Toby NorthEN

As we sort through last night’s results, let’s remember two things: 1) The ultimate battle isn’t about politics or parties. It’s about truth, and the freedom to speak it. 2) The long game is what counts. There is reason for concern. This election will certainly reenergize the far left in its effort to spread and enforce progressive ideology—with all its attendant threats to free speech, religious liberty, parental rights, life, and the rule of law. @ADFLegal and its allies are already gearing up to defend those freedoms, just as we did during the Obama and Biden administrations. We’ve been here before. We know the playbook. But setting aside party politics to look at the larger fight for truth, we shouldn’t miss last night’s giant bright spot. In four states—including deep-blue Washington and Colorado—it appears that voters have passed referendums to keep men out of women’s sports and spaces. By solid margins. In a blue wave year. This tells us that whatever leftist politicians may hope to do, the American people still value reality. They aren’t ready to abandon truth. And this represents a shift in the right direction. More Americans are embracing biological reality today than just a few years ago. Getting here took hard work, alliance-building, persuasion—and, sadly, more than a few people learning the hard way by watching women and girls suffer the consequences of a lie. If working at ADF has shown me anything, it is that sometimes you have to lose before you can win. But I would never bet against truth in the long run. It always has a way of rising back up and reasserting itself. And lies have a way of producing harms that become impossible to deny. But let’s be clear: we can’t effectively fight for truth without practicing and modeling it. And too many of our candidates have fallen woefully short. Americans are rightly hungry for leaders of integrity, competence, and principle. They want a vision to believe in, and our side has the ideas that actually work. So if the left succeeds in making the failed ideas of Marx and Engels appear more ethical or compassionate than the brilliance of Jefferson and Madison—who founded the most prosperous and free nation in human history—we truly have no one to blame but ourselves. Today isn’t a day to blackpill. It’s a day to refocus on the long game, remember that our real fight is for truth, and have confidence knowing that truth is a powerful force to set people free. And if you’re a believer in Christ, it’s always a good day to trust Him and remember that our ultimate hope isn’t in any earthly government, but in His eternal kingdom. Onward.