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I got to finally tell you about my past weekend.

Mentioned to you what I was going to do.

But the conversation shaped out completely different. For those of you who don't know, I was going to do. But the conversation shaped out completely different.

For those of you who don't know, I was gone Friday to Monday.

Well, I did the show on Friday and then left right after.

And so what I did was go out west and was able to hang out with really rich people who give a lot of money to Republicans.

And those rich Republican donors had questions.

Now, let me set the stage for you.

I started Red State in 2005,

and I really didn't start it. 2004, I really didn't start it. Three friends of mine, Mike Khrimpsky, been Dominic and Josh Trevino started Red State. They brought me on at the very beginning.

I was a lawyer who did election law.

It was a board lawyer in Middle Georgia who wrote about politics.

And they put me in charge of the site pretty quickly.

And then we relaunched it from Redstate.org to redstate.com.

And I started my gathering conference as part of Red State.

We'll do a gathering this year in Atlanta.

And started getting this high profile readership.

And the Bush White House, for example, would read me.

They read Red State. They particularly focused on me at one point. One of the cool things in, for example, would read me. They read Red Say they particularly focused on me.

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