Fight For America

Fifty-eight years ago, Ronald Reagan delivered the speech that launched his political career. He told the American people:

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”

Such are the stakes this November after everything we’ve witnessed over the past 18 months. With each passing day, we’re closer to what is perhaps the most important midterm, non-presidential election in the history of our country.

As you know, the Senate is literally divided 50/50, with Democrats controlling the chamber only because of Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote. In the House of Representatives, Speaker Nancy Pelosi rules with an iron first even though she commands the smallest majority in decades. 

Sadly, I have heard from some folks in recent days who fear cheating in the election again, so they’re not planning to vote this November. That’s not going to solve anything. 

As the saying goes, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. If millions of Americans refuse to vote that only guarantees defeat for our values. We need turnout numbers so big that cheating can’t overcome it!

Others who are feeling anxious are emailing and asking, “Gary, what can we do?”

Well, let me say the obvious: You must vote. And you must find at least one other person who is on the fence and convince them to vote.

Here’s something to keep in mind: Whoever controls the majority – even if it’s just by one vote – chooses the chairman of every committee in Congress. Those chairmen can then conduct investigations of the corruption that we’re seeing every day in Washington, D.C.

This corruption is so severe it could end the American Republic as we know it.

Our country is at a tipping point. This is not the time to give up on America. This is a time to fight for America!

But pledging to vote is not enough. We must do more.

Every one of us knows someone who shares our values but isn’t registered. Get them registered. It’s easy to do online.

We all know someone who is ill or in a nursing home. Make sure they are signed up to receive an absentee ballot, and make sure it is properly filled out and promptly returned.

Finally, we must be wise. There is no perfect candidate on the ballot, and we have a binary choice to make this November. 

Voting really shouldn’t be a hard call – not when our rights and cherished values are hanging by a thread!

And keep in mind that the very first vote every congressman casts is the vote to organize Congress – who sets the agenda, who controls the committees. That vote may well determine the fate of our Republic.