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- [Tina] That was 250. So that's evens.

- [Juana] Mm-hmm.

- There's nothing up here. - Mm-hmm.

- And how many miles is it

to the next house exactly? (laughs)

- It's on the next block, actually.

- I mean, really? - Yes.

- Because that looks like a church.

- It's after- - And grass.

All right, you know what? I didn't even know where we were.

Here's hopin'.

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Hi, my name's Tina Wilson.

I'm one of the Republican-endorsed candidates

for school board.

- Okay. - The primary is May 16th.

So if you could come out and support us,

I would really like that.

There's a lot of stuff going on in our schools right now.

Have you heard anything?

- We've heard so much.

- Have you? - Oh my gosh.

- Do you have any concerns in particular?

- Well, we have concerns about the gender identity.

- Yes. - To me, you know,

there's men and women, that's it.

- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.

- We never heard of other things

when I was growing up. - Right.

- Other species, genders. - Other genders, right.

Species. (laughs)

- [Resident] The other concern is book selection.

- Mm-hmm.

What I will tell you is they're downplaying what it is,

but what these books really are, are vulgar

and some are just downright pornographic.

It's sexual activity with adults,

sexual activity with minors.

- Oh, that's too bad. - And it's nothing

that our children need to be reading.

I do wanna let you know

that there are four other Republicans

walking around right now that are not endorsed,

and they're actually backed by Democrats.

So just something to be aware of.

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- I think I can say

a little more. (dog barking)

- Jackson! (Steve laughs)

- We are moderate, (dog barking)

We are moderate - Jackson, go to the house.

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- That usually works.

- We are moderate Republicans and not extremes.

And there is another, I'm starting to venture

into some politics here, but it's true.

There is another group of Republicans

that are running that are much more extreme.

- Yeah. - So

that's the reason we are running as a moderate group,

'cause this is a Republican area and we feel like those...

We need to do well. - Right.

- 1007

and then 1009.

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My name's Kristy Moore. I'm running for school board.

- Yeah. - I'm the leader

of the local Democratic party.

You know, they are those extremists.

They're trying to ban books.

They are trying to destroy our public schools.

They are anti-LGBTQ.

They are Christian nationalists.

I mean, really scary people.

The last time we ran, it was against insurrectionists.

This is gonna possibly give them

the majority on our board, which is frightening.

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- We'll look at one play in this first unit,

and I just got brand-new copies,

they're up on the shelf, of "A Streetcar Named Desire."

And if you saw anyone toting these around last year.

(laughs) So now Rebecca Mink,

instead of toting around this edition

with a shirtless Marlon Brando...

Looks rather smutty, doesn't it?

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We've got brand new copies, so.

You all right, Quin? I mean you could have them.

In the cabinet of curiosities back there,

there is a student who made a T-shirt for Marlon

to censor him 'because their parents did not approve

of a shirtless Marlon Brando on the cover,

so, anywho, I digress.

So if you wouldn't mind having a conversation

with someone around you.

How do you think Hedda Gabler

and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" scored?

Fun fact to potentially pique your interest,

you may or may not know that Oscar Wilde

was actually imprisoned for his homosexual proclivities.

And that is a controversial novel

because of its, yes. (laughs)

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- [Photographer] All right, one, two, three.

Good. All right.

- Awesome. - Woohoo!

- Erin, thank you.

- Woo! - I think so.

Do you think we need any more?

- No, I think we're good.

- Anybody else need a sign?

- This school district is for everyone.

All students and families

in the Elizabethtown School District

deserve access to a quality public education.

All of you. (group clapping and cheering)

Our taxpayers deserve school board members

who are going to be fiscally responsible,

and that doesn't mean just low taxes.

It means being smart in what we are choosing to invest in.

There are five of us.

For the first time ever, there are five endorsed Democrats

(group cheering and clapping) running for school board

in the Elizabethtown School District.

We just need your help to get us across that finish line.

All right, I think it's working.

Today happens to be the anniversary of my first loss

for school board.

I ran back in 2019.

I have had to endure some personal attacks

over the past four years.

There's been attempts to harm my reputation

as an educator at my place of employment.

In addition, this year has brought me

some personal challenges.

I lost my brother very suddenly

to a drug overdose at the end of March.

I've never dealt with that type of grief before,

so having to go through that

while trying to give my all to this cause

that's so important to me has been very difficult.

Oh gosh, I got a message from my sister

which will make me cry.

Thanks, Kel. (laughs)

I miss you guys.

Oh my gosh, I got through without crying.

Thanks a lot, Kel. (laughs)

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- Before I taken 'em to the donation bin.

- Hello. - Hi.

- How are you? - I'm good.

- [Participant] It's nice to you again.

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- [Participant] Yeah, you better be sorry.

- [Participant] Can you make one for the bake sale?

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- There is a proposed policy change in Hempfield

that would have the district remove, what,

like hundreds of books.

You know a little bit more about...

- So, yeah. The wording is,

I think the intent is to remove

any sexually explicit material.

But the wording they're using is any sexual content

which can be interpreted as...

I mean, hand-holding.

So yeah, it could lead to the removal

of lots of books in the library,

lots of books from the curriculum.

I have to be careful, because that's my place of employment.

- [Liz] Of course.

- [Alisha] School board update for us?

- School board update.

So we still have the two pro-public education slates.

On our Democratic side, it is "Support Etown Schools,"

and then the "Elizabethtown Republicans for Education,"

and then hopefully the goal is on May 16th,

we can eliminate all of the extremist candidates.

Nothing is like that.

Like, Democrats and Republicans

in a conservative town like this

being so supportive of one another is crazy,

but so inspiring.

I don't know what's going to happen in May but-

- I think that really speaks to the level of crazy

that we are up against.

- Yeah. - So.

- [Alisha] Yeah.

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- We have explicit, sexually explicit

and vulgar books in our library.

- Oh, really? - And they're in the middle

and the high school, so, that's definitely

something to be concerned about.

- I heard that a year or two ago

they found a book or something

that nobody even thought to check, and then-

- Those are something that the current school board

and the Democrats that are running against me

think is A-OK.

We would like to get in there and change that

and make those books not available for children,

and that's not book banning.

You know, you could still go to the library.

You could still go to Amazon,

if you're interested in that sort of thing.

- [Resident] The library has everything.

- Exactly, so, we just don't think that the school itself

should be offering that. - Yeah, it makes sense.

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- So Father, we thank You

for Your grace that's in this room.

We thank You for every gift.

We thank You for the opportunity to stand together here.

Bless everyone. Don't let anyone leave unchanged.

Don't let anyone go and continue down a rabbit hole

of discouragement or destruction or addiction or whatever.

You are here to set us free.

And You are here to strengthen us

and bless every one of us as we go forth today.

In Jesus' name, Amen. - Amen!

- And we're going to welcome Travis Tymoczko.

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- So what's Jesus saying? Saying the devil is real.

Like, first and foremost,

I think we just need to address that.

The devil wants to murder and kill.

Jesus is very clear about that.

So how does he do this?

The devil's going to work towards his goal through lies.

We're fools to think we can fill our minds

with the world's movies, shows, games,

social media, pictures, even news, the me culture,

and not think this is rewiring our brains.

So, like, what is that leading to?

Like, why is the gender dysphoria happening right now?

Like, there's a lot of evidence

that this is a social contagion.

And there's a good study that's out just now,

that they're trying to bury,

that's saying this is a social contagion.

So, what do I have to do?

What do I have to fill my mind with to retrain that,

to push me towards faith, to push me towards hope?

To push me away from sin, to push me away towards lies.

Amen.

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- Jesus, You're the reason we are here.

- [Don] Amen.

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♪ All that I want is You, Jesus ♪

♪ Only Jesus

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- Good morning, friends.

I just thought I'd pop on here today

and see how everybody's doing.

We've had a busy couple of days,

and it's been probably since Thursday

since I talked to everybody.

So, that would be my encouragement for you today.

Are you where God wants you to be?

Are you doing the things that God wants you to do?

Have you stepped out and have you decided

that today is the day that you're going to do those things?

So, the first thing you have to do

is you have to accept Jesus as your Savior.

And so today I am going to make sure

that I am doing the things that God has called me to do.

If you don't know Jesus, contact me.

I would love to talk to you about it.

As always, this girl runs on Jesus and Plexus,

and I will talk to you guys later.

Thanks. Bye-bye.

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- Good evening.

On behalf of the Elizabethtown School District,

we welcome tonight's in-person and virtual viewers.

For in-person attendees,

if you wish to address the board during public comment,

there is a box in the front of the auditorium

for you to deposit your completed yellow card.

I will now give the meeting back

to our school board president, Mr. Terry Seiders,

and our school district acting-superintendent,

Dr. Karen Nell.

- Thank you, Troy.

Facilities & Finance, Mr. Hummer.

- Yeah, we'll start with a budget update.

We will be voting on the proposed final budget.

Again, ultimately, it's still a 3% tax increase,

so, I won't go into a ton of detail on that

unless there's any further questions

on what was in the board log.

- Just kind of some things to note,

since we are talking about a 3% tax raise.

- [Mr. Hummer] Sure.

- In the economy that we're in,

wouldn't it make sense for us to think about our elderly

and people who are on a very tight budget,

to look at decreasing the amount of tax we're asking for?

Every one of us is feeling the cost pinch.

I know that our family feels it.

Maybe your families don't.

Maybe you guys are a little more affluent

and are able to afford this a little bit more,

but that's not the average person.

I think that's a disservice to us

and to the people that are here

that are struggling month to month.

- The larger argument that you're making

is how public education is funded in Pennsylvania.

Unfortunately, two thirds of the burden

comes to local taxpayers, for Etown.

All we do is try to look for a balance

between what taxpayers can afford, what students need,

and providing a first-class public education system.

That's our responsibility, is finding that balance.

I appreciate your opinion on it.

I think there's more to the story with it though.

- Thank you. Policy Committee, Mr. Martin.

- Here we are.

We find ourselves in the spotlight with Policy 109.

We tried to take into account

all the feedback we that we had received from the community,

and I would say, from both sides.

- My first question.

The only thing about the opt-out that has me worrisome is,

and I'll direct it to myself.

If my son wants to walk into the library

and pick up a book off the shelf

that I don't want him to read, he can do that.

If there's an opt-in policy,

he can't do that because that book would be,

excuse the expression, under lock and key.

I'm not looking to build a cigar room,

you know, a humidor, as it were,

but what I'm saying is-

- Mr. Emery, I just want you to be aware

that any kid at any point could touch

or look at a book on the shelves,

regardless of what the rating system is,

so, I just want to be clear on that part.

- That's my concern.

- Yeah, I hear that.

I just want to make sure that even if we do an opt-in,

I can't prevent a student

from taking a book off the shelf and looking at it.

- Okay. - Mm-hmm.

- [Mr. Martin] I think that's all we have

for the Policy Committee, Mr. Seiders.

- I'm glad you didn't have seven of them.

At this time, we'll go into the public comment section.

You have five minutes to speak to the board.

Don Lamb.

- Good evening, school board.

To be it a Etown school board is very exciting.

But I believe there is a smugness that comes from this board

because we have a business plan that means

for infinitum we're going to raise taxes 3%

every year because we have to,

and I believe that's offensive to taxpayers.

And the reason it's offensive

is because you come up with a plan,

and then we have to bear the burden.

And there is no talk about how we can tighten our belts.

I call that bureaucratic entitlement.

It comes across like we're entitled, we're going to get it,

and you're going to have to live with it.

I believe that there are solutions

where we could come up with years

where we could maybe come out to Etown Square

and have a party and say we had a 0% tax increase.

Wouldn't that be great?

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- [Mr. Seiders] Amy Karr?

- In my time participating in these meetings,

I have noticed that there is

a particular group of individuals

who choose to weaponize almost anything that is said.

We sit here and hear comment after comment

about the dangers of books and accuse the district

of distributing explicit content to minors,

in an attempt to demonize teachers in the district.

It has been shown that providing public comments

can even threaten our personal safety.

I have parents and citizens approach me often

and say "I wish I had the courage to stand up there

and give public comments like you do.

But I'm just not sure about it."

And I get it, but I've decided that if our teachers

can handle the difficult job of teaching our children

and being attacked on top of that,

the least I can do is stand up here

and let them know they're supported.

Thank you.

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- Menno Riggleman.

- I want to bring forth my family.

This is a picture of my grandmother

and her great grandfather that fought in the Civil War.

When he was 21, he took a shot in the leg,

and he walked with a cane the rest of his life.

Now, we have conflict each and every day.

We have to respect both sides,

but I've been seeing a lot of Christians

being disrespected on their beliefs

or bloodshed in the last couple months,

only because they were Christians.

It's not across the world. It's not our missionaries.

It's here at home that we're being

killed because of our views.

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- (laughs) Oh my gosh.

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- Good morning. Is there anything I can do to help?

- If you would like, yes.

- I would like.

- You could, underneath, get some plates.

- I grew up thinking God didn't want me.

- Mm. - Mm.

- Right?

And then, you know,

long story short, I ended up abandoned

at, like, 13 years old.

And, I was a rotten kid, right?

And so, my mom kicked me out of the house,

and a lot of bad stuff happened to me.

You know, I got into drugs and gangs.

And, you know, I was living on the street, you know?

Got frostbite.

It's Maine. It's cold, you know?

- Mm-hmm.

- But I was 19 years old,

and I was with my second girlfriend,

and she was pregnant with my third child.

I already had two by the time I was 17,

and been working since 15, you know?

But I got led to God again and I found him

in a real way this time.

And so, okay, I went through about a year of

"Okay, you're real.

You love me. You're out for my good.

But what the hell was all that mess?"

Right?

And it just didn't make sense to me, you know?

And in that moment, I was 38 years old,

and in that moment, like,

everything in the past just kind of flooded through my head,

and I got this tap on the shoulder,

and the Holy Spirit said,

"Are you still wondering why I allowed you

to go through what you went through?

I'm going to use it. And you're going to reach them."

He's definitely real.

And He's definitely sovereign.

And He's definitely worthy of praise, you know?

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Okay, guys, so, just a recap of the last session.

So, the last session,

this is kind of like a military set,

with a biblical undertone to it.

And last session, we talked about platoons,

which would represent the church.

And we talked about squadrons,

which would represent 10, 12, 15 guys together.

Then we talked about fire teams.

In this session here, we're talking about

what they're referring as back-to-back.

You know, we're in the midst of a battle here,

and it's a spiritual one.

It's one that if you don't know about it, you can't see.

And it's against an enemy you can't see.

Having said that, you're going to need

to gel together with other guys because life happens,

life sucks, get a helmet kind of thing,

and you're going to need guys

that are there for you when the enemy is attacking you.

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- [Narrator] Have you ever seen the movie "Forrest Gump?"

- Hey, Forrest. - Hey, Bubba.

- [Bubba] I'm going to lean up against you,

and you just lean right back against me.

This way, we won't have to sleep with our heads in the mud.

You know why we're a good partnership, Forrest?

Because we be watching out for one another,

like brothers and stuff.

- [Forrest] Okay.

- [Narrator] See what I mean? Brilliant.

Do you know that there's only one way

that two guys can cover a 360-degree perimeter?

It's back-to-back.

You know, have you read the story

of Job in the Old Testament?

I mean, this guy, if you remember Job,

Job had everything.

He was one of the most righteous men in town.

He had more money than everybody else,

and at one point, he loses everything.

(gentle music) The Bible says in Job 2,

when three guys found out

what their best friend was going through,

they traveled a very long distance to get to him.

And by long distance, this is thousands of years ago, man.

This is dirt, sandals, camels.

The Bible also says when they saw

their friend off in the distance,

they tore their robes and threw dust on their head.

We don't do that anymore, but that was a sign of empathy.

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What about you, right now?

What are you in the middle of right now

where you're trying to do it alone?

Get with a guy right now and tell him

that battle that you're in.

I promise you, it could save your life.

- Good stuff! - Amen!

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- He's a good guy.

- All right, let's platoon back up, guys.

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So again, this series

is to promote battle buddies.

We're going to need that,

because whether you want to be or not,

we're all enlisted.

We've got to be strong as a church, you know?

We're really good at being involved

in our community here at LifeGate,

but that comes with a cost.

And we've got to be a strong squad

to resist everything that's going to come,

because it's just the beginning.

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- Okay, so.

So last week we decided to talk a little bit

about gun violence in the U.S.,

and especially as it relates to schools,

and I remember I kind of polled you all to see, like,

who was a supporter of the Second Amendment.

And I was kind of surprised that most of you

said you were kind of okay with guns being available

in the U.S.A.

But, well, look at the words of the Second Amendment.

It says: "a well-regulated militia," comma,

"being necessary to the security of a free state,

the right of the people to keep and bear arms

shall not be infringed."

Do you truly fear coming to school

that one day there will be a shooting here?

I'm seeing heads going all different directions here.

Yeah, let's go around.

- I don't think I'm afraid.

I don't think about it all the time, but if I'm, you know,

here, at a movie theater, at school,

at a restaurant, almost any time I think, like,

if something happens, like, where's the exit?

What's the fastest way to get out?

- And that's an awful thing

that we should have to worry about,

that we just normalize school violence.

I mean, I feel bad for your generation.

You're growing up in this.

It's been with you almost from the beginning.

But how do we get around this?

Because it's not going away,

either in the school or our society.

I've even seen people within the last several years, like,

talking about the potential of,

"Well, there are these crazy people in my community,

and they're against us.

They're traitors."

And, you know, you start talking about there

potentially being another civil war

with the availability of guns.

What's the way forward with this?

I mean, what do we do?

- I think in the short term, you have to,

like cops at schools, that kind of thing, to protect them.

As horrible as it sounds, like,

schools are kind of the place that it happens now.

Like, there's- - Why do you think that is?

- I have no idea why that is,

but it's sort of become the thing.

Like people, I mean, they do mass shootings at schools.

- [Mr. Safford] It's not at McDonald's.

It's at schools, right? - Yeah.

Well, I know at least a large percentage

of school shootings are done by students

that are actually attending that school,

and I think that's part of the reason why the school

is the main place where they're targeted.

- Yeah.

(tone beeps) Well, thank you

for the good discussions, though.

You know, something to think about. I don't know.

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- Have a good night. Thank you.

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Need help putting it on your back?

- Just slap it on there. (laughs)

- All right.

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Guys, thank you for coming out

to our "Girl and a Gun" Girl's Night Out.

My name is Sue Smith, if you don't know who I am.

I'm going to be your facilitator, instructor,

safety person tonight.

This is my part-time hobby job.

I also do armed security undercover.

I work full-time at Etown School District

in Safety and Security to help to keep our kiddos safe,

and our staff.

A Girl and a Gun, a little background on A Girl and a Gun.

It's a national organization that started in Texas

with one female firearms instructor

that wanted to bring women to the range to learn.

Now, the organization is 7,100 members strong.

So, if you guys want to start?

- [Christine] Me?

- Either of you is good. - Okay. I'm Christine.

I've been coming for a probably a couple years now,

I guess it was.

This was my first gun that I ever got.

So, I was very uncomfortable,

very scared of it, actually.

And coming to this group has really helped out a lot.

I feel much more comfortable.

Still haven't got to the point

where I can conceal carry yet,

but hopefully that's my next step, and so.

- And it's a journey. - Yes. (laughs)

- [Sue] It's a journey down the training path.

- Yes.

- I'm Joyce Hottenstein from Bainbridge,

and, well, I have six brothers.

So, I sort of grew up with guns. (laughs)

And my husband, when he was much, much, much younger,

made his own, and he still uses that.

- [Sue] Nice.

- What do we have?

I've been practicing with a Ruger LCR.

- Mm-hmm. - LCR.

And an AK-47.

- Nice. - Wow.

All right, back table?

- I am Heather, and I am new here.

I also took your class about a month ago,

and I don't have a whole lot of friends.

I'm a mobile dog groomer,

so, I'm by myself, like, all the time.

- Whoa. - Ooh, wow.

And so, this is my outlet.

- [Sue] All right. Thank you.

Alright, Danielle?

- So, I'm Danielle Lindemuth, and actually,

it was because of the riots that were happening in town

that my husband decided to go and get a gun,

and he has shot, but I haven't had the opportunity.

So, I said, "Let's get a group together.

Let's go and let's do this."

I need to learn because we have one in the house.

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- [Video Instructor] Range clear.

- Range clear. All right.

Any questions?

All right, you just present out,

stay relaxed and fire the firearm.

Your grips are locked in from here, all right?

After you shoot each round, you don't do this.

You don't re-grip.

Once you have your grip set, present out to the target

and engage the target.

Nice and easy on the trigger, okay?

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Did you shoot yet,

or are you still getting your edumacation on?

- [Danielle] Get with the edumacation.

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(bright music) ♪ So, remember Your people

♪ Remember Your children

♪ Remember Your promise, oh God ♪

♪ Sing Your praises

♪ Your grace is enough

♪ Your grace is enough

♪ Your grace is enough

♪ For me

♪ Sing Your praises

♪ Your grace is enough

♪ Your grace is enough

♪ Your grace is enough

♪ For me

♪ So remember Your people

♪ Remember Your children

♪ Remember Your promise - How many of you all

are ready to see Pennsylvania become a pro-life state?

(crowd cheering)

How many of you all are tired of babies being murdered?

(crowd cheers)

If you're ready for change, let me hear you roar!

(crowd cheers)

Pro!

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- Pro-life!

Pro-life! Pro-life!

Pro-Life! (people chattering)

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- Hello.

I'm glad you're early.

(birds calling)

We, as a group, as Freedom Readers,

we have poked the bear with this.

- Mm-hmm. - With this book club.

You know, we are just constantly doing this.

- Well, that's what got me involved in the group.

When I heard that Danielle Lindemuth

had raised complaints about her daughter

having to read "To Kill a Mockingbird"-

- [Librarian] That was, excuse me,

that was the person who was running

for school board? - Yes.

Who is now on the board. - And who is currently

on school board. - Okay.

- Yeah, she posts

her whole list. - With her husband.

- A whole list. - With her husband.

- Yes.

- I went to my first school board meeting in years

because at the end of 10th grade,

my family moved from Elizabethtown to Birmingham, Alabama.

- Wow. - And it was

when Birmingham was known as Bombingham.

- Yeah. - And I-

- What year again was this? - So, that was 1964.

- Wow. - And I said

that reading that book prepared me

for the racial injustices that I would witness firsthand

to which I had, like, no prior knowledge.

And I've had this fear,

I guess would be the best word to put to it,

that Danielle

and her other compatriots on the school board

are going to say

that the district is teaching critical race theory,

and of course, they don't know what critical race theory is,

and I feel like we should be prepared.

- I think about part of the mission statement

of the Elizabethtown Area School District,

which is to make students that can thrive

in a global world.

But if you don't give them the tools to do that,

if they don't know anything beyond the farm behind them

or the house next door to them, how do they thrive?

They don't know the differences.

And when you think about that,

and you contrast it to how that patriotism

is being twisted- - Right. Right.

- By this Christian nationalism movement,

it is stunning to consider. - Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

- It really is.

- I can't believe we have to do this again.

- Right, right.

- Exactly. (principal laughs)

- And it's worse than it was before.

- It's significantly worse. - It really is.

And the scary thing is that they could win.

- Yeah.

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- Do you like it?

- Oh my gosh.

Look at this!

- [Participant] That's amazing, Alisha!

- Thank you. - I love it. I love it.

- Great sign!

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(car honks) (group cheers)

We're just old teachers.

- (laughs) I'm a teacher!

- We should have, like yeah,

a whole special hug for that. (laughs)

(people chattering)

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(cars honking)

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- So, at this point, hopefully you know I'm Tom Jones,

and I'm the state representative,

the new state representative.

Haven't even been in office a year.

But I'd love to open it up to questions

for anybody who has any.

I know you have plenty. - Yeah.

I have two things. - Yeah, sure.

- One might ruffle your feathers just a little bit.

- Okay. - But I promise

I'm not here to agitate, or...

There was a post on your social media

about school libraries covered in caution tape.

When you opened it up,

it gave you a link to sexual content in books.

The idea of the library,

the school library needing caution tape

is just ridiculous,

and it puts teachers and librarians

in a really precarious position,

because now people are thinking

there really are dangerous things in the library.

- Can you say that none of those books

are in any school library in the 98th?

- Yes. - Okay.

Can you say that across the state of Pennsylvania?

- No. - Okay.

Those books do indeed, do indeed

show up in school libraries

across the state of Pennsylvania.

I don't think it's fear-mongering.

I think it's speaking the truth,

and I think parents should be concerned

with their children being exposed to an agenda.

And the agenda, yes, the agenda,

so, the agenda is in writing

and quoted by three organizations:

the IPPF, the International Planned Parenthood Federation,

the World Health Organization, and the UN.

They believe that sex education

should start at the age of five.

They have a Child's Declaration of Sexual Independence.

- I disagree with a lot of what you just said.

- I know you do. - I don't want to take

these people's time. - I know-

- But I'm- - But we do this,

see how we do this cordially? - Did you see? Yes.

- Yes. I wish- - And I was actually

nodding my head.

I totally agree that parents should be able to ask.

I just know that libraries

are safe havens for children.

I've literally seen students go there

to be safe, to be secure,

to read all kinds of different things.

There are so many more beautiful texts.

- Yeah, we could go back and forth on what's beautiful.

- Yeah, okay. (group laughs)

But- - I know you're not.

- Yeah, I was supposed to leave at 7:00.

So, just really, thank you. - Yeah, always good.

- Absolutely. Always good. - I have so much respect.

I am grateful for

your service to the 98th. - Hey, thank you, Kristy.

All right, thank you. - All right, we'll continue

those other conversations. - I'm always thankful,

I'm thankful for the honest, intellectual debate.

So. - Yes. Bye.

- Are you kidding me? What are we teaching our kids?

Like, they don't know they're part of something

so much larger than themselves.

Almighty God, our Creator,

created us with these inalienable rights

that come from Him, not government.

Government doesn't give us our rights. God does!

Oh, I can get preachy. I'm sorry.

So, any other questions tonight? I get fired up.

I get goin', so, thanks for humoring me.

Yes?

- Are you amenable to proposing legislation

that would eliminate military-style assault weapons?

- No, I'm not. - Why not?

- You have- - Can you think

of any reasonable thought to having-

- Yeah. - A weapon like that?

- Yeah. - Why would somebody

buy something like that?

- Hamas come to mind?

Like, Hamas coming into your kibbutz.

It'd be real nice to have an AR-15.

- In south central Pennsylvania,

if you want to own a gun

for the purpose of protecting your family in your home,

isn't a handgun adequate?

Why does one need a military-style?

- I believe that you should have a gun

to protect your family and to protect your home

and to protect yourself against a tyrannical government.

I think that you should have that.

- Against a tyrannical government?

- Yes.

- You, as a representative of our state government,

and we have local council members,

and we have our local police force.

Where is the tyrannical government potential for?

- We have a constitutional republic

where We the People are the government.

And, as long as We the People

are an armed citizenry, right,

I don't think you'll have to fear tyranny to that extent.

And I'm not like flying off calling you a socialist

or flying off calling you a Marxist, okay?

I'd have to dig a lot deeper into what you believe

before I'd call you that, you know?

- And you'd end up calling me that anyway.

- (laughs) No, not at all.

(people laughing) Not at all!

Not at all. Not at all.

So this is great. (gentle music)

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- Good morning.

Sir, can I give you some information

on Republicans for school board?

We're the endorsed Republican candidates.

Thank you. Have a good one.

Good morning.

We would really appreciate your vote.

Make sure you're voting for the endorsed candidates.

There's some unendorsed ones running around, too.

- Yeah. Yeah. - That's us. Okay.

- Yep. - Well, thank you.

- Thank you so much. Have a good breakfast.

- Uh-huh. - You too.

- Enjoy your day.

- I think it's the people in the administration

and teachers have to know that they're gonna be,

first of all, they have to be the right people,

which I think honestly if the right people get

in the school board- - Yeah.

- That'll kind of naturally follow.

- It will weed its way out.

- Yeah. - Yeah, so I think,

and at that point, they'll know they're going

to be held accountable.

- Yes. - And, you know,

it's just a matter of taking an interest,

which I don't see happening.

Like, I don't hear anything about the board

ever touring the school.

- I know. I know. - Me, it's like, no.

I'm on the school board. - You still-

- I want to be touring that school.

I'll give you a few days. - Yep.

- You know, and I'm not saying I want to be jerky about it,

but at the end of the day, I'm your boss.

- Yeah. - That's right.

- You know? - Yes. Exactly.

- You can't tell me what to do.

- That's kind of convoluted, because I said-

- Right? - Like you had explained,

like, the citizens elect the school board.

The school board oversees the administration.

The administration oversees, and you can't just trust.

- Right. - Because-

- [Tina] No, you have to take it.

(group laughing)

(tone dinging)

- So, what's going on? What's on your mind?

- Oh, I just wanted to touch base with you.

- Mm-hmm. - And

see where your head is at with things.

- Okay.

- And let you know where mine is.

What's your feelings on

this school board election?

- Oh boy, you're going to hit me with that first?

- Absolutely. - We're not even going

to get a warmup here, Jim?

You're going to hit me with the school board?

(Karen laughs) - How's your hubby?

- I think I'd be lying if I didn't say

that there's some apprehension

among both the administrative staff,

as well as the teachers.

The apprehension's related to a fear

that we are going to be asked to do things by a new board

that could hurt kids. - Yeah.

- I will not condone something that hurts kids-

- Right. - Actively.

- Right. - You know that

I can't do things that are illegal.

- Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's moral.

- Correct.

- And I've got to be true to my God,

and I've got to be true to myself,

and I've got to be true to the kids.

- Right. - If there's one thing

I do have my head wrapped around with this whole thing

at this point is

our job, as a board, is to govern.

- Mm-hmm. - Your job,

as an administration, is to manage.

- Correct. It's a team of 10.

Even though I don't vote on the board,

you're gonna hear that

over and over. - Some hate that phrase.

- The team of 10? - Yeah.

- "We are not a board of ten! We're a board of nine!"

- We're actually a board of 10.

You know? - Yeah. We're a team of 10.

- Some hate that phrase.

- Well- - Me?

I think that promotes unity.

- Yeah, it does. - So.

- It's what you hired me to do.

- Yeah.

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♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah

♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah

♪ Hallelujah

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- If there's any time, even if it's a teacher

or other students that are saying something to you

that is anti-LGBTQ, please come to us.

You don't have to feel like you have

to handle that on your own or go talk to admin on your own.

You can talk to us, and we can, like,

be your advocate in that situation.

(students chattering)

- What's your sexuality? - Lesbian.

(student laughs)

- Wow! I totally didn't forget that.

And I totally know how to spell that.

- "Her, he, you, whatever you are, come here."

And I was sitting there trying not to laugh,

because she was trying so hard,

and it was like: "Okay, mom, you can use she/her.

Nobody's bugging you about it. Like, it's cool."

I mean, I think it's good to at least try.

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- Friends, we welcome you

to Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren.

I am Pastor Naomi Kraenbring.

Our congregation attempts to practice

peace, service and openness to all,

and we are very, very happy to be hosting this event today

with special guest Reverend Jennifer Butler.

(group applauds)

- Thank you, Naomi, for the introductions,

and thank you to you all

for being here to talk about this pressing moral issue.

Christian nationalism is ethno-cultural as an ideology.

It uses the symbols of faith to justify

the acquisition of power,

political power and social control.

It perpetuates the lie called replacement theory,

the belief that a cabal of elite Jews

seeks to overthrow the government

and is mobilizing Black and Brown people to replace whites.

In America, Christian nationalism

is a white supremacist ideology.

And we saw it at its most virulent on January 6th,

when Trump and other elected officials

used Christian nationalism as one of the ways

to stoke an insurrection and subvert the will of voters.

So, overall, about a third of the population

is captivated by these ideas.

And among those who strongly agree

with Christian nationalism,

40% agreed with the statement

that "true American patriots may have to resort to violence

in order to save our country."

I've said that Christian nationalism

is like a virus lurking in our system.

Their goal is to make the United States a theocracy

by taking over the seven spheres of influence

called the Seven Mountains, which are education,

religion, family, business-

- No it's not. - Government and military,

arts and entertainment and media.

My happy picture is that 2024,

we choose a democracy

and we're able to start slowly rebuilding and reforming.

If 2024 does not go well,

it will be a long in coming before we can reverse it.

Not only for the United States, but for the entire globe.

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- At this time, we'll go into our public comments section.

First up, Doug Lamb.

- All right.

- Is that good? - Yeah, that'll work.

Tonight, I'm just here to kind

of clear the air a little bit.

I'm not a Facebook person,

but there's been a lot of negativity

about my brother, myself and our church,

and I'm just trying to encourage people

that we still have constitutional rights.

We all have different opinions,

but this school board has become a little contentious.

I don't have any interest in trying to control Etown.

I'm a citizen. There's a lot of citizens out there.

Our elections will take care of people's opinion.

But I'm disappointed that people have to be so nasty,

give out misinformation, be rude.

I don't do that. Our church doesn't do that.

There's 20 to 25 other churches

who believe conservative values that LifeGate believes.

And just as a school board, I want you to be aware

of the fact that many citizens out there

are not writing derogatory things

about people who disagree with their points of view.

Thank you so much.

(group applauds)

- [Mr. Seiders] Kelly Fuddy?

- How's that? - That's good.

Sorry, I'm really short.

There we go. Thank you.

I know tonight is the second reading for Policy 109.

I learned so much from books,

and books have made me a better person.

There are, just to name a few, you know,

I was grown up and raised in a household where,

you know, like, feminism wasn't a word that we used.

I didn't really ever think about it that much

until I went to college.

Didn't understand why it was important,

but I read "A Handmaid's Tale," and then I understood.

I could see the world could go this way.

I have to respectfully disagree with Mr. Lamb

about some of the messages that have come through in sermons

that are publicly available from his church.

I hope that hearts and minds

can be changed within that congregation,

but just please know that it does not speak

for all the congregations

or all the people of faith in this community.

Thank you.

(group applauds)

- Okay, thank you.

At this time, we'll go into our voting session.

Items 9, 10 and 11 are yours, Mr. Martin.

- Thank you, Mr. Seiders.

Good evening, fellow board members.

We had to develop a policy that was an improvement,

so, where do you decide which books get locked away?

Because with an opt-in you have to lock away books.

No policy is perfect,

but it just makes more sense to go with an opt-out

where perhaps a child who briefly is in the IMC

somehow grabs a book off a shelf, somehow finds some passage

that their parents might find objectionable.

You have to weigh that versus locking away

big chunks of the books in the library,

because they may fall somewhere in the spectrum

of there's some part of it

that some parent might have a concern to.

And quite frankly, I just think,

in a way, it's un-American to be locking books away

and having an opt-in like that.

- [Mr. Seider] Any other comments or questions?

- I have a question.

How would that opt-out process be changed?

Would parents be able to exempt their child,

opt them out of advanced mature?

Would that be possible? Is that how that would work?

- Parents would be sent a new form

where they would somehow indicate by checking off the boxes.

"I don't want my child to have access to mature books,"

or "young adult mature books", something like that,

but then they could still access to the other categories.

- So, I would like to recommend tonight

that we approve Policy 109

and make it policy.

- Having a motion and a proper second on this,

all those in favor of Policy 109 becoming in effect,

please indicate by saying "aye".

- [Board Members] Aye.

- [Mr. Seider] Those opposed?

Okay, Policy 109 will go into effect.

Meeting is adjourned. (gavel taps)

(footsteps tapping)

So, what did you bring with you, bud?

- I brought my AR,

my handgun, my steel plates.

- Okay. - Ammo box.

- [Jim] How many clips you got?

- I believe I have eight with me.

- Eight clips? - Yep.

- [Jim] Okay, I have two.

They're all interchangeable, I would assume.

- Yeah.

- So, we'll roll like that.

- 5-5-6 2-2-3.

- Yep, yep.

I have a service pistol,

and I'm bringing the .45, with a laser sight.

- Mm-hmm.

- So, I'm going to have to take this off,

make sure that's all taken care of.

So, three pistols,

got the AR.

I don't know what to expect, if groups like Antifa

or Black Lives Matter, or even Al-Qaeda or ISIS,

for that matter,

but I'm confident with the team that we have,

we're going to get the job done.

- Absolutely. - And we're going to keep

everybody safe, now, that's the biggest thing.

We've got to keep everybody safe.

We pray for Your divine discernment, Lord,

and I take this oil.

You say to anoint each other with oil,

and I take this oil, Lord,

and I anoint everyone on this team

in the authority and the name of Jesus Christ

that we would be discerning, Your Holy Spirit,

that we would sense Your presence, Father,

that we would be guided.

Father, we understand that the United States is unique,

but we also understand that the United States

belongs to the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Amen. - Amen.

- So we're going to start packing up,

and I want to have the wheels turning at 1 o'clock.

- Okay. - Okay?

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- And we call, with our feet upon the (indistinct) of God,

the apathy, Father, of the church

and send revival to us, God.

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- All right, good morning.

If I could get your attention for just a minute.

- All right, let's go! - Welcome to Virginia Beach.

On April 26th, 1607,

a band of Englishmen landed here.

Everything that started in America started here.

- [Group Member] Yes.

- All the good stuff started here.

All the bad stuff started here, too.

- [Group Member] That's right.

- Part of the intention

of what became the Jamestown settlement

was for the Gospel to be planted here

and sown among the peoples

that already were in this country.

And that was the promise that was made,

and it's one we have walked away from.

Amen.

- [Group] Amen.

- Lord, we are desperate. We are broken.

We are living in times that are more evil

than we could have imagined. (group assents)

Our government is not our savior.

Our country is not our savior.

We have failed to test the spirits,

and we have followed after false prophets,

and that is idolatry.

Oh God Almighty, will You remove the blinders!

- Please, Lord. - Yes, Lord.

- Will you shine Your light in the darkness?

Amen. - Amen.

- Sign it. - I already did.

- Okay, then sign the next one. You're holding up the line.

- Oh, you're videoing?

Thought you were taking a snapshot.

I feel like a president signing with different pens.

We're declaring our country back, that's what we're doing.

This nation is under God, Amen.

(people chattering)

- Well, I'd like to welcome everyone

to the first annual Declaration of Covenant event

right here in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

(audience applauds and cheers)

Everyone knows her already,

but I will say that she is the Dean of Government

at Regent University and a former representative

for the United States of America.

Welcome to the platform, Dr. Michele Bachmann.

(audience applauds and cheers)

If you see the painting that is behind me,

this is the painting of the First Landing.

This is a historic painting,

and what is the focus of this painting?

What is the most important aspect of this painting?

It is the cross,

but it is the pastor leading the people,

the settlers, in humility,

to bow before the cross,

to recognize that the Cross of Jesus Christ

is our North Star. (audience applauds and cheers)

It is our foundation for this nation.

There is no better foundation that is laid

than the Cross of Jesus Christ,

and His blood that was shed upon that for all of us.

That's our beginning. That's our present.

That is our future. Amen.

- [Audience] Amen.

(audience applauds and cheers)

- Nancy Schulze from Washington, D.C.,

founder of the Republican Congressional Wives

Speaker's Association.

(audience applauds)

- Well, I don't know about you all,

but my heart is broken

over the slide that this country has taken

during my generation's watch.

And I will spend the rest of my days

doing whatever I can to fix this.

Abe Lincoln said it, that if America is ever defeated,

it won't be from without, it'll be from within.

(audience assents)

It's not a war of guns and bombs.

It's a war of ideas, a war of information.

It's a psychological war

to pull us off the rails of common sense,

to create confusion and chaos.

It's a war to stoke division and dissension

between Americans, to divide and conquer us.

I'm convinced there's only one thing

that will turn this country around at this point.

It's not the military. It's not the government.

It will be a move of the people of God.

- That's right. - Citizens, you and me.

We are the biggest voting bloc in the country.

We could own this place!

(audience assents) And right now,

we need all hands on deck

for the war we're in. (audience applauds and cheers)

- Amazingly enough, 416 years ago,

settlers, who did not have electricity,

who did not have indoor plumbing,

knew that God created them male and female.

- That's right. - Amen.

(audience applauds and cheers)

- I call out the freaks and their freak show.

It's not my opinion.

Almighty God said it, quote,

"a woman shall not wear a man's garment,

nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing.

For, anyone who does such a thing is an abomination

to the Lord, your God!"

(audience applauds and cheers)

So, we should crush,

like the vermin that they are, and they are,

every filthy school board member

or teacher who tries to shove their mentally ill,

tranny freakshow down the throats of our precious children.

- That's right, yes. - Because, Amen, Amen,

I say to you, we are now facing the final confrontation

between the Church and the anti-Church,

between the Gospel and the anti-Gospel,

between Christ and the Antichrist.

(audience assents)

If we do not defend our children now, dear family,

we will answer to Almighty God later,

and there will be no excuse on God's green Earth

for our failure. - That's right.

- My new friend, whom I'm eternally grateful for,

Glenn Beck.

(audience applauds and cheers)

(audience cheers and applause continue)

- Germany, 1920, the Weimar Republic did

everything that is happening in America right now, okay?

Absolutely everything that we are doing

was happening in the Weimar Republic.

You know who stopped it? Hitler.

Okay, that's not good. (audience assents)

What's your message there?

Okay? - Yes.

- This country is the greatest tool

for good or evil in the history of the world.

If we don't change our ways

and reconnect with the things that are true,

we are going to make the Nazis look like rookies,

and we will. - Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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(people chattering)

- [Speaker] I'm not with (indistinct) anymore.

I moved to the research department.

- Mm-hmm. Research department. - Oh, okay.

(people chattering)

- [Speaker] It should be a more stable (speaks faintly)

- Just five minutes.

- Five minutes to go, huh? - Yep.

- Hi. Nice to meet you.

Are you voting today?

- Yes, she is. - For the first time?

- Come on in.

- All right. Thanks for voting today.

- Morning. Morning.

- Morning. - Morning. Good to see you.

(birds chirping)

(birds chirping)

- What's up, Jim? - Hey, Jim.

- All right, guys. - Good to see you.

- I gotta get going. - Ma'am,

would you like a Republican sample ballot?

- It's busy, busy. - There's a lot of people

on there. - Are you at Ward 2?

- All right. Thank you. - Give me a proper hug.

- Hello. How are you? - Hi.

- Making the rounds today, or just here?

'Cause it has been super slow.

- It is the primary, so, it's, you know.

- Yeah, it's not going

to be as busy. - At least from my experience,

when I ran, it's low turnout for primary,

and then twice that...

- For the general. - Yeah. Yeah.

- So, don't let it discourage you.

Shine your light, sister. - Mm-hmm.

I'm trying. - Shine your light.

- Yeah.

(traffic humming)

- Are you guys having, like, an after-gathering?

- Yeah, a get-together.

Yeah. - Are you?

- No.

Thank you. - You're welcome.

Good luck. - Thank you.

We'll see. We'll see what happens.

- You know, that's funny,

because I used to be a Democrat, too.

Not too long ago.

I think when all of this...

Well, I think I changed before that,

because my husband has been listening to Alex Jones

for so many years. - Yeah. (laughs)

- And I used to be like, "Dude, you are so crazy."

And then more of it started making sense.

- Yeah. - And then when COVID hit,

and they started doing the mask thing-

- Hey, young lady! - How are you?

- Good. Do you need a Republican sample ballot?

- I got it. Thank you.

- You got it. Good. - Ah, good. Wonderful.

And then that was the last straw,

and I'm a full-fledged Republican.

- Yeah, I was Democrat when I was in high school,

because they were, back then,

at least I thought they were pro-small business,

like entrepreneurs. - Yeah.

- And that's what I wanted to be.

I wanted to open up a business.

And then as I got going, it kept being Republicans

that were the ones supporting me and helping me.

I'm like, what is going on? - Yeah. (laughs)

- Well, what's that saying?

There's a saying about,

if you're not a Democrat when you're young-

- No. - You have no soul,

or something right?

- If you're not liberal when you're young,

you have no heart.

- Okay. - If you're not

conservative when you're older-

- You have no- - You have no brain.

- Yeah (laughs) - Yeah, that's what they say.

- I think I agree with that. I'm sorry.

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- We are here to celebrate tonight.

One of the things we did was we said,

get active for the election, and you all did.

And we won.

(audience applauds) I know.

That was fabulous, because, whoa.

(audience applauds and cheers)

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For those of you that this is your first time,

anybody here that this is your first time at FreePA,

or at Etown's FreePA?

Capital area. (audience applauds)

Fabulous! Welcome.

It's good. It's good.

But just to give you a little overview of what FreePA is.

The first thing we do is we provide a forum

to educate fellow citizens

regarding our Constitution and history.

We believe that if you don't know

what your founding documents are,

if you don't know what your rights are,

you don't know what's being taken away from you.

So, it's so important for us to know what's going on.

The second thing we do is we organize physical meetings

for like-minded patriots to gather,

communicate and strategize.

That's what this is.

It starts here, at the grassroots level,

and then we work our way up.

And eventually we're going to work all of the way up,

because that's what we do.

It's not just about coming to these meetings

and then going home.

We come to the meetings

so that we can then go out and do something.

(people chattering faintly)

- Now that they've been defeated, are they willing to go out

and get involved for the Democrats?

- [Gerry] And I know we were talking about this morning.

- Oh, you mean the moderate Republicans?

- Yes.

I just wish that even one or two

of the moderate Republicans had gotten through.

- Yes. - So that they could run

as a coalition with the Democrats.

I think that the real extreme views in the community,

they came out for this primary,

because they wanted to win it hands down, right here.

And I think there's still a lot of votes out there

in the community for a general election

that would not like that kind of extremism.

Because I refuse to believe

that this community is an extremist community.

- Put it this way: I think the only way to have a measure,

even a glimmer of hope is

the gloves have come to come completely off

for the general election. - Right.

- And I mean, that's what the union has to do

is buy that board, okay?

And you're going to have to put it out there,

and you're going to have to go extreme.

Like, you know, images of necessarily, like, book burning,

you know, with their names associated with that.

- Well- - It's got to go extreme.

- I mean, it's got to do that. - I tried it.

You've seen what happened. - Right. Yeah.

I mean, that's the problem is- - That's the only way

you're gonna be able to do it. - You get some people

within our union that have cold feet about that.

- Yeah. - But we all know,

you don't win being nice. - The gloves have gotta,

they're going to have to come off.

- Right. - And it's difficult

because that's the same thing, all the way back,

right, in the 1990's,

when everybody had the talk about going on strike, you know?

And if was the idea that if you don't,

then do you want to continue to be

an educator that requires two jobs to pay your bills?

Because that's what people were doing

back in the 90's, right?

You know, teach here and then work at the liquor store-

- Yeah. - Or Kmart or whatever it is,

just to pay your bills.

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- When the teachers' union approaches a new teacher

and says, you know,

"We'd like you to be a part of the union",

the angle that they bring is, "We'll protect you.

We'll put an umbrella over you," you know.

"You want to worry about parents,

and you want to worry about other teachers

and administration and board and all this stuff."

And so, they are essentially the problem.

- Mm-hmm.

Yeah, when you start dialing down into it

at the federal level,

they state there that they want only people

who are queer or of color

to be on school boards.

That doesn't quite sound inclusive in a community like ours.

- That sounds racist towards me.

- Yeah. - Like-

- [Aimee] But you are of color. You're white.

(group laughs)

- It's so wild that our minds gear to this now.

I mean, it's like COVID just changed everything.

You know what I mean? - Well that's what I told you,

like, when we were at the- - I wasn't even

engaged in any of this before that.

It really made me realize

how far away from the Constitution we've gotten.

- Yeah. - Like, I mean,

here is a document

that's based on Judeo-Christian values,

and it's got it all through it,

and we sit here and say "separation of church and state,"

but yet, you know,

you've got God that's driving it all.

- Yep. - So.

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- Good evening, Class of 2023.

Your story and mine have a similar path

and somewhat parallels.

Yours started when you began kindergarten;

mine began in 2006, when I was placed on the school board.

We celebrate and we accept graduation as an end,

commencement.

This next chapter of your life, for many of you,

will be the first chance that you have to meet people

with a different zip code and different life experiences

than the ones that you've had.

You will have conversations,

challenges that are markedly different

than the way you were raised and educated.

So, my wish for you tonight, as you leave this place

and this community and step out on your own

for the first time, is that you keep your mind open,

that you engage in conversations, and you listen,

you listen with compassion, with curiosity,

with the intent to connect instead of to conquer.

Congratulations, Class of 2023.

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- And this is the moment we've all been waiting for.

And now, by the authority vested in me

by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

it is with pride I present to you the Class of 2023

as graduates of the Elizabethtown School District.

Graduates, to signify your accomplishments,

at this time, please move your tassels

from the right to the left of your caps.

Congratulations. (audience applauds and cheers)

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- [Announcer] The Champion Contest this evening.

Would the exhibitors make their way into the ring?

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- [Announcer] Red 77, red 77. (indistinct) thank you.

- Okay, it's both sides, so, if you wanna keep that,

we would really appreciate your vote.

And we will also be at the polls

if you have any other questions.

- You ready for school?

What grade is he going into?

- Second. - Second?

My son's going into third, so, we just finished up second.

It went pretty well.

- [Announcer] Alrighty everybody,

welcome to our celebrity show for today.

Woohoo! We're excited to have so many here.

And we have Representative Tom Jones,

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with our cute little red and white here.

And we have Dr. Karen Nell, who is our superintendent

at the Elizabethtown Area School District

with our traditional Holstein.

And then we have our Pennsylvania Senator Ryan Aument.

So, thank you all for coming out.

We're excited to have you, so we're gonna start.

So John, if you want to start,

you'll take your animal, come up and around here,

around the outside, and you guys will all just continue

following him, and you'll just go in a nice slow circle.

Walk the animal, making the animal look good,

paying attention to the judge.

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- [Announcer] So, this young man here,

as he was going around the ring,

I just always tell kids you got to have that winning look.

If I didn't know any better, I'd think he's shown before.

I don't know, maybe he's sneaking something in on me.

- First time. (audience applauds)

- [Announcer] To start our Supreme Contest here at 5:00,

all by herself, 5:30.

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- Doing OK. - How's the booth going?

- Uh. - Really well.

We had a little incident

at 6 o'clock. - Oh no.

- I guess there were some complaints

about the books on our shelves.

- Three new board members came to talk to us about it.

- Three? - I walked in

and Dave was, like, in a confrontation with them.

- The fair board.

- You're kidding me. - No.

So, I said, "Just take the book down."

- And then the first thing that happened,

as soon as Kristy said take the book down,

he said, "Okay, that book up there, 'Lawn Boy,'

that book is so...

- They were just...

- Basically, trying to create that.

- They were making the point

of just take all the books off the shelves.

- So anyway, they didn't come back, but.

- You know, this is like tyranny. This is like, you know-

- We brought up the First Amendment.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- And that didn't work,

obviously. - No, it didn't.

- [Kristy] Well, they said,

"We believe First Amendment rights."

- Yeah, but- - "But also,

take your books down."

(sighs) All right.

- I mean, to me,

though it's not, like- - I don't want to look angry

when people come through. - Yeah, it's not about, like.

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- The fact is, Trump won that election.

That's a fact. It's a fact.

You know, we bring up these kinds of things

in public conversation,

and you get called conspiracy theorist

and whack job, and all this stuff.

- The Wednesday before Christmas,

somebody contacted me and said:

"Hey, President Trump has asked

for people to show up in D.C. on the 6th,

because that's when the vote is supposed to be ratified."

Is that the word I'm looking for?

And so, I was like: "Well, I have a 12-passenger van.

I can send the 12-passenger van.

I'll get people together."

And within five days,

I had to find the third and fourth bus,

because that many people were just crying out.

- I don't regret the opportunity

to go down there and pray and intercede for that.

I really, really don't.

And, I even brought Cory,

our 15-year-old at the time,

because I wanted him to witness

what democracy and what freedom looks like.

Once the tear gas started and the smoke bombs started,

I headed for the bus, because I had my 15-year-old with me.

You know?

And I'm sitting on the bus and I'm on my way home,

and the Spirit of God came over me like a flood, and I wept.

I get emotional even thinking about it,

but I wept almost all the way home.

But what God was telling me was,

"I was allowing an opportunity.

I was allowing an opportunity for my people,

in a setting like that,

where the whole country is watching"

to get up, to walk to the front of the line,

to put my back to the doors,

to put my back to the Capitol Police and say,

"Uh-uh, this isn't happening like this. Not like this."

And I didn't.

And if I don't hold that heavy in my heart,

the next time I have a chance to be

in a martyrdom situation for God,

I'm going to miss that one, too.

I feel so bad about it.

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- Good morning, guys!

Happy first day.

Good morning. How are you doing?

Good morning!

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- Hi. My yard sign is in your yard.

- What's that? - I'm Kristy Moore.

- [Resident] You've got to talk to my wife.

- Okay. - I have to get going.

- Okay.

Thank you for putting my sign out.

(Kristy laughs) - Of course! Absolutely!

- So, what's important to you?

- Well, the extremism frightens me,

to be honest. - Yeah.

- And especially

the idea of

trans kids being marginalized,

or LGBTQ kids being marginalized,

or not even having a voice

because the books that they would relate to

are not in the library.

I'm concerned about

the kids being able to be authentic

for who they are in the schools.

- Why are we talking about this? These are children.

I mean, how do people not understand

how important it is that we just let people be who they are?

- I don't know. I really don't.

I don't understand it.

- And it sounds trite, but kids are our future,

and if we just allow them to teach our kids all this stuff,

imagine the United States in 20 years.

- [David] Oh, in less than 20 years.

- Yeah. You know, it's going to be insane.

- What choice is left?

- Yes.

Yes, I agree. - Brainwash your children?

- Yes.

- That's not an option. - And Elizabethtown's

SEL program, aka Marxism, is very intense, very intense,

so we need to work on that.

We need to get rid of that.

- At the very least.

- Yes.

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- They're getting ready, on Wednesday,

to push in the House a transgender bill,

so that transgenders will be able to use

whatever bathroom they want.

They'll be able to be forced to be at Christian schools,

in Christian daycares, as employees,

and all we can do is we can go make a lot of noise.

So, you're going to do the job that you were elected to do,

or you're going to be gone.

- Yeah, I hear you.

- So, the fight's not over,

and that's why we're partnering with people like this,

with John Birch.

We think what they're doing here is fantastic.

They've been doing a great job for so long.

And, you know, why wouldn't we partner

with good organizations like this?

I understand we have a couple

of the elected officials here tonight.

Dave Zimmerman, please stand up.

(audience applauds)

And Keith Greiner.

(audience applauds)

Is there any other elected officials, township or higher,

here in the audience tonight?

Or nobody wants to admit it?

(audience laughs)

Okay, I'd like to say a few things about Alex Newman,

who will be presenting tonight.

Alex is an international award-winning journalist,

educator, author and consultant.

He's the author of "The Deep State" book,

"Invisible Government Behind the Scenes,"

and co-author of "Crimes of the Educators".

(audience applauds and cheers)

- Thank you, guys, so much.

It's an honor to be here.

It's an honor to able to speak with you.

So, I've got a lot of stuff

that I want to share with you here,

but we'll start with Adolf Hitler.

All right, speaking of socialists,

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist Party.

They don't teach the young kids that anymore.

They tell them Hitler was a right-winger,

kind of like Trump or Ron DeSantis, right?

But Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist Party.

He was very much in favor of socialism,

government-controlled economy,

government-controlled everything.

So, he was wrong about essentially everything,

but he was right about one thing.

And this is a real quote.

This actually came up at the Nuremberg tribunals.

He said, "He alone who owns the youth, gains the future."

The strategy was clear.

You've got to divide children from their parents.

You have to convince children that the Reich

cares more about them than their parents,

that they belong to the whole community, all right?

And this is actually what we see in our country right now.

Here's Joe Biden.

- [Joe Biden] Look, we always talk about these children.

They're not someone else's children. They're our children.

- [Alex] "They're our children." Yeah, exactly, right?

- Oh! - Okay.

They are not your children, right?

(audience laughs) But anyway,

this is really serious, guys.

I mean, they are telling you to your face

that they're not your kids.

They're the government's kids, okay?

See, now how many parents do you suppose know

that there's a social change function of the schools

when they put little Johnny or little Susie

on the school bus?

My guess is probably not a lot, right?

They think their kids are going to learn how

to read, write, maybe do a little math here and there.

But no, there's a social change function of schools.

Now, they'll get a steady diet for 12 years

of "You came from a monkey, the world is getting hotter

because your mom drives with an SUV,

and, by the way, there are infinite genders."

That's what passes for science today.

So, the world is divided up into two camps:

those who are with Christ and those who are against Christ.

And anybody want to argue here

that the public schools are with Christ?

Open mic. (audience laughs)

So we all know that's ridiculous, right?

We all know that's ridiculous.

So if they're not with Christ, what are they?

- They're against him. - They're against him, right?

We're on the verge of total destruction,

and most of us don't even realize it.

There should be no excuses.

There should be no child

stuck in a government brainwash camp.

So, thank you, guys, and God bless you all.

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- Good morning to the Elizabethtown Area School District.

Kristy Moore here, coming to you live

10 minutes from the opening of polls.

It's election day.

I don't know if you've been paying attention,

but there's an election today.

I didn't even have any of my coffee yet.

I'm going to go work on that now.

So, vote, vote, vote. Okay, see you soon.

(birds chirping)

- Hey Kristy. - How are you?

- Good. - You guys win today.

- What's that? - You win.

- Oh, are we the very first? - You're the first ones, yeah.

- Wow. - I mean,

I think they're technically not open yet.

- No, I didn't think they were quite yet, but.

(group chattering softly)

- It's 7 o'clock. - Here we go.

Let's go. - Yay.

(group chattering softly)

- What's your name? - Kristy Moore.

- Yeah okay. Got it. (Kristy laughs)

- Do you want a sample ballot, or are you good?

- No.

- Good?

- I just want to vote for you.

- Okay. Thank you. (laughs)

"I just want to vote for you."

- Oh, that's so cool. - Yeah.

(scooter rattling)

- You guys care for a Republican sample ballot?

- We're good. - Okay. (laughs)

Good. - But thank you.

(crickets chirping)

- I don't understand why we would we want to limit access

to any book? - Well, that's your opinion.

- Right.

- From your moralistic point of view.

- Mm-hmm. - Okay?

But I have mine.

- Right. - And I can respect yours,

and I want to protect yours. - Yeah.

- Okay? I don't want to remove the book.

- Mm-hmm. - I want to protect yours.

- Yeah.

- But where's your effort to protect mine?

I haven't heard it yet.

Where's your effort to protect my value system?

- So, if a value-

- You're still not going to answer that question, are you?

- No, I am.

- I'm listening.

- You're interrupting.

So, if my value is that books should be made accessible

because books are good things.

- Okay.

- Where's your ability to protect my value?

- By keeping the book in the school.

- Behind a closed gate.

- I'm keeping the book in the school.

It's accessible- - That's behind a closed gate.

- It's accessible to your child with the-

- If you jump through the hoops.

Books are the foundation- - I think, too.

- Books are the foundation- - I think, too.

- Of society. - I agree.

- And so, when you put barriers

in the way of access to books, freedom suffers.

That's the First Amendment.

- So, there's got to be something in place

that protects my freedom, my belief, just as it does yours.

- It sounds like you're anti-First Amendment.

- I'm pro-First Amendment.

It sounds like you're anti-First Amendment.

- Because I want to make books accessible?

- No. - Do you know

what the First Amendment says?

- Because you want to deny my freedom.

- That's not what the First Amendment is.

The First Amendment does not say

"Protect parents' freedoms to monitor what their kids say."

- It does allude to the fact that I can bring my children up

in the way that I think they should go.

- That's what the First Amendment says?

- It does allude to that.

- All right. - Does it not?

- No, it doesn't. (laughs) - Okay.

- The First Amendment does not. We're done.

- Freedom of religion. - Uh-huh.

- Freedom of speech. - Right.

- Freedom to assemble. - Uh-huh.

- Do you know the rest of it? - No, I don't.

- And you're critiquing me? - Yeah. We're done.

- We are. Have a good day.

- Thank you.

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(people chattering)

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- Okay, I actually am going to go in here, the war room.

Unfortunately, you guys have to go in there. I'm sorry.

- Hi, Tina. - Hi. How are you?

- Good! - Good to see you.

- [Don] Good to see you. Amen.

- [Doug] We've got a couple more precincts

that they didn't take pictures of.

- [Don] We've got the roar already. We got it.

- Everybody! - Yep.

- Here it comes. - We won!

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- I'd like to call the school board meeting to order

for November 28th.

If we could all please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Remain standing for a moment of silence.

- [All] I pledge allegiance to the flag

of the United States of America

and to the republic for which it stands,

one nation under God indivisible,

with liberty and justice for all.

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- [Mr. Seiders] We'll start with our public comment section.

So, with that, Kristy Moore.

(footsteps tapping)

(Kristy inhales deeply)

(Kristy sniffling)

- Good evening, President Seiders.

I have to stop looking at all of you.

I had explained that it can be difficult at times

to live in our community

as a member of the Democratic Party.

What I have admired and what I have been most grateful for,

from you and the other outgoing members of the board,

is that you never, ever made me feel

like my voice didn't belong.

I don't know if I'll ever get on this school board,

but I can tell you that you have set a great example

for what it means to be an effective school director.

And please know that you can always come back

to school board meetings and sit with me,

your former opponent, but never your enemy.

Thank you.

(group applauds)

- Mrs. Ritchie.

- I'm very thankful for our new board members

that are coming on,

and I'm very thankful for the one who are here,

that really choose faith over fear.

I don't agree with what most of you have done

over these past couple years,

because I'm still homeschooling,

because you just haven't gotten it together yet.

So, I am praying that our new school board members

come in and really get our spending under control.

Because spending $334,000 or $343,000

in a month on- - Time's up.

(alarm rings)

- Was that really necessary? Thank you.

(group applauds) Poor choice.

- Good evening, Mr. Seiders and the board.

I'm here tonight to speak

as a person of faith in this community.

Too many people, like I've heard here

at this microphone today and many other times,

use prayer as a weapon.

They say they're praying for you,

but what they mean is that they want you to change,

that you aren't okay the way you are

and the way that you believe.

It is not an attitude of humility.

The Bible that I read in Matthew 6 says,

"Whoever says he is in the light

(Mrs. Ritchie whispering) and hates his brother

is still in darkness."

And I challenge us as a community to stop using words like,

"I'm praying for you"

and "I love you, despite what you do or who you are"

to represent something that we want to pass on to our kids,

because they don't feel your love.

Thank you.

(group applauds)

- If the five of you could just briefly

step up to the front of the stage,

I know Mr. Portser would love to get a photo

of you to commemorate your service for the district.

(footsteps tapping)

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- Three, two, one.

Perfect. - Thanks.

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- So, I just don't know what to expect,

and I don't know what that's going to do necessarily

to our working relationship,

because there may be times that we, as administrators,

are directed to do things- - Right.

- That come in conflict with what your perspective

and interests are. - Right, right.

- We understand that. - We understand that.

We understand that. - And so, I guess I would just

ask that we try our best to not make it personal.

- [Mr. Safford] Right, right.

- On our side, you know,

we've also kind of been preparing. (laughs)

- Mm-hmm. - And one of the things

that's expected to happen with,

and I hate using this word, but a hostile board,

is that they will try to institute policies

or even sometimes do things that violate their own policies

that are already there.

And that's something we can grieve,

and so that might be something we might have to do a lot of,

if it comes down to it. - I understand.

- So understanding that we're not grieving you.

- Mm-hmm. - We're grieving

whatever it is, the policy. - Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it's hard to predict exactly what's going to happen.

I'm going to do my darndest to try to advise,

to try to block, to try to redirect.

They may or may not be open to that.

- [Mr. Safford] Right.

- We'll see.

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- Well, good morning.

I wanted to thank you for inviting me into this community.

I have been ministering for about 27 years,

and my journey actually began here in Pennsylvania.

So I wanted to open the floor

and just ask what you're thinking about,

what you're wrestling with, where the tensions are,

where the joys are,

and you can share as openly as you'd like.

What have you thought about

as you walked into this room today?

- My question is, I think probably everyone in this room

knows at least one person

who has fallen deeply into the Trump cult.

And I have a family member who has,

and I say to myself, "How did such

an intelligent, well-educated,

well-read, well-traveled feminist

get sucked into this?"

And so, my question is, is there a Christ-like,

loving language that I can use to help pull her back out?

Or should I even try?

- I don't want to leave.

I want to stay here. I want to keep working for change.

I know that you don't have a crystal ball,

but, like, are we going to be able to do this?

I think the answer is yes,

but I just need to hear it from you.

(audience laughs) - Okay.

- No pressure. - Yeah, that was an easy one.

(audience laughs)

I can look at a group of people in this country,

who are people of faith

or a particular political affiliation

and realize that they are primarily motivated by fear.

The problem becomes when I then, in turn, fear them,

because that anger is really your fear.

The only thing I can say is this country

has been through times when the discord

has been horrible, when the violence has been real,

and anything that we feel like we're losing right now

was only because someone fought

so we could have it to begin with.

All we can do is say, "We are Elizabethtown, too."

There is an Elizabethtown worth fighting for,

and you know what that can be,

and so, you know if it's worth staying or not.

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- And everyone else can express some concern

for reconciliation and actually do something.

Because that letter-

- Welcome, to the members of the public and district.

It's now time to swear in the newly elected directors.

Our guest of honor is Judge Miller,

who will now administer the oath of office

to those newly elected members.

- Okay. Would you raise your right hand, Miss Wilson?

Left hand on the Bible.

Do you, Tina M. Wilson,

do you solemnly swear that you will support,

obey and defend the Constitution of the United States

and the Constitution of this Commonwealth,

and that you will discharge your duties of your office

with fidelity?

- I will. - Okay.

(audience applauds)

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- At this time, we are ready to move into public comments,

and please be respectful of the community members,

and you are addressing us, as the board,

and primarily myself, as the president,

so, without further ado, we have Kristy Moore.

- Thank you, President Lindemuth.

It's troubling that a majority of the board

is now connected to one church,

a church whose leaders have expressed anti-LGBTQ sentiments

and pro-Christian nationalist views,

that the majority belongs to FreePA,

an anti-government extremist group.

It's one thing to campaign on the issues.

It's another to spew dangerous lies about us,

painting us as sexual predators

in a small, close-knit community.

I don't think you realize the harm you've caused

to the five of us who are now your constituents.

Mr. Emery once referred to us as demons.

Miss Wilson suggested we weren't real Etownians.

Recently, Pastor Lamb referred to us

as a bunch of loudmouths.

Well, this is our Etown, too.

We all live here. We all belong here.

We're mothers, fathers, grandparents, neighbors, friends,

pastors, students, teachers, retirees.

Etown is for all of us,

and it is my hope that you will serve with that mindset

and do what's best for our kids.

Good luck!

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