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Welcome to the Pro America Report. I’m Ed Martin and it is great to be with you. We have a lot to cover today and a lot happening in the world. It feels like it should be almost the dog days. Of summer, right? It should be. But it’s not. It’s not yet. 4th of July is just around the corner, but still a lot of action happening, including this week. Later this week, there will be a US Supreme Court will hand down its last decisions of the term. I think that will be Thursday. I don’t think they’re going to do it Friday. In fact, I know it’s Thursday. I don’t know if it’s also Friday, but. A big decision on affirmative action in America, generally I think most people think it will be struck down as unconstitutional. It’s treating people differently based on race not acceptable. Especially I think in a world where things have gotten better on that front in fact. Better and better. Maybe every day. So we’ll talk about that when it’s a big week going on.
We got a couple of things today. One, Derrick Evans, Derrick Evans. Derrick Evans is a survivor. He is a survivor. Now what’s he a survivor of? Well, first, let me tell you, he’s a a star athlete in high school and college. He was a coach, a teacher, a businessman. And he went to January 6th and he became the target. The first target of the Department of Justice, weaponized against him, charged with misdemeanors like entering the wrong place. You know, not being in the right, unlawful, unlawful presence in a place, misdemeanors, all of it. And for a guy that never had any problems, who had just been elected to the State House. He should have been in the clear. Well, then, the DOJ said wait, let’s add a add a felony. Let’s call it felony obstruction of official proceeding. Let’s let’s make that up and apply it here, but it’s a felony. Let’s scare this guy, young man. With four kids under the age of five, I think. And so he’ll take a plea deal. Which he did. But there, Derrick Evans turned around. And said OK, I’m through that. Whatever you thought of that mistake, quote unquote. I’m through it. And now I’m running for Congress. He’s running for Congress down in West Virginia. He is a dude. He is a dude. As John Schlafly called him. He’s a winner. And we’ll talk with him.
Also today, we’ll talk with Brian Fay. Brian Fay is over at the excuse me, the organization that is focused on veterans. At CVA, Concerned Veterans of America and the group is doing a nice job of bringing attention to the fact that today is PTSD Awareness Day. The 27th of June and so people should be aware of that, very aware of it and how important it is, a big deal, and I think people will be paying attention more. When they hear Brian, who himself as a veteran and someone I’m looking forward to hearing from in a few minutes. So those are the things going on in the program in a few minutes.
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Well, this segment is also called that. And what you need to know today is, there’s a new book out. There’s new book out – it’s launching on the 27th of June. It’s Kari Lake’s book and I am interviewing her on tomorrow’s show and. She is extraordinary. Well, the book is called UNAFRAID. Unafraid. UNAFRAID: Just getting started. Now, Kari Lake, I had to look it up. I I, I, I I was surprised. I I knew Kari Lake is not, you know she’s not a kid. She’s not a kid. Meaning she’s had a full career before she ran for governor a few years ago. So she’s about 55 years old. I looked it up. She had been a successful had been a successful broadcaster, you know, newscaster, presenter, they call it. She had been a sort of TV personality, business woman too. And then she ran for office, and she either won for governor, which is what a lot of us think, or she almost did. Anyway, she’s dynamic. She’s a great communicator. She’s really something to see and her book is Unafraid, and it’s great. Just getting started. Perfect title for her published by Winning Team Publishing. And we’ll talk with her on tomorrow’s program.
But here’s what I wanted to say. What you need To know, is she Is a good model for what the modern Candidate modern politician modern citizen must be. Because when she ran her race she was fearless. She talked to everybody, she wasn’t afraid of her opinions. She wasn’t trying to be all things to all people. She was actually very forthright about. Her positions on some things she’s more conservative than on others. She’s just a really interesting, interesting woman. But here’s the thing.
She was totally confident. Totally confident and fearless and Unafraid is a good title for her.
And so here’s the thing about her. She is someone who is a model, who is a model for people because also after she run, ran, after she ran and and she ran this fearless campaign. She then, I don’t know, didn’t win, ostensibly on on Election Day, she came within a few votes, and then they Stole it or whatever. But here’s what she didn’t do.
She didn’t fall for the usual trap. The usual trap is, even after a couple of days, you concede and say good luck to everybody. She didn’t do that. I I think she probably said good luck to everybody.
But she said I’m fighting. I’m fighting. I put in the time I put in the effort I put in the investment I put in the the the connection to the voters. They have something that they see in me, and therefore I’m fighting and she fought the election results and she said check them. And they wouldn’t check them, mostly. Then she went to court. And she Said keep checking Them and people will say she’s a bad she’s a poor loser. They’ll try to say that about her, but the fact is she’s not falling for the trap because what she’s saying is anyone who wants to say that about me is not paying attention to how hard I worked, how much I care what matters, and it’s it’s and. And here’s what happened.
Because she didn’t back down because she didn’t do what she was told. She’s become a leader of a larger movement of people that are that want to make the country better. And you can say ohh well, you know, I wish. Everybody would not look backwards. She’s not even saying don’t look backwards.
What she’s saying is you can’t look forward if you don’t figure out what just happened. You can’t have confidence if you don’t have a sense of what’s going on. What happened? I mean, what? Not what’s going on? What happened because? You can rest assured if the things that you think happened and maybe they did, can’t prove them yet, but if they happened, they’re Gonna happen again. If somebody doesn’t shine a light on it. So the idea is let’s get more transparent, not less. Let’s get more accountable, not less.
And, you know, one of the things in prepping for this interview with her. I noticed her lawyers, the people that helped her in her case, they’re being attacked again.
We’re watching the systematic attacking of the people who help regular citizens get their voices heard. So if you if you raise your voice the wrong way, you’ll be canceled. See Tucker Carlson. If you raise your law license. The wrong way. You’ll be attacked. See Professor Eastman, Jeff Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell.
And this leads to only one of two choices.
You can either be unafraid and be just getting started, like Kari Lake says and her book says. Or you can step back. And by the way, I’m not saying everyone is called to step forward into the fray, but some people have to be. Some people must be. Some people have to be willing to get out there. Otherwise, they’re going to roll over us. We the people, and they’re going to roll over us every every single day in every single way.
So it is imperative that you see and hear what Kari Lake is doing and read her book, buy her book and read it and get a sense for what the future can be.
Because again, her model. And ohh and this is something I’m gonna ask her about. She’s really a happy warrior, you know, she’s really affable and likable and smiling, and she’s a very charismatic woman, right? She looks, and she’s obviously been a a TV star, so she knows how to look and sound right. But she’s also happy. She’s joyful. She’s not a bitter, hateful, angry person. She’s not snarling and sneering. She’s smiling and laughing. Makes a huge difference. It’s the old Phyllis Schlafly lesson that Phyllis used to say. You know, you gotta you gotta be a happy warrior. You’ve gotta make sure you’re smiling and bright eyed and looking clean and and looking clear and not just sounding right, not just being true, not just getting it right. But actually looking and sounding upbeat, positive because the feminists and the leftists are sneering and ugly and nasty, you could see it. So it’s it’s very cool.
Kari Lake, what you need to know is she’s one to watch. I don’t know whether she is going to be a VP candidate or in the next administration or she’s gonna run for Senate or she’s gonna run for governor again. I don’t. But she’s going to be something. And more importantly, she is a model. She is a what? What you need to know is she’s a model for how we can. And watch this, how we can fight. Maybe you think she’s not succeeding. She didn’t win her race, but for her, the success is in leading people. The success is in being a beacon and gathering people together, and she’s really good at it. She’s really good at it. All right, we’ll take a break when we come back. As I mentioned, we will visit two great guests. We’re going to talk with. Our friend Brian Fay, from the from the Concerned Veterans of America and especially candidate for office, Derrick Evans, be right back. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report back in a moment.
