actually going on in your school district and not running just because you think that, oh, I'm going to sit there and rail on CRT. That's not the most efficient use of your time.
Find out what's really happening in public education in your area.
It could be a CRT. It could be a transition, it could be academic, or it could be what the school boards are purchasing.
There's all different things that they're focused on.
I think being aware, acutely aware, and treating it like a local issue in that respect.
Is, I think, the very first good stuff.
And then once you find out that you want to run, when you find out there is a school thing to file it, and then go to 1776projectpack.com and apply for our endorsement.
And we spend money on behalf of Canada's We Endorse.
And you guys have been incredibly successful.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Yeah, our first year we did...
Oh, God, I can't remember this time.
But we've done elections in...
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Colorado, Virginia, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Wisconsin.
We just did Illinois, Wisconsin, and Texas this year.
Upcoming, we're going to have our endorsements in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arkansas, and maybe New Mexico, where Florida is in New Mexico, and maybe Texas again.
But we have about a 60% win rate, which is very, very high for local elections, where it's nonpartisan, where people aren't committed to voting.
And we've had some amazing, amazing wins.
Our first time we did Texas, we did a clean sweep.
We won every single seat we competed for.
And basically, Tarrant County, Texas, which is probably the biggest swing county in Texas, we have won every school board race there I think we've ever done.
Maybe we lost one out of maybe...
But all those areas, Spring Lake and those suburban counties that are very, very important for Republican politicians on a higher level, the school board are all conservative.
And I always say to people, I say this too, you know, for all the success the PAC has had, I've only ever had three politicians reach out to me, Ron DeSantis, Tom Cotton, and Jim Banks, about schools.
And I said to the governor, I said, you could be the most efficient governor in the whole world.
Like, you could be the best police chief in the whole world.
And if you have bad cops, it doesn't matter.
If you have bad school boards, it doesn't matter how good your governor is.
The local levels really do matter for your quality of life issues.
So, uh, yeah, we, we started in 2021.
I started because I thought of this idea and I put it, I was like, I called my friends in the media and I said, uh, I'm doing the school board thing.
Can you write about it? Axios did.
I was on Tucker. We raised like a hundred thousand dollars, um, from small dollar donors.
And now we raise about, you know, several million a year.
Um, and it, I mean, Literally, we are very tight, small staff, and it goes directly back into the school board races, and that's how we've been very efficient with our energy and our time.
And the good thing is now, two and a half years in, we've seen enough of these elected officials have time in office to actually do things like parents' bills of rights, like CRT bills, stuff like that, so...
Right. Well, y'all are doing phenomenal work, so keep it up.
It's 1776project.com, right?
Project PAC, P-A-C. Project PAC.com, 1776projectpac.com.
What's the best way for people to get involved?
Is it to donate? Listen, we can always use donations.
I mean, it's wonderful.
If you know of your school board doing something specific, you can go online to sign up and you can send us information about what's going on.
We always want to know what it is because we like to...
The worst thing that you could do because education is so localized and because so much conservative energy has been spent...
I know we wanted to wrap, but I want to say this.
So much conserved energy has been spent on the idea of school choice and nothing on school curriculum, which is where 90% of kids go, 85% of kids go to school.
That's where the energy is.
The worst thing I could do is deceive voters into saying that things are happening in their district when they're not.
So what we love is we love when people who are from the area, whose kids go to those schools, give us resources, give us information, tell us what's happening.
It makes us better at being able to tell voters what's happening.
So sending us information, donating.
And if you're running, if you're a candidate, please fill out the form to apply for an endorsement.
We'd love that.
Perfect.
1776PAC.com.
Ryan, thanks for joining us.
Thank you.
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