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March 22, 2021

Trans Debate Hits too Close to Noem
by FRC Staff
There are defining moments in every political career -- decisions that have the power to rewrite a person's future. They can take a no-name conservative to celebrity status, or send a rising star cratering back to earth. Everyone with big dreams stands at those crossroads eventually -- and for Kristi Noem (R-S.D.), that time is now. The popular governor, who made a name for herself bucking COVID restrictions, has had her eye on bigger things in the Republican Party for a long time. But if she fails this test -- if she can't find the courage to stand up to the Left -- that's all she'll be remembered for.
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Two's Company, Three's... Marriage?
What could the Left possibly want after same-sex marriage and transgenderism? Try polygamy. The media laughed off groups like FRC when we warned about that 15 years ago. Now, a decade and a half later, with American parents in the fight of their lives over girls' sports and city councils endorsing three-person relationships, it turns out we were right. The LGBT's fight was never about marriage -- it was about every sexual and social norm.
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Dems Reframe Filibuster as Race Debate
by Ruth Moreno
It's no secret that a lot of Democrats are interested in abolishing or creating exceptions to the filibuster, a procedural rule which requires that 60 senators instead of a simple majority must agree to vote upon a proposed piece of legislation. With the Senate split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, and Vice President Kamala Harris acting as the tiebreaker vote, the filibuster is the only thing stopping Democrats from pushing their radical left-wing agenda through Congress and to the president's desk, where President Joe Biden will likely sign most of the Democrat-controlled Congress' bills into law. The Democrats' solution? Reframe a number of proposals as necessary for the advance of "civil rights," for which the filibuster should move out of the way.
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Today's show features: Quena Gonzalez, FRC's Director of State and Local Affairs, on South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem caving on a girls' sports protection bill; Matt Boyle, Washington Political Editor for Breitbart News Network, on his article: GOP Insiders Warn Companies Woke Leftism Paving Way for Corporate-Free Populist Republican Party; Jeff Laszloffy, President of the Montana Family Foundation, on Montana Governor Gianforte publicly endorsing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act moving through the Montana legislature; Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow in China Studies at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, on the Biden administration meeting with Chinese officials in Alaska, and how U.S. corporations are complicit in the forced labor of Uyghurs in China.

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