Inside The Organization Making 'Red States' Great Again

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Andy Roth, president of the State Freedom Caucus Network, joins Federalist Staff Writer Shawn Fleetwood to discuss how to reform state governments in historically red states and explain why it is important to address institutional rot.

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0:00.0	You're going to. We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Sean Fleetwood. As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist
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0:32.7	Today I'm joined by Andy Roth.
0:34.2	Andy is the president of the State Freedom Caucus Network.
0:36.6	He previously worked on Capitol Hill for nearly 20 years
0:39.5	and was affiliated with the Club for Growth.
0:41.1	Andy Roth, welcome to the program. Thanks for Amish, Sean.
0:44.0	Yeah, absolutely.
0:45.0	And you guys have been doing a lot of great work with State Freedom Caucus, especially now with
0:49.4	State Legislatures being in session.
0:51.8	But before we kind of delve into the more specifics of
0:53.8	what's been going on in some of these states, can you kind of give everyone a
0:56.9	10,000 foot overview of what is the State Freedom Caucus Network, how you guys got
1:01.1	started, what was the inspiration behind the idea?
1:03.3	Yeah so the State Freedom Caucus Network was created back in December 2021 but
1:10.3	before that the House Freedom Caucus which a lot of your listeners probably know of,
1:15.4	was started in 2015, and they're the most conservative members of the U.S. House here in DC.
1:26.2	And that business model where like-minded Conservatives come together and form a caucus is a great business model. We've
1:31.4	seen that play out up here in DC. Why isn't that
1:34.8	happening at the state level? Like why aren't there 50 state freedom
1:38.3	caucuses? So the state freedom caucus network launched in December of 2021 and with the Georgia Freedom
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