Victory is ours; we took the hill overwhelmingly. But until 6pm on 5 November, we were preparing to stay up all night only to see irregular return charts. We were ready to wait for days and weeks as mysterious truckloads of ballots come rolling in for the other guy. Or maybe defeat would come more swiftly if droves of illegals had managed to vote illegally. What other conclusion could you come to after 2020 and a maddeningly similar performance in 2022? It wasn’t clear how we would win, but it was pretty evident how we could lose.
We were a bit black-pilled in our hearts. But to give up all hope is unacceptable blasphemy; so we put on brave faces publicly, donated, and wrote “Vote Trump for no tax on tips” on receipts.
All the same, it was unnerving to see headlines right before the election such as an illegal alien casting a vote and “there is no way for election officials to retrieve it.” Hadn’t “they” fixed this by now? If not, what would stop the worst from happening? Would the internet-connected election machines magically reverse nefarious machinations? Would the operatives all get food poisoning? What kind of miracle would cinch up dark-of-night covered-up polling place windows and ballot-counting stoppages?
We didn’t have to get to the middle of the night. It turns out the miracle had been working all along, slowly at first but gaining speed. Moving around the neighborhoods of different states in solitude. Crunching numbers. Crashing on couches. Zeroing in on Pennsylvania. And Arizona, and Wisconsin. The miracle has long hair and cowboy boots. And went to Eagles Jail and wrote about it while we all slept. And made conservatism cool at college campuses. You know who I’m talking about.
We had been cheering on these guys, and praying for a miracle, and assuming that the two were unrelated. But these men and their mission were the miracle. They are the anointed ones. Made for this moment; chosen and drawn together to save our country.
Charlie Kirk and Tyler Bowyer operate TPAction, focused on getting out the vote in the swing states and specifically Arizona. Brett Galaszewski, making an appearance on the election night coverage, led TPAction operations in Wisconsin. Scott Presler founded Early Vote Action in early 2023 to register voters and encourage early voting, eventually focusing on the swing state of Pennsylvania and specifically on registering Amish. Cliff Maloney formed the Pennsylvania Chase with the goal of increasing PA Republican mail-in votes from 20% to 33% share of all votes. Jack Posobiec, coining the term “PA is the play,” crisscrossed the state several times for months before the election, rallying Catholic voters and hosting headline events.
These men each answered the call to make unique contributions to win the 2024 election. In the end, they were like the Special Forces tackling the most difficult terrain alongside the broader efforts of the rest of the team. Unlike the Special Forces, no one gathered them under a common banner or directed them. But to see them alternately beaming and misty on election night as victory neared, they were a veteran band of brothers.
For those who watched Charlie Kirk’s 11-hour election night coverage rather than Fox or its liberal cable counterparts, you had the rare pleasure to witness this team of patriots observing and reporting on their own success. Kirk’s roundtable of guests was able to accurately call races an hour or more in advance of the cable outlets because his crew was the only game around that actually knew the numbers at a precinct level. They had made it their tireless business over the past year or more to maximize Republican voter registration and ensure the legal delivery of – to chase – the ballots into the system.
Tyler Bowyer had given a canvassing breakout session at AmFest last year about the importance of building sincere relationships with neighbors. And he explained, on the continuing election coverage on Wednesday evening, how his approach divided up prioritized jurisdictions into 2-mile areas for which he hired full-time ballot chasers – neighbors – from within those 2-mile areas. “We moneyballed this thing, Cliff!” noted Bowyer.
While Bowyer was referring to creatively focusing limited resources on prioritized needs, the beauty of the “Moneyball” approach – be it in baseball or in electoral strategy – is the requisite human connection. While Kamala’s campaign flushed $1B down the toilet, our guys organized people to develop meaningful neighborhood-level relationships across the country. They gave us the gift of victory through Christian principles in action, because it also makes the most sense.
Books will be written on what took months and years to accomplish behind the scenes. For now, it will have to suffice to praise what has providentially happened here: for diversely talented individuals to have known it’s their time, what their task is, and how to pull together with increasingly close bonds to accomplish the mission. Rather like our revolutionary forefathers.
The energy of such a turn of events is immense, and not dissipated all at once. July 13th showed us that a major miracle bears other miracles, and leads to a chain reaction of even more miraculous events. An initial offshoot of this electoral and popular victory is the other sides’ eating of their hats. We didn’t just win; we broke the spell of delusional, North Korea-style news broadcasts. Don't blink – this is just the beginning of the chain reaction.
