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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Good piece by @RyanMNeuhaus below. The only edit I'd make is instead of "Axiomatic conservatives" ... the more correct term is "Axiom Strategies™ conservatives"
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Ryan Matthew Neuhaus @RyanMNeuhaus
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-return-of-hard-power-politics/
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2056382069333512659

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - I'd probably have taken the deal too. Nobody is blamed for that.
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Stanley Mcstanley @reverendcaptain
While this is an inspiring story, and I can understand why it would make you want to endorse him, I want to point out that many people who find themselves being pressured to accept a guilty plea, in many different situations, do so because they face total destruction otherwise. 
Only point I’m making is that we need to always try to understand the circumstances surrounding a guilty plea.  The justice system often puts people in impossible situations where they have no choice but take a lower charge.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2056379221673648517

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Here's the link to sign up and volunteer with his campaign: 
https://www.johnstrand.com/#site-form
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2056372732066242778

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Lee - it's the district of Byron Donalds.
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Donna @GLorden1953
Fl-19 is in which county?
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2056370254855770169

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - ENDORSEMENT: John Strand for Congress, Florida's 19th District (FL-19) 
I've never done a formal endorsement like this, and I don't know if I will do many more. I want to explain why, because endorsements are not free. If I'm wrong, I've spent credibility I can't get back. I know that. I also know several of the people running for FL-19, and I want to be clear that this is not a slight against any of them. Some of them are good people who would serve honorably. I just think one of them is the right person.
I'm endorsing @JohnStrandUSA. 
I used to live in FL-19; @data_republican lives there. I still care deeply about who represents that district. And when I looked at this race, one story kept pulling me back.
In 2022, the DOJ offered John Strand a plea deal. One misdemeanor; a wrist slap. His co-defendant took a similar deal and got 60 days. All he had to do was say he was guilty of something he believed he wasn't guilty of.
He said no... twice.
He went to trial. A D.C. jury convicted him on all five counts, including a felony carrying up to 20 years. He was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison. He spent four months in solitary confinement ... punished, in part, for helping other J6 defendants get outside support and for speaking publicly about conditions inside.
Then the Supreme Court ruled in Fischer v. United States that the obstruction statute used against him was wrongly applied. He was released, and on January 20, 2025, he was fully pardoned.
He could have taken the deal; almost everyone did. He looked at the easy road and the hard road and he chose the hard road because he believed it was the truthful one. That is a man whose faith is not decorative.
I've met and talked to John. He gets it. He understands what it means when the machinery of the state is aimed at you personally... not in theory, but in a SWAT team at your door and a concrete box they put you in for months. That kind of experience either breaks a person or clarifies them. John came out clarified.
He's sharp and charismatic. He is running in a crowded primary that includes two former congressmen from other states who are looking for a soft landing. John Strand is not looking for a soft landing; he already proved that.
FL-19, and the entire nation, deserves someone who has been tested and didn't fold. That's John Strand.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2056368189668557241
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