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<p>Host Joseph Backholm is joined by The Washington Stand&rsquo;s Ben Johnson for a conversation about the importance of the Electoral College. While not always a hot-button topic, the Electoral College has its moments in the spotlight every four years surrounding the presidential election. But what is the Electoral College? How does it function? Ben shares the inception of this election regulator, why it was created, and the purpose it is still serving. Joseph and Ben discuss what elections would look like if we switched to solely a national popular vote and if there are biblical principles we can lean on to learn how we should structure our elections. With the 2024 presidential election less than a week away, listen now to better understand how we elect the next president of the United States.</p>

Host Joseph Backholm is joined by The Washington Stand's Ben Johnson for a conversation about the importance of the Electoral College. While not always a hot-button topic, the Electoral College has its moments in the spotlight every four years surrounding the presidential election. But what is the Electoral College? How does it function? Ben shares the inception of this election regulator, why it was created, and the purpose it is still serving. Joseph and Ben discuss what elections would look like if we switched to solely a national popular vote and if there are biblical principles we can lean on to learn how we should structure our elections. With the 2024 presidential election less than a week away, listen now to better understand how we elect the next president of the United States.

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Thousands of North Korean troops have been spotted in eastern Russia and may soon enter the war against Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced Thursday. "We should be concerned," Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) urged on "Washington Watch" Thursday. "It just shows how this war is expanding. For students of history ... World War I started in Serbia - very localized - and, pretty soon, actor after actor was getting involved."

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Rotyam Castro comes from a dysfunctional family in Havana, but even there he received advice to make a difference and break with bad generational patterns. At 18 years old, the change was radical. While he was doing his mandatory military service and in the midst of a very strong period of depression, another young Christian spoke to him about the gospel.

Illegal immigration regularly ranks among voters' top two or three issues in the 2024 election - but mass immigration reduces the amount of power U.S. citizens have over their own government, two new studies show. America's massive immigrant population has redistributed political power from Republican-leaning districts with a high number of U.S. citizens to liberal, sanctuary cities and states that tend to elect Democrats. Merely counting illegal immigrants and their anchor babies in the U.S. Census gave Democrats two additional seats in the House of Representatives, the report found.

Every candidate for office will tell you that elections are about freedom. But they're really about control. Control of the presidency, control of Congress, control of a city or county, and control of the soil conservation board - whatever that is. The clamor for control is seemingly everywhere, but too often there's a glaring absence of control in one place: ourselves.

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A Republican senator is warning that a federal agency may be violating the First Amendment rights of employees with a new policy. On Tuesday, Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) shared with The Washington Stand a letter he had addressed to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) regarding DOE-47, Reasonable Accommodation RequestsRecords (89 FR 78854), a new policy requiring the agency to collect and store detailed information regarding requests for religious exemptions to various mandates.

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The Harris campaign has struggled to sell churchgoing voters on their candidate, in large part due to the fact that they lack a product this audience wants. "The sole issue that Kamala Harris has been running on" is abortion, said David Closson, director of Family Research Council's Center for Biblical Worldview, on "Washington Watch" Friday. "This really is the only issue [on which] she has been consistent and clear and energetic."

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