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It's been a minute since I posted. I've given two trainings in the last week (Beaumont and Llano). I'm updating Grassroots Priorities daily and the session is starting to move quickly. I'm trying to keep up with my client work. I've got some things on my mind, so I'll just talk...
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The fastest way to get someone to stop moving is to make them uncertain about their next step. We like a predictable environment. Generally speaking, women don't like a man who lacks predictable income. Men don't like women whose mood and attitude change by the moment. Children...
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Those who work hard to divide the grassroots bore me because it's lazy. It's not hard to foment division. You see predators do this in nature. They find a herd, push hard up the middle in a surprise sprint, divide those previously peacefully assembled, go after the closest prey...
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Bruce Lee was famous for many things, and one of them was the one-inch punch. With proper training, he said, a one-inch punch could be just as devastating as a full-wind up punch. Lee said this about it: "It's about delivering maximum force in a minimal distance." The...
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Yesterday, I had a great conversation with a pastor in the Rio Grande Valley. He's interested in having a Goal is to Win seminar down there and he discussed his time in politics. He mentioned how critical it is for Christians to be engaged and how elections could be easily won...
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Tell the truth. It can be revolutionary. Think of the times in history that publishing the written word led to profound change in the world. Luther's 95 theses. The Gutenberg bible. The American and French revolutions. Pravda's profound role in the Russian revolution. The recent...
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Last night, I'm driving home from dinner with Nicole and listening to Steve Martin speak about comedy. He gives the example of how the line from Groucho Marx "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" would be very different when delivered by various comedians...
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Sometimes, the representative you have needs to be replaced. Like a burned out light bulb now grown dim and flickering, you need to install a new one. To do that, you don't just point at the defective light bulb. You go find a new one, a better one. So here's my joke of the day...
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A leader is never a leader because of their title; a leader is someone people choose to follow. As I travel the state of Texas, I've been thinking about the role of Republican county chair because it's often the case the people talk to me about their county chair. Some want...
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Business success happens like this: an entrepreneur find some product or service that the public wants, makes it, markets it, and captures a market for the product. Having found the recipe for success, everything the business does from that moment forward works to offer more of...
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Yesterday, I was in Montgomery County doing what is now becoming a weekly event: a training seminar. For three and a half hours, I walked them through grassroots preparation, candidate preparation, campaign preparation, and how to prepare to go against the opposition. (Photo...
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Imagine that you have a 55-gallon barrel that's been sitting outside for years. People have walked by it. Rain has filled it up so that it's always full of water. To stare at it, it's just a barrel of water. One day, you stick a garden hose into it and turn the water on full...
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As we watch these federal judges ignore the Constitution where it says in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." It's called the "vested clause." President Trump has every right to manage the...
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Managing expectations is a skillful art. Too often, we get out over our skis. "Newly sworn-in FBI director Kash Patel is weighing releasing the complete Jefferey Epstein flight logs, after promising to do so if confirmed by the Senate to the position." The crazy thing about this...
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On April 15, 2009, I was one of four organizers of the inaugural Tea Party in Des Moines, Iowa. Charlie, Doug, Rochelle, and I began our work prior to that, along with hundreds of other organizers across the country, to protest a socialist government that had been installed in...
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