Ole Larson is a salt of the earth guy who is running for MatSu School Board as an incumbent and former Board President. He worked in an arena, prisons and youth detention facilities, for decades and has a refreshing no-nonsense style free of pretension and manure you'll often find on school boards.I get to interview Ole today on the show but in many ways, it's as much about his opponent, Diane Shibe, as it is about Ole.As my friends Suzanne Downing in MustRead Alaska (HERE) and Joel Davidson in The Alaska Watchman (HERE) have reported, Shibe is banking on Valley residents being dimwitted. While casting herself in conservative red campaign colors and school choice slogans, Shibe is rolling in dough, the most in MatSu Valley School Board race history, from a legion of liberals including outside DC funding groups, the NEA, Anchorage School Board President Margo Bellamy, former Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Pat Chesbro, Tom Klaameyer, the current president the National Education Association in Alaska and Ted Swanson, the only current progressive, woke member of the Mat Su School Board.She even has the gall to say on her campaign website that she's in favor of school choice. The NEA, Shibe served as President of the local chapter in the Valley, is without a doubt the biggest opponent of school choice in America today. President Abraham Lincoln noted with wonderful clarity that "No man (or woman) has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."Oh Diane and your donors, the tangled web of deceit you weave. Valley voters...beware.Support the show

Did you know that the Greek word for “sin” is hamartia, an archery term for “missing the mark”? Making Christ the Target of Our Lives is the slogan and vision of a wonderful group I've come to discover called CenterShot Ministries. Using archery as a means of reaching more people for Christ, CenterShot Ministries, when asked why, says...It is affordable. It levels the playing field. It can be done year-round. It is completely safe.It promotes a growth mindset. It is fun, exciting, and adventurous.It promotes fitness and endurance.It is inclusive of all ages and abilities.I am blessed to have Kim Welch, the State Director of CenterShot Ministries on the show today. Her enthusiasm is infectious and her spirit is overflowing. It will be a joy to converse with her and I hope you can join us.Support the show

Jonathan Keller is one of the nicest guys I know working in one of the most difficult places to advance pro-family, pro-life, pro-liberty measures.He heads up our sister organization, California Family Council, and does an unbelievable job in one of the most socialist leaning locales in all the country.At the same time, he reminds me, there were more Republicans who voted for President Trump in California than in all of Texas. In other words, that's quite a "remnant" of Truth followers to work with and Jonathan has engaged hundreds of thousands of them.On today's show, we'll focus most on the absurdly rational and common sense notion that parents have the inherent right to know if their children are "socially transitioning" in public schools.Despite what you might think of and know about California politics, a lot of good things are coming out of the Golden State. Support the show

One of the great realities often overlooked is how people and groups don't fit as nice and tidy together in perceived boxes as we think.Gays Against Groomers is a fairly accurate example of that.If you have a mindset that everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community is supportive of sexually charged curricula in public schools, Drag Queen Story hours and 13 year old girls getting double masectomies because they feel as though they are boys...you would be wrong.From their website..."Our community that once preached love and acceptance of others has been hijacked by radical activists who are now pushing extreme concepts onto society, specifically targeting children in recent years.The overwhelming majority of gay people are against what the community has transformed into, and we do not accept the political movement pushing their agenda in our name. Gays Against Groomers directly opposes the sexualization and indoctrination of children. This includes drag queen story hours, drag shows involving children, the transitioning and medicalization of minors, and gender theory being taught in the classroom.The activists, backed by school boards, government, woke media, and corporations, have been speaking on our behalf for too long. When fighting for equality, our goal was to successfully integrate ourselves into society, but now these radicals aim to restructure it entirely in order to accommodate a fringe minority, as well as seek to indoctrinate children into their ideology. We’re saying NO." I'm grateful to chat with Robert Wallace on the show today who works out of Arizona with Gays Against Groomers. We'll dive into why the issue of parental rights and the innocence of children is resonating much farther than most people know.Support the show

Moms for Liberty has landed in the Great Land and they're on the show today.Their founders are former school board members, who witnessed how short-sighted and destructive policies directly hurt children and families. Now, with their growing organization, they're uniting parents across the country to fight those who stand in the way of liberty. Today, we'll chat with Melissa Wilkins & Kali Ponder who are leading the Mat Su Chapter and are hopeful other chapters will get going across the state soon.Alaska Family Council couldn't be more thankful to have another group to stand shoulder to shoulder with in standing for truth.Support the show

The number 40 appears in the Bible over 150 times. Of those times, the words 40 days and 40 nights are found 24 times. Each time, they denote a significance for God and his people.The 40 Days for Life campaign, the world’s largest grassroots movement to end abortion, starts on Wednesday, September 27th and pro lifers across the globe, including here in Alaska, are gearing up.Mary Kemper, a local nurse in Anchorage and coordinator of the campaign, is on the show today to discuss this remarkable ministry that has over 1,000,000 volunteers in 64 nations. To date, 23,525 lives have been saved, 251 abortion workers have left the industry and 145 abortion centers have been closed due to their vigiance.Tune in today to find out more about the movement and how YOU can engageSupport the show

With nearly 350,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter) Chris Elston, now known internationally as Billboard Chris, has made quite a splash.A Canadian from Vancouver, BC, Chris simply calls himself a "Father of two girls. Traveling the world to expose gender ideology and why children cannot consent to medical transition."On "I'm Glad You Said That" today, I get the privilege of interviewing Chris about his journey to educate the world on the distinct harms of the "gender affirming care" movement.Currently, I'm in Chicago at the State Policy Network Annual Conference and while walking down Michigan Avenue in the Windy City, I randomly ran into Chris doing his thing. My wife encouraged me to get his card to interview him. I'm glad she did.This man deserves accolades in abundance. I hope you can listen in.Support the show

It is always a big-time treat to chat with my good friend Suzanne Downing with MustRead Alaska.Her insight, wisdom and clarity are a blessing to the Great Land.Today, we'll chat on everything from Chloe Cole to Riley Gaines to Ben Carson. All with a common theme. Keep speaking truth and never give up.Support the show

Ari DeWolf describes himself as somewhat of a "Unicorn" being gay, black and Jewish while leading the effort to expose "gender affirming" health care as fraudulent and harmful.Ari cut his political teeth through ten years of battling the Chicago political machine, first as an outspoken student activist and then as a lobbyist in the state legislature. For a season, he was an education outreach manager at Reason Foundation, working on legislative outreach and coalition building to advance Reason's education policy agenda. Prior to joining Reason, Ari was a government affairs specialist at the Illinois Policy Institute, where he advocated for budget, tax, ethics, education, labor, and criminal justice reforms.Today, Ari is the Director of Outreach for Do No Harm Medicine, a diverse group of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers united by a mission to protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideologies.It's a shame that politics has become so embedded in medicine but we celebrate groups like Do No Harm Medicine for standing in the gap to right the ship.I am privileged to chat with Ari today and hope you can tune in. As always, if you can't tune in live on radio, be sure to go wherever you get your podcasts and listen at your convenience.Support the show

Dig deep on Dr. Jay Richards bio and your eyes keep widening.He's written more than a dozen books covering everything from physics to fasting to money to The Hobbit. He has produced multiple documentaries including The Call of the Entrepreneur, The Birth of Freedom, and The Privileged Planet.In addition to his current role as William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, he is also a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, Executive Editor of The Stream, Assistant Research Professor in the Busch School of Business and Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America.Today, I am privileged to converse with Dr. Richards about how gender ideology has infiltrated so many aspects of our society today. Ever the scientist, he likens how quickly this lie has hardened into culture today to phase change - a physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another like water turning to ice.Fortunately, he believes, a phase change in the other direction may be evident as even liberals are beginning to question the madness.I am privileged to chat with Jay today and hope you can tune in. As always, if you can't tune in live on radio, be sure to go wherever you get your podcasts and listen at your convenience.Support the show

Priscilla likes to say God saved her three times. As a Christ follower, she knows that your soul is saved once and for all but her story is different than most. She is a survivor of an attempted abortion, with her twin sister dying in the process.She had two abortions herself and while working at an abortion clinic in Southern California, was in a horrific car accident that should have killed her. And finally, through God's everlasting grace and mercy, she found salvation, forgiveness and freedom after surrendering to Jesus at age 31.In addition to running one of the largest abstinence education programs in California, Priscilla established a ministry called Choice to Choose.  She is an active member of the Abortion Survivor's Network and is true treasure nationally, as well as here in Alaska where she now resides.I am privileged to chat with her today and hope you can tune in. As always, if you can't tune in live on radio, be sure to go wherever you get your podcasts and listen at your convenience.Support the show

Dr. Jim Garlow is a good friend and is my guest today on "I'm Glad You Said That."In addition to writing 15 books, including the New York Times best-seller Cracking DaVinci's Code, Dr. Garlow is a former Senior Pastor at Skyline Church in La Mesa, California and is founder of Well Versed, an international ministry that brings biblical principles of governance to government leaders.Jim is a joy to speak with on so many levels and I'm honored to call him a brother in Christ.Hope you can tune in today.Thanks for your interest in "I'm Glad You Said That" and to John & Sandy Powers for their generous sponsorship of the show. We couldn't do it without them.Support the show

Pat Trompeter is Director of Advancement of Regent University School of Law. That means he meets with people of influence every day to connect them with his school's mission. He is passionate about the fact that at Regent School of Law, they are serious about Christ.From their website, Regent's "commitment to faith-law integration is woven into our curriculum, as our faculty, dedicated to Christ’s call both personally and professionally, provide a caring and nurturing environment in which students gain an understanding of the foundations of law and learn to develop the ethical and moral code required for the recognition and resolution of ethical dilemmas.Additionally, students are encouraged to explore the call of God on their lives, the gifts God has given them and discover how this translates into the practice of law."As the only state in the nation without a law school, Alaska needs more graduates from Regent coming to the Great Land to be influencers. Hope you can tune in today.Support the show

Katie Faust is one of those humans that when I first met her, it felt like she was the sister I never had.She is brilliant. Hilarious. Bold. Scattered. Deep. And so relevant.The ministry she founded and runs, Them Before Us, says this on their website. "There’s nothing exceptional about the people behind Them Before Us. We aren’t professional writers or pedigreed activists. We are just people who think that children deserve to be the primary consideration when considering what is best for, well, children. We are ordinary people willing to state the cost that children, as well as society, pay when children are deprived of their fundamental needs."Isn't that what needs to be said out loud more often ?Oh...and she's also on the Organising (that's European for organizing) Committee of a new group called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship - created as a counter to the World Economic Forum.She's in good company on that Committee with the likes of Jordan Peterson, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Victor Davis Hanson, Riva Melissa Tez, and Vivek Ramaswamy among others. The right response to the formation of this group would seem to be - "It's About Time!"Hope you can tune in today.Support the show

Maybe it's because he's from Texas where quiet confidence reigns.Maybe it's because he's a Principal in Golovin, an Inupiat Eskimo village on the Seward Peninsula where respect for elders is generational.Whatever the reason, Alan Davis, Principal of Martin L. Olson School in Golovin, has given a desperately needed boost of confidence in the public school system by recently coming out in support of Governor Dunleavy's parental rights bill, HB 105.Public school teachers, counselors, administrators and Board members have been relentless in advancing sexual orientation and gender confusion ideologies and very purposefully withholding that from parents. HB105, that shouldn't even be necessary, would require public schools to obtain parental consent before they teach anything related to sex, and those classes could not be taught to kids in K-3rd grade. The bill also mandates that parents must be informed if kids begin identifying as a different gender in school. Finally, the legislation creates safe locker rooms and restrooms by separating those facilities by biological sex.Alan Davis, who joins me on "I'm Glad You Said That" today, is one of, if not the only public school employee, who has stepped forward to support this eminently reasonable legislation. Unbelievably, a large percentage of those opposing HB105 have been teachers and counselors who are actually standing against parents.Principal Davis, his letter is shown below, should be commended and should inspire what is hopefully a large number of reasonably minded, parent-focused public school employees to also step up and take a stand !Hope you can tune in todaySupport the show

Zach Young is a life long Alaska with strong roots in conservative politics. He enjoys being involved with political activism all over Alaska. As the president of the Anchorage Young Republicans, Zach is uniquely equipped to help conservatives refine their messaging to attract young skulls full of mush to see how Government needs to be reigned in. As a local Anchorage Realtor, he knows the town like the back of his hand and when he's not engaged in the political arena, he enjoys fishing, hiking, and spending time outside. I've been blessed to know Zach since he was young and am honored to have him on the show today. Support the show

After yesterday's election results confirmed that Anchorage would be continuing down the road toward higher taxes, more rampant crime, homelessness and disgrace, I began wondering if I needed counseling.Suzanne Downing came to mind.As someone who always can put a smile on my face, I'm honored to have Suzanne on "I'm Glad You Said That" today to digest the Anchorage elections results and keep a proper perspective. This is not the end folks.Very frustrating yes but there is still much good work to be done.We'll also chat about Governor Dunleavy's parental rights bill that has caused an LGBTQIA+ storm and why it's so important to move this legislation, and the associated public dialogue, as far as possible. Support the show

Tune in today for "I'm Glad You Said That" to learn about the Help Not Harm movement !"A young girl who feels she is a boy – or a boy who feels he is a girl – may feel that way for any number of reasons.Perhaps she feels she doesn’t fit in socially with other girls, and would fit in better if she were a boy. Perhaps she is generally uncomfortable in her body or with the changes it’s going through, and she is reacting to that in a similar way to someone who, for example, has an eating disorder.She may have heard teachers talk about identifying as transgender in school, or watched videos online about transitioning, and that led her to believe it was a solution to the depression or anxiety she faced. Or, she may have more organically developed these feelings as a child.Whatever the cause, one thing is crystal clear: a child who believes they must alter their body in order to be comfortable in it is a child who is deeply hurting.The last thing we should do? Hurt them even more.When a child is struggling to accept his or her biological sex, transgender activists will send that child a message to “be yourself.” In reality it’s a message that says:Be Yourself except - - Change your body chemistry makeup- Change or amputate healthy body parts- Change your appearance through surgeryMany states are now pushing back and providing much needed legal protections for children who are being directed toward unnecessary, life altering procedures that many now, in the thousands, are regretting.Join me today on "I'm Glad You Said That" for an important and enlightening conversation with Joseph Kohm III, Esq, the Director of Public Policy for our national partner, the Family Policy Alliance Foundation. Joseph is a good friend and is traveling across the country testifying and providing expertise on this issue to lawmakers and others to stand in the gap for sensible measures to protect children.  We will be doing everything in our power to get legislation in Alaska toward this end. I hope you can join us for the show.Support the show

Join us on "I'm Glad You Said That" today for a chat with Spencer Moore who is running for Anchorage Assembly in District 5.As you likely know, although supposedly a "non-partisan" body, the Assembly is dominated by progressives with only two of the eleven members even remotely conservative.Much of that has to do with anemic voter turnout.Will we be able to recapture any of the several seats up for grabs this election cycle ?Spencer Moore is doing his part to answer that in the affirmative. Hope you can join us for the conversation.Support the show

Many of us in the conservative movement in Alaska were surprised when the Alaska State House was finally able to organize around the Republican majority that had been elected. For too many legislative sessions, members of the Grand Old Party were not able to play in the sandbox together.Usually, that meant giving the power to the Democrats who then sat in the powerful positions determining what bills were heard and not heard. It was always bad for Alaska Family Council's legislative agenda.This year, praise be to God, the Republicans in the House (the State Senate is another matter), were able to work with some rural Independent legislators and create a functioning Republican Majority.And they elected Representative Cathy Tilton as the first Mat-Su legislator to hold the position since Jalmar Kerttula in the 1960s.We couldn't be happier about having her in this important position of influence. Cathy has been a friend and ally for many years. She is grounded in her faith and will be an incredible asset for the next two years.  Please join me today on "I'm Glad You Said That" as I have the pleasure of chatting with House Speaker Cathy Tilton - a good friend, woman of God and steady leader with wonderful convictions.Support the show