Dear John, What a month January has been! I know a lot of you feel discouraged, betrayed, and helpless. It has been an emotional rollercoaster of hope and despair.
But, rest assured this is just an adjustment. It is an opportunity to gather all these patriots who now realize something is wrong – very wrong in our government and get them engaged. We are seeing an unprecedented level of activism and passion for our country! This election helped galvanize patriots all over the country
to stand up and do something. I have seen this before. When Obama was elected people felt it was the end of the world. They felt helpless. They would say to me what are we going to do now? The country is gone. Obama’s election was the best thing that happened to our organization. It made people wake up. Under Obama we were able to pass 70 state legislation in 8 years changing the local political landscape in many states. We knew we couldn’t get anything done on the federal level so we did it on the local state level. By the time Obama left office in 2016 we had 1,000 chapters nationwide and 350 chapter applications waiting to be processed. We had exploded on the national stage. We became the most
influential national security grassroots movement.
We helped elect President Donald Trump. General Michael Flynn who served on our board became the National Security advisor to the president and then our friend Congressman Mike Pompeo became CIA Director and later Secretary of State. This was the result of 8 years working with laser focus on the local level and developing relationships and building people up who ran for office and helping them win in many states. Every few years people need a shake up to realize how easy they can lose everything. This is one of those shake ups. Except today we are not just starting out. When Obama took office we were about 180,000 members and about 30 chapters nationwide. Today we
are 1.6 million and over 110,000 activists. And to encourage you even more, we have received this January so far 152 new group applications and recruited 1,423 activists. 2021 is going to be a great year of organization. We are off to a great start. Be encouraged. Be inspired. Be empowered. If it wasn't for the disastrous Obama years we would not have gotten a great America First four years where we became the number one producer of Oil and natural gas in the world. Get ready to work harder than ever to serve America. As President Trump always said: "The Best is Yet to come!"
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