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STARRS Podcast
Kim Miller: What Happens When Women Wake Up!
Kim Miller, President & CEO of Arizona Women of Action, spoke at the STARRS "Rally for Our Republic" in September 2024 in Arizona. Look for the analogy in her speech of dealing with scorpions in her home is how to deal with evil.
Rally emcee Ray Semko, the D*I*C*E Man, begins the segment and introduces Kim.
00:00:05 Patriotism and Political Action
00:04:35 Empowering Women in Political Action
00:13:12 Fighting Marxism in American Institutions
00:19:08 Exposing Marxist Influence in Schools
00:28:19 Community Impact Through School Board Involvement
Description:
Women are busy--working hard caring for families, communities and businesses. But women’s powerful work ethic and compassion have been weaponized by Leftists seeking control. Women have fallen for the propaganda of DEI and ‘Be Kind’ (but don’t use your mind). Leftists use anger, fear, division and distraction to manipulate women.
But when women wake up, see the truth and focus on what really matters, nations are healed! Women awakened in 2020 when they saw the damage to kids and families. Anger turned to action. But what now? It’s time for women to reclaim our unique power to love and strengthen communities—starting LOCAL!
Arizona Women of Action has helped women do just that—connecting and taking local action every week. Founder and President Kim Miller tells how they went from 8 women on a text chain to 23,000+ strong. Even beyond elections, find out how women are starting a movement to strengthen Arizona and America for decades.
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I can't believe that our country is in this situation. Now here's the situation with me. I dress like this, not because I'm looking like a clown or a magician. I did this years ago dressed up as Uncle Sam, because you know, when I recognized this problem was taking hold in the military in the United States of America, way back in 1988, 1989. I started speaking out about it, but I seemed to be the only one at that time. I can't tell you how touching it is that finally we have other people willing to do it. This is the only important thing we do for the rest of our lives, the only thing, and I didn't even want to come out here, but I'm so glad I did, just because of the people I met last night and I think you're in for a morning that if this doesn't want to make you change America for the good, then we're done. And here's the thing. It's a small group, but it only starts with one. You see how much bigger we are right now. In one, you double it, you double it, you double it and the next thing you know. One, you double it, you double it, you double it and the next thing you know, we start telling the truth.
Ray Semko, Emcee:I lost so many jobs. It's not funny. I know Matt lost his. I would have lost it a long time ago if pronouns came in okay, because I can't remember them and it's not that important to me. Can you do the job? Because if you can't do the job, leave the way I look at life.
Ray Semko, Emcee:I woke up this morning. That's as woke as I ever get. I've had people call me names, telling me who do you think you are, and I always have an answer for them I'm an American. Who are you? And that's why I decided Uncle Sam was the way to go. Now, I didn't want to put the hat and the beard. That's clownish. But I'm red, white and blue all the way through. And if you're not red, white and blue all the way through, then you're here to hurt us, and I've been around long enough to know that there's people who came here just to hear what we're going to do or how we're doing it and how we're going to rally everybody. So we got a big agenda going on. I'm going to be your emcee. My name's not important. I will close this session later on in the day, but we needed an emcee and they didn't pay much, so I took it.
Ray Semko, Emcee:This is not what I do for a living, but there's so many things that we need to talk about and one of the things I want people to understand I'm not left, I'm not right. Whenever I give my normal presentation, which is hours long, I tell them don't you dare paint me in the left corner, don't you dare paint me in the right corner, because I've never been dumb enough to have identity politics. I've never wanted to belong to a party. I'm not even invited to parties. Well, why don't you go down and talk to them? Because they're dumb. They only see politics and most people go.
Ray Semko, Emcee:I don't even like to talk about politics. You don't understand politics and most people go. I don't even like talk about politics. You don't understand politics. First off, most people don't even understand. It's a compound word Polly, tics. Polly being many, tics being bloodsuckers. That's politics. Okay, so there's no room in our lives for politics.
Ray Semko, Emcee:I don't know about any of you, but I am sick and tired of only talking about elections day in and day out, hour after hour after hour, and after this next thing's done, the first thing out of somebody's mouth is going to be well, what's going to happen in 2026? We're the only country that does this. Aren't you tired of being silly? We are laughed at around the world, and I take that personally. I hope you do too. We are blessed.
Ray Semko, Emcee:I was truly blessed myself just to meet her last night Our first speaker that's gonna come up. She is an unbelievable lady and she's a problem solver and you can't help but be impressed. She saw a problem and she's a problem solver and you can't help but be impressed. She saw a problem and she said I'm going to do something about it and I hope we're all going to follow in her footsteps. Kim Miller is Arizona. She is the mother of five children, has five grandchildren that impressed me more than anything and she's a problem solver for the Arizona Women of Action. I love every word of it Arizona Women Action and she's the head of it. Now I can read her bio, but she's gonna tell you all about it, so if you would, warm welcome Kim Miller. Kim Miller, thank you.
Kim Miller:Let's see. Does this thing work All right? Thank you, Ray. Thank you so much for that kind welcome and thank you everyone from STARRS for inviting me to speak here today. It's such an honor to be with other fighters, other people who have stood up and said we've got to do something. Other problem solvers in this room is a fighter, everyone just for coming here and spending time this morning out of your day. I know you, I know many of you and I want to know all of you, but you are here because you want to do something. And I'm Kim Miller.
Kim Miller:As Ray said, I founded Arizona Women of Action and I'm here because women have a powerful role to play in literally saving this republic, and men do too. So the job of Arizona Women of Action basically is to empower women locally to protect their families and kids and to restore schools back to basic things like merit, academics, respect and truth Just the basics. You know, we're Christians. We started from the heart of a Christian, but we're open to everyone because we said, our freedoms and our values were planted by Judeo-Christian founders and so they are the source of all of our freedom, and so if people love freedom, then there's a place for them in. This is this big tent. So we actually started, uh, working with schools and I'll tell you some more about that a little bit. But, um, we have a group called smart schools in arizona and we're trying to amass the women and men and grandparents at schools in the school districts to really help and support and see what's happening in their schools. But also we just started recently our 501c3 organization, women for families, and support and see what's happening in their schools. But also we just started recently our 501c3 organization, women for Families and Freedom, and that has a ministry in it called SALT and it's Strategically Advancing Love and Truth and I love the term advancing it's a military term and we have to specifically advance the love and truth, the grace and truth of Jesus Christ, into our communities where it can actually do something.
Kim Miller:We can't stay and only be at our Bible studies and churches. Those are really important but we can't stay there. So we hear from a lot of people no, this is political, we can't be political. Well, you know what? This is not political. It's biblical to get involved. The problem is not that the religious got political, it's that the political got religious. We are seeing right now they are trying to define the family. They're trying to define male and female. They're questioning every moral basic that we have all come to accept and love, and we should have the freedom to pursue on our own. We don't want a theocracy, but we want freedom to practice your religion, and so we have to get in there and get people to understand what's going on, and so we have groups starting in churches. If anyone is here who is interested in starting a group or joining a small Bible, it's like a Bible study once a month at your church or at a home study, where you just find out. We help you, we give you everything you need to know, to get involved and to know how to vote. We're not going to tell you who to vote for, but we help you vote your values and we help you understand what's on the ballot and who's there. Okay, so we're like about 23,000 women now.
Kim Miller:We started as a text chain. It's amazing In 2020, we started with this little text chain of eight women and it just exploded. Women wanted to know what was going on. We all woke up and, like like Ray said, we woke up and we said you know what we need to help, we need to figure out how, how we got here. We're all busy women, we're running our families, our businesses, trying to balance a checkbook, and we said we can't just keep in a silo anymore. We have to step out and get involved.
Kim Miller:And so we started putting out a newsletter, a call to action newsletter, once a week, and we give people positive, effective action that they can do on their schedule. And we get men following us as well. We love men, and so that's that newsletter. And please, please, we have a table in the back. Come and even just from your phone, you can go to azwomenofactioncom and sign up for the newsletter. It's once a week. We have a prayer, we have a blog that Martha Ostrom wrote last week or on Tuesday. Thank you, you got to read Martha's blog. It's fabulous. And so we're just giving people hope and giving people things they can do, because we don't have time to mess around anymore. So it's great to have luncheons and all of that, but we got to get to work and we make it fun.
Kim Miller:So, just so we clarify, we're not anti-men. Sometimes I go to things and they're like, well, what about the men? You know, like hey, I want men to start Arizona, men of action too, and we are of action. So let's go. We love the men and that's what I said. They're coming and following us as well. So we're pro-men, pro-women, and we know the difference between men and women. And men, I know you and love you, and my husband I love you, but sometimes men can tune us out. So please do not tune us out right now. Don't tune me out, because I have things that you want to know.
Kim Miller:Okay, and there are a lot of military members here. I love our military and I just want to thank you. Can everybody just applaud the military members here for their service? I love you. So how many people? I just was curious how many people here are from the branch of the army. Raise your hand if you're from the army. Okay, great, okay. How about the Marines? I saw a Marine last night. Oh, hurrah, all right. Then how about the Air Force? Oh, yeah, I figured there'd be a lot of Air Force people here, awesome. How about Navy? Anybody? Navy, a few, all right.
Kim Miller:Well, the reason I asked did I forget one Coast Guard? Coast Guard, oh, there we go. Who else did I forget? Space Force? Yes, all right, there's Matt Lohmeyer. Yes, all right. Well, we all feel very safe right now. We have everybody we need around us.
Kim Miller:So the reason also for my husband and me and I have my son here and his friend who just came over from Australia who's visiting but for my husband and me this is very personal STARS is personal because our daughter, one of our five, our fourth child, she just graduated from the US Naval Academy in May and she is getting ready to start flight school in Pensacola in two weeks. So, yes, so she and every other service member here has sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and they all took that oath. They're defending the Constitution. They are not sworn to defend wrongheaded leaders who are directing us into Marxism. They are sworn to protect the Constitution and we want to help them to do that. And sadly, these men and women of our service academies, the best and brightest, are being exposed to critical race theory and Marxism in their classrooms, and we have seen it. We've heard it directly from our daughter.
Kim Miller:I never thought I would be in politics. This was not something I have. Like he said, I have five grandkids. I have five kids. I have a lot to do. All of us have a lot of things to do, but you know, let alone running the largest conservative women's organization in Arizona. But you know how it happened. I woke up, just like all of you, probably in 2020.
Kim Miller:We woke up and we saw that there was a novel coronavirus that was popping in and that all of us then this was the excuse for the government to just take control and to suppress us and to keep us home and to apply all of these things to our lives. There was the race riots, the Black Lives Matter all of that was happening. And then we saw what was going on in our schools. Our parents saw in the computers where our kids were having to study from school and we saw the sexualization and the literal activism that was being pushed through our kids' computers, into our children. And so we woke up and we said we've got to fight. And my favorite quote, one of my favorite quotes is GK Chesterton, who said the true soldier fights not because he hates what's in front of him, but because he loves what's behind him. And that was where we were. We women woke up and there were a bunch of friends of mine and that's where we went from this eight women to 23,000 now.
Kim Miller:But there are many other women who want to go back to sleep, and we see them. They got all charged up in the beginning and now they're retreating, and so or they just deny reality, and men have been trending conservative, where women are trending liberal, they're trending to the left, and we're like what the heck, what's going on? Men or women, we love them. This is another one where we're like, you know, listen to the left and we're like what the heck, what's going on? Men or women, we love them. This is another one where we're like, you know, listen to the guys.
Kim Miller:The left is smart, though. You know they have weaponized women's God-given compassion against us and against our kids. They lie and they bait women in the name of kindness and inclusivity. But how kind is it to ignore a child's root causes of their real struggles that they're dealing with? They want to deny those root causes but instead put them on a path towards chemical castration, drug addiction. For the rest of their life they're going to have to take drugs and then surgical mutilation. How is that kind? There is nothing kind about that, women. We need to wake our sisters up. We don't want do not be played anymore. Pay attention. We really have a real choice right now in our country this election. I know you all know we have two choices. We have two visions for America One is Americanism and one is Marxism. It really comes down to that, so, and I'll tell you why women are so critical and why the left is going after our kids.
Kim Miller:We're all trying to clean the mess right now that's going on in our institutions, including our military, our media, business oh my gosh, the DEI and business, healthcare, science. These are all raging rivers of issues that are going on that we're seeing now. Everybody's going what? How did this happen? Well, you know where did it start? It started in the headwaters, where there's just little. You know infiltration of ideas and people into these institutions, and where they like to start is the kids. That's why they're going after you didn't used to see it as much. You know all this critical race theory, dei, sexualization was. We were worried about our colleges oh look, they're crazy. Then it was the high schools, and now it's the grade schools little six-year-olds, I mean. It's crazy the stuff that they're being taught. And so the time is now to make a choice. So I'm going to give you an example. I think kind of summarizes this too.
Kim Miller:So if you, if you lived in Arizona long enough, you've probably seen a scorpion, right, okay, how many of you have seen a scorpion in your house, okay, oh yeah, all right, some of you are from out of town and scorpions are disgusting. They are scary, creepy, prehistoric poison factories is how I kind of look at them. And we lived in a house one time that was literally scorpion central. I mean, I don't know what happened, but in Arizona you know that you either live on in a scorpion lot or you don't. And this one was like you know. You know the movie Poltergeist, do you remember where all these ghosts are coming around? And it's because it was. The house was supposed supposedly built on a burial ground. Well, this house was probably built on a scorpion burial ground at one point, because it they were everywhere.
Kim Miller:And so here I am, this mom, frazzled mom of five, and I have my newborn, my son here was the newborn at home, and I was on it. I was like on the lookout for these scorpions because I could not stand them stinging my kids, which they a couple of my kids did get stung. But I didn't want to deal with those things. They're creepy and, like I said, they're little poison factories. Ugh, they're disgusting.
Kim Miller:But I had a choice. I had to deal with it. And one morning I woke up, walked out of the hallway and there at the end of this hallway is this big fat scorpion just staring at me. And I was staring at it and it was like the okay, corral, you know, guns ready, we're both seeing each other. And I had a choice to make. What do I do? I either deal with it or I ignore it and look away, or I asked someone else to deal with it. Honey, can you come take care of this, this scorpion. But the problem with ignoring something like that, a threat, is that it doesn't go away, it just goes into hiding. If you take your eyes off of it long enough, it just goes and hides and then it comes back to infect the ones you love, your kids or whoever. And so it occurred to me that scorpions are a lot like the Marxist poison factories Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
Kim Miller:Have you seen anything disturbing in the schools lately? Have your kids seen anything disturbing in the last four years? Your grandkids, friends' kids? Have you seen any poisons going on in these schools? Well, I'll tell you the answer yes, and I had no idea until we started our group, and we have a social media arm that we opened up called AZ Woke Schools, because all these parents were sharing with us stuff that Johnny was bringing home, and then we share articles and we help people know what's really happening at their schools. So, though Arizona I'll give you a few examples of things recently.
Kim Miller:So though Arizona has one of the strongest parental rights laws in the country, we are still getting battled on this, and a lot of times it's because parents aren't standing up or nobody's saying anything. Right now in Arizona, we have 566 Arizona teachers and administrators who are currently under investigation for misconduct, mostly sexual. But one example that also stood out was a counselor we used to love. You know our school counselors. They were great. Right, they're supposed to just help your kids to cope with things or figure out what classes they need, but no, it's different now.
Kim Miller:There is a vast influx of school counselors into every public school, and there's a reason for that because they come in through this social, emotional learning. It all sounds really nice, but they are nudging our kids to question everything about themselves. And now they have these school-based medical centers. Because isn't that great, it's so easy. Just parents, you could just sign this paper. We'll take care of Susie and Johnny, and if they need more than an aspirin now, they could give them pretty much anything. And there was an example of one counselor who literally drove a girl to see a doctor and the parents had no knowledge of this and no permission. So parents' rights are being pushed out. And there's some MESA teachers right now who have it's been exposed that they're using class time to promote LGBTQ ideology, sexualization in the kids. They're having them question their. How do you know you're straight? How do you know you know it's all this kind of stuff.
Kim Miller:And Scottsdale parents have been found that their school libraries contain sexually explicit, violent and disturbing books that have no business being in the schools. If I were to read to you some of these, there's quotes that we've shared. Well, we share a link to it. I don't even want to put that in our newsletter I don't, but it's shocking and you would not believe it. And this is what we hear a lot. You know the schools are great. I went to a public school. Well, these are not your grandma's public school, or your mom's public school, your dad's public school, or even the private schools. It's, it's in there too. So you have to realize it's different now and we need to get involved. We need to see the threat and know it. That's the first step. Then the second step is to deal with it. Okay, what do we do? We have to be on the hunt and not let it run away.
Kim Miller:Marxist is poison that hides behind compassion. It hides behind equity, inclusivity, social justice being nice, and these are all good things, but they get twisted by Marxism. And Marxism is the foundation of the feminist movement. It was a small group of women, feminist communists, who started it, and yet we think, oh, this is great, it's all pro-woman. No, it is not pro-woman at all. And so that's kind of what we're up against.
Kim Miller:We have seen the enemy. We see it. We're seeing it in our schools. We're seeing how it's encroaching into every institution and it seeks to steal, kill and destroy. It has come out of hiding and it's right in front of us. Are we going to see it? It's aiming at us. It's walking down the halls everywhere you go, and the more you see it, you open your eyes to it, the more you'll notice.
Kim Miller:But I want to give you hope, because the end of the story of my scorpion encounter was I'm standing there looking at this going, what do I do? And I decided I got to do it. I got to do it quick. You cannot mess around. You can't go up there and just tentatively try to kill a scorpion. So I just went up to that thing. I got my courage and I stomped that stupid scorpion and I found out its pronouns it was a female, because hundreds of tiny little scorpions were on its back. You can just imagine my horror. But I was also like, oh my gosh. I mean, if I didn't do anything about that, all of those little ones would be infiltrating my house. And isn't that the perfect analogy for what happens when we do nothing. Oh my gosh. So I still I get. I'm right now. I have the chills because I remember that.
Kim Miller:So we have the power to deal with this Marxist poison. We really do. We have to expose it. And will you speak up? You have friends, you have a network, just like my network of eight women on a text chain. You have people who trust you and listen to you and you can start talking to them about these issues. You can just ask them questions and help them to see the scorpion of Marxism right in front of them. But you got to be strategic. You have to know your facts and you have to see the scorpion of Marxism right in front of them. But you've got to be strategic. You have to know your facts and you have to be respectful. We have learned that you can charge at people angry, you can be at school boards and scream and yell, but it doesn't do anything. The wall comes right up. You've got to be respectful and you have to be winsome and you have to have your facts and you ask questions so that they start to see the idiocy that they're being asked to believe by this Marxist ideology, this divisive thing. So parents, grandparents, business person, business people you all have a network. What can you do? And do you have five friends? I bet you have five friends or eight friends.
Kim Miller:You just need to show up, get our newsletter in the back of the event here and if you just go to our azwomenofactioncom, you'll get that and we send articles, things that you need, ways that you can literally take action this week. Three main things, whether you have five minutes or five hours to change things locally, and that's where you have the most impact. I'm telling you, grandparents, you have an incredible role to show up at school board meetings. Your kids are running around chasing their kids. Your children, your adult children, are chasing their kids and hopefully not chasing scorpions, but they're doing that. You can show up at school boards. You could run for school board. That's a very powerful position. People do not realize and I think in Arizona recently it came out there, I think, something like 80 school districts that had nobody running for office in these school districts. It's crazy. We have got to get more people in there. So please get our newsletter and if there's any doubt, now this is a.
Kim Miller:We are in a battle. We're in a spiritual battle for the soul of people we love and for the soul of this great nation. In Psalm 33, it says blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. They used to say that on TV in Tucson, where I lived, at the end of the day when the signal went out. Some of you are old enough to remember this and the signal went off and right before it said blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. I think it was K-O-L-D television, something Somebody's nodding and it was beautiful and they had a flag. Oh my gosh, how times have changed.
Kim Miller:There's another verse that I love and this is such a good reminder because everyone here loves freedom, and Paul wrote in Galatians 5.1,. He said it was for freedom that Christ has set us free. Therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Obviously, he's talking about our sins, but this is also applying to our country. So it's for freedom that he set us free. This great nation was built on freedom because the founders were men of faith, and, and, and it was an experiment. It's never been done before. Can we keep this republic? It's going to take all of us on the battlefield and right now I am instituting a draft of each one of you. I am conscripting you into service. You have a powerful part and you can make your choice today to speak up and talk to five friends or eight friends, ask them questions and get involved. I would love to meet you at our table and thank you so much for letting me come and speak. Thank you.
Ray Semko, Emcee:Yeah, you said a lot of things there, but I can't believe you're a scorpion fighter. Jeez, I had to deal with scorpions back in the 60s. I'd never seen one, because I grew up outside of Pittsburgh, pennsylvania. We don't have scorpions up there. We got a lot of other nasty things, but no scorpions. And I moved to Texas.
Ray Semko, Emcee:I'm a military brat, by the way. Yeah, my father was in the military. Did I ever want to join the military? Nope, was I drafted? Yes, and I'm so glad I was Not at the time, but it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. You didn't disappoint. You said so many things that are just so important. Each and every one of you Listen.
Ray Semko, Emcee:I took on a job that nobody wanted to do. They were afraid. Well, that's what the enemies want you to be afraid, and I wasn't going to make them. I wasn't going to make their job easy. You want my country. You're going to fight for it, and I've already fought for it. Many of you have fought for it. So we're going to keep on fighting.
Ray Semko, Emcee:But when I had a chance to talk to Kim last night these school boards she's not kidding. Do you want to do something for your community. Get on that school board and get rid of that garbage. That's there. That's what you got to do, and if you don't want to do that, then you're letting it happen. My wife I told her she wanted to do something in 1999. She just didn't need to be home anymore because my daughter was getting old and I told her. I said anymore because my daughter was getting old and I told her. I said you want to do something? You get on the Altoona school board. That's what I want you to do. I want you to make a difference in these kids' lives, because these kids don't stand a chance if they're taught the wrong things.
Ray Semko, Emcee:And you really are an Aussie. Who's the Aussie? You're the Aussie, Aussie, aussie, aussie. I love the Aussies. You know why I like the Aussies. You don't know this, but they fought for us, with us in Vietnam. They were good. Yeah, they were good. They helped us. Now you're in trouble. You know why Australia's in trouble, china. You know who sold you out Politicians, and you know it. The world knows it. We just don't want to talk about it. But you're in deep trouble. Why are you getting Japan on your side? So hopefully that'll make a difference with you Thanks for being here, okay.