Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks explains why he chose to stand with the Republican Party in the deep blue city of Chicago.

I have been a Republican for most of my life and when I made the decision over ten years ago to make that public knowledge, I faced death threats and my family had to go into hiding. My church was robbed of over $8,000 from a collection box that was to serve the needy. I lost three-fourths of my congregation. The pressure renounce the Republican Party was immense. But I was resolute in my decision.

People often ask me what made me decide to register as a Republican, something you rarely see on the South Side of Chicago. I usually refer to the culture of dependency that liberalism has saddled my community with for the last 70 years or so. I refer to the fact that my community owns very little of the infrastructure of their own community. I also refer to the fact that none of these liberal policies encourage independence and self-sufficiency.

But I’ve been thinking about this issue of late and what really drove me, at a young age, to........

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