Responding to Slander

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Mr. GOSAR. Madam Speaker, without bothering to corroborate the facts, a Congressman from California called me a ``white nationalist'' for my supposed attendance at an event that I never attended. He was wrong factually in saying I attended two such events. I did not go to any such events.

He uses the term ``white nationalist.'' A ``white nationalist'' is someone who is white who wants a nation of only white people. I have never endorsed such a view. Ever. You will never find words I have said or actions I have taken that support the creation of a white ethnostate. Yet he cavalierly throws this out.

Slander is the left's go-to move to silence those they disagree with politically. For the last seven years they have attempted (unsuccessfully) to brand former President Donald Trump as a racist. Simply because President Trump believes, with a solid evidentiary basis, that there were electoral irregularities, they call him racist. Because he believes in a strong border and national security, they call him a racist. President Trump pursues an America First foreign policy-- they call him racist.

And it's not just racism. Pick a phobia, and if you are standing up for the Constitution and its values, you are probably one. If you believe children as young as Kindergarten should not be sexually groomed and sexually indoctrinated in school--you are a ``hater'' and ``phobic.'' I will continue to object and fight against any person or group that tries to sexualize children. Call me names but children cannot be sexualized by drag queens and mentally ill people who are confused by their gender.

And if none of those apply, they can always just fall back on calling you crazy or a conspiracy theorist. We have seen for years now that today's ``conspiracy theory'' is tomorrow's confirmed fact. If you believe there may be some health risks to a vaccine--conspiracy. If you believe climate change is more a tool for gaining power than anything to do about science--conspiracy. If you believe critical race theory is taught in our schools--crazy.

Cancel culture is a disease eating away at this country from the inside. Cancel culture is doing more damage than a hostile foreign power could only imagine doing--weakening our borders, potentially involving us in calamitous foreign conflicts, teaching our citizens to hate their country. In order to preserve all we hold dear, we must reject the libels and continue to boldly stand for truth. Know that I for one will not be intimidated.

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