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Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 - Opening formalities.

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) delivered a more philosophical speech than many of the other speakers.  Rubio, who ran for president in 2016 and could run again in 2024, is up for re-election this year.  He reflected on the relatively short time in human history that people have been able to experience freedom.  "Being America is hard," Rubio stated.  He said, "This phenomenon of what we call democracy and our republic and liberty, it's a modern phenomenon. The American Revolution, what was revolutionary about it, is it had this audacious idea that your rights come from God, not from a government, not from leaders."

Rubio also spoke movingly of Putin's war on Ukraine: 
And here's what it reminds you of. It reminds you how valuable freedom and liberty is. These are people that are basically saying we refuse to be Putin slaves. We refuse to live under tyranny. We're prepared to give our life and die for it. And what it reminds us of—.

It should remind us of two things.

How precious freedom and liberty is, how quickly it can be lost.

And the second thing it should remind us is that the reason why we've had freedom and we've had liberty is because people at one point were willing to do that for our country here. They were willing to die and they were willing to sacrifice for it.

Freedom and liberty of being threatened again. But no one here is being asked to die. No one here is being asked to take up arms to defend it.

We're being asked to win elections, to speak out, to be courageous, to raise our voices, to call it out for what it is....  [transcript]

Under the theme "Fighters on the Front Line," Mercedes Schlapp led several discussions including:
...with former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (>).  Kleefisch is a leading candidate running in the Aug. 9 Republican primary to challenge Gov. Tony Evers (D).
...with former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn.  Cawthorn, elected in 2020 to represent NC-11 (Western NC), is one of the most controversial members of Congress.

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds was elected to represent FL-19 (Southwest Florida) in 2020.
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