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Speaker 1: was originally broadcast on August fourth, twenty twenty three. Woodland

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Speaker 1: Park is about a thirty minute drive northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Speaker 1: Nestled in the Rocky Mountains, It's home to about eight

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Speaker 1: thousand people. It's a small town in every sense of

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Speaker 2: They're just deer everywhere. It's safe. There's just no crime,

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Speaker 2: and that's quiet. Everywhere you go, you're running into people

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Speaker 3: It's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those small towns that the national media

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Speaker 1: typically ignores. So when NBC News came to Woodland Park,

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Speaker 1: some began to raise an Eyebrow.

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Speaker 4: Woodland Park, Colorado, a tight knit conservative mountain community has

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Speaker 4: grown so divided. High school junior Jacob D. Smith says

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Speaker 1: Why are the national media descending on this small town.

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Speaker 1: I'm Patrick Carelci and.

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Speaker 5: People often ask us, in one form or another, what

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Speaker 5: can I do to help fix America? It's probably the

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Speaker 5: In response, we've often encouraged people to get involved in storytelling. Filmmaking, novels, music, art,

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Speaker 5: For those people, which route should they take? What can

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Speaker 5: folks do to help save America? To find the answer,

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Speaker 5: We're going to tell the story of a few people

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Speaker 5: that became sick and tired of watching the destruction of

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Speaker 5: perhaps the most important institution in America, and they decided

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Speaker 5: to do something about it. If Americans all across the

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Speaker 5: nation followed their lead, this country would be on the

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Speaker 5: road to recovery in no time.

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Speaker 1: Dave Illingworth is a Texas transplant to Woodland Park, Colorado.

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Speaker 3: I moved here five years ago.

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Speaker 1: That's Dave.

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Speaker 2: This town Patrick, if you come visit it, you're probably

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Speaker 2: gonna move here. I mean, it's so beautiful. I mean

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Speaker 2: It's a truly hidden gem.

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Speaker 1: But Dave learned that this small town was lacking in

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Speaker 2: Most people do move to small towns for two things,

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Speaker 2: as the schools in the safety. But nobody I met ever,

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Speaker 1: Schools, and like with most good parents, education was important

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Speaker 6: Colorado goes on lockdown in nine hours time.

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Speaker 2: Governor Jared Polus has ordered all Colorado's to stay home

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Speaker 6: Governor Jared Polus didn't mince words, stay at home or

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Speaker 7: When we're talking about saving lives, we're not talking about

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Speaker 6: The governor says that when this all goes into effect

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Speaker 1: And of course included in that long list of non

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Speaker 2: The schools up here, you know, they shut down in

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Speaker 2: The remote learning stuff was extremely frustrating.

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Speaker 1: David Katie have four kids, two boys and two girls.

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Speaker 1: Their school age children all shifted to remote learning where

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Speaker 2: And what became a great concern to us was that

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Speaker 2: I think we're going to need to move because all

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Speaker 2: the schools up here do this, and we could go,

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Speaker 2: and there's tons and tons of choices.

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Speaker 1: There, those choices being charter schools. Colorado has one of

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Speaker 1: the highest concentrations of public charter schools in America.

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Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you, Patrick, I did not

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Speaker 2: you hear about them? You know, I and my kids

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Speaker 3: Really.

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Speaker 1: So Dave and Katie did some research and in the

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Speaker 2: Park, aware through the paper that there is a group

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Speaker 2: charter school called Merit Academy, and it's going to be

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Speaker 2: And so we thought that was a really great idea

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Speaker 1: Now, charter schools in their neck of the Woods need

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Speaker 2: My wife is a lawyer to she's known over at

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Speaker 2: reviewing this charter application. There's a committee, it's called the

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Speaker 2: and you got like a business owner, right, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's supposed to be this cross section of the community.

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Speaker 3: It's actually in Colorado state law.

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Speaker 2: You've got to have this, and the law requires that

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Speaker 2: this committee review the application first and they make a

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Speaker 1: However, the school board is not legally bound by this recommendation,

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Speaker 1: but typically if the application meets all of the necessary

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Speaker 1: it becomes hard for a school board, which is beholden

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Speaker 1: eventually took up the offer and got involved in the committee.

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Speaker 2: So Katie gets on there and goes to the first meeting,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's all remoted this time, right, And

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Speaker 2: you got somebody who's there letting everybody know, Hey.

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Speaker 3: This is what we're gonna be doing, is we're gonna

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Speaker 2: And there's one lady who, after being explained what's going on,

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Speaker 2: you know, go through this.

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Speaker 1: Non charter public school administrations are usually adversarial to charter schools.

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Speaker 1: For every student a charter school siphons off, the school

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Speaker 1: It appeared that some of the committee members shared this

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Speaker 5: As merrit Academy's charter approval process progressed, a few other

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Speaker 8: Normally, charter applications will take maybe three to four months.

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Speaker 5: That's Cassie Kimberl, a Woodland Park resident at the time.

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Speaker 8: This one took over five months and they had over

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Speaker 8: twenty just meetings, whether it was a public meeting, a

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Speaker 5: It appeared that the committee had their thumb on the scale. Again,

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Speaker 5: Dave Illingworth.

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Speaker 2: It became apparent to Katie in the whole process that

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Speaker 2: like yeah, we've checked the boxes, but the decision was

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Speaker 3: Into the cake.

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Speaker 5: Eventually, the committee issued its recommendation.

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Speaker 2: The Accountability Committee says, don't charter them. They don't have buses,

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Speaker 2: they don't have hot meals and everything. And the parents

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Speaker 2: behind the charter application are like, what are you talking about.

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Speaker 3: You can't penalize this for that.

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Speaker 2: In Colorado law, you can't penalize a charter school because

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Speaker 2: they don't have like a school bussing system where they

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Speaker 2: Because the law understands a lot of them are startups.

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Speaker 2: They don't come with infrastructure you're going to.

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Speaker 3: Right out of the gate.

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Speaker 2: And so the next step is it goes to the

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Speaker 2: school board, and the school board hires an independent expert

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Speaker 2: to tell them whether or not this thing passes Mustard right.

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Speaker 2: The expert comebacks and says, yeah, you should charter them.

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Speaker 2: They're meeting all the factors under law for charter and

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Speaker 2: number one is public demand. And you've got families from

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Speaker 2: your own community who are wanting to do this, and

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Speaker 2: the plan they've got is pretty good you guys should

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Speaker 2: charter them. And in fact, if you don't charter them,

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Speaker 2: they have the right to appeal to the state board,

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Speaker 2: and from what we're seeing, if they were do so,

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Speaker 2: they're going to win the appeal. So you guys are

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Speaker 2: gonna spend money, You're gonna spend time.

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Speaker 5: But the school board went against the independent expert anyway

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Speaker 5: and unanimously voted to deny Merit academies charter.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you take that, you take my wife's

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Speaker 2: experience with the committee, and you're like, yeah, this was rigged,

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Speaker 2: And that really became kind of a last straw for

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Speaker 5: Parents felt the school board were ignoring their concerns, and

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Speaker 5: there were other signs that the school board was failing

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Speaker 2: Enrollment numbers have been on a more than ten year slide.

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Speaker 2: Back in the two thousands, they had like three thousand

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Speaker 5: By the twenty twenty one twenty twenty two school year,

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Speaker 2: Every one of our school buildings was fifty percent empty.

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Speaker 5: Teller County is the county Woodland Park resides in again,

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Speaker 8: And then around twenty twenty one, there was this newspaper

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Speaker 5: The March twenty twenty one article was written by a

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Speaker 5: Teller County residents as Confederate flag waving rednecks. The article

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Speaker 8: Is sixty percent more Republican. Here's sixty thirty. So for Colorado,

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Speaker 8: they're very proud. It's a mountainous town and they're very

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Speaker 5: The school board's charter school denial, the COVID policies that

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Speaker 5: felt like the school board was not representing them. Parents

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Speaker 8: So that really started reaching out, getting a slate advocating

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Speaker 5: And that's when they learned a closely held secret.

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Speaker 2: Woodland Park had not had an election of any kind

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Speaker 5: What was happening was the teachers' unions and the school

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Speaker 2: You'd have to like get yourself on the ballot, but

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Speaker 2: that takes like seventy five signatures. That's easy to do

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Speaker 2: when you have somebody pass it around at the school, right,

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Speaker 2: you know it's canceled, right, And that's that's what had

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Speaker 3: And so state law in Colorado.

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Speaker 2: Is, if you have a vacancy on the school board,

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Speaker 3: And whoever they appoint, that's it.

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Speaker 2: There's no subject to confirmation on that right, And most

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Speaker 5: Through this process, slowly, over a decade plus, people who

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Speaker 2: What had happened over the more than ten year period

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Speaker 2: They did not see themselves at all at all as

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Speaker 2: They had delegated all responsibility and authority to the superintendent

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Speaker 5: So Dave Illingworth, Cassie Kimberl and others decided they were

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Speaker 5: Welcome back to red Pilled America. So Dave Illingworth, Cassie Kimbrel,

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Speaker 5: and others learned that the Woodland Park school Board had

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Speaker 5: And once they got control of the school board, they

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Speaker 2: Dave Illingworth, so I ran to change that, and I

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Speaker 2: ran on growing the district. I ran on getting rid

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Speaker 9: Cassie Kimbrel, I helped campaign and did a lot of

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Speaker 9: this stuff behind the scenes. I helped them with anything

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Speaker 2: And so it turns out, Patrick, that when one side

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Speaker 2: is saying vote for us because we'd like to represent

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Speaker 2: and the other side is saying vote for me, because

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Speaker 2: I will not represent you, and I have no power

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Speaker 2: to do anything you'd want me to do anyway, Well,

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Speaker 2: it turns out that actually trying to represent somebody is

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Speaker 5: Dave and his like minded colleagues challenged all four of

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Speaker 5: the school board seats that were on the twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: Results we all want in a landslide.

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Speaker 5: Cassie Kimbrel would later be appointed to an open seat

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Speaker 5: on the school board as well. And like that, a

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Speaker 5: And Woodland Park wasn't alone. A small group of people

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Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, Terry Dietrich took the reins of the

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Speaker 10: We had worked really hard in twenty nineteen and twenty

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Speaker 1: The voters in the area expressed frustrations with the Republican

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Speaker 1: Terry and his colleagues figured that they had to come

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Speaker 10: And my idea, along with one of my other colleagues,

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Speaker 10: We need to focus on this. So then you had

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Speaker 10: I'm sure across the country. The moms got mad, the

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Speaker 1: So Terry and his colleagues came up with a plan.

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Speaker 10: Just following the twenty twenty election, actually in November, we

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Speaker 1: They called it wis READ short for Wisconsin Read.

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Speaker 10: We believed a trickle up theory, meaning winning at the

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Speaker 10: in these. We went after it, and we recruited effectively

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Speaker 1: And one of the primary things that helped in their

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Speaker 11: One of the greatest things that we did.

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Speaker 12: We put a voter guide together starting in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: That's Kathy Pape, the executive director of the Republican Party

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Speaker 12: We sent it out by email and it went viral

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Speaker 1: Kathy explained that the approach that they were taking was

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Speaker 12: And he helps people see your power is in your

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Speaker 12: the county came back and said, no, we're not shutting down.

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Speaker 12: And he came back and he said, well then you're

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Speaker 12: not going to get your money. And they came back

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Speaker 12: and said, we don't care, we're not shutting it down.

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Speaker 12: And then other counties saw what they were doing. They

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Speaker 12: chimed in did the same thing, and pritch kerk was

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Speaker 12: basically going, uncle, uncle, uncle, uncle, uncle. We're trying to

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Speaker 12: help everyone in this county. Sea that we read is

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Speaker 12: so important because this is where our power is in

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Speaker 12: the county system.

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Speaker 1: Again, Terry Dietrich.

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Speaker 10: Interestingly enough, in the last year or so, the state

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Speaker 10: Party started talking local elections where they never had for

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Speaker 10: twenty years previous. So I think this trend will continue.

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Speaker 10: You saw what happened in Virginia and Governor DeSantis was

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Speaker 10: talking about winning two or three big school board elections

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Speaker 10: down in Florida. I had to laugh because we've won

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Speaker 10: three hundred and eighty two out of four hundred and twenty.

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Speaker 10: So we'd like to take this not only statewide, but

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Speaker 10: nationally because we think we have a formula that can

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Speaker 10: definitely win.

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Speaker 1: Parents are beginning to see that the best way for

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Speaker 1: them to make an impact is to think local, focus

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Speaker 1: on their immediate environment. They see that they can retake

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Speaker 1: the K to twelve schools through the school boards. But

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Speaker 1: it's not just parents that are taking action. Young adults

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Speaker 1: are finding new ways to impact the American institution of

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Speaker 1: education as well, including a young college student that has

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Speaker 1: been so successful that even the legacy media has set

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Speaker 5: Welcome back to red Pilled America. Daniel Schmidt does not

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Speaker 5: look like the threatening type. He's a brown haired, fair

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Speaker 5: skinned young man whose default face practically smiles. He gives

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Speaker 5: off a buttoned up, straight a student vibe that wouldn't

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Speaker 5: or couldn't ruffle anyone's feather. But as the saying goes,

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Speaker 5: don't judge a book by its cover, because this young

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Speaker 5: man has done more to impact the institution of education

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Speaker 5: than most adults three times his age.

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Speaker 11: I almost have like an obligation to speak up, that's Daniel,

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Speaker 11: because if I don't, you know, these coastal elite people

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Speaker 11: are just going to keep running the show.

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Speaker 5: Daniel was born in Los Angeles, California, but moved to

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Speaker 5: a small town in the middle of Tennessee when he

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Speaker 5: was around eight years old.

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Speaker 11: And I want to say that was sort of my

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Speaker 11: transformative experience. I saw how like normal middle Americans live.

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Speaker 11: I saw how they thought. I saw, you know, they

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Speaker 11: went to church every Sunday. They cared about family and

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Speaker 11: tradition and the nation. And that was sort of what

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Speaker 11: led me to just see how normal Americans live.

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Speaker 5: Daniel grew up in a single parent home with his mother.

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Speaker 5: He attended a run of the mill high school, nothing fancy,

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Speaker 5: but he put his nose down and got the kind

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Speaker 5: of grades and had the type of family income that

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Speaker 5: earned him a full ride scholarship.

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Speaker 11: I applied the twenty schools. I got into quite a few,

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Speaker 11: but I ended up picking you Chicago, primarily because the

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Speaker 11: school is known for its protection of free speech. It's

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Speaker 11: known as sort of the free speech school.

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Speaker 5: He chose economics as his course of study, and even

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Speaker 5: before he entered the University of Chicago in the twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty one to twenty two school year, he began pushing

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Speaker 5: the boundaries. As a Christian, Daniel got a religious exemption

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Speaker 5: from the campus vaccine mandate. It was something few students

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Speaker 5: were doing at the time. Then, in his first month

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Speaker 5: on campus, he took a stand on an issue that

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Speaker 5: most white guys try to avoid.

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Speaker 11: My first month in college, I couldn't participate in a

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Speaker 11: debate tournament because I was white. They straight up told

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Speaker 11: me to my face, this tournament's only open to non

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Speaker 11: white people, and I legitimately couldn't believe it. I thought

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Speaker 11: at first it was like a praying but then I

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Speaker 11: looked around the room, and everyone was nodding, everyone was

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Speaker 11: agreeing with it, and I was the only one who

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Speaker 11: seemed to even have a problem with it. It was unreal.

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Speaker 11: And the funniest part about it was I come from

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Speaker 11: a single mother household, went to a pretty average public

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Speaker 11: high school, and then I get to the school and

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Speaker 11: these kids who went to like super top boarding schools,

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Speaker 11: are really rich. They're telling me I'm privileged because I'm white.

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Speaker 11: They're telling me I can't do it debate tournament because

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Speaker 11: I'm white. I can't believe it. You know, I'm going

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Speaker 11: to full right scholarship because I'm like low income.

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Speaker 5: So he decided to expose the racist debate tournament.

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Speaker 11: And then the next year the tournament didn't happen. I

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Speaker 11: don't know if it was completely because of me, but

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Speaker 11: I have to imagine there was some scrutiny and that

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Speaker 11: maybe the students were a little scared.

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Speaker 5: It was only his first month of college and Daniel

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Speaker 5: was just getting started.

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Speaker 11: I'm unvaccinated. I'm probably one of the only students on

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Speaker 11: my college who's unvaccinated.

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Speaker 5: And when Daniel entered U Chicago in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 5: the COVID protocols of mass testing and social distancing were

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Speaker 5: still in full swing.

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Speaker 11: The school was constantly sending me emails. They were making

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Speaker 11: me tests every week. It was just a total mess.

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Speaker 11: And then I did this email one day saying we

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Speaker 11: have this new policy. Unvaccinated students can go to dining halls.

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Speaker 11: They're basically saying you have to eat in your room,

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Speaker 11: you can't eat with anybody else. Just total persecution. And

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Speaker 11: I looked into it. I found out that the policy

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Speaker 11: isn't even legal in the city of Chicago. If you

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Speaker 11: have an exemption, which I did. I had a religious exemption.

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Speaker 11: You're allowed to eat in places even if you're not vaccinated.

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Speaker 11: So my college was completely breaking the law. And I

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Speaker 11: was like, Okay, this is insane. So I pressed my administration.

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Speaker 11: I sent like twenty emails to all the various administrators.

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Speaker 11: I wrote in an article for the newspaper I was

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Speaker 11: writing for at the time, and a few days later

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Speaker 11: the policy was reversed. Quietly, they sent me an email

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Speaker 11: and they said, yeah, the policy doesn't exist anymore.

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Speaker 5: Just by being a squeaky wheel, he got the policy

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Speaker 5: thrown out. It was around this time that Daniel's questioning

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Speaker 5: the system landed him on the national news Prestigious universities

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Speaker 5: like U Chicago often invite profile people to speak on campus.

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Speaker 5: April twenty twenty two was one of those times. Elite

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Speaker 5: left wing media outfit The Atlantic hosted a conference on

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Speaker 5: the campus entitled Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy.

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Speaker 11: You know, the sort of mainstream media has this big

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Speaker 11: battle against this information or calling anything they don't like disinformation.

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Speaker 11: So my school invited Barack Obama, they invited Brian Stelter

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Speaker 11: from CNN, and they invited this one woman called an Applebaum,

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Speaker 11: who's this Atlantic journalist, super uptight, super you know, just

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Speaker 11: total liberal basically, and she was speaking about, you know, oh,

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Speaker 11: we need to fight disinformation. The conservatives are spreading all

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Speaker 11: this stuff. And I was in the audience and I

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Speaker 11: didn't know I was going to ask her a question.

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Speaker 11: It was kind of just impromptu. At the end, they said, hey,

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Speaker 11: does anyone want ask a question? I rollse my hand,

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Speaker 11: I got the MinC. I was like, okay, thank you

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Speaker 11: for doing that. Was really appreciated. I'm Daniel Schmidt. I'm

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Speaker 11: a freshman at the University of Chicago. My question is

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Speaker 11: for miss Applebaum. And I quickly like looked into her,

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Speaker 11: and I saw she was totally going after concerntives for

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Speaker 11: talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story. She was like, oh,

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Speaker 11: this is Russian disinformation. If you believe in this, you're

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Speaker 11: a conspiracy theorist. And this was still when people were

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Speaker 11: unsure if it was real or not. Now it's confirmed,

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Speaker 11: And so I asked her. So in twenty twenty, you wrote,

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Speaker 11: those who live outside the Fox News bubble do not,

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Speaker 11: of course need to learn any of the stuff about

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Speaker 11: Hunter Biden, referring to his laptop of curse. A poll

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Speaker 11: later after that found that if voters knew about the

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Speaker 11: content of the laptop, sixteen percent of Joe Biden voters

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Speaker 11: would have acted differently. Now, of course, we know a

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Speaker 11: few weeks ago the New York Times confirmed that the

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Speaker 11: content is real. Do you think the media acted inappropriately

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Speaker 11: when they instantly dismissed Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation?

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Speaker 11: And what can we learn from that and ensuring that

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Speaker 11: what we label is disinformation is truly disinformation and not reality.

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Speaker 5: And Applebaum responded, My problem with Hunter Biden's laptop is

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Speaker 5: I think totally irrelevant.

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Speaker 13: I mean, it's not whether it's disinformation or I mean,

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Speaker 13: I didn't think the Hunter Biden's business rel relationships have

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Speaker 13: anything to do with who should be president of the

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Speaker 13: United States. So I didn't find I don't find it

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Speaker 13: to be interesting. I mean, that would be my problem

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Speaker 13: with that as a major news story.

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Speaker 5: The hypocrisy was jarring. Here was a woman whose newspaper

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Speaker 5: was hosting a conference on disinformation. She was caught in

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Speaker 5: a profound moment of disinformation about the Hunter Biden laptop

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Speaker 5: story right before an election, and she basically stated that

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Speaker 5: Hunter Biden's laptop was unimportant.

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Speaker 11: So I asked her that question, and then I posted

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Speaker 11: it to my Twitter and literally overnight it blew up.

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Speaker 11: I think got a million views. It was a big deal.

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Speaker 11: That was my sort of big viral moment. And again

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Speaker 11: at that moment, I realized, listen, I'm just a single

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Speaker 11: college kid. But if I can ask these powerful liberal

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Speaker 11: elites these questions, then I'm going to do it.

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Speaker 5: And he did. Later in twenty twenty two, Daniel got

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Speaker 5: another opportunity when lame duck Congresswoman Liz Cheney came to

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Speaker 5: the University of Chicago. Miss Cheney was the Vice Chair

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Speaker 5: of the House January sixth Committee that looked a brand

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Speaker 5: former President Trump as an insurrectionist and forced the prosecution

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Speaker 5: of those involved in the January sixth events.

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Speaker 11: When I found out she was coming, I kind of

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Speaker 11: knew right away I have to ask her about ray Epps.

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Speaker 5: Ray Epps, of course, was famously caught on camera encouraging

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Speaker 5: people to enter the Capitol in Washington, d C. Around

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Speaker 5: January sixth, twenty twenty one, yet was never prosecuted like

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Speaker 5: so many others, for inciting a so called insurrection. Some

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Speaker 5: suggested ray Epps was working with the FBI. Liz Cheney

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Speaker 5: had long been calling the entire ray Epps issue a

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Speaker 5: conspiracy theory, so Daniel thought he'd question her on the subject.

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Speaker 11: Thank you so much. My name is Daniel Schmidt. So

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Speaker 11: I've been following this January sixth committee really closely, and

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Speaker 11: I just wanted to ask you about some of the

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Speaker 11: facts here. So on June ninth, you cited the Department

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Speaker 11: of Justice and their prosecution of the Proud Boy some

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Speaker 11: of the members, and the Department of Justice said these

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Speaker 11: members directed, mobilized and led members of the crowd onto

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Speaker 11: the Capitol grounds and into the Capitol. So obviously that's

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Speaker 11: a crime. That's insurrection. And you know, I guess you

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Speaker 11: made the right call there. The fact of the matter

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Speaker 11: is we have another person on camera doing exactly that.

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Speaker 11: His name is Ray Epps, and it's not a conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 11: The New York Times shows him saying, quote, we need

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Speaker 11: to go into the capitol. I'm going to pick it

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Speaker 11: out there. I'm going to put it out there. I'm

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Speaker 11: probably gonna go to jail tomorrow. We need to go

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Speaker 11: into the capitol. That's not a conspiracy theorist. We have

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Speaker 11: an actual insurrectionist on tape, and yet he's escaped prosecution.

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Speaker 11: So let me just ask you right here, do you

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Speaker 11: demand the prosecution of Ray Epps. He's an actual insurrectionist

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Speaker 11: on tape.

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Speaker 14: You know, let me let me let me answer the question,

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Speaker 14: because I think there's some confusion about confusion about the

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Speaker 14: role of Congress.

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Speaker 11: And her answer was basically, oh no, that's a conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 14: I think we all ought to be able to agree

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Speaker 14: on those basic things as Americans and set aside conspiracy theories.

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Speaker 11: And she literally was like condescending me. She was like,

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Speaker 11: you know nothing about government. Kids, Sit down, And at

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Speaker 11: the very end, after I asked this question another student

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Speaker 11: who was next up in line. He apologized to her

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Speaker 11: for my culte behavior. Hi, Liz, I appreciate your.

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Speaker 15: I appreciate your handling of and apologize for Daniel Schmidt's behavior.

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Speaker 15: He's the worst star campus house opera.

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Speaker 11: And it's it's the most insane thing ever, because you know,

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Speaker 11: Liz Cheney is like the epitome of an establishment politician.

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Speaker 11: It's total Neo Cohn. You know, Dad is Dick Cheney.

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Speaker 11: And this student is like apologizing to her, and everyone's

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Speaker 11: booing at me. I mean, and you know, the question

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Speaker 11: is like, what happened to kids being rebellious? You know,

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Speaker 11: what happened to kids protesting in college campuses? You would

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Speaker 11: think people like this Channing would be booed out of existence,

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Speaker 11: and now the kids are bowing down. I mean, it's

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Speaker 11: the most insane dynamic ever. I couldn't believe my eyes.

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Speaker 5: But it was in late twenty twenty two when he

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Speaker 5: took a stand against an upcoming U Chicago class that

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Speaker 5: put him in the crosshairs of the legacy media.

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Speaker 11: It all started when I was looking for classes to

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Speaker 11: register and I found this one class and it was

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Speaker 11: called the problem of whiteness, and I mean it just

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Speaker 11: endsley stood out to me, like what is this class

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Speaker 11: saying that there's a problem with whiteness and whiteness as

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Speaker 11: white people and that therefore there's a solution. And then

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Speaker 11: I went into the course description and it's saying like

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Speaker 11: whiteness is a world making and raising problem. I mean,

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Speaker 11: it was just it was egregious. I don't know what

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Speaker 11: other word to use, and I don't know how anyone

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Speaker 11: could defend such a thing. So I saw this class

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Speaker 11: and I was like, listen, people need to know, like

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Speaker 11: this class is being taught out of such a an

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Speaker 11: I lead school. So I went on Twitter and I

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Speaker 11: made a little bit of a thread. I posted the

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Speaker 11: class title, I posted the course description. I posted a

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Speaker 11: picture of the woman teaching the class, because I mean,

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Speaker 11: people should know the face of this stuff.

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Speaker 5: The professor's name was Rebecca Journey.

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Speaker 11: And pretty quickly the thread blow up. I think it

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Speaker 11: got over a million impressions. And that's when this professor

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Speaker 11: went full speed against me. She was calling me a

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Speaker 11: cyber terrorist. She's saying I'm going to encourage an armed

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Speaker 11: school shooter. And then she filed two separate complaints to

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Speaker 11: get me expelled and I have to show appreciation of

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Speaker 11: my school. My school denied both of those.

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Speaker 5: This all went down in November and December twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 5: But then seven months later, after the issue appeared to

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Speaker 5: be forgotten, the legacy media set their sights on Daniel.

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Speaker 11: Schmidt, and then out of nowhere, The New York Times

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Speaker 11: dropped an article about me the basically attacking my school,

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Speaker 11: saying they should have done more about it, they should

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Speaker 11: have punished me. And then CNN dropped and articles calling

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Speaker 11: me a bully, saying I bully people into.

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Speaker 1: Silence, and this is what happens when you're over the target,

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Speaker 1: especially when a concerned citizen tries to break the monopoly

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Speaker 1: the radical left has on education. Right after Dave Illingworth

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Speaker 1: and his team took over the Woodland Park School Board,

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Speaker 1: teachers and a few vocal liberal parents and activists began

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Speaker 1: their attack on Dave and his colleagues. Again, Dave Illingworth,

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Speaker 1: some of these people Patrick.

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Speaker 2: They called the Teller County Clerk the day after the

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Speaker 2: election and said we would like the recall petitions. We're

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Speaker 2: ready to start gathering signatures to recall these guys, and

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Speaker 2: they were told actually the law says, you have to

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Speaker 2: wait six months, can't start gathering signatures until they've been

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Speaker 2: off for six months. Well, they waited until six months,

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Speaker 2: and they went back that day and got the recall petitions.

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Speaker 13: Recall efforts are underway in Woodland Park tonight after a

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Speaker 13: petition was just filed against two school board members.

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Speaker 15: School Board Vice president David Illingworth and board director Suzanne

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Speaker 15: Patterson will face a recall vote in November if there

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Speaker 15: are enough valid signatures on both of those petitions.

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Speaker 16: Well, the forses behind it are fairly easy to identify.

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Speaker 1: That's Ken Witt, the school superintendent that was hired by

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Speaker 1: Dave Ellingworth and the rest of the Woodland Park school Board.

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Speaker 16: And for the most part its organized union resistance to

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Speaker 16: change a common theme.

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Speaker 3: The recall failed tonight too.

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Speaker 16: Woodland Park school Board members are speaking out after months

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Speaker 16: of efforts to remove them from office failed.

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Speaker 8: Election official say petitioners came up short to trigger recall

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Speaker 8: elections against Woodland Park school Board members David Illingworth and

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Speaker 8: Suzanne Patterson.

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Speaker 15: Wooland Park's school board vice president David Illingworth says he

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Speaker 15: is pleased, calling the push to remove him a wasteful

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Speaker 15: effort by a group committed to a radical agenda.

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Speaker 16: Not only did it fail, they didn't give enough signatures

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Speaker 16: to get there by a long shot. So this board

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Speaker 16: has twice won support from the community.

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Speaker 1: Ken Witt and the school board began making reforms immediately,

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Speaker 1: bringing part of the school's curriculum back to America's first principles.

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Speaker 16: We adopted the American birth Right Curriculum standard quite honestly,

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Speaker 16: within a few days of me joining the school district.

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Speaker 16: So that certainly underscored the board's commitment to return focus

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Speaker 16: to a quality academic focus and to lose some of

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Speaker 16: the divisive politics and perspectives that are going on in

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Speaker 16: public education.

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Speaker 3: So that certainly met with some resistance.

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Speaker 2: And so the American birth Right standards are about making

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Speaker 2: sure that every kid is getting a curriculum that is

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Speaker 2: always designed to give the full and complete history of

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Speaker 2: this country, with an understanding that people who are learning

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Speaker 2: history are students, should be valuing the American system, that

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Speaker 2: it's a good system. In the end, it's not a

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Speaker 2: perfect system, but it's probably the best that we've managed

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Speaker 2: to come up with so far in human history.

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Speaker 1: Historically, the national media have largely ignored this small town

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Speaker 1: that is until words spread that the new sheriff in

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Speaker 1: town began to change the curriculum.

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Speaker 4: The district also became the first in the country to

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Speaker 4: implement a social studies program called American Birthright, developed by

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Speaker 4: conservative activists and rejected by educators around the country, including

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Speaker 4: Colorado's state Board of Education. It emphasizes patriotism and discourages

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Speaker 4: civic engagement.

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Speaker 14: It's terrifying.

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Speaker 4: When Sarah Lee, a Woodland Park teacher for almost two decades,

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Speaker 4: learn what was inside the new program, she started to panic.

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Speaker 8: Anything that is not the way that the leader says

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Speaker 8: it should be is wrong and evil and should be destroyed.

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Speaker 8: And that's how I feel about that American Birthright curriculum.

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Speaker 4: This November, three seats on the school board are up

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Speaker 4: for election. Parents like Matt Galowski worry about how much

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Speaker 4: could change between now and then.

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Speaker 15: Wake up, don't don't rest, don't think that your district

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Speaker 15: is safe. I never saw this coming.

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Speaker 1: They always seem to scream the loudest when you're over

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Speaker 1: the target, which leads us back to the question, what

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Speaker 1: can the folks do to help save America? Well, one

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Speaker 1: answer is take back the schools. Our educational system is

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Speaker 1: perhaps the most important cultural institution in America. Almost every

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Speaker 1: child is legally required to run this gauntlet for at

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Speaker 1: least thirteen years, and the overwhelming majority do so through

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Speaker 1: the public school system. This is something that the radical

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Speaker 1: left understood going back to at least the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 11: We must educate our people.

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Speaker 7: In order to educate our people, it means that we

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Speaker 7: must take over the schools, nothing less, take them over

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Speaker 7: by any means necessary.

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Speaker 1: Education is what feeds our youth in their most formative

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Speaker 1: and vulnerable hearth years. So we must rid our system

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Speaker 1: of the poisonous ideology that the radicals are pumping into

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Speaker 1: our kids bloodstream by taking over the schools, and as

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Speaker 1: Woodland Park and wish Reds shown it can be done.

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Speaker 2: Parents and teachers can take back their schools and make

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Speaker 2: sure that their kids are getting the education they deserve.

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Speaker 3: They don't have to be.

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Speaker 2: Controlled and forced into the big darkness that's coming from

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Speaker 2: the power centers in DC and the special interests with

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Speaker 2: all their billions of dollars.

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Speaker 3: So you can do it.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just the K through twelve education system

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Speaker 1: that needs to be taken back. We must not abandon

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Speaker 1: higher education.

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Speaker 11: These elite schools are still the best gateway to power.

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Speaker 11: You know, if we just abandon these institutions, the Left's

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Speaker 11: just going to dominate them, and that's just a way

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Speaker 11: for us to lose even more power. So I just

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Speaker 11: want to inspire other students to show Listen. I didn't

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Speaker 11: come from any fancy backgrounds, I don't have any fancy connections.

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Speaker 11: I just started calling out what I think is wrong,

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Speaker 11: defending what I think is true. I want to show

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Speaker 11: them listen, you can do this too, like it's possible.

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