State Director, Wisconsin Faith and Freedom Coalition

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Before I get into what Wisconsin Faith and Freedom is doing, not just here in the 3rd Congressional District, but across the state, I want to thank all of you for your volunteer work. It often goes unnoticed. Whether you’re working in kitchens or knocking on doors, making calls, or sending postcards, it matters. I’ve done a lot of it myself, so I appreciate you.

Our strategy is comprehensive. On the ground, we deploy door-knocking, calls, postcard drives, and church partnerships. In the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race, we delivered 15 or 16 cases of literature, side-by-side comparison pieces like the presidential voter guides you see on the table here. These pieces don’t say “vote for” anyone, which is important. It means we can legally distribute them in churches. We’ve worked with pastors, priests, and other faith leaders to reach voters who often sit out elections.

Remember 2020? Over 400,000 registered voters in Wisconsin didn’t vote. Had even a portion of them turned out, here, in Arizona, and in Georgia, we’d be talking about a very different outcome. So we identified and targeted those low-propensity voters with issues that matter: border security, religious freedom, and, yes, culturally charged topics like biological men in women’s prisons.

I came across a case where a liberal judge let a man who had raped children transfer to a women’s prison just because he said, “I identify as a woman.” That’s outrageous. People may dislike President Trump or Kamala Harris personally, but when they see issues like this, they get off the sidelines.

We’ve distributed over 400,000 pieces of literature, and our analysis shows more than 200,000 low-propensity faith-based voters turned out. We saw a 10-point shift in Ashland County, a place that hasn’t voted conservative since Eisenhower, because we ran an aggressive issue-based campaign.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t scale up fully for the Supreme Court race due to a lack of funding. But the literature we did get out was effective because the issues are shocking, and no one, not even Fox News, is talking about them. These pieces work because they are nonpartisan and focus on truth.

Now let’s talk about campaign finance. Unlike the left, we don’t have round-the-clock funding. We’ve had to let go of trained staff, people who knocked on doors and made calls, because we couldn’t pay them between projects.

And here’s the kicker: ActBlue doesn’t even require a CVV code for donations. That’s a loophole the Chinese or anyone else could exploit to funnel money into our elections. We’re working with Congressman Bryan Steil on legislation to require secure donor verification. John Pudner and I have walked Capitol Hill and are helping draft model legislation to fix this at the state level too.

If one of you wanted to run for mayor, your opponent could instantly get thousands through ActBlue, maybe even from foreign sources. You’d be stuck trying to raise it $20 at a time. That’s not fair, and we’re fighting it.

Lastly, we need resources to get our team back in the field. One of our field directors had her brake lines cut, with her four kids in the car. She crashed. But she was back at work the next day. That’s our team. And we’re going to keep turning out faith-based voters who will decide these elections.

We have two crucial House races coming up, and Derrick Van Orden and Bryan Steil are both targets. We also have another state Supreme Court race and the governor’s race. This governor thinks our moms are “inseminating persons” and tells state employees not to cooperate with ICE. These are issues we can put in our literature, even if we can’t tell people how to vote.

If you’d like to get involved, please sign up on the clipboard going around. We’ll add you to our newsletter list, keep you informed, and bring even more powerful materials next time we come through.

Thank you, Christina, for having me. I appreciate it.