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June 18, 2024 - Rebel News
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EZRA LEVANT | Rebel News fights back in court against Trudeau’s media censorship law

Ezra Levant’s legal battle against Canada’s journalism license restrictions reached a four-hour courthouse hearing, where the CRA dismissed Rebel News as 98% non-journalism despite their 41-person team and groundbreaking interviews like Geert Wilders’ post-election victory. Meanwhile, Alex Jones at Turning Point USA warned of a "globalist race war," equating Trump’s legal challenges to Soviet-era purges, and urged pro-Trump ballot chasing amid skepticism over election fairness. College Republicans expanded chapters from 50 to 155 in 25 states since April 2022, partnering with Turning Point on voter drives, while a COVID-vaccine refusenik’s case highlighted federal oath violations—exposing how legal and political systems may be weaponized against dissenters. [Automatically generated summary]

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Trudeau's Journalism License Hearing 00:10:56
Hello my friends.
I am actually outside the federal courthouse in downtown Toronto today, a hearing over whether or not Trudeau has the right to determine who is or isn't a journalist in this country and if he can give or withhold a journalism license.
We're alone in the court, but we won't be alone if we have you.
Listen, I'd love you to see the video of this show.
Just go to RebelNewsPlus.com, click subscribe.
And it's eight bucks a month, but we use that to pay the bills around here because we don't take any money from Trudeau.
And it shows, which is why he's trying to ban us.
All right, here's today's podcast.
Shame on you.
You censorious bug.
Well, I just got out of the court behind me.
Instead of a full day, it was a four-hour hearing, technically called a judicial review.
That is, the Canada Revenue Agency twice rejected Rebel News' application for this QCJO news license, and we asked the court to review it.
Now, whenever a court reviews an expert panel and a tax panel, a journalism panel, these are granted some deference.
You don't want the courts to overturn everything.
The standard of review is often reasonableness.
There's other standards like correctness and, you know, how much wiggle room will the court give the lower decision maker.
And in this case, it seemed like the standard was reasonableness, as in were they, that you could be wrong but reasonable, you know what I mean?
But our lawyers, Robert Hawks and Sarah Miller, I think were very strong at pointing out to the judge that the way the CRA handled this was completely unreasonable.
Claiming that only one or two percent of our work was actual journalism.
Let me give you an example of how they excluded our journalism, saying it wasn't real journalism.
As you know, we sometimes interview people.
I interview people on my show.
We interview people on the street.
Sometimes we interview sort of big shots on location.
You might even remember, I flew all the way to the Netherlands to interview Geert Wilders.
So we do a fair bit of interviews.
It's not our primary thing.
Well, for some weird reason, all of our interviews were declared not original news content.
Are you kidding me?
Speaking of Geert Wilders, I was actually the first foreign journalist in the world to interview him after that groundbreaking election.
That is, by definition, news in every sense of the word, but Trudeau's hand-picked journalism advisory panel said, no, that doesn't fall within the rules.
That's not real journalism.
And that's how they got the ridiculous number of 1% or 2% of our stuff being journalism.
That's obviously an error.
That one decision alone to say that none of our interviews are news is so bizarre and laughable.
Well, laughable is the wrong word.
It's kept us out of this news license for years.
It was interesting.
There was some good discussion in the court about freedom of the press.
And our lawyer, in this case, Robert Hawkes, we had two lawyers in there.
Hawkes was talking about how Trudeau has had a vendetta against Rebel News and spent a fair bit of time in the two victorious court cases we had in this same building, by the way, the same federal court, when Trudeau's hand-picked henchmen kept us out of the leaders debate.
They were using the exact same ideas then.
Oh, you're not real journalists.
You engage in advocacy.
You engage in opinion journalism.
You crowdfund for things.
Each of those criticisms was treated by the court when they tried to ban us from the leaders' debates.
And in both cases, in 2019 and 2021, the judges weren't having it.
One of the reasons was we were able to show that many journalistic organizations in Canada do those things.
Advocacy, have you ever seen a newspaper that doesn't have an editorial and comment section?
What's that?
But a fancy word for saying advocacy.
And although it's not common, it is not unusual to see newspapers crowdfund.
Even the CBC, they'll say, here's a story on these wildfires.
Here's how you could chip into the Red Cross.
By the way, we did that exact same thing with the Fort McMurray wildfires.
We used the Red Cross.
So although the CRA hates us with a red-hot burning fire, judges who are not in the same, weren't handpicked by Trudeau for the mission of blocking us, I'm hoping, I'm thinking that they'll find this whole thing a little bit weird.
Like it's a little bit weird, the amount of time and effort and money that Trudeau is putting into calling us not real journalists.
It's sort of crazy.
I won't call it a media organization.
Your group of individuals need to take accountability.
There were a few strategic decisions that our lawyers made that came out during this process.
And it was certain things that we chose to argue or not to argue.
And I won't get into the legal minutia.
But one of the outcomes we did not want is to be sent back to the CRA for another internal review.
What I mean by that is we applied to the CRA for this news license and we were rejected.
So we reapplied and we were rejected.
We don't want the court to say, well, they had some procedural screw-ups, do it a third time, because I can tell you right now, they're going to reject us as long as Trudeau's henchmen are in there.
We want the court here to say, no, you guys have shown that you're not reasonable.
Rebel News is obviously journalists.
I mean, literally, what do they think we're doing all day?
We have at this moment in time about 41 staff at Rebel News.
If we're not doing journalism, what on earth are we doing?
We're not covering sports.
We're not covering human interest stories.
It's absolutely nuts to me.
Listen, I am a tiny bit hopeful.
I mean, it's always a long shot when you're doing a judicial review because, like I say, the courts allow decision makers to be wrong.
They just have to be wrong in a reasonable way.
So we have actually a pretty high burden that we have to overcome.
But I'm a little bit optimistic because I think the judge is fair or fair enough.
I think the government lawyers were not particularly the sharpest knives in the drawer, no offense.
And I think our lawyers were great.
But more importantly than the people involved are the facts and the law.
It is an obvious fact that Rebel News produces news.
It's in our name.
And you don't have to trust me.
You can see for yourselves.
Certainly other media consider us news.
They hate us because we disagree with them, but that doesn't mean we're not news.
I think the facts and the law are on our side.
And I think that any fair judge would see that.
And I'm hoping that the fact that the whole world has fallen out of love with Justin Trudeau, including here in downtown Toronto, will mean that even Toronto judges in the federal court are a little bit sick of Trudeau weaponizing the entire bureaucracy to scratch his own itches.
I sure hope so.
Listen, I have not seen the legal bill we're going to get for today.
Like I say, we had two excellent lawyers in there.
I'm not going to tell you how much they are per hour, but it's a lot of money.
Trudeau, on the other hand, used tax dollars to pay for his lawyers, obviously.
They're from the attorney general's office.
If you can help me cover the bill today alone, I don't even want to get, there's just no way today was less than $20,000.
There's just no way.
Please go to wearsuingTrudeau.com.
And let me close on that note.
We are suing Trudeau.
We were in a court that had 60, occupancy, 60, 6-0.
There were rows of chairs.
I was the only guy in there.
There were our lawyers and the Justice Department lawyers.
There were two clerks and there was a judge.
And it was a big, beautiful courtroom, right downtown Toronto, easy to get to, subway line here, everything.
I was alone.
No one else was there.
No one else cared.
And by no one, I mean no.
Hey, thanks very much.
Look at that.
That's friendly, eh?
No one else was in there.
No other journalistic groups, no other media companies saying, look, we might not like the cut of Rebels jib, but if they can be banned today, we can be banned tomorrow.
If the government can tell us who's a journalist, in the case of Rebel News, they can tell us who's a journalist of the Globe and Mail, the National Post, or the Toronto Sun.
Why were they not there?
I remember when I was a young man in law school reading these great cases about freedom of the press.
I think I told you the story before.
That all the media companies would get together and each one would chip in like a thousand bucks.
So you had Global News and CTV and the CBC even and Toronto Star and everyone would chip in a thousand bucks and they'd get like 20 grand and they'd hire an excellent, excellent, excellent free speech lawyer.
And that free speech lawyer would go and seek intervener status and say, Your Honor, we're here on behalf of all these TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, and we're here to make the case for freedom of the press.
And it did two things.
First of all, it said to the judge, this is a big case you're dealing with.
It might have one person's name on it, but it affects freedom for everyone.
So the judge would pay attention and say, oh, there's a lot of people whose situation depends on this.
And second of all, when you got 20 people hiring a lawyer together, it spreads the pain around.
Don't tell me the star, the sun, the post can't afford to chip in a thousand bucks each to get a great lawyer.
So it would make sure that all the arguments were fully exercised.
And it would make sure the judge knew that this was an important case.
Whatever happened to that, that used to happen all the time.
It has never happened in the cases we're fighting.
I was in the same building fighting for my rights for the book, The Libranos.
I was alone.
I was in there today fighting for rebel news.
I was alone.
And I think Canada is weaker in terms of civil society.
And maybe they don't like me and maybe they don't like rebel news and that's fine, that's fair.
But what's that got to do with the precedent?
See, an important thing is going to come from this court case one way or another.
If Rebel News wins, hopefully we demolish Trudeau's censorship regime for journalists.
That's an enormous win for the whole country and for ordinary people, not just journalists.
But God forbid if we lose, what a terrible precedent that sets on the other side.
Fighting For Rebel News 00:03:37
Don't you think a lot turns on this?
I sure do.
I always tell our team that we do two special things that other conservative media don't.
We're on the ground with cameras showing you what's really happening.
We're on the scene, not just in Canada, but sometimes even overseas.
We go to where it happens.
That's one of the things that makes us different.
We're not just giving our opinion in front of a studio.
But the second thing we do is every now and then we stop and we fight.
Every now and then we stop and we try and make a difference because no one else will.
We fill the gap.
Hey, can you help me on this one?
Chip in a few bucks if you can to wearsuingtrudeau.com.
All right, coming up next, speaking of being on the ground, our newest journalist, Sarah Stock, was in Detroit over the weekend.
What was she doing in Detroit?
Well, there was a meeting of American conservatives called Turning Point USA.
Donald Trump even spoke at him.
So without further ado, here's Sarah Stock with her reports from that Detroit conference.
Sarah Stock for Rebel News, we're here on the ground in Detroit, Michigan for Turning Point Action Annual People Convention.
And guess what?
We just had a surprise appearance from Alex Jones, who currently is facing a lot of attacks from the deep state with law affairs similar to that of Donald Trump.
But Alex Jones had a lot of predictions to make for this coming election and even made a claim that there is going to be an organized globalist sponsored type race war following a re-election of Donald Trump.
I love that because what you're doing is you're uniting all of humanity.
They are the unhumans.
They are un-humans because that is what they do.
They want to unhuman us.
They want to rob us of our liberty.
They want to rob us of our identity, of our culture, of our language, of our faith, everything that makes us actual spiritual, connected beings in this world.
They want us atomized.
They want us to be insectoids.
They want us to eat the insectoids.
They want us live.
Will you eat the bugs?
No.
Will you live in the pod?
No.
Absolutely.
And now the battle lines are being drawn.
Are you going to let them turn the frogs gay?
Are you going to let them brainwash and take your children?
And that's what this is about.
We are pro-human, old, young, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, everybody that has red blood, that loves God, and wants a pro-human future.
And as long as we get that message out, and as long as we don't support the globalists and all these anti-human systems they're putting out, we are going to win.
And when we take back America, we're going to start the project to take back the world, not through force, but through intellectual and spiritual power under Christ, under God.
And we are going to launch the next project of 1776 worldwide.
1776 worldwide, human liberty in a declaration against tyranny.
And you quoted me earlier, and it's a powerful saying.
I was covering Bilderberg.
Let's see what people have to say about his surprise appearance and what they think of these claims.
So did you see Alex Jones here today?
I did see Alex Jones.
As in fact, I was just backstage with him and Jack and got to say thanks to him for doing what he's doing and continuing to push and get the message out there.
Alex, what's the latest on this law affair that you've been facing from the deep state?
Well, the CIA and the FBI, they've run it all.
Right-Wing Revolution Targets 00:04:38
It's all come out in court.
And they tried to overthrow my company, but the federal judge discovered it and fired them last Thursday, last Friday now, just a couple days ago.
So we're still holding on now, but it only makes the show bigger.
And even if they shut down Infowars, I'll just continue on.
So what do you make?
It seems like there's a lot of law affair being weaponized right now.
We see Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon.
What do you make of this?
Is this a concerted effort, do you think?
Well, this is a system response.
So we have the new book, Unhumans, and we talk about how communism always uses the tools of the state and instruments of power under what they call, they claim to be the color of law to go after their opponents.
And they've done this since the people's tribunals and people's communes of the French Revolution and the Jacobins.
They always claim there's an indictment and there's been a conviction and there's been a claim and the people's claim and the people's courts and all of this.
And so this has always been a tool that is used in the communist system.
And what we do in Unhumans is actually unpack that system time and time, place and place, region and region, and explain that while the names may change, the words may change, sometimes they call themselves the Jacobins.
Sometimes it's the Bolsheviks, the Mensheviks, the Chinese Communist Party, the Khmer Rouge.
The names change, the tactics change, but the system is always exactly the same.
So what we say is, to approach communism, don't listen to what they say.
Look at what they do.
And they always do the same things.
Who do they target?
The religious, then they target the freedom fighters, then they target anyone who opposes the revolution.
All of them will be completely liquidated.
And oh, by the way, anyone who, for lack of a better term, builds things in the real world.
So small business owners in Russia, they were called the kulaks.
They've been called the petty bourgeoisie in some places.
And so we know that those are the people who are initially targeted time and time again.
And so when we see them going after Donald Trump, not just as a leader of the opposition, but also a successful New York real estate mogul, that this is exactly in line with the system that they've been using for hundreds of years.
Yeah, and one more question.
Have you been keeping up with what's been going on with Europe with the rise of right-wing populism?
I love it.
What do you think about that?
No, I absolutely love it.
And I've seen, look, you've got Nigel Farage and the Reform Party are on the way up.
You see the conservatives, the Tories to zero, to zero, zero seats, zero seats for the Tories.
Then you've got in Poland, in Germany, in Austria, and then of course France.
And then everything that we see in France, the Netherlands.
It's just country after country after country.
And of course, my heart goes out to the brave patriots of Vox in Spain where we just were.
This is a right-wing revolution.
It's also a youth revolution because you really see so much of the youth vote saying that they want to throw off this establishment, Brussels-driven, cultural, technocratic Marxism and actually embrace true freedom, true culture, true identity.
Let countries be and nations be the way that they were.
And also, by the way, predicated on a backlash to mass migration.
And what do you think is the main driving force that is waking people up to this?
Why are people finally voting in these policies now?
So I think people, look, I think generally people have compassion, especially Europeans and especially Americans, very compassionate people.
And so you get this sense of we have to help the world, we have to help others.
And the liberal and the leftists play on those emotions and play on those compassions.
They say, well, don't you want to be a good Christian?
Don't you want to be religious?
Don't you want to follow God's orders?
Don't you want to help those in need, help those in need?
But eventually, they realize that at some point it's not help, it's theft.
It's taking from others, taking things that others have built and putting it in their own pocket, taking the sucker of the land, taking the resources of the land, giving it to their people, and oh, by the way, selling it back to home countries.
And so once they realize that it's gotten, the problem essentially has gotten so big in particularly the West, we see it in the UK, we see it in North America, that the problem of mass migration has spilled over into the millions and millions, and finally people are waking up and saying, you know what, these are our countries, Ireland.
We want them to be the way they were.
We have compassion, but our compassion has limits.
Joe Biden's Legacy 00:11:58
Yeah, I can definitely see that.
And okay, so we saw on stage Alex Jones is making his predictions for November.
He's saying Donald Trump, he thinks Donald Trump is going to win.
Do you share that same prediction?
Well, I think if it's a fair fight, Trump wins in a landslide.
There's no question.
But I say that it's 50-50 because we all know it's not going to be a fair fight.
And I think we need to watch these elections like a hawk, but also patriots and everyone in America within sound of my voice.
If you are part of the Patriot movement, you have to understand it's go out to the people that don't normally vote.
Go out to find new voters.
And so we're telling people, 10x your vote.
You know, taking the old Grant Cardone line, 10x your business, 10x your vote by going to 10 people who are either unregistered or they're people that just not participating, already engaged in the political process.
Get them engaged because we've already got us.
We've got to go get more, build this movement.
And by the way, with the plethora of options that are available now for early balloting and ballot drop boxes and mail-in balloting, guess what?
Embrace all of it.
Bank those ballots, chase the ballots.
If we do that, we will win.
And by the way, not everybody's got like a platform or a law firm or you know Elon Musk and can just go buy X and do whatever you want with all the money.
But what I would say is, you know what you do have?
You got a backyard, you got a house, you got a community center.
Bring people together.
Throw a 4th of July barbecue.
Go and do something in your community that just brings people in around America.
And then when people reveal to you that they might be interested in Trump, then you start bringing them in through that.
Who do you think is a worse leader, Justin Trudeau or Joe Biden?
Ooh, that's a hard one.
I have to say Joe Biden because I'm actually part Canadian.
And Canada has had these policies for a while.
I know Trudeau's father was a little bit more loved than Mr. Justin Trudeau, but the policies in Canada have existed as they are for a while.
And I think Canadians are used to it.
America has not.
And America does not thrive under these, you know, draconian policies and dictatorship.
And I think Joe Biden has destroyed America.
And four years ago, Americans were doing well.
They were doing well with their wallets.
They were doing well on a global scale.
Our people actually feared us on a national scale.
So I would have to say Joe Biden and my long answer.
That's a great answer.
Donald Trump in prison?
I don't think they should be able to.
I think they're going to try.
I mean, these people are going to stop at nothing.
They've made that clear.
Me, faith in the country is, you know, people have been lied to for a long time.
They're not being lied to anymore.
So that's what I hope for.
Who do you think is a worse leader?
Justin Trudeau or Joe Biden?
Joe.
He's going to fall asleep on us like always.
Yeah, falling asleep is the worst thing you can do, definitely.
It's got to be Joe Biden.
I don't even think he's running the show.
I think he's just a puppet.
He can't even form a sentence.
What about Justin Trudeau, though?
We don't even have any guns up there.
Oh, he's trying to disarm the people up there.
They got bigger fish to fry up there, but we got to get this old man up out of our house.
Well, at least he ain't falling asleep.
That's my problem in the press conference.
Joe has to be the worst.
He has to be.
What do you think?
About Joe Biden?
Who's the worst leader?
Justin Trudeau or Joe Biden?
Which one's worse?
Man, gotta be Joe because he got the most power.
He's the president.
And then I feel like a lot of stuff we did was like leaving all the military stuff in the Middle East and all that.
And then he'll sit and try to like paint Trump or other people out as a bad guy when he's turning around and doing stuff that's just as bad.
I think that's very hypocritical.
I think that's bad for America.
And the fact that 70% of America said that he needs to be drug tested before a debate shows that like, how could y'all vote for a man that you think can't even go debate sober?
Like that doesn't make sense to me.
I just think like if you allow the border to be open and you want to take away the gun, I feel like that's just the worst you can do, really.
Means and women's sports.
Me and women's sports.
It's a bunch of a bunch of stuff that just is not safe to meet.
You think he's going to get out of office in November?
Think Trump's going to take over?
I don't see how he wins.
Lord's willing.
Unless they pull another trick like the last one.
Unless they got another trick up basically.
He's going to be too big to rig.
It's over with.
They're not winning.
There's no way that there's no way, in my opinion.
I talked to someone earlier and they said it's a way.
It's possible.
Not a legal way.
Yeah.
states are putting in new legislation to legitimize voting.
Like no illegal voting, got to have IDs, all these things in place.
So I think states are waking up to the bullshit too.
Oh, sorry.
I'm sorry.
We'll leave it out.
I'm sorry.
Do you think California is going to require IDs?
Do you see that happening?
That's a great question.
I think they're going to try to find a way around it.
They're going to try to fight tooth and nail.
Oh, it's racist.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
We're not going for it.
People know what's up.
Do you think black people know how to get IDs?
Yes.
Every black person I know has an ID.
And if they knew that people thought they were too dumb to get IDs, they would be offended.
I think it's a little bit racist to say black people don't know how to get ID.
Absolutely insane.
You're completely dumb if you don't know how to get an ID in today's society.
It goes to show how low people think of black people if they think that black people can't get IDs or don't know how to get it.
Bigotry of low expectations, right?
Okay, so I know there's a lot of controversy on social media, a video view going around.
So what do you have to say about this, the free speech right now?
Well, I think it's the most important thing that we have right now.
It's the First Amendment for a reason.
You can have all your other amendments, but if you cannot defend them with being able to speak about them, then it's worthless.
You know what I mean?
We have to be able to say what we're thinking, no matter if it's right or wrong, and we can't be afraid to say it.
And that's really important in this country.
And I think anymore, a lot of people, like no matter if you're high, if you have a platform, if you don't, people are scared to say the truth because of what like the woke bomb is going to do for them.
And I get it.
It's a legit concern.
But if we all collectively stand up, then what are they going to do?
Canceling doesn't mean anything.
They can't cancel everyone.
Exactly.
We'll cancel out canceling.
Did you face a lot of backlash?
Definitely a lot, but it's nothing that anyone can go through.
It's fine.
Like if it happens to you, you'll be fine.
You'll get through it.
And there's a lot more people that agree with you than the shrill minority that's really loud and trying to destroy your life.
Two-part question.
What's your predictions for November?
And how can we take America back?
Donald Trump is going to beat the socks off of Joe Biden come November.
We're going to have one of the greatest victories ever.
The way we can get our country back is we need people to not just talk about it, but to be proactive.
You got to do something.
You can't just talk.
You can't just feel, can't get emotional.
We have to actually do something.
Actually go out and vote, actually recruit other people to vote and believe in the values of God, country, and not just believe in them, act on them, and we'll win the country back.
Easy.
Do you think it's possible for them to lock him up?
Yes, probably.
I don't know how that'll play out in court.
Unfortunately, you're asking me the suite of questions in which there are no answers.
And I don't really even have a good speculation, a good sense of it.
I think that it's incredibly important that if they do lock him up, that his security is kept good, though.
So a lot of people are saying that these Trump convictions are making America reminiscent of a banana republic.
Would you agree with that?
Yeah, here's what.
The 34-0, that was such a blessing, and I'm going to tell you why.
If I'd have been working for them as their evil marketer, right?
I would have said, hey, guys, let's go 29 innocent and five guilty.
That might be believable, okay?
They went 34-0.
Mathematically, you guys, I want everybody to know this.
It's mathematically impossible the time they deliberated to pull out each charge and look at it and say, what do you guys all think?
Hey, you can't do it in time.
It was impossible.
It's a joke.
When that came out of there, 34-0.
I'm doing flipping Democrat rallies around the country.
I was just in Chicago where 500 Democrats are in a room that voted for Biden.
They're all voting for Donald Trump now.
And they get brought up, you know, 34-0.
They're going, that's a joke, you know.
So it helped.
Me and the real president, we talk all the time.
I said, all these things happening.
People are jumping into this bucket of common sense.
Once you're in the bucket, there's no reason to leave.
People's eyes are getting open like you wouldn't believe.
So what brings you out here today?
So my name's Sam.
I'm a lieutenant, or was a lieutenant in the Air Force.
So I'm out here telling my story about what the Biden administration did to me.
I'm not here to endorse Trump.
I'm not here to endorse any candidate.
I'm just here to tell my story of what happened in the military.
So the story that I'm telling is the vaccine was an unconstitutional, illegal order that came down from the Biden administration.
And only 3% of the military actually said, no, we're not going to take the vaccine.
97% of the military members chose to get the vaccine.
And they could have actually disobeyed that order because they did not have the legal rights to push an EUA product on people.
So I was actually detained.
I had some severe health issues that came after coming out against what was going on.
And I honestly believe that there needs to be a restructuring in some of the federal agencies.
We need to have the people that stood up that were in the military that said, no, we're not going to get this vaccine.
If a certain political leader comes back or a political leader comes back, I hope that they utilize those people that actually follow the Constitution of the United States.
Because if we don't swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States and uphold it, what are we swearing an oath to?
Just to anything?
Are we swearing an oath to a presidential leader that's in office right now?
No, we swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States.
So my encouragement is to get everybody out and start speaking out against all the stuff that's happening because right now we're going to lose America and as America goes, so goes the world.
So I'm here with Will Donahue.
He's the president of College Republicans of America.
Will, could you tell me a little bit about how you've revived College Republicans?
Sure.
College Republicans collapsed in between 2019 and 2022.
And California and Wisconsin's federations came together in April of last year.
And we started with 50 chapters in two states and we've grown it back up to about 155 in 25 states.
We just announced today High School Republicans of America.
So we were starting with 15 chapters in seven states, just pilot programs.
Really, we just had a great outreach team that was collecting a lot of the chapters that had fallen apart during the COVID kind of break off of campus.
That was brutal for a lot of our chapters.
But our kids have done a great job and we're looking forward to continuing to build up our grassroots coalition for President Trump in November.
Yeah, and for anyone who hasn't maybe heard of College Republicans of America, could you just give a brief explanation of what that is?
Sure.
College Republicans is the grassroots fighting force of the Republican Party and they have been since 1892.
So our mission is to train and to give all of our students the resources and opportunities that they need to be successful while they're in school and while they're outside of school, trying to get them jobs when they graduate, put them into legislative or executive roles, but also just business in general because it's a difficult, difficult job market for conservatives.
But we train them, we give them those resources, and we're the main grassroots youth fighting force.
And we're partnered with Turning Point Action on their ballot chasing programs in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
That's our show for today.
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