Strategies & Issues
No one opposes legal immigration, but the border debacle of the past (4) years was NOT accidental, it was by design.
Their long-term gameplan to manufacture democrat voter registrations by providing illegals drivers license and social security numbers is two-fold:
- Focusing on backfilling the blue cities mass population exodus and flooding red state populations to first turn them purple, then ultimately blue over time.
- Re-shaping the 2030 Census playing field to gain Congressional House seats. Their scheme to register north of 10 million illegals as potential voters should anger ANY common sense American, this plan must be neutralized now, and we know how to do it!
If we don’t win elections, we don’t get to make the rules and Lean Red is about winning elections. It’s particularly imperative to common sense governance that we protect our House majority, without a majority intact, the process of crafting and passing sensible legislation grinds to a halt. We also have a fair shot at increasing our Senate majority as well, and since all politics is local, the strategy to achieve all three of our objectives begins there. We must stay on the offensive, we cannot let up and become apathetic, for the democrats will be coming for us in 2026. The time to take meaningful action is now!
Strategies
Register Voters
We have registration number deficits by state. We will strategically activate and deploy our grassroots team of seasoned operatives in (20) different states and (30) specific districts to drive voter registration to secure victories.
Protect the House
Here is where we will go on the offensive and target (15) Democrat seats to FLIP:
CA-13 Gray
CA-27 Whitesides
CA-45 Tran
CA-47 Min
ME-2 Golden
MI-08 McDonald Rivet
NC-1 Davis
NJ-9 Pou
NM-2 Vasquez
NY-4 Gillen
OH-9 Kaptur
OH-13 Sykes
TX-34 Gonzalez
VA-7 Vindman
WA-3 Perez
Here is where we will go on the defensive and target (15) Republican seats to PROTECT:
AK-AL Begich
AZ-1 Schweikert
AZ-6 Ciscomani
CA-41 Calvert
CO-8 Evans
IA-1 Miller Meeks
IA-3 Nunn
MI-7 Barrett
MI-10 OPEN
NE-2 Bacon
NJ-7 Kean
PA-7 Mackenzie
PA-10 Perry
VA-2 Kiggans
WI-3 Van Orden
Protect the Senate
Here is where we will go on the offensive and target (2) Democrat seats to FLIP:
GA: (D) Jon Ossoff vs. (R) Undecided
MI: OPEN (D) Gary Peters vs. (R) Mike Rogers
Here is where we will be on the defensive and target (2) Republican seats to PROTECT:
ME: (R) Susan Collins vs. (D) Undecided
NC: (R) Undecided vs (D) Roy Cooper
Our Issues
Beyond our annual on and off cycle strategies to meet our specific objectives, Lean Red will remain focused on the evergreen issues that are most important to all Lean Red right of center conservatives.
Through strategic media message placement, lobbying and grassroots executions, Lean Red will support or oppose candidates and legislation germane to these (14) key issues on both local and national levels.
Secure Borders
Without Borders, we don't have a country.
The issue has been made to be political but the truth is, 80% of the electorate (on both sides of the aisle) agrees that we should have strong borders with a sane immigration policy. What happened under the Biden Administration enlarged the problem beyond illegal immigration, allowing a flood of criminal cartel members, child trafficking, terrorists, and presents unnecessary budget burdens at the city, state and federal levels..
Lean Red will support candidates and issues that help keep all of our borders secure, without interfering with the process of legal immigration, one of the foundations of our great American culture.
Sensible Spending
We have been kicking the can down the road and increasing our national debt for decades.
Just the annual interest on the debt is over $1 trillion and currently exceeds the entire defense budget. This cannot continue or we will bankrupt our country.
Lean Red will advocate to reduce wasteful and fraudulent spending, and work towards more transparency in the spending of taxpayer dollars through government agencies and non-government organizations. Citizens should know what their hard-earned money is paying for, and have the ability to use that information to make informed decisions at the ballot box.
First Amendment
There is a reason the freedoms guaranteed in the first amendment came before all of the others in the Bill of Rights:
Without rights like freedom of speech, none of the others matter. If the government could censor us, then how would we protect all of our other constitutional rights? To see what that could look like, one only needs to look back to 2021-2022 when censorship and government control of media messaging was described in eerie detail in books like Orwell’s 1984, written over 75 years ago.
Fighting for the protection of the first amendment represents everything it means to be American. We will do everything we can to ensure the protections in our Constitution by supporting candidates who consider our First Amendment rights as crucial to our existence as we believe them to be.
Equal Justice System
In addition to holding scales and a sword, Lady Justice is pictured wearing a blindfold...
…which represents the intolerance, or ignorance to, abuse of the law by the judicial system. However, instead of acting as a co-equal branch of government with the Executive and Legislative branches, the Judicial branch now has many judges who are nothing more than partisan activists. And with our polarizing political landscape, they have also been more than willing to be used by members of one party in lawfare against their political opponents.
This has to stop. America will collapse into a third world country without the checks and balances our Constitution calls for. Removing activist judges and supporting candidates and legislation to curb their abuses of power will be one of Lean Red’s areas of focus.
Second Amendment
The right to bear arms has unfortunately been made into a touchstone political issue.
Clearly there are problems in our country with mass/school shootings and other gun violence; but it takes some deeper thought to find the solutions rather than constantly, reflexively, blaming gun ownership even though evidence shows that the cities with the most stringent gun control laws have the highest levels of gun violence. It’s turned into nothing more than a rallying cry for the base every four years.
The reason the Founders included the Second Amendment wasn’t to be able to use guns on each other; it was to allow the citizenry to be armed as another check and balance against the power of government. Similar to other extra-governmental checks and balances (like freedom of the press in the first amendment) our Constitution was written to ensure that government power is not abused, and government actions are accountable so our democracy can function properly.
Crime Prevention
It has become very difficult for our law enforcement agencies at every level to properly do the job they are supposed to do–protecting Americans from crime.
From defunding the police, to untenable restrictions on local law enforcement from city and state elected officials, we have allowed the propagation of crime in our communities to levels we could not have fathomed several years ago.
Lean Red will support candidates who believe that a low crime rate is essential to quality of life. We also believe in advocating for initiatives that provide funding for local police departments and sheriff’s offices for education, additional resources and increased pay and benefits for those officers who are brave enough to fight crime every day on our behalf.
Parental Rights
Over the last several years, parents have lost more and more control over what, and how, their children are taught in schools and interacted with in other settings.
They have started to discover how many schools have become instruments of indoctrination, allowing teachers and administrators to push agendas that are partisan, endorse extreme left-wing political views with no tolerance for other opinions, and allow downright inappropriate sexual influences on our youngest children.
While recent Supreme Court rulings have allowed parents more control and to opt-out of certain curricula, we have a long way to go to get these pervasive influences out of schools, where our children spend much of their time and are most susceptible to the brainwashing that occurs on a daily basis. Lean Red is committed to helping in the fight to get parental rights back where they belong.
Peace Through Strength
It is sensible to not want unnecessary wars and to avoid putting our troops in harm’s way.
At the same time, it’s important to ensure that we project an image of strength and resolve, and that any potential adversaries understand where the line is in terms of protecting American citizens and American interests.
Lean Red will not back war-hawk candidates; we will put our resources behind those that understand the difference between quick trigger military action and a Department of Defense that projects a powerful posture, in the interest of a peaceful world.
Protecting Children
The victimization of children in our society (and worldwide) is a scourge that is hard to comprehend.
From sex trafficking to child abuse to drugs, there is still too much silence surrounding these insidious problems.
Lean Red will bring resources to bear financially, legislatively and via on the ground initiatives directed at combatting these evils facing the most vulnerable among us. We will support candidates and issues that are toughest on trafficking, and are committed to reversing the takeover by drug cartels of American cities. We will also align ourselves with partner organizations whose missions are to protect children in all areas of society.
Title IX Abuse
While Title IX has recently been restored to its original intention at the federal level, we still have work to do at the state and local levels.
There continue to be many schools, clubs, cities, states and other areas where girls and women still must deal with unfair competition, and the danger of having to physically engage with biological men on the field, court, ice, or in the ring, not to mention the invasion of privacy by men in girls’ and women’s spaces.
Lean Red will address these issues by supporting candidates and legislation that mandate separate sports and locker-rooms for biological males and females.
Fight Christian Hate & Anti-Semitism
Our country was founded by Christians, but the Founding Fathers were not interested in establishing a state religion.
They wanted to ensure the Constitution guaranteed religious freedom, and more importantly, separation of church and state. But the values they espoused and their vision for what American culture should look like were based on the Judeo-Christian values of their European ancestry for more than a millennium.
While religious tolerance is one of the basic tenets of our Constitution that makes our country so special, we also have to understand where the line is between tolerating a religious belief and allowing hatred and violence against other religions to spread. In our quest to be accepting and welcoming to all religious beliefs, we have to also be mindful of the dangers that exist from extremist religious dogma that threaten the safety and well-being of all citizens, regardless of the religion they practice.
School Choice
Most of our public school systems are hopelessly broken.
While school choice has been an issue for a long time, the last several years have allowed parents to bear witness to how bad things have really become. It’s hard to mount an argument against this when you measure things like parental empowerment, lower costs, increased quality of education (driven by market forces), better academic outcomes and more options for all families, regardless of socioeconomics.
Lean Red will advocate for and sponsor candidates and ballot measures that support freedom for parents to have a voice in their children’s well-being. Their education is too important to continue pushing an agenda which has clearly not been working.
Nutrition & Toxic Foods
To say we are not eating nutritiously doesn’t begin to describe the problem.
With processed foods loaded with sugar, unhealthy fats and chemicals, is it any wonder our children have anxiety, attention issues, cognitive impairment and other deficits, all while being expected to sit in classrooms to learn and absorb information? It’s now a proven fact that unhealthy ingredients in the standard American diet are particularly damaging to our health and impede our children’s ability to grow and to learn and progress academically.
The MAHA movement is one of the most unprecedented phenomena we’ve ever had in public health. Lean Red will support this movement and help address these problems legislatively as well as working with partner organizations who have the ability to effect change in schools across the country as well.
Voter ID
The lack of standard verification of qualified voters (i.e., US citizens only) has allowed the Democrat party to abuse our electoral system by giving non-citizens and those here illegally the ability to vote in federal, state and local elections.
Indeed, 80% of the states that Kamala Harris won in 2024 had no voter ID requirements at all. Because these people overwhelmingly support the party that has allowed them to come here illegally, the results in these states get skewed blue due to the huge numbers of ineligible voters.
We believe there are very simple solutions that will allow every citizen to easily obtain a voter ID card, without incurring any cost or any real inconvenience. If you are against this idea, there can only be one reason for it; we will support all candidates and initiatives that are committed to this essential issue.
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