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The Secrets of Red State Power (ft. Noah Wall)
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1:00:02Now PlayingThis week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Noah Wall, founder and president of the State Leadership Initiative, to learn why Republican-run states are, in most meaningful ways, just Democrat-run states with lower taxes.
Noah lays out the full architecture of what he calls "the shadow government" — a constellation of left-wing NGOs that quietly control every major function of state government, from Medicaid to transportation to state parks — and explains why the conservative movement has almost entirely ignored this problem. They dig into why the reddest states tend to produce the worst Republicans, how the Chamber of Commerce has captured the state GOP in ways most voters never see, and what a handful of states like Florida, Idaho, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Indiana are actually getting right.
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(00:00) Welcome to Moment of Truth
(02:18) The State Leadership Initiative
(03:27) Republican States Are Just Democrat States With Lower Taxes
(07:05) The Shadow Government
(14:31) Do We Need Conservative Alternatives or Should We Just Destroy These Groups
(17:47) Why DC People Should Care About What Happens in the States
(21:38) Why the Reddest States Have the Worst Republicans
(33:44) How Good State Policy Filters Up to Washington
(38:30) The Bravery It Takes to Just Do the Thing
(42:20) Attorneys General and the Most Underrated Offices in Politics
(52:30) The Immigration Enforcement Tools States Are Not Using
(54:29) What DeSantis Did That Every Republican Governor Should Copy
(56:27) The States Actually Getting It Right
(58:34) Where to Find Noah and SLI
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