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115. I'm actually not in politics. What is a Dear Colleague Letter?

The Witness. A Dear Colleague Letter is when a Member of Congress is lobbying for legislation or a legislative fix or action by the executive or judicial branch, and they write to their colleagues. And they say, "Dear Colleague, I want you to support this. These are the good reasons why."

And it was widely reported that Representative Brooks started a Dear Colleague Letter around election integrity. And when we caught wind of that, I knew that, like, we need to talk to him team, because we can be helpful in lobbying Members of Congress because a lot of Americans want to participate in the legislative process.

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Did you work with Congressman Brooks' staff or Congressman Brooks himself in planning January 6th?

In planning January 6th?

Uh-huh.

The word "planning" to me as an event planner, you know, means like logistics or fundraising and stuff like that.

I'll rephrase it then. In the leadup to January 6th, did you speak to Congressman Brooks' staff or Congressman Brooks himself?

I believe I spoke to him. I don't think we talked about—well, we had to obviously ask his staff if he was available to speak. And we talked, you know, we talked about election integrity. Yeah.

But when you say "we," as it you?

It was me. They had, I think, two staffers on their end on a call.

Who were the staffers?