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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — “I don’t mean to compare you to an extremist; but I see some similarities between your view that the LGBTQ movement in schools is trying to usurp parental rights and many extremist movements.” About one hour into an exhausting interview with Elle at CNN in early May, there it was…the ever nonsensical assertion by the progressive left that parents who want to direct the education and upbringing of their children are extremists. This is the harsh reality of 2023.
lly kicked up a notch during the COVID-19 scandal, a movement that also sought to give the government more control over our bodies and minds, including the minds and bodies of our children.
Thankfully, COVID-19 also woke up a lot of sleeping parents across the globe, as something clearly wasn’t right with the agencies “in charge” of our daily rights. Something also “isn’t quite right” with the teacher’s unions, a major actor that pressed for continued shutdowns and mask mandates of the Children who attend school or use tech- COVID-19 scandal. nology to any extent are subject to brutal indoctrination. As Thomas Sowell noted, COVID-19 mandates spurred the growth “Education is not merely neglected in many and activism of parents across the country of our schools today, but is replaced to a who want to oversee their children’s edugreat extent by ideological indoctrination.” cation and upbringing…a simple right proThose who seek power over the general tected by the Fourteenth Amendment and population know that it must be achieved deeply rooted in our nation’s history and traditions. through our children.
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**LOCAL Business** EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FORMER NAVY SEAL, NOW ELECTED OFFICIAL AND GUN RANGE OWNER, ZACH SWEARINGEN EDITOR’S NOTE: This interview was answered by Megan Swearingen, wife of Zach
PUEBLO, COLORADO--How long have you been in business? In this business? In other businesses? Our family opened Republic Shooting Range in 2016. It was started by Zach, myself and my father-in-law Bob Swearingen as a family and veteran owned small business in the home town of both Zach and Bob. Since starting the business, we have brought in my brother-in-law Ben Miller into ownership as well. Zach, Bob and I have all had other careers before going into busiGenerations of hungry leftists have been Today, Moms for Liberty, a national organi- ness together. This is all of our first exhard at work, while we conservative pa- zation born in Florida to push back against perience with business ownership. rents slept. They have been indoctrinating unconstitutional COVID mandates, has children for at least 30 years to believe that Since opening this business, Zach and ▶ SEE EXTREMIST, PAGE 10 the government knows better than their pa▶ SEE NAVY SEAL, PAGE 15 rents, that traditional family values are dangerous and should be shelved for a more communist approach, and that we should always trust the government above all else. Throughout that interview, Elle from CNN continued to ask me in no less than ten different ways, “why would the government want to indoctrinate children?” It’s not an extremist contention that the state has forever sought to erode the relationship between a parent and her child, but this destruction of parental rights rea-