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U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville sits down with Bryan Dawson to walk through "Back to Basics: The Golden Age Playbook," the policy document his campaign released ahead of the November election. Tuberville says the playbook took a year and a half and drew on roughly 100 people from outside state government, chosen deliberately because they were experts in their fields rather than politicians. He describes his approach to the job the same way: hire good people, sell them the plan, and turn them loose. The conversation runs through the substance. Workforce development and a push to start trade instruction as early as ninth grade, built around Alabama's community college system. Why manufacturing has to reach rural counties if rural hospitals are going to survive, and the three things a site needs: water, power, and workforce. The prison construction overrun, the federal lawsuit, and what he says went wrong. A proposed Secretary of Energy position overseeing the Public Service Commission, and his position on base rates. The Family Affordability Act, the grocery tax, and the income tax. DEI in schools and universities. And crime in Montgomery, where he says flatly, "Montgomery's dead." He also talks about what he learned in Washington, his 11-month hold over Pentagon abortion travel policy, and why he describes what he sees coming as communism rather than socialism. TOPICS TACKLED: How the playbook was built: 18 months, about 100 contributors, none of them politicians Workforce development, trade instruction from ninth grade, and the community college system Why manufacturing in rural counties is tied to keeping rural hospitals open Water, power and workforce: what it takes to land a plant The prison construction overrun, the federal lawsuit, and the change orders A proposed Secretary of Energy over the Public Service Commission, and base rates The Family Affordability Act: grocery tax, income tax, property tax, power bills DEI in public schools and universities, and the CHOOSE Act as competitive pressure "Montgomery's dead": crime, downtown, and Maxwell Air Force Base BACKGROUND READING: 1819 News on the playbook's release: https://1819news.com/news/item/tuberville-releases-back-to-basics-the-golden-age-playbook-outlining-game-plan-if-elected MORE FROM 1819 NEWS: Website: https://1819news.com Bryan Dawson on X: https://x.com/Bryan1819News Watch the full conversation with Bryan Dawson and Sen. Tommy Tuberville. Subscribe to 1819 News, like the video, and share this episode. #Alabama #alpolitics #Tuberville #WorkforceDevelopment #TradeSchools #Montgomery #HigherEd #1819News

Huntsville runs on brains. Redstone Arsenal, NASA, Research Park, the defense and aerospace contractors. Throw a rock and you hit an engineer. Whoever forms those minds shapes the future of the city, and through it the state. Right now those minds are formed almost entirely in secular institutions. Jason Cherry wants to change that. Cherry is the board chairman of New Trinity Foundation, which is working to establish New Trinity College in Huntsville: a Christian liberal arts college built around STEM rather than beside it. He sits down with Bryan Dawson to make the case. His diagnosis is that American higher education has been cut in half. "The engineer has forgotten how to pray, and the poet has forgotten how to count." Two kinds of half-educated people, each needing what the other has. The word university comes from a Latin root meaning 'turned into one,' and by that standard, he argues, most universities are universities in name only. The physics department and the English department share a parking lot, a football team, and almost nothing else. He also tells the story of how Trinity Reformed Church started in a backyard with fifty people in lawn chairs during the 2020 shutdowns and now has nearly 600 members across two sites. TOPICS TACKLED: A church planted in a backyard during the 2020 shutdowns, and what grew out of it Why a math and science town is the right place for a Christian STEM college "The engineer has forgotten how to pray, and the poet has forgotten how to count" Universities in name only: what the word actually means and why the modern version fails its own test The creed every department on a secular campus shares, whether or not it says so Why siloed education may be throttling innovation, from Kepler to Heisenberg "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter," and what Plato was actually saying Huntsville's growth, its transplants, and what keeps a city from drifting Alabama's higher education ranking, and the private college gap with Florida CONNECT: New Trinity Foundation: https://www.newtrinityfoundation.org Jason Cherry's books and writing: https://www.jasoncherrybooks.com Trinity Reformed Church, Huntsville: https://trinityreformedhuntsville.wordpress.com His op-ed in 1819 News: https://1819news.com/news/item/jason-cherry-why-alabama-needs-a-new-college 🔹 MORE FROM 1819 NEWS: Website: https://1819news.com Support the mission: https://1819news.com/give Bryan Dawson on X: https://x.com/Bryan1819News Subscribe to 1819 News, like the video, and share this with anyone deciding where to send a kid to college.   #Huntsville #NewTrinityCollege #ClassicalChristianEducation #STEM #HigherEd #Alabama #Christendom #LiberalArts #ChristianEducation #1819News

Bryan Dawson previewed this book last week. This week he has the author. Michael Clary is the founding pastor of Christ the King Church in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and the author of "Loser Theology: Why the Weak Will Not Inherit the Earth." His argument is that a generation of conservative Christians was trained to hold the right convictions and never assert them, based on the theory that asserting anything is a grab for power and the godliest use of power is to lay it down. He names the three load-bearing pieces of it. Spectator spirituality, which shrinks the whole Christian life into the interior of the heart. The doormat doctrine, which treats suffering as the measure of faithfulness. And white flag Christianity, which "demands nothing, risks nothing, builds nothing, and protects nothing, convincing us this is the way God would have it." Clary tells his own story first. He was trained to be careful, learned that careful was really just afraid, and found that the bolder he got the more his church grew. Then the two of them work through what Christians are actually for: whether the outworking of the gospel is a ticket to heaven or the building of a civilization, why cowards are first on the list in Revelation 21, and why a man who refuses to use the authority God gave him has not avoided misusing it.   TOPICS TACKLED: What "loser theology" is, and why it works on people who hold conservative convictions The three tent pegs: spectator spirituality, the doormat doctrine, white flag Christianity Clary's own turn, and why boldness grew his church instead of emptying it Nefarious money or honest misreading? Why the answer is both "If you're talking about conservative politics you're threatening the gospel. If you're talking about liberal politics you're expressing the gospel." The endorsement he lost because the book criticized a man the endorser owed Why abdicated authority is still authority misused, from the home to the statehouse Twelve disciplines of high agency Christianity, and where an ordinary person starts Whether eschatology is the real driver, and Clary's answer   Contacts CONNECT WITH MICHAEL CLARY: Who Where Michael Clary @dmichaelclary · dmichaelclary.com Loser Theology losertheology.com · Canon Press His other writing        American Reformer · Center for Baptist Leadership Church Christ the King Church, Fort Thomas, Kentucky SUPPORT THE WORK: Every gift through December 31 is matched, up to $250,000 total.  Give: https://1819news.com/give  Bryan Dawson: [email protected]  Ashley Carter, donor development: [email protected] MORE FROM 1819 NEWS: Website: https://1819news.com Bryan Dawson on X: https://x.com/Bryan1819News   Hashtags #LoserTheology #MichaelClary #Christendom #Courage #Evangelicalism #HighAgency #BiblicalWorldview #Alabama #1819News #ChristianCivilization

819 News is launching the Make Alabama Healthy initiative, and this episode makes the case for why. This initiative has two halves. One is investigative, covering reimbursement rates, hospital funding, and the staffing of Alabama's residency programs. Reporter Daniel Taylor is now dedicated to the beat full time, and the first numbers are already published, showing huge percentages of international medical graduates practicing at Baptist Health, Flowers Hospital in Dothan, UAB, and North Alabama Medical Center in Florence. These last ones are not rural hospitals, which makes this a pattern rather than just a shortage story. The other half of this initiative is personal responsibility, and Bryan Dawson starts with himself. He was 205 pounds and running four miles a day during his prison years. He came home, discovered processed food, and reached 317 pounds. Today, he is 261 pounds and walks three miles a day starting at 4:30 a.m. Dawson also tells the story of his mother's heart attack, the ambulance that took 45 minutes because a dispatcher did not understand the word cardiovascular, and the ICU team he credits with saving her life. Plus a preview of next week's guest, D. Michael Clary, author of "Loser Theology: Why the Weak Will Not Inherit the Earth."   Topics Tackled • Launching Make Alabama Healthy: one part investigative, one part personal responsibility • Why Alabama has no sidewalks, and what a culture of health actually looks like • 317 pounds to 261: prison fitness, processed food, and why only a caloric deficit worked • A heart attack, a 45-minute ambulance, and a dispatcher who did not understand the word cardiovascular • The residency numbers: what Daniel Taylor found at Baptist Health, UAB, Flowers, Mobile Infirmary, and more • Whether hospital grant funding is tied to diversity metrics, and what it would take to prove it • Reimbursement rates in Alabama versus Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee • Preview: "Loser Theology" and the courage American churches are not producing • The $250,000 year-end match, now through December 31   CONNECT THE REPORTING BEHIND THIS EPISODE: Baptist Health Montgomery leans heavily on international graduates to fill residencies: https://1819news.com/news/item/baptist-health-montgomery-leans-heavily-on-international-graduates-to-fill-residencies Foreign-trained physicians dominate many Alabama hospital residencies: https://1819news.com/news/item/foreign-trained-physicians-dominate-many-alabama-hospital-residencies   NEXT WEEK: D. Michael Clary, "Loser Theology" (Canon Press): https://canonpress.com/products/loser-theology   SUPPORT THE WORK: Every gift through December 31 is matched, up to $250,000 total. Give: https://1819news.com/give   Bryan Dawson: [email protected] Ashley Carter, donor development: [email protected] Website: https://1819news.com Bryan Dawson on X: https://x.com/Bryan1819News   HASHTAGS #MakeAlabamaHealthy #Alabama #Healthcare #alpolitics #Montgomery #UAB #MedicalResidency #LoserTheology #Accountability #1819News

Huntsville is one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country. Over the last five years, roughly one in four people who moved there came from cities that missiologists classify as post-Christian. Pastor Zach Carter has been modeling what that does to a county. His conclusion, delivered to rooms full of Madison and Limestone County pastors, is that the Huntsville area should now be treated less like Cullman and more like Colorado Springs. Bryan Dawson, who was born in Colorado Springs and watched Colorado go from reliably red to deep blue, knows exactly what that comparison means. Colorado Springs had Fort Carson, Peterson Air Force Base, NORAD, the Air Force Academy, Focus on the Family, and New Life Church. Military money, federal jobs, and Christian institutions were on every side. It secularized anyway. Carter's answer is not a political program. "The solution to dechurching is more churches. The solution to paganization is more churches." "Politics is downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from religion." Connect Personal site: https://zachariahcarter.com Redeemer Church, Huntsville: https://redeemerhuntsville.org The Gospel Coalition: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/profile/zach-carter/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/zmcarter #Huntsville #MadisonCounty #Alabama #ChurchPlanting #Dechurching #Missiology #Paideia #ClassicalChristianEducation #Christendom #1819News