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Visit http://fpp.red for more information. In 1971, a German engineer founded the European Management Forum, which was renamed the World Economic Forum 16 years later. Its stated goal was to "improve the state of the world." It meets annually in Davos, Switzerland. Its members are the world's largest 1,000 corporations. Most of us haven't heard much of this organization, but oh do they have plans for you. In 2017, China attended the summit for the first time. This year, in 2022, Klaus Schwab opened the conference and praised China's leader, Xi Jinping, for his "significant economic and social achievements." China's society is a one-party, top-down, communist system - exactly the kind desired and revered by the attendees of the World Economic Forum. Think of China's impact on your life in the past five years. Those at the World Economic Forum love that and want more of it. One of the goals of the WEF is a concept called "net zero," which concerns itself with eliminating "catastrophic climate change" by transitioning the global economy to net-zero carbon emissions. Their estimates of this transition will require an investment of $50 trillion. We're in the midst of that transition now. Joe Biden said so himself. [When it comes to the gas prices, we're going through an incredible transition that is taking place that - God willing - we'll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over.] Who pays for this expensive transition? The poor. Those who live paycheck to paycheck, which is 70% of Americans. We've seen our own political leaders ignore the economic impact by refusing to allow drilling on our own lands, but the Biden administration reaches out to our enemies like Venezuela and Russia for oil and gas. Domestically - here in America - Biden wants to shut down fossil fuels in a transition to green energy and net zero. And you'll bear that cost. Limousine liberals will drive their electric cars and laugh at those who can't afford them. They power their vehicles with electricity generated by - fossil fuels. And as they do, we're told to be on the lookout for brownouts and rolling blackouts because green energy isn't reliable in every weather condition like oil and gas. The kicker in all of this net zero nonsense is that in his opening remarks, Klaus Schwab said, "We must narrow the gap between the rich and the poor." What a virtue signaling statement. Their plans do the exact opposite of that by forcing an energy transition that only the rich can afford. The World Economic Forum also pushes something Schwab calls "stakeholder capitalism." Elizabeth Warren loves this concept. In this system, no longer are those who buy stocks in a corporation the owners. Profit is no longer the chief motive. Rather, they create arbitrary social goals. This is why we see companies today take action contrary to profits. The stock price can take a hit if the company is perceived to eradicate climate change and catalyze social change. This is where the newly minted Environmental, Social, and Governance scores come in - also known as ESG scores. ESG metrics, for all corporations, include non-financial measurements centered around greenhouse gas emissions, pay equality, and board diversity. This short video only scratches the surface of the so-called "Davos Agenda," but you need to be aware that our politicians are receiving big donations from big corporations that are pressured into the Davos Agenda. This agenda is contrary to your interests. They'll try to snow you and convince you that they're concerned about your prosperity and well-being, but this Great Reset, as they're calling it - this global transition that they seek - takes your power and your earnings away from you and your family and gives it to the rich and powerful. We the people must fight it. It's un-American. Any Texas politician who listens to the Davos crowd must be replaced with a true representative of the people.

Visit http://fpp.red for more information. In the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson writes truthfully that governments derive their "powers from the consent of the governed." That paragraph closes with the idea that the people have the right to create a government that strengthens the independence of the people. So ask yourself: does our government today infringe on your rights and liberties? If the answer is yes, then we need to realize that our government has wandered away from being one that derives its powers from our consent. Instead, the powers of government often happen without our consent, and we need to change that. Here in Texas, the Disaster Act of 1975 gives the governor the power to declare an emergency for up to 30 days to reduce your vulnerability "to damage, injury, and loss of life and property resulting from natural or man-made catastrophes." We just went through one of those periods of declared disaster. In fact, we're still in it. Did you know that? On May 22nd of this year, the COVID disaster declaration was extended yet again - as it has been every thirty days since the beginning of the outbreak two years ago. The Texas Constitution says that "The legislature by law may terminate a state of disaster at any time." But the problem is that your representative has never been called into special session by the governor or has been given the opportunity to terminate the ongoing state of disaster. During a state of disaster, the governor can suspend laws and rules. Did you consent to that? During the past two years, tens of thousands of businesses closed because they were forced to close. The owners lost their lifelong dream and their lifelong investment. Just as no person should lose their home to a property tax seizure, no business should be forced into bankruptcy because of a government that forces its doors to close for an extended period. Morally, that's wrong. No single person should be given such authority - and certainly not for a period of months and years. This is why ours is a representative republic. We elect our representatives to act on our behalf to grant our consent - or not grant consent - to what our government would do. It's time for our Texas state government to remember that ours is still a government that derives its powers from the consent of the governed. And it's time that the legislature amend the constitution so that any extension of a disaster declaration must receive a vote by the legislature to continue. No matter who our governor might be, no person should ever have the authority to override the will and consent of the people.

Visit http://fpp.red for more information. In 2017, Gallup released a poll stating that .7% of the US population identified as transgender, or gender diverse. Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics puts that figure at between 2.5% - 8.4% of US children and adolescents. The percentage is rapidly rising, as popular culture pushes this idea through our schools, news, entertainment, and social media. Gender dysphoria - confusion about one's biological gender - didn't appear in medical journals until 1980 as the diagnosis "transsexualism." In 1994, "transsexualism" was replaced with "gender identity disorder in adults and adolescence" in an effort to reduce stigma. Therapy for the disorder quickly moved from counselling to gender reassignment surgery. The FDA approved so-called "puberty blockers" in 1993. Those given these drugs encountered risk of change in their body composition, slowed growth, weakened bones, sterilization, and the high cost of drugs themselves. It's impossible to "reassign" someone's sex physically because the biology remains the same, and those who attempt physical transition face poor outcomes. So why is this pushed on our children? It's well known that as early as kindergarten, children are being surveyed without parental knowledge or consent. In California, high school students are provided with a "transition closet" to make teenagers "feel more like themselves." Government-controlled schools encourage sexually-confused children to change gender, while parents are kept in the dark. This has become a mass experiment on vulnerable children with the goal of separating the child from the parent. Every government employee - to include teachers and school staff - are accountable to the public that pays them, and yet very little transparency occurs with what happens in the classroom. This past February, our Attorney General waded into the conflict with an opinion that stated "sex change procedures can legally constitute child abuse." Prior to that, a bill that originated in the Texas Senate and passed that body, went to the House and died in the Public Health Committee chaired by a Republican. There was a companion bill - HB 1399 - that was intentionally delayed by the Republicans in Calendars Committee, and they let time run out, and it died before it could get a vote on the floor of the Texas House. The Attorney General spoke out because our Republican-led legislature failed to do so and the governor never made this issue an item for action and vote in any of the three special sessions that were called. School is hard enough on children. The social, emotional, and physical challenges are known to all of us adults. At times, we felt awkward and uncomfortable with the changes we felt as our hormones pushed us into adulthood. Some kids cruelly ridiculed others, and at times our only respite was a loving family who would listen and talk to us. No family is perfect, but no government employee or person in the medical field is a substitute for family. Whatever confusion a child may feel, life-altering decisions must remain with the parents and the child involved and, in wisdom, should wait until the child becomes a legal adult. Our legislature and governor must move to abolish the following practices for minors that cannot be undone: intervention to prevent natural progression of puberty, administration of opposite sex hormones, and the performance of any type of gender reassignment surgery. Do not allow Republicans to once again kill bills in committees or run out the clock on protecting Texas kids. We must ban pediatric gender modification in the state of Texas for good.

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Visit http://fpp.red for more information. Just thirteen years ago, you had health insurance of your own choice that was affordable. The idea that businesses could be shut down by the government and bankrupted was unconscionable. Schools expelling elementary children for getting a pronoun wrong was laughable. We get the government we allow. Thirteen years from now, is it inconceivable to think that your 401K and pension will be owned by the government and piecemealed out to everyone in the name of equity and fairness? That all businesses will state-owned? That homeschooling is outlawed and kids as young as two are forced into pre-K? There are those who don't get behind the right candidates today because they own a business or believe they have to protect their reputation. "I'd love to endorse you or help you, but I can't. I have to protect my business and my reputation." From what? That freight train is right in front of us all. No one will be protected from it. The founders signed the Declaration knowing that it would cost them. But they knew that a lack of freedom was far more costly to them and to the generations who would follow them. Let's stop pretending that political silence protects anything you've built in this life. Silence and inaction only accelerate the handover of your inalienable rights to those you've allowed to be in control also known as the government. Pretending that you don't hear or see the evil won't make it go away, and not speaking out about it is a cowardice that has no virtue.

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Visit https://fpp.red for more information. What does it mean to hold someone accountable? In a business, lousy customer service served up with excuses rightfully leads to getting written up and disciplinary action. Complaints of "trying to cancel me." Well, that's a joke. Now I ask - who's in charge of our Republican representatives in offices? Aren't you, the voter, supposed to be the boss? And aren't they supposed to be the employee? This is why we need Rule 44 in the Texas GOP - just as it stands today. No changes. It allows us to truly hold our representatives accountable when they stop listening to us. If you believe that employers should have the right to discipline their employees to keep them in line, then what about you? You're the employer. When a supermajority of your delegates decide to write up your employee who misbehaved, a censure through Rule 44 is the proper disciplinary action to tell your employee to straighten up and fly right. Our politicians aren't superheroes. They aren't celebrities. They aren't above criticism. When they do the right thing, let's cheer them on and re-elect them. But when they don't listen to us, then it's time to publicly hold them accountable. They should aim to make us proud. Not disappoint us by doing the wrong thing or listening to the wrong people. Just like any employee, they should do what you, the boss, told them to do - and with a smile on their face.

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Visit https://fpp.red for more information. In 2008 and 2012, for every nine Republican voters who showed up at the polls to vote, had they brought a tenth voter with them, we would never have known President Obama or President Biden. If I ask you which party it is known for bringing busloads of voters to the polls, you would tell me that it's the Democrats. But why isn't it you? You love your children. You value the property that you've earned through your hard work in life. And yet, for a lack of organization, we're losing our children and our retirement savings to runaway government. Now is the time to win our freedom, to restore lost rights, to shrink government to its proper size. Every one of us knows about 150 people by first name and vice versa. Birds of a feather flock together, so it's likely that many in your network would vote like you - if only we asked them. But let's just focus on finding twelve. Twelve people who would vote like you. Across your family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, church family, business associates, and members of organizations to which you belong... Who would be in your twelve? All we have to do is ask. We talk to these people all of the time. They're likely just as unhappy with inflation and bad public policies like you are. In any local election, the margin of victory is usually a matter of a few hundred or a few thousand votes. If you bring twelve with you, you've multiplied your vote. Twelve votes plus you. Your single vote becomes thirteen votes. If others devote themselves to the idea of finding their twelve, you could work together and stay accountable to each other through the election to secure the victory. For every, say twenty thousand people, would it be hard to find fifty who would each find their twelve? That's just 1 in 400. Certainly out of every 400 people, there is a devoted patriot who can find twelve others. If fifty patriots for every twenty thousand residents committed to find their twelve in a statehouse district or city of 200,000 people, that would be 13,000 votes. Those extra votes will win the election. And best of all, this requires no money. You can do this with just a bit of organization and commitment. Together, you become a broad, victory-winning network that is unstoppable. Talk is cheap - so do a lot of it. Your word of mouth among those whom know you is the most trusted form of advertising. So go find your 12, today.

Visit https://fpp.red for more information. Children are the result of two people - a man and a woman. Parents both have a role in the healthy growth and development of a child. When a relationship dissolves, a child’s future typically becomes subject to the whims of Texas Family Courts and Family Law attorneys. Over 40 years of empirical research have repeatedly affirmed the crucial role of the Parent-Child relationship, but Texas law allows for courts and attorneys to routinely remove or even destroy that essential bond. Sociological studies have proven that a child benefits from a relationship with both parents, even when the parents no longer get along. Dr. Edward Kruk, internationally recognized as an authority on child custody and shared parenting, said, "A more child-focused approach to child custody determination is needed to reduce harm to children in the divorce transition to ensure their well-being." The well-being of children should take precedence over judicial biases, personal preferences, and parental self-interest. The consequences of fatherless children are felt by society as a whole and the problem has grown to epidemic proportions. The statistics are startling. Children from fatherless homes are more likely to suffer mental health issues, commit suicide and violent crimes, become substance abusers, be incarcerated, and have broken families as adults - thus perpetuating the cycle of damage to yet another generation. The truth is that children of all ages have the fundamental right to have equal time with both fit, willing, and able parents. But Texas law allows our Texas Family Courts to ignore this truth. Routinely, the "losing" parent in a custody dispute only gets four days and eight hours with their child every month. The law in Texas gives a judge broad discretion to determine "the best interest of the child." Sadly, there is no legal or consistent definition for "best interest." The judge can limit and or even terminate a parent's right to their child without first alleging, and then proving with clear and convincing evidence, that a parent is actually unfit. It can be based upon nothing more than a judge's dislike of a parent, or even their dislike of a parents religious beliefs. Is this legal? Absolutely not. But judges have been doing this for decades, and it is unfortunately a daily occurrence throughout Texas. Equal parenting time during childhood helps ensure that young adults from divorced families have long-lasting, close, secure relationships with both their fathers and their mothers. This stability benefits everyone. That should be obvious without needing to be said, but our Texas Family Court System doesn't embrace this truth, and we must change the law - for the benefit of the children - and even if it inconveniences the adults. After that change, our courts must be held accountable to discharge their duties as intended. We all know that it's never the fault of the child when parents don't remain together. But it is the child who pays the price when the adults don't protect and preserve the child’s relationship with two willing and loving parents. Divorce and separation are devastating for a child, one of the greatest traumas a child will ever experience. This trauma is exponentially exacerbated by limiting the child's access to a parent who wants to remain active and involved. During this next legislative session, let's ensure that our Texas Family Courts have a legal bias for what is truly in the best interests of the child. And let us all hold our judiciary accountable to follow the law, just like the rest of our great Texas citizenry.