American Principles Project

I feel very confident we can retain the House and actually gain seats in the House and in the Senate.

Today in the group chat, we've got Julia Manchester, White House Correspondent at The Hill, Terry Schilling, President of the American Principles Project, and Antoine Seawright, Democratic Strategist.

So welcome everybody, thanks for being here.

I wanna start with, I think, a conventional wisdom, conventional kind of take, and this one is from Bill Maher.

They're, they're bringing social conservatism into that fold, and it's wonderful to see.

But now he's out of the administration, and he's working again for the American Principles Project, and he's been focusing a lot on sports betting and this predatory behavior, uh, of the vice economy, whether it's porn or, or sports betting or the like.

Uh, and so we are very enthusiastic to have him on because he's not a Luddite about these issues, right? Everyone likes to put $20 on a game at some point.

Go to a Super Bowl party, you fill out the squares, hope your number hits, and you win a few hundred bucks.

... organizations here in Washington, DC.

It's that for the, the sports betting markets.

Um, you've been t- paying a lot of attention to this issue in your role at the American Principles Project, um, where you were before you went into the FTC and now after.

Tell us a little bit about, uh, the vice economy and sports betting, uh, and its, its effect on young men.

Republicans can no longer do that because the economy's not looking good, despite the promises that the president made in the campaign trail in '24.

And the funny thing is that, you know, I, I spoke to Terry Schilling, he is the president of American Principles Project.

Yeah.

It's a conservative group that has definitely pushed Republicans to go more, um, anti-trans in their messaging.

But there's going to be a tremendous self-policing aspect.

Joining me now in the group chat, Alex Thompson, CNN political analyst and national political correspondent at Axios, Maria Curie, tech policy reporter at Axios, Terry Schilling, president at the American Principles Project, and Antoine Seawright, Democratic strategist.

So we went from being like, we don't need to do anything to actually let's have dinner and have a conversation.

What came out of this conversation? We see guardrails, but what does that actually mean based on the document?

So I think it's completely reasonable that Republicans are gonna tailor their campaign messages to the people that they're going to Washington or hope to go to Washington to represent.

Today in the group chat, we've got Julia Manchester, White House correspondent at The Hill, Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, and Antoine Seawright, Democratic strategist.

So I was looking deeper into this polling, and one thing I noticed that there's some issues we talk about a ton here, whether it be AI, for example, whether it be immigration.

Those things are not the top three things [laughs]-

that they're able to mobilise this kind of amount of people out on the streets means we are losing the culture, we're losing cultural battles.

There's one thing, Tank in America, called the American Principles Project, where a guy there called by the name of Terry Schilling decided to try and arrest this slide as they saw it.

So they did a whole lot of research.

And, you know, and this is how orchestrated the culture wars are, right? They did a whole lot of research and said, ah, trans issues.

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American Principles Project has an event tonight, so-

Tell him hi for us

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Well, see, you know, because we saw, you know, Terry Schilling, they had the great event.

American Principles Project.

So we saw the original draft of the Constitution that they gave Washington.

It was a print from the printing press that was a not unreleased because it was still in draft.