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Meet the candidates: Richard Moss challenging Rep. Larry Bucshon, IN-8 Ep. 208 Mar 29, 2018

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Today, in our next installment of “Meet the Candidates,” we are joined by Dr. Richard Moss, who is running for Congress in Indiana’s eighth district against Rep. Larry Bucshon. Moss is a board-certified head and neck cancer surgeon who has been in practice for 20 years in Jasper, Indiana. He’s been writing about policy for three decades, particularly about health care. He challenged Larry Bucshon in 2016 and is seeking a rematch.

We focus on health care and immigration, the two major issues that cut to the core of our economy, culture, security, and sovereignty. Moss speaks about his experiences volunteering in foreign countries and what that has taught him about the need to preserve Western civilization. In addition, he tells us his priorities on health care and how he would provide a counter-narrative to the prevailing way of thinking about the issues.

This is our sixth episode of “Meet the Candidates” at "The Conservative Conscience." The first five episodes were with Chip Roy, Art Halvorson, Nick Freitas, Chris McDaniel, and Jarrin Jackson.

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Dr. Moss’s campaign website

My blueprint for disengaging from the GOP in a few achievable steps

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An interview with Jarrin Jackson, candidate for OK-2 Ep. 207 Mar 26, 2018

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Today, we continue our “meet the candidates” series and are joined by Jarrin Jackson, a young and philosophically grounded candidate challenging Rep. Markwayne Mullin in OK-2. Markwayne Mullin has broken his promise to serve only three terms. Jackson is unusual for a young candidate, not just from his life-experience as a captain serving in Afghan kill zones, but from his deeply philosophical and theological views.

Jackson discusses how he thinks we can pitch liberty and constitutional values to young voters. “Our society today learns with their eyes and thinks with their feelings. One of the responsibilities for conservatives running for office is to understand what makes a worldview persuasive to convert people.” He attempts to define what conservatism actually is before listing his agenda.

We also discuss how both parties are holding hostage our military in order to grow government, which Jackson believes is “immoral.”

This is our fifth episode of “meet the candidates” at "The Conservative Conscience." The first four episodes were with Chip Roy, Art Halvorson, Nick Freitas, and Chris McDaniel.

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My 2016 write-up on Jarrin Jackson

Mullin breaks term-limit pledge

My podcast with Jackson last year on Afghanistan

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Trump just made himself a lame duck after only 13 months Ep. 206 Mar 23, 2018

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In this episode, we discuss why the betrayal from both Congress and the president is worse than you think. This was the last opportunity to promote a winning narrative for the November elections, and Trump blew it. But a lot of this is the fault of the “conservative” movement, which is bankrupt and is incapable of keeping focused for any period of time to demand that the president take the right actions.

We delve into the long history of the budget betrayal, beginning last year. We take apart the president’s talking points from his press conference and show how he is contradicting himself on the military and the opioid crisis.

We need a new movement that is willing to think deeper and broader.

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The political morphine of the conservative movement

10 worst aspects of the omnibus

My 10-minute video rant on Steve Deace’s show

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How Government is Destroying Quality of Healthcare with Corporate Monopolies Ep. 205 Mar 21, 2018

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Today, we are joined by Dr. Kevin Wacasey, a successful direct primary care health care provider who has written two books on the economics of health care. He offers practical advice for patients wanting better service and cheaper prices in order to combat the growing health care cartel.

In this episode, Dr. Kevin draws upon his experience to explain how government created the corporate conglomerate practice of medicine. Not only has this induced a price-gouging monopoly, it has degraded the quality of health care delivery. We no longer have the best scientific methods dictating the best clinical practices, we have doctors serving corporate masters who serve the insurance cartel…who are bought and paid for by government. The loss of private practice and the rise of corporations practicing medicine built off a government-run-and-created cartel, is the most dangerous trend in medicine.

Ultimately, Dr. Wacasey believes it’s up to patients to solve the health care crisis by utilizing this era of high deductibles to ditch insurance and shop around with resources such as Health Care Blue Book.

Dr. Wacasey is the author of two books: 'The Guide to Buying Health Insurance, and Health Care;' and 'Healthcareonomics 101: 500 Ways You’re Being Ripped Off By The Health Insurance, and Health Care Industries.’ He maintains a blog athealthcareonomics.com, and you can follow him on twitter at @HConomics, or at his Facebook page Healthcareonomics."

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Our previous show with Dr. Kevin last year (ep. 131)

Insurance stocks beat the market by almost three to one

Obamacare gave conglomerates a monopoly and destroyed private practice

Brand new data showing how our tax system is more progressive than ever

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The week Republicans lose the midterms Ep. 204 Mar 20, 2018

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This week, Republicans plan to pass their last major piece of legislation for the remainder of the year … even though it’s only March! And unfortunately, the omnibus bill will be a bundle full of betrayals for conservatives.

In this episode, we discuss the betrayal of the omnibus and how Trump’s only option is to threaten a veto. We go through the constitutional history of the presidential veto and its power to leverage a president’s priorities. So why is Trump so bashful about using it? It is the best way to fight for his priorities and salvage the midterm elections.

Republicans refuse to address in this bill our immigration problems, which have been made worse by the lawless courts. The courts have actually gotten worse than you think, and we update you on some recent rulings.

Finally, we touch on the big lies of the opioid crisis and how the refusal to properly diagnose it and understand its cause will lead to solutions that not only obfuscate the real problem, but exacerbate it.

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The great big opioid lie

Trump must use his veto pen or lose it

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A conversation with Chris McDaniel on his runs for Senate in Mississippi Ep. 203 Mar 16, 2018

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Today we are joined by Mississippi state Senator Chris McDaniel to discuss his run for U.S. Senate in the Magnolia State. He discusses why he chose to switch from challenging incumbent Senator Roger Wicker to the open seat now being vacated by retiring Senator Thad Cochran and how this should bring peace to the intra-party civil war … if everyone stands by their stated goals of defeating the Democrats.

McDaniel opens up about the successes and mistakes of his 2014 run and what he has learned for this battle. He responds to criticism from Governor Phil Bryant and explains how Mitch McConnell has his fingerprints all over the race. McDaniel also delves into the lessons he learned as a state senator for how to fight the duopoly in Washington. And the end, he touches on the paradox of running as a conservative outsider and how hard it is to raise money when everyone who sympathizes with the message in the state is scared to be associated with those challenging the status quo.

This is our fourth episode of “meet the candidates” at "The Conservative Conscience." The first three episodes were with Chip Roy, Art Halvorson, and Nick Freitas.

Note: Daniel Horowitz worked at the Madison Project when the PAC endorsed Chris McDaniel for Senate in Mississippi in 2013.

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How DACA-driven policies caused the drug overdose epidemic

Republicans are giving us no reason to vote for them

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The health-care narrative conservatives need to win elections Ep. 202 Mar 14, 2018

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We are joined today by Rep. Jim Butler (@repjimbutler), R-Ohio, a one-man think tank on health care, to discuss the compelling narrative conservatives should be pushing on health care. Why health care? Republicans are about to get crushed in the midterm elections, and health care is the top issue. Yet Republicans let the Left get away with murder – quite literally sometimes – on the health care issue by ignoring how they empowered and monopolized a cartel.

Jim explains a number of ways government programs and interventions in health care have not only driven up costs but have destroyed private practice and degraded the quality and delivery of health care itself. He explains how Medicaid and the cartel monopoly helped fuel the addiction crisis with opioids. He also explains how open-border fanatics in Ohio are refusing to increase penalties for the worst type of heroin dealers, most often criminal aliens.

Listen to this episode and then ask yourself how Republicans would perform in November if this was their top message.

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Why bailing out the insurance cartel is the worst thing we can do
The chart of Maryland “opioid” deaths that is worth 1,000 words

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Make it stick when it matters, Mr. President! Ep. 201 Mar 12, 2018

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The next few weeks will determine whether Trump is a lame duck or Republicans have a narrative to win in November. The omnibus spending bill is the last point of leverage Trump has to enact his priorities, but unless he threatens a veto to bolster his leverage, his rhetoric is meaningless. Instead of defunding bad court decisions, Planned Parenthood, and sanctuary cities, Congress is planning to put in gun control, an internet sales tax, and an Obamacare bailout. And, of course, raise the debt to unimaginable levels.

In this episode, we discuss all the ways Trump’s good messaging is not converted into policy outcomes and how to change that. We also delve into a number of examples of policies where the political firefighters were really the arsonists who caused the problems to begin with. Whether it’s Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley, ethanol, CAFE standards, school violence, drug problems, public safety issues with criminal aliens, or yes, even daylight saving time, it’s the very people who caused the problems who are proposing "solutions" that exacerbate the crisis rather than address the root cause.

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CAFE standards and ethanol killing our economy

No religious liberty rights, but a right to someone else’s Twitter account

Mexican president campaigns in California: How dual voting violates our sovereignty

GOP is selling us out on the policies and narratives on guns and school safety

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Ted Cruz and the need for the GOP to run on a Texas-sized agenda Ep. 200 Mar 07, 2018

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To celebrate our 200th episode, we are joined by Senator Ted Cruz to discuss the important issues of the day and his strong showing in the Texas primary.

Republicans had a better-than-expected showing in Texas last night, but there are strong indications that they could get swamped by an enthusiasm gap less conservative states. Cruz lays out a winning agenda for keeping the base as engaged nationwide as it is in Texas. He tackles the courts, immigration, regulations, and explains his conversion on the filibuster. Unless something is done with the de facto 60-vote threshold, Republicans will have no narrative to run on and will accomplish absolutely nothing. And as Cruz notes, if they have nothing to show for their control of government but a massive amnesty and gun control, they will easily lose both houses.

Finally, the senator gives us an update on his fight for free market energy policy and explains how the EPA ransom being used to enforce the ethanol mandate is destroying jobs.

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Analysis of Texas primary results

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An interview with Nick Freitas, a liberty conservative running for Senate in Virginia Ep. 199 Mar 05, 2018

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In our next installment of “meet the candidates,” we are joined by Nick Freitas, who is running for U.S. Senate in Virginia. Freitas (@NickforVA) is an army veteran of the Special Forces and is currently serving his second term in the Virginia House of Delegates. He has recently made national news with his impassioned speech in the state legislature, saying that Democrats have no right to call conservatives Nazis and segregationists and that when it comes to morals and violence, Democrats should look in the mirror.

In this very wide-ranging interview, Freitas reveals his philosophy on an array of important issues from guns and immigration to health care and foreign policy. He discusses the way he would message them and how he would serve as a voice for constitutional conservatives.

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“The speech” by Nick Freitas

Nick’s speech on Medicaid expansion

Freitas goes on offense after Democrats act offended by his speech

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