U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) served as the keynote speaker at the Tennessee Republican Party’s 2025 Statesmen’s Dinner on August 23, celebrating the return of the party to national power and warning of the potential loss of power ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The 48th annual event was themed "Tennessee's Golden Age," a reference to President Trump’s opening line of his 2025 inauguration speech, “the Golden Age of America begins right now.”

Johnson reiterated what he argued is the need to ensure the role of God in government, invoking God some 24 times in his approximately 30-minute speech.

“Our freedom comes from God, and our responsibility ultimately is to him,” Johnson said. “It transcends the civil authorities. It goes to our creator himself, my friends. Tha

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