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Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.

I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale. Or just Google, iTunes, and Hillsdale.

This is the Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm Alex Marlowe. Duane, should I say morning, glory, evening grace? I probably should.

And why not? It's such a classic intro.

Alex Marlowe here, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, host of the Alex Marlowe Show podcast, wherever you get your podcast, and on the Salem podcast network, as well as the Salem News Channel on weekends. and we've got a very busy day today. Always a pleasure to be in Hugh's mighty shoes.

I'll tell you, Hugh and I connected over my book, Breaking the Law, which came out a couple of months ago, New York Times bestseller. So thanks to all of you who've shown it some support.

And I'll tell you a lot of what I wrote about in the book is very relevant this week.

In particular, the conclusion where the main conclusion I drew

is that for those of you who are concerned about this country, concerned about the future

of our constitutional republic, then the number one thing you can do is to stay engaged 24-7.

We need to be ever vigilant and we need to stay in that wartime footing. We cannot afford to

rest in our laurels

and drop the ball politically. And that's really what happened this week. Even just two months

after my good friend Charlie Kirk was assassinated in cold blood in broad daylight,

conservative voters did not turn out to the polls, which is disappointing. I can't say entirely

unexpected, and I'll break that down. But the main thing that we need to do at, which is disappointing. I can't say entirely unexpected, and I'll break that down.

But the main thing that we need to do at this moment is to stay engaged, to stay fired up,

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