U.S. MARINE CORPS TOYS FOR TOTS CAMPAIGN COLLECTION CONTINUES THROUGH DEC. 17
Make this holiday season magical for children in need! The mission of Toys for Tots, a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve, is to collect new, unwrapped toys each year and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community.
Toys for Tots began in 1947 as the brainchild of Marine Corps Reserve Major Bill Hendricks. Actually, it was his wife, Diane, who was the real inspiration. She had a few handcrafted dolls and asked Bill to deliver them to an agency that supports children in need. When Bill reported back to his wife that he could not find such an organization, she instructed him to “start one!” Maj. Hendricks and the Marines in his reserve unit in Los Angeles collected and distributed 5,000 toys in 1947. Seeing such successful community engagement in 1947, the Commandant directed all Marine Reserve Sites to implement the Toys for Tots campaign transforming it into a national community action program in 1948.
The Christmas season is just around the corner, and we need your help to bring joy and hope to children in America! Bring a gift of a new unwrapped toy to the Christmas/Chanukah Party on Dec 17th at Marbella Restaurant where US Marine Corps Reservists will be on hand collecting them, or drop them off before Dec 17th at Ret. Police Captain Joe Concannon’s house (89-11 237 St., Bellerose, NY). These toys will be distributed as Christmas gifts to make this holiday season special for our nation’s most valuable resources, our children!
VIDEOS OF NOV 7TH VICTORY CELEBRATION!
TRUMP WON!!!!
The November 7th General Meeting of the Queens Village Republican Club was an ecstatic celebration of President-Elect Donald Trump’s historic victory as our 47th President of the USA! Just two days after the General Election, after days and weeks of biting nails down to the nub, we exploded in glorious celebration with a Champaign toast, sharing Trump victory cakes, doing the Trump dance to the YMCA song, with an amazing post-election analysis by Professor Nicholas Giordano, and other terrific speakers. See below for the complete videos.
Thank you to James Doukas for videotaping our guest speakers!
Champaign Toast to President Trump’s Victory
Champaign Toast to our great victory! Congratulations on President Elect Donald J. Trump’s historic victory as our 47th President of the USA, in the Red Wave that swept our nation and is bringing on the “Golden Age of America.” Congratulations to all of our club members, your family and friends and all Americans. Thank God for protecting and saving America! God Bless America, and President Trump and all Americans.
Ret. PO Louis DeMarco: Wreaths Across America
Special guest speaker, Ret. PO Louis DeMarco is a volunteer and local coordinator for Wreaths Across America, a nationwide organization dedicated to our veterans. The mission of Wreaths Across America is to remember the fallen, honor those who serve, and teach the next generation the value of freedom.
Lisa Azzarelli Founder of Save Our Schools
Lisa Azzarelli was a special guest speaker at our club’s Nov. 7th Victory celebration. Lisa is an education advocate and the founder of Save Our Schools, a grassroots watchdog group for local school boards and administrators.
Professor Nicholas Giordano Gives an Amazing Post-Election Analysis
We welcomed back our friend and special guest speaker, Professor Nicholas Giordano, who presented a Post-Election Analysis, like no one else can do. Nicholas Giordano is a professor of political science and the host of The PAS Report Podcast. Follow him on X @PASreport.
Make Thanksgiving Great Again!
Hi, I’m setting up for an event to take place at National Action Network
Asian American activist cries out about Claudine Gay support. Al Sharpton says he will discuss
And just as Al acknowledged me I will try to help him.
Right now the Democrats have leaned on Al Sharpton heavily to attack Trump, but The Democrats did not help actual poor people such as the people I talked about in the video. The first asian American voting district in NYC history switched from Blue to Red after just one term by Iwen Chu.
Eric Adams would benefit from an improved relationship between Trump and National Action Network and so would Al Sharpton.
As someone who voted for Trump but who is still ready to work with and recognize the unique and powerful things that Sharpton does for the community I’d like to usher in a new era of cooperation between our communities.
I am encouraging the MAGA community to particpate with NAN to serve the community in Unity and to start discussions about how we can BETTER SERVE THE LITTLE PEOPLE
The wrongfully incarcerated, the people facing eviction, war victims like myself, Asian Americans being weaponized against blacks and blacks being weaponized against Asian Americans.
There’s a lot we can achieve together and I appreciate how Al Sharpton has not excluded me from attending his events although it is 3 years later and I have never gotten a sit down.
I’m not doing this event to set up Al Sharpton. He has access and no one is all good or all bad Everyone makes mistakes. Trump isn’t perfect either, but more than Trump it is the TRUMP COMMUNITY that has embraced the issues I fight for. Working to help the wrongfully incarcerated, the poor, the people in public housing facing eviction and so forth.
The original thanksgiving brought together communities at war, and this Thanksgiving I’d like to forge a new age of UNITY and ACCEPTANCE and find things we can WORK ON TOGETHER
No 2 people can agree on all priorities or positions. There are many issues I would agree with NAN on except the implementation of these ideas serves the rich and those with political power and consistently leaves my people behind.
I’m hoping that the Asian American community shows up to NAN in a big way. Both to help and to have a REAL CONVERSATION where we are left out so often.
The issue of DEI can be supported by those who will question nothing as did John Liu when he was brought in to sub in to silence my own critiques of DEI and how it is weaponized against the Asian American community.
It is because I love and respect NAN that I am attempting to swarm this event with MAGA peoples in a spirit of cooperation and unity.
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Harris-Walz is the Most Anti-Freedom Presidential Ticket in American History
The Democratic Party and legacy media seek to reinvent Vice President Kamala Harris by running her as the anti-Kamala Harris candidate. The Vice President’s record is a litany of far-left policies and administrative incompetence that no amount of rebranding can erase. If the flip-flopping wasn’t enough, the campaign has the audacity to center her platform around ‘freedom.’ However, this campaign is a façade that masks the most anti-freedom presidential ticket in American history. Over the past three years, the Biden-Harris administration has been unrelenting in its attacks on our basic freedoms, and this will undoubtedly worsen under a Harris-Walz administration.
Pray, Vote & Knock on Doors!
By Phil Orenstein
When we have illegal migrants sleeping in luxury hotel rooms, and American veterans on the streets, when we are paying around $3 for what was $1 on the Dollar Value Menu four years ago at McDonalds (200% increase), when we are seeing boys in girls sports and locker rooms, it’s time to get busy and vote every Democrat out! Don’t Complain. Rather, we must fight! Pray, vote early, speak up, knock on doors up until Election Day, “Chase the Vote,” and that’s the way we fight for victory!
Every Sunday, club members and Republican friends have been involved in Days of Action for our Republican candidates in various parts of Queens, and weekdays we are knocking on doors of all voters in our own neighborhood. The message we share with all voters is loud and clear: “Vote Trump for president, vote up and down the Republican ballot line, and vote NO on ballot proposal 1 and all the rest!” Of course, first we make some friendly conversation, introduce ourselves, and say that it’s a pleasure to meet you! Then we hand them a copy of our publication, the Queens County Beacon newspaper, and candidates’ literature, and talk about Prop 1, and ask for their vote for Trump and Republicans.
Much to our delight, we have been enjoying some very positive responses, even from Democrats, many of whom are switching to vote Republican for the first time, or having second thoughts about voting for Kamala and Democrats. Our enthusiasm is contagious. The tide is turning even in “deep blue” New York as we see more and more Catholics voting their conscience for Trump and pro-life Republicans, Blacks and Hispanics who are fed up with the lies and broken promises of the Democrats, and Jewish voters who are waking up to the fact that Trump is the best friend Israel and the Jewish people ever had.
At every rally in NYC, and at the historic rally at Madison Square Garden this past Sunday, President Trump has again mentioned that we are going to win New York! It’s a misnomer that New York is “deep blue.” Outside of NYC, and a few blue cities, most of upstate and the rest of the state is solid red. By our calculations, we need to pull over 40% of the vote in Queens in order to win statewide. President Trump and conservative pundits are urging us to vote early, to bank your vote and then get your friends, neighbors and co-workers to vote.
The message to our QVRC club members and pro-Republican friends and neighbors, is to get out and vote early! Lara Trump and the RNC launched “Bank Your Vote” to encourage, educate, and activate Republican voters on when, where, and how to lock in their votes as early as possible, through in-person early voting, absentee voting, and legal ballot harvesting.
President Trump is on track to win the election based on early voting numbers throughout the country, according to veteran journalist Mark Halperin. In swing states, Republican activists are ballot harvesting and it’s working! At a recent Trump rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, sponsored by Turning Point Action, where the speakers, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, Vivek Ramaswamy and Tulsi Gabbard urged everyone to get out and vote early, and bring others, TPA asked voters to bring their ballots to the rally and volunteers collected 1000’s of mail-in ballots on site. It looks very hopeful for Nevada, a swing state that is critical to winning the election, with early voting numbers helping to make it “too big to rig.”
Since last year Sean Hannity has been urging Republican voters to “step up and play the Democrats’ game in the 2024 election or risk making a ‘big mistake.’” Mark Levin said he’s voting early and told his listeners: “You need to vote early. Almost every state has early voting right now. Bank your vote. Get family members to vote, colleagues, co-workers … there is an army of tens of millions of us. If we vote early and help get the others to vote, we will win, and democracy will win.”
To win the early voting game, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action has launched the largest ballot-chasing operation in 2024 to win in battleground states. Ballot chasing is TPAction’s newly organized operation deploying 1000’s of trained volunteers to contact voters who have already received mail-in ballots to encourage them to mark their ballots and make a plan to vote. Charlie Kirk said, “EVERYDAY is ELECTION DAY!” He appealed to conservative Americans to join the 1000’s of TPAction organizers who will be “CHASING BALLOTS and CHASING THE VOTE every single day in key battleground states like ARIZONA and WISCONSIN, working nonstop to secure a BIG WIN.”
We can use it in New York as well. Here’s how you can utilize TPAction’s simple “Chase the Vote” strategy in the neighborhood where you live, in the remaining days until Election Day, to help win New York. First, get out your cell phone and download the mobile app. You’ll find the free blue TPAction app in your App Store or Google Play. Open the app, create an account, and sign up. Click the three little arrows at the top to go to the 2nd screen, and that’s where you can choose to “Help Knock Doors” or “Make Calls” or “Send Texts” to your Republican neighbors. Project Civica has a helpful video on downloading and using the TPAction app to help Get Out the Vote in your neighborhood. Go to the website Projectcivica.org to view the video.
President Trump, in his momentous speech at the MSG rally, said that hard working patriots will save our country on Election Day. He said that November 5th will be the most important day in history. “Together we will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win!” We’re going to save America. New York is MAGA country too!
IT’S NOW OR NEVER TO SAVE AMERICA
Just get one, flip blue to red. Start there. Or convince an abstainer to vote for Donald Trump. If every Trump supporter can influence one voter, game, set, match! You may think we have a choice in this regard, but we don’t.
This time the threat is for real, patriots. The proverbial can has been kicked so far down the long, winding road by both political parties that only the cliff remains. And the fall is a rapid spiral toward Communism.
The intent of my weekly “United Patriots Uprising with Gary Binford” podcast is to have high-profile guests enlighten, edify and equip us so we can engage, expose and defeat the left’s radical agenda. The arena of ideas was the battleground for three-plus years. Now it’s all about getting involved, it’s about turnout.
Were We Better Off 4 Years Ago?
The Queens County Beacon endorses Donald J. Trump for President of the United States of America for the following reasons:
Donald Trump built the world’s most prosperous economy. America gained 7 million real jobs, not bounce backs. For every demographic group, unemployment was the lowest in over half a century. Income inequality fell by the largest in over a decade. The bottom 50% of American households enjoyed a 40% increase in net worth! Businesses flourished with decreases in onerous regulations and a business tax cut from 35% to 21%. The average family saved $2,500 in lower electric bills and gasoline annually. Groceries and housing were affordable.
“On To Victory!”
Excited mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and concerned adults came together for the third annual Moms for Liberty summit from Thursday, August 29 through Sunday, September 1st, at the JW Marriott hotel in Washington DC.
Eight joyful members of the Queens County Moms for Liberty Chapter and I attended this year’s event. Surprisingly, we weren’t greeted by angry unhinged protesters the likes of those who excoriated us when we arrived at last year’s summit in Philadelphia. Perhaps they’ve finally realized “we the parents” are standing our ground and we “won’t back down.”
Since its inception, the organization’s founders, Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, have remained steadfast in their mission to fight for the survival of America by unifying, educating, and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government, and the annual summit is a testament to it. With a speaker line-up of five presidential candidates including President Trump, the 2023 summit was a tough act to follow, but Tiffany and Tina did not disappoint us. This year’s keynotes were different in comparison, yet no less epoch-making with President Trump as the main attraction.
From beginning to end the atmosphere was filled with the love, laughter, and the camaraderie of those dedicated to protecting children and preserving liberty. Most of the first day was devoted to chapter chairs only, who united in fellowship and friendship as they shared about their successes and hardships. Later in the evening all guests attended the Welcome Reception, where everyone laughed heartily at comedy of Rob Schneider and the satire of Seth Dillon and the Babylon Bee.
At the kickoff breakfast the next morning, we heard compelling stories from the “Walk Away” speakers: Tulsi Gabbard, Jennifer Sey, Maud Maron, and Shawn Theirry. These brave women put their principles first and left the Democrat Party because of the radical agenda it has embraced. Tulsi Gabbard’s words resonated loudly when she said, “there is no force more powerful than love….in the face of hatred and darkness we must wear that armor of love.”
We next heard from the “Media Matters” panel featuring frontliners Sebastian Gorka, Jan Jekielek, and Adele Malpass who discussed the polarization of the media and what they referred to as “the censorship industrial complex.” Then, James Lindsay, a favorite of the crowd, encouraged us to be “grateful to be living at such a time as this,” before he received the ceremonial Liberty Sword given to individuals who unabatedly stand for the principles of Liberty. In between speakers, we also had the opportunity to choose from a host of informative break-out sessions to attend.
Following a short break in the program, we returned to a Dessert Reception and danced to live music, adding to the excitement that led up to the highlight of the event, Tiffany Justice’s fireside chat with President Donald Trump. Excitement filled the room as he promised to cut federal funding for any school “pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.” President Trump’s policies undoubtedly align with our mission.
On Saturday August 31st we sent a powerful message to politicians and bureaucrats across America that PARENTS are in charge of the upbringing of our children, NOT THE GOVERNMENT. Moms for Liberty, together with a coalition of more than 30 conservative groups, made history at Daughters of the American Revolution Hall by partaking in the kickoff of the “March for Kids Movement.” We were privileged to hear the inspirational words of speakers like Billboard Chris, Dr. Alveda King, Glenn Beck, and many others that morning. To add to the excitement of this momentous event, award winning singer Mary Milben, who performed the National Anthem for Presidents GW Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden, released her new single “On to Victory”, featuring Lee Greenwood and written by Claude Gardner, who first announced his plan to write it at the 2023 summit. The song, referred to as a “mother’s anthem” was written for mothers nationwide fighting to preserve liberty for their children. The song’s release could not have come at a more fitting time.
We returned to the hotel that evening for a cocktail reception, the “For Such A Time As This” Awards Gala Dinner, and the words of keynote speaker Glenn Beck, who urged us all to come together for the sake of our children and our country.
During the “Blessings of Liberty Breakfast” on the last morning, we were reminded of our purpose as we watched a performance from the children who had attended the “Liberty Kids Club.” Dr. Alveda King then united us in song and prayer, Marissa Streit CEO of Prager U led a panel discussion about antisemitism and religious liberty, and Rick Green from Patriot Academy discussed restoring American exceptionalism one family at a time.
The 2024 Summit was a roaring success which exceeded our expectations. It was motivational, educational, and inspirational. We left feeling hopeful, renewed, empowered, united and eager for next year’s summit. The annual Moms for Liberty Summit is open to the public. We hope you consider joining us in 2025. It is an experience of a lifetime!
