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where we take on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional

perspective. Rick Green here with David and Tim Barton. We're going to take you back out to the

pro-family legislators conference where David is speaking on education. We did this conference just a few weeks ago. It's one of the coolest things we do because it has such an impact on all 50 states. We have legislators that come in from, I don't know that we get all 50 states there, but it's 30 or 40 states represented, but then word gets around. And what I mean by that is when these legislators come together and exchange ideas and sharpen each other's countenance and kind of look at what's

working in the states, what's not working in other states, learn from each other how to go back

and then, you know, pass that bill that made a difference in another state, passing in their own

state, it just creates a groundswell. And so we've been doing this for a couple of decades now, and we've seen the results. We've seen legislation take off and get done in many states as a result of what happens at the pro-fame legislator's conference. And the other thing that happens, it's just encouraging. I can tell you as a legislator, former legislator, many years ago, that you often feel like you're by yourself. I mean, even in a red state, you'll, you'll feel isolated sometimes because it's just politics. I mean, you end up with all the petty stuff. You end up with the party stuff. You end up with, you know, just personalities. I mean, it's like, it's like my friend Nathan Macias always said he helped me run Patriot Academy for more than a decade. He runs a Texas homeschool coalition now. He does a great job. You've seen him if you've taken our republic, if you can keep it, high school government class. That's the one that David and Tim Barton, myself, and Nathan Macias. Anyway, Nathan would always tell me when I'd get frustrated with all the, you know, personalities and everything.

He said, Rick, that's just the joy of working with people. So I always remember that because it

reminds me, hey, you know what? I'm sometimes a nuisance to other people as well. And so when other people,

I'm feeling like they're that way to me, I'll say, man, I want to have grace with them the way that God has grace with me. But anyway, as a legislator, you're constantly in that battle. And there's no matter what you do, half the people are mad at you and half the people happy with you. And if you're doing well, you get half and half. But my point is that when you're out there in that environment all the time,

you get worn down. And this legislators conference really helps to pump these legislators back up,

to encourage them. I mean, we have praise and worship. We have fantastic speakers come in to minister

to them. It is a remarkable, remarkable event. And so anyway, it's, we're, you know, seven or eight months out from the next one.

It'll be in November of, of 26.

Be thinking about how you can get in touch with your legislator and tell them about it and encourage them to go.

And many of you listening today, you're already friends with a state rep or state senator.

And you could send this link to them and get them on the wallbuilder website, have them looking at that legislature's conference to consider going to that in the fall. I'll promise you they'll be blessed. Well, we've had the chance to share with you over the last, oh, I don't know, about two months, I guess, total, several of the presentations that took place to the legislators conference. And yesterday, we started one of those, and it's the education presentation from David Barton. So important for us to recognize how we got in the mess we're in. And it is so much due to the education system. And, you know, Voddy Bakum had that famous saying about if you send your kids to Caesar, don't be surprised when they come back Romans. And that's essentially what we've

done with most of education in America. And I don't mean just the public schools. I mean, frankly,

a lot of private schools now have become woke and left wing, even with Christian in the name of the

schools. So you've got to be careful. You've got to be wise. You've got to be diligent. There's no

perfect system or school or any of those things. But as a parent, we have to be

really involved in what's going on and make sure that we're checking these things out.

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