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Vivek 2024

Fellow American,

I am a free speech absolutist but what I witnessed today is not the way...

I was attending a campaign event earlier today and was met by a small group of protesters. I respectfully answered their questions and thanked them for expressing their views even if I disagreed with them.

What happened next was a step too far. One of the protesters got into their car and appeared to crash into my car at the event, gave them the middle finger, and drove off.

Thankfully, no one was hurt. This is not the way. The fervent Left is not the party of love and tolerance. Free speech means respect for ALL Americans' free speech and ensuring that ALL voices are heard – not just those on the left they agree with.

I've listened to people who have tried to protest me and had a conversation with them instead. My political rivals launched a barrage of attacks and insults toward me and I debated them instead.

I won't claim to know what was in this protester's mind when they appeared to crash their car but what I can say is this, I will keep doing my part to ensure you're right to say what you need to say – peacefully.

I will always stand for free speech and the right to peaceful protest, but when protestors cross the line and escalate to physical (intentional or otherwise) that is unAmerican and unacceptable.

We cannot lose the ability to peacefully debate and have a conversation about our differences. Those days cannot be too far gone.

For everyone,

Vivek Ramaswamy

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Vivek is an American entrepreneur, political and cultural thought leader, and New York Times bestselling author of Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam, along with his second book, Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence.

He has been a prominent and outspoken critic against ESG, discriminatory practices under the guise of critical race theory, and of what he calls "government-tech censorship," where the government colludes with big tech to do through the backdoor what it couldn't do through the front door under the Constitution.

Vivek is a first-generation American. Growing up in the Cincinnati area, he often recounts the sage advice he received from his father that "If you're going to stand out, then you might as well be outstanding." This advice set the course for his life: an accomplished pianist, a nationally ranked tennis player, and the valedictorian of his Jesuit high school. He went on to graduate summa cum laude in Biology from Harvard in 2007 and received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 2013, worked at a hedge fund, then started a pharmaceutical company, Roivant Sciences, where his team developed five drugs that went on to become FDA-approved.

In 2022, he founded Strive Asset Management, an Ohio-based firm, that takes direct aim at asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard and others for their fiduciary breach of duty to maximize the wealth of their clients for Wokeism. Strive's mission is to restore the voices of everyday citizens in the American economy by leading companies to focus on excellence over politics.

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