OPINION:
The 2024 election is 16 months away, and the conservative movement can’t afford to make any mistakes.
Over the past three years, we have seen and experienced the damage of an America Last agenda in our businesses, schools and communities.
The radical left wants to indoctrinate our children, deprive them of a quality education and mutilate their bodies.
They want taxpayer-funded abortion on demand until the moment of birth that can be acquired by mail.
They allow fentanyl, a drug 50 times stronger than heroin, to travel across the border and poison our children.
They’ve allowed our border to remain open to drug cartels, and as a result, human trafficking is rampant.
Inflation is skyrocketing, and the cost of goods has created hardships for American families.
The urgency to defeat the left was dialed up even more last week, with Biden administration’s corrupt Department of Justice leveling another frivolous indictment against former President Donald Trump.
There is more riding on the outcome of the next election than ever. Winning it could mean the end of turning the government against Mr. Trump and innocent Americans across the country. Losing it could mean they put Mr. Trump behind bars and leave no protection for the rest of us.
Simply put, if we band together and beat the left at its own ballot-chasing game, we can restore the rule of law, stop these bogus indictments, and bring back America First policies that can save this country.
That’s why two of the biggest conservative nonprofit organizations in the movement, Turning Point Action, Turning Point USA’s sister organization, and America First Works, the America First Policy Institute’s sister organization, have formed a national coalition to chase every vote from now until the 2024 election.
This new force, led by seasoned conservative leaders, will recruit, train and mobilize thousands of grassroots activists to register and turn out real voters in critical battleground states. The alliance will focus on Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, to name a few.
America First Works is taking it one step further. We’ve identified the top 19 counties to focus efforts to save America.
Think about that: There are 3,100 counties across the country, and only 19 will determine the future of our nation. As Project 19 has gained momentum since joining forces with Turning Point Action, the conservative movement has a new powerhouse dedicated to chasing the ballots and making sure we have every single vote we need to win.
The right has never had anything like this before.
We know where this election will be fought, and it’s time we make sure we work with those already on the front lines ingrained in the communities that are most valuable. This partnership will finally combat the left’s early voting and ballot-chasing monopoly as we should have been doing before.
Turning in ballots before Election Day even begins has proved formidable for the other side, even when they have historically awful candidates.
The people of Pennsylvania are reminded of this every day. They could have been represented by a qualified senator who understood their needs; instead, they now have Sen. John Fetterman embarrassing them on the national stage on the few occasions he does show up to work in a hoodie.
Although conservatives have resisted adapting to modern election-winning techniques, the consequences of such a failure could mean losing certain elections again and never gaining the chance to reform the system from the inside. The left hasn’t hesitated to take advantage of ballot-chasing strategies, and it has been highly effective for its side.
Now, less than a year and a half before the 2024 election, is the time for conservatives to understand that elections are fundamentally different from the traditional same-day voting game they used to be.
The conservative strategy of relying on Election Day votes to save their candidates has failed, and it has cost us dearly. Today, the Biden administration has turned the federal government against Americans, with Mr. Trump its top target.
Treating Election Day as election season this time around can be the difference between a banana republic-style of justice being normalized or being tossed into the dustbin of history. The choice to stop these corrupt indictments is ours.
If the America First movement is going to succeed, it needs to achieve a place in the legislative and executive branches through early voter mobilization. This new alliance for voter mobilization and grassroots activism is what this movement needs to take back our country in 2024.
• Tyler Bowyer is chief operating officer of Turning Point Action. Ashley Hayek is executive director of America First Works and former Trump 2020 campaign coalitions director.
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