What Making a Difference Looks Like

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” - often attributed to - Mahatma Gandhi

As the Washington outreach coordinator with the Freedom Foundation, my job description is listed under “Freedom in Action” on the staff page of our website.

What does “Freedom in Action look like? Freedom in action looks like a small army going door to door across the state to inform union members of their constitutional rights to stop funding the political portion of their union dues or, in some cases, their ability to end paying dues altogether.

It also looks like an aggressive legal team that both defends good ideas in practice and goes after bad ones. We will not sit by idly while good intentions are snuffed out and bad ideas are imposed unchallenged.

But when you engage in a meaningful way to create change, especially when that change affects an existing power structure, those in positions of power will fight back.

Bullying, intimidation, and fear are some of the tools of the trade for those whose moral and intellectual arguments cannot win the day.

If you’re passionate about controversial issues and you're donating to an organization that is not being attacked, they probably aren’t doing anything meaningful.

Organizations that move beyond the realm of white papers and ideas, those that take internet arguments and blogs and turn them into measurable action, those groups are on the front line shifting the battle of ideas where they face vicious and hostile wars waged with slander, lawsuits, infiltration and economic warfare.
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Door-to-door team

“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” Tony Robbins

The fact is, most individuals and organizations don’t have what it takes to get in the ring and take on the heavyweights. Instead, they engage in armchair philosophizing and Monday-morning quarterbacking.

Few have ever stood in the way of the progressive machine, and fewer have remained standing after the target has been painted on their back.

Not everyone has what it takes to stand up against bullying, intimidation, and fear mongering.

“The flak never gets heavy until you’re over the target.”

The Freedom Foundation courageously stands and fights to advance individual liberty, free enterprise and limited, accountable government in Washington, Oregon, and California.

Soon after coming to work at the Freedom Foundation, I learned that at every public appearance I was to make, there would be someone undercover trying to get firsthand intelligence and or audio and video to use against us.

A few months later, an organization called the Northwest Accountability Project (NAP) was created. NAP is a front group for Democrats, Progressives and organized labor to attack the Freedom Foundation.

““SEIU hasn’t gone quietly into the night,” McCabe said. “They’re fighting to shut down our effort. Effort takes courage – and maybe a bit of stupidity – to take them (SEIU) on.”

The Freedom Foundation has received many threats. SEIU has sent a series of inflammatory brochures and letters to McCabe’s neighbors. They have canvassed the entire city, warning neighbors to watch out for McCabe, because he’s “anti-worker.” They have even produced and deployed Robocalls with the same messaging.

The organization’s business-owning board members have been harassed at their offices with people standing outside the business, protesting and picketing. Whenever the organization holds any kind of public event, SEIU members show up en masse to cause a disruption. TownHall

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” - Winston Churchill

The top two pictures are protesters at a Freedom Foundation fundraiser in OR.

The bottom picture is what it looks like outside every other conservative think tanks fundraiser.

A typical morning conversation at the Freedom Foundation:
While getting coffee, I ask one of the attorneys if they will make it to the game tonight, their response, “If we don’t get sued today.”

We don’t sit on the sideline and play it safe. Playing it safe is to surrender. We not only stand our ground, but we also fight back.

The fight for freedom is too important to not be on call 24-7

No matter what happens, remember most bullies’ greatest success is not fighting; it is the threat of a fight. And if no one is there to stand tall, that intimidation is enough to win the day.

Often, all that is needed to win is the guarantee that your opponent is going to be in the fight of their lives.

As it once brought terror and fear to elected officials to face public-sector unions wrath, those same unions tremble when they hear the words “Freedom Foundation.”

Please take a moment to ask yourself, am I supporting and donating to an organization that is really making a difference, or am I sitting on the sidelines, or giving to an organization that puts out feel-good emails and letters but does not actually make a significant difference?

I hope you will stand with us in this fight. You don’t have to get in the ring, but the more support we have, the greater the action and impact we can make.

“After reading a mocking account of the Foundation’s activities in my public employee newspaper, I decided to become a regular contributor to your organization.” 5/17/2017

I hope you too will become a regular donor to the Freedom Foundation.

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