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December 09, 2025

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Tennessee takeaways....

In case you missed it, Tennessee recently held special Congressional elections for its Representative District 7.

And the results sent a message loud and clear:

if Republicans don’t sell our accomplishments, 2026 could be ugly.

We’ve got the White House, House, and Senate—full control—and the big, beautiful bill is already delivering.

Massive U.S. investment is pouring in, we’ve got thousands of new jobs and lower drug prices just to name three wins.

But it’s like a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.

If nobody hears about it, it doesn’t matter.

The candidates who lost last week didn’t make voters feel it; that’s why they lost.

So what can we learn from the Tennessee elections?

Let’s break it down.

 

Communicating the wins…

This administration’s wins are real.

The One Big Beautiful Bill locked in the 2017 tax cuts permanently, killed taxes on tips and overtime, and brought in billions in new domestic investment.

Companies are announcing factories left and right—Ford, GM, TSMC, Intel—because America is open for business again.

Drug prices are dropping—insulin capped, seniors saving up to $1,600 a year.

Border crossings down 96%.

Those aren’t just talking points, they’re actual results.

But we can’t count on the media to tell that story.

They’re too busy running interference for the other side.

So whose job is it?

Ours.

The candidates who came up short in Tennessee didn’t get the word out.

We can’t be passive.

People are busy—they’re not hanging out on X all day or glued to cable news.

If we don’t take the message to them, someone else will fill the vacuum with lies.

We can’t just run ads either. Digital, influencers, door knocks, text blasts, church bulletins, talk radio—every channel matters.

Alternative media is the new frontier and we need to take advantage of every medium if we want 2026 to go our way.

The bottom line…

The Democrats are already regrouping.

And even though hey’ve got nothing but fear and division, if we don’t answer with substance, they’ll win the messaging battle.

They’ll spend 2026 spreading lies while quietly praying nobody notices the wins.

Don’t let them.

The American people gave Republicans the wheel, we need to show them why that was the right choice.

Tennessee was a wake-up call.

GOP accomplishments are massive, but they don’t sell themselves.

The media won’t do it for us.

If we don’t make voters feel these wins in their own life, we’ll lose the House, the Senate, and the agenda.

We’ve got the results, selling them is the easy part.

It’s time to put in the work to do just that.

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