Thread by @JanJekielek

.@SenRonJohnson: "When @RobertKennedyJr called me up as he was contemplating making this move…[which] has cost him dearly, personally…my first comment was: 'Bobby, this is an answer to my prayers.'

Not only because he'll be given the chance to focus on what he's been championing now for decades, children's health, chronic illness, but I think even more importantly, for our nation, he is setting an example for how you set your political differences aside and focus on an area of agreement to tackle a difficult problem and demonstrate to America, this is exactly how you heal and unify a horribly divided nation."

I'm at the @RescueRepublic event in Washington DC today talking to folks about the event and what they're advocating for.

@SenRonJohnson @RobertKennedyJr Family physician @drcraigwax: "Everyone must have the right to informed consent, and informed consent means knowing the benefits, the risks, and the alternatives.

All of those disappeared in the last four years."

@SenRonJohnson @RobertKennedyJr @drcraigwax "We're here to fight for parents. We need parents who know and understand that they have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children."

@4TiffanyJustice, co-founder of @Moms4Liberty, at the @RescueRepublic event in DC

"What I'm really here to rescue is free speech. I think that is what now has created this insane alliance that could have never existed even five years ago.

Now, you've got RFK speaking at an event with MAGA people next to another ex-Dem Tulsi Gabbard, and you got Jordan Peterson, and Russell Brand and me and this wild group of people who really don't have that much in common if we were to just fill out our political checklist.

But what do we have in common? We love free speech. We love the founding of America. We think America is fundamentally good. It's worth saving."

@RubinReport at the @RescueRepublic event

"Are we going to enable [a] world…in which the First Amendment becomes negotiable and the ability to control the narrative and to punish anyone who varies from the narrative is entrenched?

Or are we going to have a world and a United States in which we actually have freedom of speech and freedom of expression and freedom to control what goes into our own bodies?

…That's what's at stake right now."

@RWMaloneMD at @RescueRepublic

"Our young people…that have been programmed with this idea that America is just founded on racism and genocide and everything horrible, they need to get out, save your money on university and instead, take that $50,000 and go travel the world and come back.

You'll have a far better education. Trust me."

"It's time for us to come back to the foundation of what makes America America…

…the beacon for so much of the world and an inspiration of what's possible when humans come together, of all different belief systems, to create something that's based on liberty."

@MikkiWillis at the @RescueRepublic event

"I was raided by the FBI. I was put in jail. I was falsely accused of crimes I didn't commit. I was sued…I was subpoenaed by the January 6 committee and had my name and my reputation destroyed in the media. I was mass-banned and canceled…They're normalizing these kind of tactics," argues @BrandonStraka

"So much of what you've been reporting on, that I've been reporting on, has been labeled as misinformation. We now know factually-speaking, scientifically-speaking that the misinformation, especially around COVID, around the COVID vaccine, has come from the government.

…What are we going to do if the government gives itself the power to decide what is and what is not allowable speech, what is and is not misinformation, when we know that they've lied…and they will not apologize?"

@delbigtree, host of @HighWireTalk and founder of @ICANdecide, at @RescueRepublic

"I never thought in a million years I would ever speak about politics. I'm a rock star…[But] 2020 changed the game…Skillet was the first band in the world to publicly make a statement that we would not play vaccine-mandated shows.

We canceled the gigs that [mandated vaccines]…I don't care if you get the vaccine or not. It's not my business, but I'm not going to support this kind of tyranny from the power of the state."

"When churches are closed, but strip clubs are open, when you can go to a weed store, you can go to a casino, but you can't go to church, we're getting into very dicey territory when the state is setting itself up as a rival God…No, thank you. I already have a God that I serve."

- John Cooper, @Skilletmusic's lead vocalist and bass player, on why he's attending the @RescueRepublic rally in DC.

"We have been taught in my generation in schools that that perfect union never existed, and it was a facade. It was a lie…My goal is to bring that back, bring that dream back."

16-year-old conservative activist @politicallucky on why he's gotten involved in politics

@politicallucky "The USA is like two years ahead of us on some specific issues, social issues…like wokeism, things like that. It's starting in Paris, so we're trying to learn here."

@HamardBrice, executive director of @IGaulliste, on why he decided to attend the @RescueRepublic event

.@MarkGortonNYC, co-founder of the @AV24org Super PAC, explains what his PAC is up to now:

"We have been working independently to support Bobby…and now the best way to support him that we can think of is to get his base of supporters on board with voting for Trump, which is a challenge because not all of them…[can] imagine themselves doing that—or it's a big change—and so getting them comfortable with that is what we've been working on."