VIDEO: Amy Acton’s Rally Chant Draws Online Comparisons to Howard Dean’s 2004 Speech

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Amy Acton’s delivery during a weekend campaign rally in Ohio is drawing online comparisons to one of the most replayed moments of the 2004 presidential race.

Several reaction posts explicitly compared the rally moment with Howard Dean’s 2004 Iowa speech. The descriptions attached to those posts are the authors’ commentary, not independent factual findings.

A separate reaction post criticized Acton’s delivery and quoted the rally line. The criticism is the author’s commentary.

The Democratic nominee for governor was speaking at an AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic in Hamilton on Saturday when she raised her voice and repeatedly told the crowd that Republican nominee Vivek Ramaswamy could not “buy” Ohio. Her voice audibly cracked as she tried to turn the line into a chant.

A short version of the video spread across X over the weekend. The opinionated language in the post is its author’s commentary; the footage shows the relevant portion of Acton’s remarks.

The moment came near the end of a longer argument Acton has been making throughout the campaign. She has accused Ramaswamy, a wealthy entrepreneur financing part of his own campaign, of trying to use money and advertising to shape the governor’s race.

WLWT reported that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined Acton and Democratic congressional candidate Greg Landsman at the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council’s annual picnic. Buttigieg spoke before Acton and focused on affordability, organized labor and the political stakes of the November election.

Acton used her remarks to describe her family’s union background in Youngstown. She said her grandfather worked in the steel mills and emphasized her own upbringing as part of her pitch to working-class voters.

Acton’s official campaign account also posted a separate 25-second video from the picnic. That clip shows a different part of her speech, in which she praised Ohio workers and pledged to be a pro-union governor.

The chant was not improvised for this one appearance. In a July campaign release, Acton used similar language while discussing the race and describing Ramaswamy as a self-funding billionaire.

Acton’s campaign said she was presenting the contest as a choice between a “people powered movement” and a wealthy opponent. That is the political message behind the line, regardless of the reaction to her delivery at Saturday’s rally.

Ramaswamy, for his part, has recently focused on a separate dispute over debates. He said in a September 2 video that he had accepted a third debate invitation and criticized Acton for not agreeing to participate.

The claim and criticism are Ramaswamy’s own campaign position.

The comparison now circulating online points back to Howard Dean’s January 2004 speech after he finished third in the Iowa Democratic caucuses. Dean listed the states where his campaign planned to compete next and ended with a loud, hoarse yell that television networks replayed repeatedly.

Iowa PBS notes that Dean’s unexpected third-place finish and the media coverage of his concession speech marked a major turn in his campaign. The moment became a lasting piece of political shorthand, although the effect of the yell by itself has long been debated.

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Acton’s rally clip is much shorter and comes in a different setting, more than seven weeks before Election Day. The similarity being cited online is limited to the strained, high-volume delivery and the rapid spread of an isolated campaign moment.

The broader Ohio governor’s race remains a contest between two candidates presenting sharply different messages on the economy, public services and state leadership. The viral video gives both campaigns another moment to frame, but the full speech and the candidates’ own statements provide the necessary context.

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Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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