What up, what up, what up, hey everybody welcome to the Michael Still podcast, yes it's me Michael Still. They haven't knocked me down yet

I'm still here still fighting and I hope you would join the fight with me. You can catch us obviously on you know

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And so you can certainly follow me on a Twitter at Michael still well, I'm very excited

To have this brother on with me today. I've gotten to know him since his run for the presidency in

2016 in fact, I can say I voted for this man for president of the United States in

2016 and

It is a real pleasure to have Evan Mullin on the podcast today. He's a former CIA operative

2016 independent conservative presidential candidate and co-founder of stand-up Republican

Republic and in fact they put on a tremendous event

last week

Here in DC the National Summit for Democracy

Which I had opportunity to speak at but what was so exciting was

To see that there are a lot of folks out there that are genuinely concerned about

The state of our country the direction of our democracy and are willing to put their names their faces and their bodies into the game

And that's because Evan has been able to

Lift up something that people see is a bright shining light to move towards and I appreciate your efforts in that regard Evan. Welcome to the podcast, man

Thank you Michael. It's great to be with you and then thank you so much for

Speaking at the that the summit. I mean you were

You were phenomenal and it you know it was sort of the perfect message

It's easy when we consider sort of the state of our country in the direction that

It's headed in under its current leadership. It's easy to be discouraged to fight

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