First, I want to thank all of you who have supported @approject. This was our most successful year ever.
When we first engaged this fight, we were mocked. Nobody thought this issue would resonate.
We changed that. Now we are winning and winning BIGLY. 1/
Nobody in the GOP wanted to talk about the transgender issue after 2016. Nobody.
Then we started running ads. Then Virginia happened. 2022 happened. Now, this is a litmus test issue. You're either with us, or you're against us. And the GOP is with us. 2/
Here's a quick 2022 cycle breakdown for @approject:
$15m+ spent
13 states
3.8m+ text messages
76m+ voter contacts
160+ Big Family Pledge Signers
18 states protected women's sports
5 states protect kids from sex changes
Here are some of our favorite ads from this cycle:
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Here's us hitting Mark Kelly (and many other Democrats) for supporting sex changes for minors:
We called out Mark Kelly for pretending to support women's rights -- while supporting legislation that would endanger our daughters and take away their educational opportunities:
We racked up primary victories in Michigan working with parents to replace anti-family politicians with good pro-family champions like @votejohngibbs and @TudorDixon 11/
We educated voters about emerging threats to their families too -- one of the new threats was so shocking that @TuckerCarlson asked us to come on and talk about it:
And yes -- we did call out Republicans when they were wrong on the issues too (Nancy Mace has turned a big corner btw! She's now a vocal opponent against sex changes for kids, showing how to go on offense against Dem extremism):
If that wasn't enough -- we continued to educate elected officials and their staff about the threats posed to America and our families by Big Tech platforms:
We're winning for one simple reason -- thousands of people have been joining our effort and supporting us with activism, prayers, and their hard-earned dollars. We're putting it all to work to save the American family.
Enjoy tonight. Hard work pays off.
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And tonight we'll get to enjoy some of the fruits of our labor.
Regardless of how big our wins are tonight -- tomorrow we will wake up and continue to fight even harder than we did before.
At APP, we'll never get tired of winning or fighting for our families.
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Rufo is picking the right fight here. Language matters. In that spirit, I will no longer be using the term “gender transition” when talking about converting someone’s gender. 🧵
The sexual revolutionaries who have taken hold of our cultural institutions have installed a radical and deceptive vocabulary to advance their agenda. They call genital mutilation, cross dressing, and chemical castration “gender AFFIRMATION” — this is preposterous. /2
There is nothing AFFIRMING about these treatments. Nothing.
Yet they call treatments aimed at making a child feel more comfortable in their body “gender conversion” — completely Orwellian propaganda.
I will be using “gender conversion” as a catch-all going forward. /3
In 2020, my org @approject ran ads highlighting @JoeBiden’s extremism on transgender issues, particularly we focused on his support for sex changes for minors and allowing males in womens sports. We faced an avalanche of “fact checks” and got our ads shut down. 🧵/1
The @washingtonpost, @PolitiFact, @nytimes and every big out let targeted our ads and told voters we were LYING about Joe Biden. At the time, Biden’s support for sex changes for minors was so extreme and radical that many people had a hard time believing the claims. /2
The problem for the people calling us liars is that we had the evidence. His public pledges, media appearances and his own lips all told us how extreme he was. But the corporate media and “fact check” apparatus from @Meta were all targeted at discrediting us and slandering us. /3
In light of these serious accusations I’d like to take a brief moment to explain the position of the family movement when it comes to the issue of transgenderism, especially as it pertains to children.
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The transgender movement exploded after the passage of Obamacare. Section 1557 of the O-care regulations bans discrimination on the basis of gender identity. Health insurance companies were forced to cover hormones and surgeries as “life saving care.” 2/
Since then, the transgender movement turned into a billion dollar industry. @abbvie made $726m off of the puberty blocking drug Lupron in 2018 alone. @GenderMapper has an incredible tracker of the explosion in pediatric gender clinics Trans was marketing across corporate media 3/
Congress is set to pass legislation that would give MILLIONS to pro-CRT groups through seemingly innocuous legislation: the Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act (S. 697/H.R. 1842)
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At question is one of two sole recipients of revenue generated from this bill -- the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (NURFC) -- who could be against that?
Well, anyone who opposes CRT in schools... 2/
The NURFC has been a vocal opponent and worked to kill legislation that would protect children from harmful and radical racial agendas in public schools in Ohio.
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As someone that ran campaigns against @RepCheri and lost — I can say she’s mostly a raw competitor. She called my dad when she found out he had stage 4 intestinal cancer. Her retirement says a lot about the state of politics but mostly about the state of the Democratic Party. /1
Bustos is a romantic politico. She got involved to do major infrastructure bills/bipartisan compromises — all which would have primarily benefited her own party — but was focused on the big picture. Yes — she took radical positions on issues like transgenderism and abortion /2
But that wasn’t why she got into the game. She took those positions as a matter of practicality. The Democratic Party is extreme and there aren’t open positions for reasonable mainstream, working class values democrats anymore. Let’s not forget what the @dccc did to Bustos /3
So I wanted to update everyone: our YouTube channel is back and we’ve received a “warning strike” — presumably so @google can justify permanently banning us next time I say something like “men can’t get pregnant.” But several videos were BANNED!
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Several interviews between myself, @JonSchweppe, @RaheemKassam, and Steve Bannon were permanently zapped from the Internet. Gone forever. Because apparently War Room clips are not allowed on YouTube. Is Tucker next? You can bet on it.
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So this story gets a temporary resolution, but we have to remain vigilant. Here are THREE questions I suggest Republican Members of Congress ask @google going forward:
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