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Nov. 11, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
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JESUS. GUNS. AND BABIES. w/ Dr. Kandiss Taylor ft. Alex Johnson
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Hey everybody, welcome to Jesus, Guns, and Babies.
I'm your host, Dr.
Candice Taylor, and I have a wonderful guest today who's a dear friend of mine, and you're going to have so much fun.
It's going to be a great, great show.
I'm going to start with one of his favorite parables in the Bible.
It's Matthew 25, 14.
For it is as if a man going on a journey summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them.
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, and to each according to his ability.
Then he went away.
The one who had received the five talents went off once and traded them and made five more talents.
In the same way, the one who had two talents made two more talents.
But the one who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
After a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them.
The one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents and master, you handed me five talents and I have made five more talents.
His master said to him, well done, good and trustworthy slave.
You have been trustworthy in a few things and I'll put you in charge of many things.
Enter into the joy of your master.
The one with two talents came forward.
Master, you handed me two and I have made two more.
He said, well done.
You have been trustworthy in a few.
I will make you charge of many things.
Enter into the joy.
Then the one who'd received the one tallet came forward, saying, Master, I knew you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seeds.
So I was afraid.
And I went and hid your tallet in the ground.
And here you have what is yours.
His master replied, You wicked and lazy slave.
You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter.
And then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers.
And on my return, I would have received what was my own with interest.
So take the talent from him and give it to the one with the 10 talents.
For to all those who have more will be given.
And they who have an abundance from those who have nothing, even when they have will be taken away.
And for this worthless slave, throw him in the outer darkness where he will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
So that is a great parable.
I've never read that one on here before.
So we're going to talk about it.
So I'm going to welcome on the show my friend Alex Johnson.
He is a constitutional attorney.
He is the president of the Georgia Republican Assembly and of the National Republican Assembly.
And I hope I said that right, Alex.
But welcome to Jesus, Guns, and Babies.
Awesome.
Thanks for having me on.
I'm so excited to have you on!
I've been wanting to have you on for a really long time, so it just worked out today.
I'm so glad.
Tell us about the parable, what you like about it, because that was your idea.
Oh, yeah.
No, what I like about it, I mean, pretty much all the way since high school, maybe even before, I've always thought that it is incumbent on people to take responsibility for the gifts they're given, the talents they're given.
And what I really like about it is just that it calls on people to use what they have been given from the master.
And I think all of our ultimate masters is I think we need to take what we are given and do all we can with it to honor Him.
I think in a practical way, that's give back, not just Him, but give back to the world, the community.
Use our talents and use what we have in order to just do good.
Hiding it away in fear of the world I don't think is the right thing to do.
I think it isn't what we've been called on to do.
So it's what reminds me of what we're here for and keeps me going and trying to do what's right, trying to follow God.
So that's where it comes from for me.
And I appreciate the question on it because I don't know if I've ever been asked about it really.
I think you gave a beautiful description because we do, you know, a lot of people, especially in politics and Alex, you know, because you've been doing this political thing for a really long time and volunteering a lot of your time that you could spend defending people and making a lot of money as an attorney and you volunteer because you fight for our constitutional republic really hard.
And so I really like that.
That's why I respect you so much because you give back so much.
And sacrifice time with your family to do that.
But, you know, people are so selfish with their time.
And they're selfish with their gifts.
And they would rather hide it than go and give it and multiply it.
And so I think, like for me, when I was reading it, I was thinking, golly, I wish everybody who God had gifted, which is every single person, would use their gifting and let it grow and multiply.
And we probably wouldn't be in the mess we're in right now.
Exactly.
That's exactly it.
Ultimately, I think we all like using our time for ourselves and doing things.
I'm by no means perfect at it, but it's a good touchstone to go back to.
It's just like, hey, we've got to keep going.
We've got to keep using our talents for more than just ourselves.
So my viewers, they like to get to know my guest, and then we're going to talk about all kinds of things that they're going to learn from you, but they will learn from you better when they know you better.
So I want you to start, if you will, talking about kind of what made you a conservative Republican, whether it was family or whether it was college or school, and why you got involved the way you did and why you became an attorney.
And if you'll just give us a little bit of your background.
All right.
Well, I guess I can talk a little bit about myself.
I mean, I grew up, my mom and her parents were the ones who I was raised by here in Georgia, out in Stone Mountain.
And they, I guess I was always just sort of taught that, you know, it's good to be responsible for yourself and, you know, that the government shouldn't be controlling people.
I remember asking if I was a Republican or a Democrat as a kid, and they're like, well, you know, we're Republicans because we don't really want the government.
You know, controlling things and taking our money and interfering our lives.
And that was, I mean, that was a notable thing in my recollection.
I mean, then moving forward, I remember asking once in school, and it was actually in public school, where I asked a question about, well, why don't we just get rid of poverty by just giving everybody a bunch of money from the government?
And then that's when I learned that, like, no, that doesn't work, because that makes money worthless.
Touch points on politics.
What really got me involved deeply was that I always knew I wanted to do something to try to help people and serve the public.
I always was interested in politics and what the government did.
But fast forward to around I was a politics major in college.
But after that, I got out and I was in law school and I wanted to be politically active.
And I got involved in the local Republican Party when Obama got elected, mostly because my mom was very upset about what had happened.
I was like, well, why don't you get involved?
So we show up and I was shocked when I got involved in the party because we were applauding some Republican politicians who showed up.
And this is in DeKalb County, Georgia.
There is a Republican Party there, even though it's a blue county.
And a lot of people were applauding politicians who were voting for bigger government and more spending.
And I remember thinking to myself, wait a second, am I in the right meeting?
Like all my friends who are Republicans aren't in favor of this.
And my grandparents certainly weren't, my mom certainly wasn't, but all these activists are applauding this Absolutely.
Still would be.
Yeah, I was.
I mean, I was like 25 at the time, 26.
And they made me legal counsel and they were saying, oh, we need new people involved.
We need young people involved.
So 2012, a whole bunch of Tea Party people, a whole bunch of Ron Paul supporters, all of whom are clearly like Republicans, Showed up to be involved.
And I was like, oh, this is great.
Let's have him come to our local party meeting.
And I asked the party chair if it was good to bring him to local party meeting.
He's like, yes, invite them.
So I invite them all from the convention.
And they show up to the party meeting.
And the party leadership proceeded to insult them.
To their face, calling them lying, backstabbing, disrespectful people, and to, you know, pretty much just discouraging them from being involved.
And this apparently was happening throughout the state.
So when that happened, I realized that The people in charge of the party weren't necessarily really wanting new involvement.
They weren't really wanting people who were principled and wanting less government, lower taxes, any sort of accountability.
And that's really when I became much more...
Active in trying to bring the party to be principled and back to its roots.
I hesitate to say anything else about the party, because honestly, I just think the people who have been running it have sort of betrayed the principles.
I mean, I thought that George W. Bush betrayed the party when he decided to do all the bank bailouts and pretty much moved money to the banks, that and with loss share agreements.
So, I mean, that plus what I saw in the party made me realize that they're the ones who aren't Republicans.
We're the Republicans.
We're the ones who actually are doing what the voters want.
So that's where I got really much more active.
So how did you go to the GRA?
So that was the GOP.
And what's interesting, Alex, is here we are 10 years later.
And I still when I ran for U.S. Senate and even when I ran for governor, I felt that same resistance of establishment volunteers because this was people that are not paid.
They're chairs and they're secretaries and they're part of the establishment GOP.
And they didn't want me to talk.
And they set a one minute timer and I drove for four hours.
And it's like that's how I get to talk because, God forbid, people in the audience that are actually the bottom of government, the people run things.
God forbid they like Candace Taylor, right?
And so it might start a movement.
It might start like a lot of volunteers, a lot of help.
So I felt that everywhere I went.
So I understand.
And then, you know, We have the GRA, which a lot of establishment GOPs hate.
And I'm like, why would you hate the GRA? They're the volunteers.
Why would you hate them?
So let's talk about how you made that transition.
I think that's probably why you made that move to do that.
Am I right?
Well, partially.
So what happened is, so 2012 was when all the new people showed up and were getting treated badly.
I went to the state convention.
I didn't really tell anyone that I was going to do this, but I turned around because the two people running for National Committee man at the time were like I had asked them what they were going to do on the RNC because each state sends a man and a woman to the RNC to help run the National Republican Party.
And both of the other people running were fellow attorneys, older than me by far.
And their answer to my question was pretty much, oh, well, you know, I'm going to be a good Republican.
And when I tried getting details, I really didn't get any, which made me think they were, you know, a part of the problem in a way or establishment.
So I ran for committee man from the floor and came in second with like 2000 people.
I mean, the one of the lawyers lost.
I mean, the one of them won overwhelmingly because he had the votes.
I got a good I think it was between I think it was about 30%.
I mean, I got somewhere between, I think, 25% and 40% of the vote.
And I realized then that maybe I should run for party chairman the following year to actually allow more people to be involved, keep all the new people together and inspired to try to get new people involved in the party.
So I ran for party chairman in 2013 in a four-way race.
I came in second.
I was running against John Padgett, who...
If anybody follows Georgia politics, his history has not treated him well.
But I ran against him, B.J. Van Gundy and Seth Harp, and came in second with John Padgett winning.
The party sort of ran out of money between then and 2015.
I think it was 40% of the vote in 2013.
I ran again in 2015 because Padgett had gotten the party sued and the party was running out of money.
I got the endorsement of the treasurer at the time and got about 45% of the vote, even the party was in that, just in dire straits.
And what happened in 2015 was that I was approached by the leadership of the GRA at the time, Kay Godwin, if anyone knows her.
She approached me along with Pat Tippett and Brant Frost and they were like, look, you have this coalition of people Who are fed up with these principalist people, the spineless rhinos, the establishment, etc.
Why don't you become president of the GRA, grow it, keep the people working together?
And at the time, I knew the people involved in the GRA. And at the time, it was about to go defunct.
It had five or six people in it.
It had rechartered in Georgia in 2013, had had a lot of membership, and then just was down, about to go defunct.
So I agreed to be president of that.
I recruited a whole bunch of people, went around speaking to a lot of pro-Trump volunteer groups saying, look, the GOP, how many of you agree with the GRA principles?
All the hands went up.
How many of you are enjoying or being involved with GOP? Nobody's hands went up.
And I said, good, well, join us.
We endorse in contested primaries.
We want new people involved.
We don't want to discourage them.
We want to take a side and we pretty much want to get good principal people into party office and into public office.
Because the Republican Party doesn't endorse in contested primaries, at least not in Georgia and in most of the country.
And we just want to encourage people to be involved, show them how to be involved, let them know they aren't alone.
Because a lot of people would show up on their own to a party meeting, feel discouraged, and leave.
Well, now this was a way to get people involved.
So I'm still involved in the party.
It wasn't like the party versus the GRA. It was pretty much, hey, look, principled people, join the GRA. We can work together, have an influence in primaries.
Then when the party elections come around and the conventions, we can all show up and try to get, you know, principled people into party office or to endorse the good ones who are already there.
And ultimately, that's been the philosophy since then.
I mean, I ran for party cheer again in 17, got about 49% of the vote against a lobbyist who gave money to Democrats, a guy named John Watson.
And after that, I just decided to focus exclusively on the GRA to try to get our endorsed people in.
And that has worked.
I mean, in 2019, we endorsed Schaefer.
And in 21, endorsed Schaefer.
He got elected both times.
And then we endorsed McCoon.
But when I say we endorsed, it's our members I don't have special power over endorsements, and that's something that's different than I think just about any other alleged grassroots volunteer group, is that the leadership doesn't have a special power or vote.
I mean, I don't even vote.
I just run the conventions.
Obviously, or I would have been endorsed for governor.
So that's obvious that you didn't have power.
But it was interesting because I did get the most votes in that.
But the way it was set up, you had to win by a certain margin.
So I got the most this way.
Then you had a special way, like you pulled some out.
Well, I still won that way, but it wouldn't buy enough.
And so anyway, there was no endorsement given.
But between me and Purdue, I did have more than him.
I just didn't have enough more.
It takes a two-thirds vote.
That's right.
It takes a two-thirds vote or members at a convention in order to endorse.
And that's to avoid the whole danger of the group splittering apart because of a tight 51-49%, which is what the establishment uses to really divide people and alienate people, is that for the RA to endorse, it takes a two-thirds vote.
And I mean, that's the thing is I remember those votes.
But I do remember also that Brian Kemp did not, I mean, he didn't even, like, he barely Right, right.
What was good to me is President Trump endorsed Perdue because he didn't know me and he endorsed him, but the people, like I gave my speech there and it resonated with the people.
And I still, even though there's, we all love President Trump and they're loyal to him, they still voted for me in the majority, even though it wasn't two thirds.
And that meant something to me.
I mean, of course, I would love the endorsement of the GRA, but that meant something to me.
And I think it's because the two-thirds vote makes it more weighty.
It makes it like, hey, this is a big deal.
It's not just a flippant endorsement.
I will say...
That my volunteers and people that supported me have taken over like 60% of the delegate positions in the convention that we had with, you know, 2,000 people.
And they've taken over, I don't know, maybe 70% of seats across the state in the GOP. And I did not tell them to do that.
They just saw we have to get involved and we're going to get involved and we're going to take over.
So Alex, you can run for whatever you want to run for now and you would win because we run the party.
Exactly.
You're the majority.
It has changed a lot just over the past years between all the people who got involved, the rear volunteers, and a lot of them joined the RA.
And then we've been going around just training people on how to be involved in the convention cycles because, you know, well, I'm trying to think of what story I'd want to tell everyone I mean, the one that I just wanted to say, because I don't know if it'll come up again, but when I met you, Candace, I was down in Muskogee.
I was going down there, and you were speaking there, but I was going down because I was invited to speak Sort of about the RA and about advance the GOP and about getting more principal people involved.
And it was awesome because I remember we sat together and we were talking all about politics and I was speaking after you.
And I was all ready to talk about, you know, well, the problem in the state is all these establishment rhinos who run for office, say they're going to vote conservative and don't do it.
And that's why you need to be involved in the party and be involved in the RA and get, you know, we need to start having the party call out and educate the voters and call out these people.
And, you know, I'm getting ready to speak.
I have it all in my head.
You go to speak and you pretty much say the whole first half or three quarters of my speech as part of your campaign for, I think you're running for Senate at the time.
It was awesome because I was like, Well, I already like Candace, but I mean, the fact that she took all these words like right out of my mouth that she didn't know I was going to say, I was like, this is this is awesome.
So I thought I had to meet your wife, too.
And she's a she's a patriot.
Right.
So we did.
I mean, then you were like you had this GRA thing.
What is that?
What's that difference in that in the GOP? And I didn't know because I was I mean, I ran for governor.
I mean, I ran for U.S. Senate, didn't know anything about politics except that they were crooked.
And so I just was like, okay, well, I'm going to join the GRA because I like Alex Johnson and his wife, and I'm just going to do that.
And I'm glad I did.
And then I have had people literally even on the GOP executive team say to me, you know, I try to stay away from the GRA because you don't want to just identify with one group.
And, you know, you want to say just GOP. I'm like, no, I don't.
I want to be a member of both.
I want to be, we're Republicans, we have to get organized, and they're organized, and they can endorse, and we can't in primary.
So let's all work together.
And so I think, you know, we want to stay splintered off and make it Control and power.
And it shouldn't be like that.
It should be organic and it should be what the people want.
And it should be, you know, if one group can organize better and they can do something different, let's encourage that.
That shouldn't be fighting against each other.
That should be working together.
You know, Fair Fight is this huge thing for the Democrat Party now.
And they don't begrudge them.
They're welcoming them.
And so that's the problem with Republicans is we try to keep control and power instead of welcoming each other and working together fluidly.
That's our problem.
Oh, and what you just hit on, I mean, it's ironic that people are like, oh, you don't want to associate with one group, because here is the game that has occurred before you, and it is awesome you were elected as district chair in the first district, but I mean, before all the party stuff,
what they would do, and I've watched these tactics over the years, So, one, you could read Phyllis Schlafly's book, A Choice, Not an Echo, which talks about activism throughout the 20th century, about how pretty much the Republican establishment was perfectly happy being a minority party and trying to keep out people like us who actually wanted to You know, walk the walk and not just talk the talk.
But in Georgia political history, in the 1980s, the Pat Robertson supporters showed up and took over a state convention.
The establishment loved Bush, tried to keep them out, demonized them, and tried to keep them just out of involvement in the party.
They did the same thing with the Tea Party.
They did the same thing with the Ron Paul people.
And they did the same thing with the Trump supporters.
And they're still doing it with the Trump supporters.
And what I realized from a strategic level, and I noticed it from a personal level when I'm for chair of the party, they first would go and be like, oh, that's just Alex.
He's just this crazy person.
Then when I got the votes, they were like a significant number of them.
They're like, oh, wait, well, he's just with all these crazy Tea Party people.
Then he's like, oh, he's just with these crazy Liberty people.
Then he's just, oh, well, he's just with all the crazy religious right people.
They try to alienate you off on your own because they see themselves as a solid, cohesive group, and they manage to convince people to support them.
So the GRA was a very strong and clear counterbalance to that by doing exactly what you said, because we're pretty much like, hey, if you agree with these basic Republican principles, join us.
We will let you have all the voice you want in who we endorse, and then we'll back them for party office.
And you have the power.
But the whole point is that the people of the power are the people, not a small cabal trying to influence them for their favorite political candidate.
And that's what the establishment does, though.
Like, the only reason they say don't be involved in the GRA or don't be involved with this group is because they know that If we organize, like us, the grassroots, the patriots, the people who are truly in favor of limited government, less government, individual responsibility, basic Judeo-Christian values, they lose.
They will lose every day, all the time, if we are organized.
So they don't want us to be organized.
They want to call anyone other than them fringe or far-right or anything else that tries to alienate and And disconnect us from the bigger group.
Well, you know, iron sharpens iron.
But they don't want to be sharpened.
They want us to be good little boys and girls and fall on like little ducks and do what they say.
Their candidate, their way.
It doesn't matter if it's the worst politician that's ever been in Georgia politics on the Republican side that was hand-selected and put into a seat by the governor and it's worth billions of dollars, okay?
It doesn't matter.
You just better be able to do what I tell you to do and you better pretend like she can actually speak in front of people.
You better pretend like she really got this many votes.
You pretend that.
And it's insanity.
It's insanity to perpetuate this and think that we're just going to sit around and pretend.
And there's millions of more people just like you and I, Alex, that are not involved because they're raising their families.
They're busy.
They watch much of my show, I promise.
And they love Jesus.
They love guns.
They love babies.
They want to be free.
They don't want to live in communist China.
They're sick of our money being sent to Ukraine.
They don't want money sent to Israel.
We pray for Israel.
We're okay with even some of our men going and defending and helping, but we don't want to send $100 billion to Israel.
Our economy's failing.
We're about to lose everything we have in America.
When are we going to put America first?
When are we going to say no more, right?
Everybody feels like us, and that terrifies the establishment because the only reason why they have seats is because they control the machines.
Otherwise, they would be out right now because the American people have had enough.
They're done.
I want to talk about how you have grown the GRA because you got there with this few and many people and then you've grown it huge in Georgia and then I want to talk about how you moved to being the national president because you are and what's going on in the rest of the country with the GRA because this is the movement that you I mean you're the face of this you've really grown this and I wish that you would you know You do help the GOP. I'm not going to say you don't because you do.
You definitely do.
And we look at you and let's ask Alex.
And you definitely consult with us and help us.
But I do wish you were more in a role there.
So we're going to have to do something.
Or maybe a senator or some other senator.
Or maybe the attorney general.
That's the one I want you to be in.
But talk about how you've grown this, Alex.
Because it is miraculous, really, what you've done with the help of the Lord.
Absolutely, yes.
And what we've done in Georgia is, so when it started off, when I became president in 2015, we had about five or six members statewide at the time.
So what we did was I started going around to a lot of volunteer groups, like grassroots groups, like the people who were like volunteers for Trump.
Volunteers for Cruz, volunteers for whoever else.
I mean, the only people I really found who had volunteer groups really were Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, and the Donald Trump volunteer groups were extremely large.
And I focus on the volunteer groups because the problem in politics is the paid political industry.
The people who make money off of this, the people who use it as a career or an industry, they are the problem.
And even the volunteers recognize that some of the people who are getting paid by any of the campaigns, be it the Trump campaign or anybody else, they're like, what are they doing?
These people aren't really there for us.
They aren't really advancing the principles that are there for the candidate.
But the volunteer groups were huge.
Cobb County had one of the largest ones I saw.
They had like 120, 150 people showing up and talking to them and saying, look, this is what we stand for.
You get a voice if you join us.
Please join and you can organize with like-minded people.
That's how a lot of people really joined.
I think they were inspired to get involved because that is what we were offering is saying, hey, you don't need to put up with establishment people if you join us and you can We will educate you and inform you when the party conventions are, what these politicians are doing, we'll give you the straight talk, what's going on, and you can be involved as much or as little as you want to be.
If you just want to show up for the conventions, great.
If you want to meet people of like mind and hang out with them, great.
If you want to donate to our endorsed candidates and don't want to do anything else, that's great too.
And that's how I think we've grown, is by meeting people where they are.
People are busy.
Being a member of the RA can be as involved or as not involved as you want it to be, but we really do focus on it being an organization for the people, of the people.
We try to educate people on what's going on and let them know a lot of things I'm talking to you about, about the influence of money, about the fact that some of the party leadership historically were What paid lobbyists that have given money to Democrats like the idea of getting rid of those people and supporting.
I mean, people like you, supporting people who are truly principled.
I mean, two years ago, the Fulton GOP tried to keep out a bunch of new new grassroots patriots and they had an election at their party convention where they had more votes than eligible voters.
And the party ended up, like, you know, it ended up, some of the RA members ended up getting the right person in, but then the establishment appealed it up to the state, and using their little friends and connections, essentially got another vote and then got that result overturned.
But then a lot of our people stayed involved.
I know a lot of patriots, like, stayed involved in their own.
We definitely pushed for, and we even warned the establishment.
We're like, look, you might win this, but, you know, people are going to come back in greater numbers.
Sort of like what happened near your neck of the woods in Chatham, where they shut down a convention because they were afraid of the Patriots winning.
Well, what ended up happening?
I mean, we did some trainings, let people not be involved, everybody stayed organized, and then came back and wiped out the establishment just this year.
So, I mean, that's part of how we've grown, is by supporting...
It's not like we're the ones in charge.
It's more like we are educating and informing and helping people who want to be involved.
We aren't letting the establishment run off the good people anymore.
I think we've done a decent job sort of unifying the Pat Robertson-type people, along with the Tea Party, along with the Ron Paul people, along with the Trump people, like all the people who are being...
They're trying to keep us out.
I think that we've done a good job keeping everyone together so that now it's the day of the grassroots, the day of the true Republicans, not the day of the establishment-paid people who want to sell us out.
How is that always Fulton County?
Like, how?
And then, and then, they did the same thing the Democrats did in 2020, and then they, like, get mad because they cheated the president, but then they did it themselves and their own...
I mean, it's like the same thing.
I'm like, history repeats itself.
The same mentality over and over.
Definition of insanity, right?
Doing the same thing over and over.
Expecting different results.
Just ludicrous.
But, so let's go then to the national level.
How did that come about?
So what happened with the national level is, so the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, it started with a California Republican Assembly many, many decades ago.
I don't even know the exact year off the top of my head.
But I think in the 70s, and they supported Goldwater, and then they got Reagan elected.
They endorsed Reagan, backed Reagan.
They had thousands upon thousands of people in California.
In the 70s or 80s, it went national.
There was a national convention, I believe, that it was formed between California and it may have been Arizona or Nevada and a few other states that had assemblies.
They decided to work together to push that, I mean, I hesitate to say a conservative movement, because honestly, I think Republican Assembly principles are just basic mainstream republicanism.
The only people that are calling it more extreme are really the establishment or the uniparty or the Democrats.
But back then, they formed the National Federation.
And I don't know the complete history of all the leaders of it, but it became a national organization.
And it has ebbed and flowed in the number of states that it's been operable in.
I went to my first national convention in 2015 in Nashville where Donald Trump spoke.
I think the Republican assemblies were the first Republican group to have him speak to them.
But I showed up to a convention there.
I became a regional vice president for the South.
I think it was in either 17 or 19.
I reconnected us with and helped get the Florida chapter restarted and they were pretty small at the time, but now they have Over a thousand people.
I don't know if they're over 2,000 yet, but they are very large.
And I ran for president of national two years ago and was elected in a contested race.
And then I was re-elected this year at the convention just a few weeks ago without any opposition.
And we're operable in about, I think we have active chapters in somewhere between 20 and 30 states and territories right now.
We're working to get back to all 50.
And yeah, we are operating around the country trying to advance the same things that we're doing here.
I'm just getting principled people into party and into public office.
And it's interesting the way different state GOPs operate.
I mean, like in California, the elected officials, the Republican elected officials get to handpick delegates to the state convention.
Which is different than Georgia, where it's all bottom-up grassroots.
And a lot of people don't know that.
So when you wonder why Ronna McDaniel got re-elected overwhelmingly in spite of grassroots opposition versus like Harmeet, I mean, a lot of it's because all these different state parties are, a lot of them are very establishment.
A lot of them are run by the political industry.
Some state parties have essentially like paid consultants running the party.
So it varies around the country, but I got elected into the national president two years ago, and I'm now on my second two-year term, and we're just trying to get chapters started around the country.
And if anyone listening wants to be involved, I mean, just Google the National Federation of Republican Assemblies and send something there, or go to georgiora.com and send me a note, and I can connect you either with The people in your state who already have a chapter going of the Republican Assembly, or you might be able to help us start a new one in your state to help take out the RINOs, take out the fake Republicans who are ruining our brand.
Yeah, they're ruining the country.
So we thought we were fighting against the Democrats and we realized, no, we're not fighting against Democrats.
Yeah, we totally are against them, but we are fighting against fake Republicans.
I hate rhinos.
I hate that.
So I quit using that term.
I call them fake Republicans because that's what they are.
They say they're a Republican, but they're not.
They're about themselves.
So they may in their brain believe in what we say as our core values, but in their heart, they're about themselves.
And so they're fake.
They're not real.
They're not about the people.
This is a people government, not an I, me, personal.
And so that's the problem.
If you're going to be a public servant, you serve the people.
It's not about you.
It's about the person that you're serving.
And so we have self-serving people who are not public servants sitting in seats that most of them didn't win, selected.
They're a uniparty.
Yes, a uniparty.
It's a uniparty.
And the Democrats are the same way.
They have people that didn't win.
I mean, I have friends that run the Democrat seats, and they're treated the same way, if not worse, by the Democrat Party.
And they're handcrafted and selected, just like they do on the fake Republicans.
So it's an epidemic.
That's the pandemic.
That's it.
establishment that are they think they're a monarchy dictatorship they want to talk about Hitler they act like Hitler yeah oh and they're trying to keep out I mean, the Republicans try to alienate, because I guess what's happened is they're also trying to alienate anybody who believes in election integrity, that wants to have, you know, secure elections.
Imagine that.
I mean, God forbid we have fair legal elections that people choose.
Yeah, and it's insane to me, but it reminds me of Phyllis Schlafly's book about a choice, not an echo, about how the Republican establishment is fine with being a minority party.
Because you know the number one way to guarantee that we become a permanent minority party?
Having elections that Republican voters don't believe in or trust.
I mean, because they won't show up to vote.
Regardless of anything else, regardless of your belief system, not having elections that everyone believes in is going to cause the Republican Party to lose everywhere, no matter what.
And that's where I find it to be disingenuous how the establishment Republicans...
I mean, you saw the 8th District fish fry.
I mean, they actively are trying to keep out people with Paper Please shirts on.
from the the event until the elected officials left and I mean that's if that's not a good recruitment reason to get involved to remove party officers who support trying to keep out like reasonable voices from the event I don't know what else is and that's you know I think that's another rallying cry for being involved in the Republican assemblies because we we definitely do not uh Shy away from allowing people to be informed and educated on that.
I mean, we had Mike Lindell as a featured speaker at our National Federation Republican Assemblies convention down in Orlando just a couple weeks ago.
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But Mike is a perfect example of the media slamming him and doing everything they can.
And all he cares about is being free.
But that's it.
He just wants to be free and he wants to protect the country.
And so he spends...
So much of his money just in time, given and given and given for fair, legal voting.
Because without fair, legal voting, we have no country.
And it's not close.
It's not even close in any state.
I'm telling you, there's so many more of us that work and pay taxes and we want to be free.
There's so many more of us that are busy and just not involved than there are of these few little elitists in their mind who are holding all the power.
And so if we don't get votes legal, then our country's done.
And they're that selfish, Alex, that they don't care.
They don't care.
They're going to hold on to the bitter end and dig their heels in and don't give a rip if it takes down the whole republic.
They will not relinquish their power in their seat.
That's the truth.
They won't.
Like they they are more interested in themselves.
And I mean, and that's where you really can if you think about what goes on in Congress and you watch any of like if you pay it into the facts behind the news.
It's interesting because the Democrats have a similar sort of issue in that.
I mean, I don't know how many of you watch like Bernie Sanders and AOC, but I remember the story when AOC got to Congress, she wanted to be on some committees and they're like, no, you're a radical and you're crazy and we're going to listen to you.
And she went to the people and got all this money and Twitter following and went viral.
And then Pelosi was forced to put her on committees.
And the thing is, the Democrats are in a way similar.
I mean, they are truly socialists and communists and their philosophy will destroy the country.
But the establishment Democrats aren't that much different than the establishment Republicans, because all they want to do is keep spending money to go to favored corporate interests and donors and just have the train continue.
That's why they were all upset when we got rid of McCarthy.
And then luckily, someone's in there now who seems to be more conservative.
But I mean, when it comes to all this money going overseas, I mean, the irony is that we give aid to foreign countries, like military aid, that then they just buy stuff.
From American military manufacturers, the, you know, the infamous military industrial complex that the Republican Eisenhower, General Eisenhower, who was president, warned us about.
I mean, that is what goes on, is the money goes over there to buy stuff from the people who donate to the politicians here, and We just keep a more into debt, and then they claim that doesn't cause inflation.
And all of us are sitting there wondering why the grocery store bill keeps going up.
And it's because of the people in Congress that aren't listening to actual conservatives like Jim Jordan or listening to Thomas Massey, who are also treated like pariahs by the Republican establishment.
Or here in Georgia, we all know Colton Moore, the only Republican senator trying to stop the...
The Trump prosecutions by Fulton D.A. Willis, the political prosecutions there.
I mean, there's so much corruption to talk about, and I don't know which part's the one to talk about right now.
I mean, I'm sure all of your viewers have heard a lot about many of these things.
They have.
State by state, it's the same thing.
It's the same issue, different person, different whatever.
I think that the unique thing in Georgia is we have very few people in our actual legislation that will stand up.
In Arizona, they have so many patriots that are senators and House members.
So there's more of them.
And they can work together and they can do something.
But in Georgia, we have two.
In our Freedom Caucus, too.
Poor Mallory.
Mallory Staples, man.
She works so hard.
And you have Colton Moore and Charlize Byrd.
And that's it.
One Senator, one House member, and like, they're it.
That's it.
And so we have to put pressure on our House and Senate members to say, you know what?
Why are you in the Freedom Caucus?
Why are you in the Freedom Caucus?
Why don't you have a 100% conservative voting record?
Why are you compromising?
Why are you proud?
I was in a meeting today with a senator and a House member in Georgia and they were talking about, you know, I look back and six years ago, the three things I ran on and I've done those three things and I thought your voting record is like 36% conservative.
So, you may have gotten those three little things amongst hundreds of other things that you failed with an F. Because 69 is failing, right?
And 70 isn't a great conservative score, but you got like a 30-something.
So, it is their mentality.
Like, let me just tell you something that's bull.
And if you believe it, then I get to run and be elected again.
Except now it's worse because they know that...
They just don't have to do anything because they're going to cheat the vote anyway.
It is crazy what's going on in Georgia.
We are the worst state.
We're the only ones that use the BDN, the ballot marking device.
We're the only ones that don't hand mark and have an actual ballot.
We have a printed receipt and nobody wants to talk about it.
We finally got a special session called and they're going to talk about the rezoning, redistricting thing.
But don't talk about paper ballots.
Let's don't talk about that.
Let's don't secure the elections because, you know, if we do that, then we may not can ensure that Donald Trump doesn't get the vote and get the presidential selection for Georgia.
Or we may not can ensure that whoever they want gets to be governor next time or U.S. House or state senator or county commissioner, because I'm telling you, they literally will do whatever it takes to To put an incumbent algorithm on whatever to make sure that their buddy wins.
Because then they get backroom deals and they get backroom money.
And I've watched it all over the state.
I've heard it every county, county by county, Alex.
I can go to another state.
They say the same thing there about their board of commissioners, about their city councils, about their school boards.
Everywhere you go, you see corruption from the bottom up.
And so we've got to take this country back.
County by county, state by state, bottom up.
That's the only solution, that's the only answer, and it's gonna take some time, and it's gonna take a lot of hard work, and it's gonna take all hands on deck.
Yeah, and why aren't these people, I mean, talking about the Republicans not doing anything in this special session, why aren't they changing the RICO law?
Like, why aren't they fixing that to end the Trump prosecutions?
I mean, this isn't rocket science.
Like, they are legislators.
They control the law.
The judges cannot enforce laws that are changed or don't exist.
Like, they only enforce what's on the books.
As an attorney, I know this.
I mean, these legislators should know this.
But they're just shrugging their shoulders and letting all these people who are being politically prosecuted for something that was meant to be used against the mob, they're just letting them get prosecuted, having to use their money and time to defend against this clearly political prosecution.
I mean, the last Republican Party chair of Georgia, who the GRA endorsed, is currently getting investigated in that and is one of the defendants, David Schaefer.
I mean, it's just, they are targeting...
Political leaders and attorneys and the legislators just shrugging their shoulders and be like, oh, this is fine.
I mean, do they think the Democrats aren't going to come after them?
Like, this is...
Like, it's mind-boggling to me that they just shrug their shoulders at this and don't really...
They'll say they care, but then when somebody tries to do something like Colton Moore did, they throw him out of the Republican caucus.
Like...
How dare you go and try to get something done?
That's essentially the message.
He didn't fall in line like a good little duck.
That's what you have to do.
You have to fall in line.
If you don't fall in line, then they don't like that.
They don't believe in iron sharpening iron.
They don't believe in that whole thing.
So it's okay.
They can continue to cheat until they're caught and it's treason and they have to deal with that.
But in the meantime, we're going to primary every one of them with good candidates and they're going to have to raise money and they're going to have to hear their voting record every single meeting in public and shame over and over and over.
And I'm watching these people, Alex, Brian Kemp's one of them, aging before my very eyes.
Because when you do things that are deceitful, when you do things that are not on the up and up and you have to lie or you have to Manipulate or you have to, you know, always, always on the defense, never on the offense, always on the defense.
When you're having to do that, it ages your body.
And so, you know what?
You reap what you sow.
You will have what you do.
It will come back to you.
It's a principle.
It's a law, a spiritual law, and it will happen.
And so they can think they're winning.
But I'm telling you, my husband said, is it good to sacrifice your soul to have the world?
And that's in the Bible, right?
And it's not written that same way, but you know what I mean?
You give your soul up so that you can have the world now instead of having integrity and morality and doing the right thing.
And you will have things good now and you'll inherit the kingdom of God.
But people are so selfish and blinded by power that they don't care.
It's going to catch up with them.
Yeah, they just care.
That's the thing is they don't seem to understand the true concept of public service.
Like, they get in office, and you'll see this at City Council, at County Commission, all the way through the state legislature, they get in office by saying they care about the people and being charming and friendly, and then they get a bunch of money from the lobbyists, they get elected, And the first thing they do is they either turn to a city manager on the city level, a county manager on the county level, or to lobbyists on the state level, or to leadership.
Whoever the speaker is or whoever else has managed to get the most money from lobbyists and say, what do I do now?
And then they just fall in line.
And that, to me, we just have a lack of leadership in this This state and in this country of people who are willing to say, this is the right thing to do.
This is why I'm running.
They get elected for that reason.
And their underlying goal is serving the broad, vast majority of people who got them into office.
Because that's what drives me in politics, in addition to the parable we started out with, was the fact that I remember thinking, and it still drives me, when I saw Republican Party officials clapping for politicians and That were increasing spending, increasing taxes.
I felt they were betraying every single Republican voter, like my mom, like my dad, like my grandparents, who go to the ballot box and they vote Republican, thinking that whenever they vote Republican, they're getting the bill of goods of individual rights, individual responsibility, lower taxes, less spending, less government.
And then they think they get that when they vote.
And then in reality, it's all a lie.
That isn't what they're getting.
I feel like the politicians are lying to them every day, betraying the public, and that's why we have to have people involved.
We have to have larger Republican assemblies in every state.
We need more people paying attention to the politicians.
We need more people running.
People have to use their talents to...
To improve the world.
They can't just stay at home and be afraid of politics and corruption.
We have to face evil and defeat it.
I was thinking when you were talking about the last several meetings, God always teaches me things.
Through this whole process, He'll show me different things.
Right now, I'm in this space of the last several meetings.
I watch them speak, the elected House member or elected Senator or whoever's at the meeting I'm at.
I'm watching them and it's condescension and it's fake and it's not personable and it's straight out lies that you can prove with a simple Google search of the record.
And I'm watching them and they're talking points and they think they're eloquently speaking and they think all of this.
And I can get up and speak before them or after them and I just am real and raw and I love the people.
I genuinely love the people.
They're God's children and they deserve to be free.
They're working their butt off.
They're paying taxes or maybe their own disability because they served our country and they're a vet and they're wounded or maybe they can't help but they had an injury of some kind.
But they care about America.
They want to be free and I love them.
And I can get up there and I resonate with them and they're clapping and they're hollering for me and they're standing up and giving me a standing ovation because I'm real and I'm authentic.
The people are done with games.
But that is what we get.
We get this fake facade every single time.
And that...
Those days are over.
But the only way we get rid of them is to organize ourselves.
And we have this beautiful thing called the GRA, the Georgia Republican Assembly, or the RA, whatever state you're in.
You have the Republican Assembly.
You have this beautiful structure already created.
It's a template you can use if your state doesn't have one.
People don't hear that their state doesn't have one, but...
You can use it.
Alex will help you and you go and you organize yourself because this is what matters.
Earlier on, Alex talked about the difference in campaigns and I watched it.
I watched the Collins campaign, Kelly Loeffler.
I watched their people that were there hired help versus my volunteers.
I watched Kemp's hired help.
David Perdue's hired help versus my volunteers.
Passion is bar none.
You can't pay for it.
Can't pay for passion.
You can't pay for people who will come and dedicate their personal finances, making homemade signs to put in their windows of their car, put in the windows of their houses, put out in their front yard because they don't have one of my signs.
They make their own sign.
Take shoe polish and write on their car windows.
You can't pay for that kind of dedication and passion to get somebody elected that's going to support them.
And that's what volunteerism does.
When you are passionate about something and you come and you, you know, I might not be a good public speaker.
I may not be good at going door knocking, but I'm good at, I'll ride on my car.
Or I'll hand out a tracker.
I'll write a letter and a postcard.
Or I'll make a phone call and I'll help you that way.
That is your time.
Your time is the most sacred asset you have because you can't buy more of it.
And so when people give you their time, they give you a piece of themselves.
That is what's going to change this country.
State by state.
County by county.
That's how we change the nation.
It's through volunteering and getting involved and being activated.
Whenever you have an issue like Colton Moore...
And Colton stood up and he said, you know what?
We need to change this.
This isn't okay.
You're prosecuting 19 people who are innocent.
No, this is wrong.
This shouldn't be happening in Georgia.
Fulton County has overreached themselves.
No.
When he stood up and did that, and we start putting massive pressure on the other senators, they got so offended and mad, they kicked him out of the caucus.
Well, we don't just accept that.
We should be doubling down.
Calling them more, sending more letters and saying, no, you're not kicking him out of the caucus.
You're going to let him back in.
You're going to apologize.
No, Colton's not apologizing.
You're apologizing.
Because he was representing the people.
Who are you representing?
Yourself?
The governor?
Whoever that you want to keep happy?
Colton's representing us.
From here in North Georgia, he's representing every one of us and how we feel about 19 innocent people being prosecuted.
We're furious about it.
We're not okay.
That's an example.
But people get passionate about a topic, and when they get activated, change happens.
Yeah, exactly.
And that's the thing is that we also look at the media.
I mean, the media has demonized you.
They've demonized me.
They try to misportray things as saying that we're a far-right group.
And I'm just like, look at our website.
I don't think anything on there on the georgiara.com site is far-right.
We're just basic Republican.
But the media tries to demonize and mislead the people so that they go with the typical corporate lobbyist-backed candidates of either party.
And that's where, by being a volunteer and being involved, you'll actually meet people who know the candidates.
You'll see the candidates.
You'll be able to look at their voting records.
You'll get that information.
And then you'll actually be more informed and engaged.
And that's how we counteract the influence of the corporate media, because...
Because, yeah, they might have a lot of influence now, but when you have a lot of volunteers, when you have 1,000 members, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, and those people start talking to their neighbors and they talk to their neighbors, I mean, then the corporate media either has to start reporting accurately or they'll just lose all credibility, which, of course, hurts their bottom line.
So, you know, you gotta hit them where it hurts.
And the only way to do that is by being involved, being engaged, just as you were talking about, Candice.
Yep.
And so we want you to do that.
We want you to activate yourself, get involved.
We'll put the website to the bottom of the page.
Alex, I know you're on Signal.
We do a lot of Signal groups, but you have your website, but are you active on any social media where you put things out?
I'm on Facebook.
You can find me on there at Alex Johnson.
You can email me and find me at my law firm website.
It's justice.law.
You can find me there.
You can just reach out through any of those methods and stay in touch.
You can reach me at any of those.
And if you have a constitutional law question, and it's a really serious one, he may even respond to that.
He gets sick of us.
I know he would never say that, but we're always like, Alex, what about this?
And so you just do that.
Attorneys are so...
I mean, you have to make money.
I hate when people ask me to do free counseling, too.
But sometimes you're just like, I've got to fight for the republic, so I just have to answer this one question.
Yeah, and that's the thing.
I do civil litigation.
My business partner, she does all criminal defense work.
But I mean, I regularly sue the government over constitutional issues.
I also do personal injury litigation.
I help businesses.
That's how I make my money.
The place I do not make my money is getting paid to lobby politicians.
Like, I think that that is the inherent conflict that most, quote unquote, political attorneys have is that they end up being lobbyists who end up wanting to support the establishment because that's where their paycheck comes from.
My paychecks come from suing the government and from, you know, suing insurance companies on behalf of people who have been injured.
And then some some businesses that are actually, you know, trying to produce things to help the economy.
All of my, you know, my political stuff that is that is unpaid.
And I think that's where credibility comes from in politics, is making sure that people's financial interests aren't aligned with the politicians that they are backing.
It's sad that we're in the world that we're in, but that's what they understand.
They understand lawsuits.
They understand that you overstep yourself and we're going to sue you and we're going to take you to court.
We're going to embarrass you because you just overstepped yourself.
So if we can ever get into the courtroom and show all this massive evidence that we have, I think maybe Fulton County may have opened a can of worms they can't close because we're going to get to show a lot of stuff.
And President Trapp even put it on his truth.
He said, you know, we know we have all the information, all the open records, all the data, and we're going to get to show it all for the world to see because we haven't, because we haven't been in a courtroom.
So I cannot wait.
It's going to be awesome.
So let them, you know, God works everything for the good of those who are called according to his purpose.
And so I just, I love that verse, and it's worked in my life, my whole entire existence.
God always works it for my good, because I love Him.
And so you love Him, Alex, and we love America, and we love Georgia, and we can't win the White House without these 16 electoral votes.
Exactly.
We can't.
We got to work together and we got to just work together.
And I think that that's the thing is getting people involved and getting them engaged and then also getting them tied into the party and just inspiring people to go out and vote.
And that involves having people be inspired by our candidates, be inspired by the Republican brand and the true Republican brand, the one that you and I agree on, the Republican Assembly agrees on, and people just having faith in our election system.
That's right.
So y'all go get involved, join the GRA, join the RA in your state.
If you don't have one, reach out to Alex, reach out to the website and let's get one set up.
And everybody that's willing to run, if you're not willing to run, find your spouse or a best friend and make them run for some seat.
Some seat in this country, city council, school board, commissioner, senator, house member, whatever, run.
And if you get endorsed by the GRA, the GRA PAC might be able to support the candidate with some money.
That's another thing that we try doing is grassroots donations in order to help get endorsed people elected.
That's right.
Well, thank you so much, Alex, for coming on Jesus Skins and Babies.
We loved it.
Thank you.
Well, thank you.
Yeah, and I'm expecting a baby in the next few days, our first.
Andrea and I are expecting our first.
Are we?
I didn't know that.
Oh my gosh.
Is it a boy or girl?
Do you know?
It's a boy.
It's a boy.
We'll see.
Yeah, but we're right down at the end of it.
But yeah, I mean...
And, you know, Jesus, Guns, and Babies.
The RA supports guns.
We've talked about Jesus.
And, yeah, you know, our first baby's coming.
So, very exciting.
Very blessed.
What a blessing.
Yes.
And we just pray the baby's going to be healthy.
She's going to have a wonderful delivery.
You're going to be a new daddy.
It's going to be...
I can't wait.
I can't wait to hold him.
I'm so excited.
Well, thank you, Jesus.
So, we'll see y'all next week on Steve Peters Network at 8 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time for Jesus, Guns, and Babies.
I love you.
God bless you.
you and God bless America.
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