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March 1, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Episode 4307: Keeping Texas MAGA And Fighting Back Against Lawfare
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steve bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies.
Because we're going medieval on these people.
I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of it.
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
unidentified
MAGA Media.
jake tapper
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
steve bannon
It's Saturday, the 1st of March in the year of our Lord, 2025.
We're going to get back.
We're going to talk a lot about what's going on with President Trump and geopolitics.
We're down in Tarrant County.
Honored to have Brian Harrison here.
Except two things I learned.
When I'm in prison, as a political prisoner, Davis, you know, I had so many people, Natalie Davis, they're all trying to get there to be hosts.
Harrison, you were co-host in the war room, right?
unidentified
With my buddy, Mike Davis.
steve bannon
Hang on for a second.
As you know.
Mike Davis is beloved by this audience.
unidentified
I know.
steve bannon
But Mike Davis has got a certain house style.
You seem like a nice middle-class kid that's trying to do the right thing.
How the hell did you hook up with the Viceroy?
unidentified
Well, I appreciate you clarifying that because when I was on the show with him, he was concerned about telling America that he and I are friends.
Concerned that it might ruin my political career down here in Texas.
steve bannon
Yeah, because it might.
Well, maybe anywhere else but Texas it would.
Texas being Texas is okay.
unidentified
Texas is MAGA. Or at least the Texas voters are MAGA. So tell me about Mike Davis.
I'd go back with Mike over 20 years.
And, you know, I'd tell you what, especially in the four years of the Biden administration and the lawfare that you know something about, I mean, I don't know that anybody in America has done more during that time to fight back against the republic-destroying lawfare than Mike Davis and the Article 3 project.
steve bannon
Mike Davis.
Article 3. Amazing.
You knew him.
By the way...
Well, a lot of people don't know about Brian.
You were actually in the first Trump term, and you had one of the hardest jobs.
Chief of Staff of HHS, right?
unidentified
That's right, yeah.
The biggest cabinet agency in the world, yes, sir.
steve bannon
Talk about that.
Talk about the pressure that comes to HHS. Bobby Kennedy's over right there right now.
You know the types of things that have to happen.
How tough is it when you're taking incoming every day?
And as Tommy Tuberville told us...
Big Pharma runs the city, right?
unidentified
Well, we have a lot of regulatory capture where these entities on the outside that are supposed to be kept in check by the government, by people's elected officials at the federal level.
But these regulated entities basically take over and then end up controlling the bureaucrats in the deep state.
And there is no bigger agency than HHS. So Secretary, it's great to say now, Secretary Kennedy.
steve bannon
Yes.
unidentified
Got his work cut out for him because HHS is the biggest.
26 divisions.
steve bannon
Do you believe, one of the things I've told Bobby from day one, he supports.
If you look at MSNBC at night, they couldn't have a channel if they didn't have Big Pharma's.
I mean, they got diseases.
I've never even heard of it.
I think they make them up just to advertise.
Should we take advertising out of TV like they do in Big Pharma advertising?
Is that something that would break the cartel?
unidentified
Well, and it's something we actually tried to tackle in the first term.
Couldn't quite get it there, and I think that I'm happy to see Secretary Kennedy talking about that on his list of things that he's going to try to do to tackle.
Something that I know personally, firsthand, is a real priority for President Trump.
That's getting the price of prescription drugs down for American patients.
steve bannon
And it's hard.
Okay, you've dedicated your life now.
To Texas and Texas politics.
Tell me about your history in Texas.
Where'd you run?
Why'd you run?
Where are you?
unidentified
I'm a native Texan, multi-generation Texans.
steve bannon
Multi-generation.
unidentified
I don't even know how many.
steve bannon
So you know how hard it was for this state to become what it is today.
The seventh largest economy.
You talk about an economy the size of France.
unidentified
We are.
Yeah, Texas is the seventh largest economy on Earth.
30 million people call Texas home.
steve bannon
And by 2045, it's supposed to be the largest state in the Union.
I hope...
Texans understand that comes with a lot of downside to it.
unidentified
And a lot of responsibility.
As goes Texas, so goes the nation.
steve bannon
There's no doubt what I said last night.
As Tarrant County goes, so goes Texas.
As Texas goes, so goes America.
As America goes, so goes the world.
unidentified
And that's why it's so important.
The state of Texas, a state that I love and call home...
Make no mistake about it.
People don't talk about us as a battleground state, but we are the crown jewel in the Democrats' plan to take over America.
So Texas is the line in the sand for the future of our country, and that's why it's so important.
I'm kind of on a mission to save Texas right now.
steve bannon
Source put $300 million or $400 million in there a couple of years ago.
It got a little pink.
It wasn't hard read, right?
I mean, they made some inroads.
You guys, the Herculean effort of the grassroots movement to turn that around, it's heroic.
But they're still coming for it because they understand they can control France.
Now, here's what our audience doesn't get.
And the audience has been with us, been with you guys through the impeachment of Paxton, through the great grassroots victory, Trump's 14-point win.
And then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you got...
The Texas House, and you got a guy, the grassroots guy can't win, and he's actually not that grassroots, but the other guy's essentially a Democrat, and they've given all the power to the Democrats.
How could this possibly happen when you have a success story for the grassroots?
Because Texas, and God bless, I love Florida and Ohio and Georgia and North Carolina, Tennessee, but this is the railhead of the MAGA movement.
Craig, Arizona's a fan, but this is the railhead, right?
unidentified
I'm going to say something that's going to shock your viewers.
I mean, Texas, as you mentioned, voted for...
By 14 points for President Trump.
Bright red state.
The Texas House is controlled by Democrats.
I'll say that again.
The Republican-dominated Texas House is controlled by radical Democrats.
Trump wins Texas, but Kamala Harris' team is controlling the Texas House.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
steve bannon
You go down to Stark County, 97% Hispanic.
Hard-bitten people down there, working-class Hispanics, all of them.
We lose it to Clinton by 60 points in 16. Trump wins by 16 points.
These people are looking for MAGA rule.
They're looking for...
So how...
This makes no sense.
There's something I'm missing.
So what am I missing?
unidentified
Texas voted for bold Republican leadership.
They deserve bold Republican leadership, but they've got Democrat control, and I'll tell you why.
Because 30 fake Republicans in the Texas House colluded with 50 Democrats.
To take over the chamber.
So 50 Democrats are who elected our fake rhino speaker in the Texas House.
And there's lots of talk about voter fraud.
I'm going to tell your viewers, there may be no better example of voter fraud in all of America than what happened in the bright red state of Texas where Republicans gave Trump a 14-point victory.
But Democrats have been put in charge of the Texas House by 30 rhinos.
So it begs the question.
Everybody knows how important election integrity is.
But what's the point of election integrity?
If Republicans who win at the ballot box are just going to turn around and give Kamala Harris' team all the power.
It's the greatest example of voter fraud maybe in the history of our country.
steve bannon
So Texas for years, particularly after the Civil War and the Confederacy, like I come from a Democrat family in the South, but everybody in the South is essentially Democrats back.
Are these people actually Democrats?
Is the old Democratic Party...
Still run Texas?
Is that what we've seen?
unidentified
Uprising of MAGA? I'm going to horrify even more.
No.
Texas government was smaller and government was growing slower when those old school Democrats were running our state.
The government in Texas is getting bigger.
Taxes are going higher.
Spending is going up under people who have the word Republican by their name, but they would be Democrats tomorrow if that's what it took to get them.
Texas has got a reputation for leading in freedom and liberty.
steve bannon
Big time, big time.
unidentified
But we have been just coasting on that reputation.
steve bannon
How does that happen?
unidentified
Because Republicans, I think it's true for every elected official, you know this, you've got to make a choice.
You can either be popular in the swamp, or you can fight like President Trump is doing in D.C. for the freedom and liberty of the next generation of Texans.
We have too many Republicans, or at least people with the word Republican by their name.
steve bannon
You're saying the business interests here are...
Just like D.C. The appropriations is $330 billion.
The GDP here would make you the size of the seventh largest economy in the world.
The whole world.
So you're the size of France, one of the biggest nations, most powerful nations, industrial nations on earth.
With the stakes that high, you're saying the business interest, the legal community, the media, because it really is not an alternative media down here.
unidentified
No, and that's actually, so having served under President Trump in the swamp of D.C. and now for a couple years in the swamp of Austin, I actually believe the Austin swamp is worse, and I'll tell you why, because nobody knows what's happening down there.
The voters of Texas, they're not to blame.
They did their duty.
They went to the ballot box and pushed for Republican leadership, and they know Republicans dominate all of our offices, but what they don't know is when no one's looking.
The very Republicans that said, vote for me and I'll fight the Democrats, they go down to the Pink Dome in Austin and they vote to put those Democrats in charge and collude with them to destroy liberty.
steve bannon
But talk about this, because they did a bait and switch here.
unidentified
Yeah, they did.
steve bannon
Because they said, when we were in the firestorm of that thing with the guy, we put him on notice, war room, people were blowing their phones up.
unidentified
Thank you, thank you.
steve bannon
And we're going to do it again, but he said, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
This is going to be all Republican chairman.
Right?
All Republicans.
Tell them about it.
Because you're going to fire this audience up.
Tell them what they did.
Remember, they told us, well, hold it, hold it, hold it.
Maybe I'm a rhino.
But it's all Republican chairman of the committee.
unidentified
15 seconds of background.
When I showed up on the heat, I had just gotten done working in the Trump administration.
I get elected to Texas.
I'm so excited to go lock arms with all these Texas elected Republicans.
Because I assumed that elected Republicans in Texas were fighting as hard for the freedom and liberty of the next generation as those of us in the Trump administration.
I get into the Texas House, and I find out Democrats are running the joint.
And what do I mean by that?
What I mean is Democrats were chairing 40% of our committees.
Imagine if Speaker Johnson made Nancy Pelosi chairman of Ways and Means.
Or ANC. Hey, AOC, you can run Energy and Commerce.
That has been happening in the Texas House for 15 years.
The most powerful person in the Texas House, Steve, was our parliamentarian.
And who's that?
A Barack Obama White House lawyer.
I'm going to say this one more time, Steve.
A Barack Obama White House lawyer is the most powerful staffer currently.
In the Republican-dominated Texas House.
So the posse, grassroots activists across the country said we're sick of Democrats chairing committees in the Texas House.
So the rhinos came up with a plan.
steve bannon
They gave us all the chairmanship, right?
So what are you bitching about?
What are you whining about now?
They gave you all.
Hey, the guy cut the deal.
He says you want grassroots boardroom posse, wants a chairman of Republicans.
You got chairman.
unidentified
Let me tell folks, this is next-level gaslighting at its finest, these Austin rhinos.
They said, okay, you ate Democrats that were chairing these committees.
You can't be called chairman anymore.
We're going to rewrite the rules.
And we're going to give almost half the Democrat caucus vice chairmanships or co-chairmanships, then rewrite the rules and say that the Democrat co-chairs have more power than the Republican chairmen.
So now they've actually gone worse.
Instead of Democrats controlling eight or nine committees...
Now Democrats control all 30 or 36 committees in the Republican-dominated Texas House.
steve bannon
And the vice-chairs do it because they gave them the ability to do the agenda, the witnesses.
The way you run a committee is whatever's slated, they can pass through.
The only stuff that they want passes through there.
unidentified
They control the whole schedule.
And one example, so I'm on the Appropriations Committee, chaired by a radical leftist Democrat, and just two days ago in a budget hearing when I'm grilling our state agencies, because by the way, Texas is funding DEI to the tunes of billions of dollars.
steve bannon
No, it stopped.
unidentified
Billions.
So I'm exposing this.
Well, our Democrat chair hijacked the budget committee meeting because I'm exposing DEI and turned it into an almost hour-long infomercial for DEI.
That's what's happening in Texas.
steve bannon
Okay, but also – but the whole thing, it's real estate taxes going up.
All this stuff is actually down to the local – Get taxed out of their homes, yeah.
No, no, but it's all to the local level, so it really doesn't have anything to do with state government.
I keep hearing that.
unidentified
They want you to believe this.
steve bannon
That's false, too?
It's false because – All my assumptions about Texas politics are wrong.
unidentified
It's a mirage.
That Texas government is conservative is a myth.
But people believe it.
And I'm exposing the betrayal of Texas voters.
No, all the local government cities, the school boards that are taxing my constituents out of their homes, they're political subdivisions of the state.
So when they do it, it's the state of Texas doing it.
And I'm tired.
We need to get back.
We need to take our rightful place leading in freedom and liberty and low taxes.
We need to abolish property taxes in the state of Texas.
steve bannon
Abolish property taxes.
unidentified
We can do it.
steve bannon
You can abolish property taxes here?
unidentified
We can abolish property taxes.
I've got a plan to do it.
It just takes a little bit of courage.
steve bannon
Well, tell me, going on offense.
First off, if President Trump heard today...
That they're funding DEI when he's given edicts on everything to get DEI everywhere.
We fought this campaign.
You had Terry Schilling there last night.
You've got so many warriors.
If they know that in the great state of Texas, the railhead of the MAGA movement, that the state's spending billions of dollars on DEI. Billions.
unidentified
And let me tell you what.
President Trump in four weeks has done more to combat DEI in the state of Texas than the Texas government has in the years that I've been here.
So as President Trump is getting rid of DEI federally, The state of Texas is doubling down on it.
Texans are being taxed out of their homes and their money is being weaponized against them by their own government to fund radical DEI and liberal gender ideology in the state of Texas.
We need to stop funding our state agencies and our public universities that are indoctrinating the next generation with this Marxist nonsense.
steve bannon
What's the social media?
Because you're going to have a huge fight at corporations and we want to follow you through.
unidentified
At Brian E. Harrison on X. At Brian E. Harrison on X. Do we need to get Mike Davis an Article 3?
steve bannon
Do we need a Texas Article 3 down here or something?
unidentified
Oh, I would take all the help in the Lone Star State that I can get.
Texas voters are MAGA. They're government.
We've got to change that.
steve bannon
Well, we're going to start exposing that nonstop with you guys.
You guys are patriots and it's outrageous.
Look, as goes Tarrant County, as goes Texas, goes America, and as goes America, goes the world.
And yesterday you saw a perfect example.
Karl Rove, who's the number one person to come in there and say that President Trump, you shouldn't do this publicly.
It's the behind-the-door mentality of Austin, right?
unidentified
Yeah, and I can even give a call to action to any of your viewers that are in Texas.
Find out who's your state rep and call and ask them a specific question.
What have you done to stand up to the corrupt liberal rhino leadership that has put the Democrats in power in the Lone Star State?
Give me a specific example.
steve bannon
Okay, we're going to get on that for the rest of the show.
unidentified
Awesome.
steve bannon
By the way, Davis is the Viceroy, and you're a pretty good backup.
I'm glad you're down here in Texas.
unidentified
God bless y'all and God bless Texas.
steve bannon
Brian Harrison in the house.
You're District 10?
unidentified
District 10. District 10. God bless you.
steve bannon
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As Tarrant County goes, so goes Texas.
unidentified
Right?
steve bannon
As Texas goes, so goes MAGA. As MAGA goes, so goes the United States of America.
And as the United States of America goes, so goes the world.
It's ground zero here, and you know why?
The world's an efficient market.
George Soros, how much money did he put in here over years to turn Texas blue?
Right?
$400 million.
And it got a little pink, right?
It got a little pink.
And then you guys stood up and had Trump's back.
And what do we have today?
Donald Trump won the 2024 race by 14 points!
Hell, brother Ted Cruz won by nine!
Okay, welcome back.
Beau French joins me, the head of the Tarrant County Republican Party.
Talk to people about that, about what happened.
Soros came in here, and this gets to Harrison's point.
This is still a battleground state.
Even with 14 points out, and I understand the opportunity cost now, we kind of shifted that, maybe the massive TV advertising.
But they understand, to change the direction of this republic, this union, they've got to take Texas off.
And that's why Tarrant County, which by the way, Tarrant County would be the...
38th or 39th biggest state in the union by GDP in population if it's just by itself, right?
We're here, Tarrant County is basically around Fort Worth.
unidentified
Yeah, that's right.
So we're 2.5 million people, which is about the same size as Dallas County.
So, yeah, you're right.
We'd be, I think, bigger than 13 states.
steve bannon
13 states.
And the economy, huge.
unidentified
It's huge.
And so, you know, a lot of business here.
And I think when people think about Texas, they think about this, like, Western way of life and this conservative values.
And I think Fort Worth really embodies all that.
steve bannon
Dallas is where the east ends and Fort Worth is where the west begins.
unidentified
That's correct.
So, yeah, Chamber of Commerce slogans are great, but the reality is Tarrant County actually voted for Joe Biden in 2020. And so we were turning blue, and you know what happens when Democrats take over.
They control the voting, they control the counting, Republicans never win again.
And so Texas, this really was the battleground for Texas.
You lose Tarrant County, you end up losing Texas.
And so what we decided, we came in and said we're going to put a stop to that.
We're going to make sure that we strengthen our elections here.
We're doing a lot of work on election integrity to make sure that our elections are sound because...
steve bannon
Because they're trying to steal them all the time.
unidentified
Because they're trying to steal them all, for sure.
And we know they did in 2020 in other states.
We just don't want that to happen here in Texas.
steve bannon
What's your background?
How did you get involved?
Because you're not an elected official.
How did you get involved in...
I go to other places, and I talk maybe to the MAGA group, because they're at war, and all throughout, in North Carolina, in South Carolina, in Georgia, in Nebraska, in Montana, and everywhere we got, the grassroots, and there's a little division.
Here in this county, last night was the Republican Party in Tarrant County.
You've united it.
So what's your background?
How'd you do that?
unidentified
Yeah, I'm not a political background.
I actually started my career in ranching, and then I decided I didn't want to be a cowboy, you know, live in the bunkhouse anymore.
I was pretty good at numbers, so I got a job working at a hedge fund.
Spent a year and a career.
steve bannon
From cowboy to hedge fund?
unidentified
Yeah, true story.
Now I'm a private equity and venture capital investor, and so raising money is what I do.
So I took that skill set to the Tarrant County GOP and said, I'm going to raise money, we're going to spend money, we're going to deploy it, we're going to win the election.
We're going to do what we've never done in Tarrant County.
We had 2.6 million voter contacts in 2024. And so we really showed that where we had block walking and text messaging...
steve bannon
That makes all the difference, right?
unidentified
Block walking is huge.
steve bannon
Personal contact.
unidentified
Yeah, we knocked hundreds of thousands of doors, made sure people got to the polls.
This is what you have to do.
You have to treat the whole county like a campaign, which is what we did.
We're not stopping, though.
We're doubling down.
We have municipal elections coming up.
And so we are now focused on our May elections, where we're going to be voting for school board members, city council members.
We're going to make sure that we...
steve bannon
Oh, so you're taking it all the way down.
You're going down to the deck plates.
unidentified
Yeah, we absolutely...
Well, this is the bench for future politicians, right?
These are the next state representatives, the Brian Harrisons and Shelley Luthers.
These are the next congressmen.
So, yeah, we have to fight at this level.
We've never done that before because they're supposed to be nonpartisan.
But as you know, everything today is partisan, right?
And so we're going to eradicate the radical Marxists from our school boards.
We're going to get porn out of our school libraries.
We're going to get DEI out of our schools.
steve bannon
It's pretty bad.
unidentified
It's unbelievable.
You would be shocked what happens here in Texas.
steve bannon
In Texas?
I mean, people think Texas, the most conservative, the most MAGA state.
You've got DEI, you've got the porn in schools.
Because they're relentless.
They're just never going to give up, are they?
unidentified
No, it's like the communist mind virus.
They come in and just take over everything.
And then they're grooming our kids into this ideology.
And so we're going to put a stop to it.
And the front line really is here.
So we're going to make sure Tarrant County is the red conservative bastion in the state of Texas.
And so if you're out there and you want to move to Texas, you can look around, but Tarrant County is the place you're going to want to be if you want to embrace faith, family values, those kinds of things.
steve bannon
What about this situation with Brian and other people saying, hey, look, you get to Austin in this abatant situation, How do you keep the people here motivated to understand that you've got to change Austin?
Because if you don't change Austin, like I said, as Tarrant County goes, Texas goes, as Texas goes, the country goes, and that's world peace.
You saw it yesterday with Trump.
unidentified
Yeah, there's nothing more frustrating to the average grassroots voter than these uniparty unics that get into office, whether it's D.C. or Austin.
They're in it for themselves.
They're in it for the power.
They're in it for, you know, money.
We've seen all the double dealing where people are, you know, funneling contracts to their spouses, you know, via NGOs and things.
All of that's happening in Austin, just like in Washington, D.C. That's why we've actually started our own...
steve bannon
It's a swamp.
unidentified
It's a total swamp.
We've actually started our own...
steve bannon
A cesspool or a swamp?
unidentified
I mean, it's a sewer.
It's a sewer.
We've actually started our own doge, like independent of what the Texas legislature is doing.
Wow.
So we've started uncovering billions of dollars of waste and fraud here in Texas.
The website will be up next week.
I'm pretty excited about that.
steve bannon
And so you can come back on and we'll promote the website.
unidentified
It's going to be great.
steve bannon
How do people get to you?
How do people follow you on social media?
unidentified
Well, probably X is the best place.
It's Beau underscore French underscore TX. And thanks for putting it on last night.
I appreciate it.
I really appreciate you coming.
That was great.
steve bannon
Folks, I tell you, you have such a great crowd.
They were very easy to fire up, and they're fighters, which is amazing.
That's everything.
unidentified
We're pretty motivated here.
steve bannon
Beau French, and what a job in Tarot County.
Thank you, sir.
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unidentified
I have.
steve bannon
It's been a while.
I'm an inmate.
You're an inmate.
Tell me why I put a nice woman like you, a nice lady like you in jail.
unidentified
I guess if you open against government-mandated shutdowns, you get thrown in jail.
steve bannon
So you got thrown in during COVID? Yeah, during COVID. Why'd you get thrown in jail?
unidentified
I own a beauty salon.
And we shut down for a month.
One of my hairstylists called me and said, I haven't eaten in a couple of days because I'm just trying to feed my kids.
And we decided to just open up.
And within about a week or so, I was thrown in jail.
steve bannon
Thrown in jail by local authorities?
unidentified
Yes.
steve bannon
In the state of Texas?
unidentified
Absolutely.
Dallas, Texas is where my salon is.
steve bannon
So, I mean, that's mind-boggling.
So what happened after your time of imprisonment?
You made basically a pretty fundamental decision in your life.
What was that?
unidentified
I needed to get involved.
I was not political at all.
steve bannon
You were not political.
unidentified
None.
steve bannon
Totally apolitical.
unidentified
Absolutely.
steve bannon
Just like most people in life, just getting through life and whatever happens in politics is not my deal.
unidentified
Minding my own business and not bothering anybody, I thought.
And then I had the realization that, wow, the government has a lot more control than I want them to in my life.
And so I had to run three campaigns to finally win this election.
steve bannon
Oh, hold on a minute.
You lost the first time?
unidentified
I lost the first two times.
steve bannon
The first two times.
So hold it.
Did you get so motivated?
Most people would say, I'll run, because a lot of people get the celebrity and then they run, but once they get beaten, they say, I can't do it, it's too dirty, it's too tough.
What did you learn in your first time that said, I've got to do this?
unidentified
I'm relentless when it comes.
I'm serious.
I don't know if it's stubborn, crazy.
steve bannon
Texas.
unidentified
Texas.
And my dad's a 26-year Marine veteran, Vietnam War.
steve bannon
Okay, I think I got it.
unidentified
Yeah.
steve bannon
So you got more focused after you lost the first time.
What lessons did you learn about elective politics, your first two losses?
unidentified
Don't talk, don't fight with people on social media that are not able to have like a real conversation with you.
That's the best advice I could give anyone.
What do you mean?
steve bannon
Because those draw you into a fight that's meaningless?
unidentified
Yeah.
If they're not willing to actually have a real conversation and discuss, because I talk to Democrats all the time because I want to see what they're thinking, but if they're just trolling you, calling you names, you don't have to make sure everybody's right.
Talk to the ones that are actually wanting to have a real conversation.
steve bannon
What did you run on?
When you're running, when Shelley Luther's running, what is your pitch?
unidentified
It's basically the Republican Party platform.
I read that and I'm like, I agree with all of this.
And so when I first started running...
steve bannon
Oh, so you didn't really even know when you first started doing whether you were Democrat or Republican.
unidentified
Well, I mean...
steve bannon
Had you voted Republican or Democrat or you just picked the best person at the time?
unidentified
I had voted a couple of times for presidents.
Just a couple of times?
Yes.
steve bannon
So you're the typical American.
unidentified
It's pretty embarrassing.
steve bannon
No, no, no.
But that's a typical American.
If I see somebody I like, I'll vote.
Otherwise, I'm getting off my life.
Politics turns me off.
unidentified
Well, what's crazy is I was a public school teacher for 13 years.
I agree with all this.
So, yeah, let's run.
steve bannon
Why don't you hang on?
We're going to take a short commercial break.
We also have Mitch Littles up.
Glenn Story's going to join us.
This situation, and Shelly's going to get into it when we get back, this situation in Texas, something's not right.
And here's the thing.
It's emblematic of what's happening around the country, the grassroots.
Folks in South Carolina talk to them all the time.
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With the grassroots, the precinct strategy, people have gotten involved, right?
They've gotten involved, but, you know, there's always resistance.
By the establishment.
In Texas, it actually may be a little worse because they've done a huge bait and switch down here.
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So, Shelley, you decide to get into politics.
You run.
Tell me now, after all these struggles and running a couple times, it's all sweetness and light, right?
Best decision you ever made, best people you've ever worked with, everything you promised your constituents.
No, seriously.
Because you were put in jail and you said, hell no, I'm a Texan.
Then you run, you get beat once, you get beat twice, you finally get there.
The punchline to the story has got to be it all worked out.
unidentified
No.
I had a brain aneurysm.
It ruptured in my head a year and a half ago.
So after my second run, I was hospitalized for 26 days and in a coma for eight days.
Had eight strokes in a week.
steve bannon
Eight strokes?
unidentified
Yes.
steve bannon
And came back whole?
unidentified
Oh, I came back even more pissed.
Wow.
steve bannon
Wow.
But please tell me then the payoff is they're great people.
They do what they tell their constituents.
Because the movie's got to end with you.
In complete nirvana, right?
unidentified
You know what?
I can't lie.
It is ridiculous that these people go in there and pretend to care for Texas and Texans, and it's just not true.
steve bannon
And all these people kind of run as conservatives, right?
unidentified
Kind of.
If you want to say conservative, they say that they're conservative.
They say they're Republican.
We had a great group of people that are new freshmen that came in, and those are the people that I hang around with and are doing what they say they're going to do.
But they've got their thumb on us, and we're not able to do anything.
steve bannon
What do you mean thumb on us?
It'd be kind of tough.
I mean, you're a Marine's daughter.
You had an aneurysm.
You almost died eight strokes.
You've come back.
You're kind of tough as boot leather.
I can't imagine somebody's got their thumb on you.
unidentified
Well, the problem is when the Democrats are running the Texas House...
steve bannon
But it's a Republican House.
unidentified
But the Democrats are the ones that elected that speaker.
So them and a few of the rhino Republicans are the ones that made him speaker.
And now we basically have no power, no authority.
We can't do anything.
None of our bills will get passed.
And so all we can do is cause as much confusion or disruption as possible.
steve bannon
But other day, somebody told me Harrison's up there talking.
He's ranting and raving on it, and they cut his mic off.
unidentified
No, that's what they do.
steve bannon
They do?
unidentified
Yeah.
steve bannon
They cut your mic off?
unidentified
I put in a resolution to thank the hospital that saved my life, and it got denied.
steve bannon
It got denied?
unidentified
Yes.
steve bannon
They told me last night also there was a woman who had dedicated her life.
Who had worked at his grassroots.
unidentified
Jill Glover.
steve bannon
Jill Glover.
She passed away from cancer.
They put a resolution up just to thank her.
unidentified
Denied.
steve bannon
Denied.
But they put forward one.
unidentified
For Beyonce.
steve bannon
For Beyonce.
unidentified
Yes.
steve bannon
How does that work?
unidentified
It's ridiculous.
It's actually really embarrassing.
And my husband and I, our family, has spent almost the last five years trying to get in here and to waste time like that.
We haven't even had a committee meeting yet.
And we've been in almost 50 days.
steve bannon
When you go back and talk to your constituents about this, what do they say?
People that have supported you and say, hey, Shelly, we got your back.
What do they say when you tell them the reality?
unidentified
Well, they see it because I'm very vocal on social media.
I'm shocked.
Shocking, shocking.
But, I mean, I don't vote for the long weekends.
steve bannon
What are the long weekends?
unidentified
So, for four- and five-day weekends, we have to actually vote on that.
And, of course, there's about...
steve bannon
You mean to take off four- or five-day weekends?
unidentified
Yeah.
steve bannon
You mean the Texas House just to go?
Because you're only in session a certain amount of time, right?
unidentified
Right, yes.
We're only in there until June, but for the first 50 days.
steve bannon
And they take four or five day weekends?
unidentified
Yes, because we have time to do that.
But they do that on purpose because at the end they're going to say, oh, we couldn't pass those bills because we ran out of time when we haven't even met in committees yet.
steve bannon
What's the solution?
unidentified
The solution is a new speaker, honestly, or for him to actually do what conservatives want and start running the Texas House.
steve bannon
So how do you do that?
You're looking for a solution.
Well, this audience wants to back you up, so we'll find a solution together.
What is your social media?
How can people find out more about you, your story, the aneurysm, the two times?
Because I want to use it as an example throughout the country that if you want to make change, you've got to get in the fight.
And once you're in the fight, it's horrible.
unidentified
You've got to back the conservatives that are fighting for you.
steve bannon
Do you feel like you're making progress in defending the country?
unidentified
I think so, too.
I think the best way we hurt them is to expose them for what they're doing, and they don't like that.
So I'm on X at Shelly Luther and on Facebook, the same thing.
steve bannon
Shelly Luther.
Let's get to it.
Can we get Shelly Luther's page up there?
Okay.
Shelly Luther, one more time.
What is it?
unidentified
Just S-H-E-L-L-E-Y Luther.
Shelly Luther on both Facebook and Twitter.
steve bannon
Thank you so much.
unidentified
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
steve bannon
Appreciate you.
We're going to spend a lot more time back here.
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One of my favorite people joins us, Mitch Little.
Now.
Rumor has it that if the great General Paxton, who is beloved by our audience, and our audience was a big reason for it, he didn't get finally convicted at trial for impeachment, runs for the U.S. Senate against Cornyn, that you'll be the next Attorney General of Texas.
Any truth to that rumor?
unidentified
Steve, we have a very fine Attorney General.
I will certainly consider serving the state of Texas however I best can.
steve bannon
Mitch, I came down for a couple of campaign things through Glenn's story and the team.
But I had no earthy idea of the depth of the problem.
You guys tried to tell me about it, but I said, that's impossible.
This is Texas, man.
This is the railhead of MAGA. This is where Trump won by 14 points.
These are the guys that beat Soros at the top of his game.
It couldn't possibly be this bad.
But now spending the weekend down here, it's actually worse than I thought.
unidentified
Steve, everything that goes on in D.C. is really an analog for what's happening in Texas.
So you spoke a lot last night at the event about the rent-seeking behavior that's going on in Washington, D.C. with AI. That struck a chord?
It struck a chord with me because the same thing is going on in Texas.
steve bannon
What do you mean?
unidentified
You know, we have our own Doge caucus and we have our own Doge committee.
It's all the ruse.
Everything in Texas politics now is driven by the Uniparty, which is trying to fund special interests.
It's the same rent-seeking behavior that you're seeing with AI and big tech.
It's not designed to make...
steve bannon
So it's regulatory capture.
It's these big companies in bed with big government, and they work together as partners, and they crush entrepreneurs.
They really crush true capitalism, and they crush the little guy.
unidentified
Truly, the goal is totalitarianism, whether it's in D.C. or it's in Texas.
The goal of the Uniparty is totalitarianism.
How do we silence the little guy?
How do we suppress small business in favor of large global businesses?
steve bannon
But how do you compete against these guys?
I mean, the little guys have no money.
I mean, how do you run campaigns?
These guys, they control the apparatus.
unidentified
Steve, there's always a remnant.
We have to find the people who are willing to, like you had Shelley Luther on a minute ago.
She's an absolute warrior.
Brian Harrison, absolute warrior.
Find the people who are willing to go the distance and find people to turf out of the Texas House.
If we can find the right candidates, mobilize the grassroots, we can make a change in the state truly.
steve bannon
But they're so brazen.
I mean you do all this work.
You win by 14.
You get all these Republicans in.
And then they basically say – when you confront them, when the guy wins, he confronts them.
Well, no more.
No more.
No more Democrat chairman.
And he does the vice chairman.
He gives all the power to the chairmanship of the chairman to the vice chairs.
unidentified
Every system is designed perfectly to get the results that it gets.
And the machine that exists in Austin is constantly looking for a way to replicate itself.
It's using Democrats to accomplish that.
And so now we have vice chairs that have the ability to control legislation that comes in and out of committee.
And there is a predetermined liturgy of what the Uniparty will allow to pass in this state, and we as conservatives have to be...
steve bannon
What is the key point to that liturgy?
unidentified
Yeah, it's...
The absolute minimum standards that Republicans will be willing to accept and allow them to stay in office.
A little bit of property tax relief here.
A little bit of school choice there.
steve bannon
But just a taste.
Just enough to make sure there's not open rebellion.
unidentified
Just enough to be able for you to go back to your district and say that you did it when you didn't really accomplish what the voters sent you there to accomplish.
steve bannon
How contentious is the House and the Senate now in Texas as far as day-to-day?
I understand from Harrison that they're cutting his mic off.
Shelly says the same thing.
It's just they're keeping their thumb down on people.
unidentified
Steve, it's a pot that's simmering at 210 degrees.
Oh, wow.
Just below a boil?
Just below a boil.
You know, we're at the point where there could just be one or two politically contentious issues that could tip over a speakership, that could tip over relationships in the House, but the Uniparty will do everything it could possibly do to survive.
steve bannon
Is there a possibility of having a confrontation between now, I think June is the end of your thing, that could actually cause an ability to get into a fight over the speakership?
unidentified
It could come to a head.
It could come to a head rather quickly.
You can see kind of the...
The foretaste or the tremors of it coming and relationships on the floor, people are very combative with Brian Harris and very combative with the conservative.
steve bannon
I noticed you had a couple of three fighters last night.
unidentified
Yes, sir.
steve bannon
You have fighters in here.
Walk me through, because the future of Texas, if you actually have capitalism here, is so bright, right?
It's so incredible.
People are moving here.
unidentified
It can be.
The problem is it's just not a permissive environment from a tax standpoint.
So you move here expecting freedom, expecting economic growth.
Low taxes is not true.
It's not true.
steve bannon
What do you mean by that?
unidentified
Property taxes are out of control.
People are being taxed out of their homes.
Franchise taxes, business, personal property taxes.
steve bannon
You wouldn't think any of that in Texas.
unidentified
We're using it to grow government.
And, Steve, I'm going to break a piece of news for you here on your show for the War Room Posse.
The deal that was cut to put the Speaker in place in the Texas House was, we will let you have school choice if you will give us a vote on the floor for casino gambling and sports gambling in the state.
And the reason, Steve, the reason the Democrats are so desperate for it, Steve, is they want to use it as a vehicle to grow government.
That's the goal.
steve bannon
Sports betting and casino gambling.
unidentified
Yes.
steve bannon
It'll be a massive funder of big government.
unidentified
It's very destructive to families here.
It grows human trafficking, drug smuggling, all of these problems.
We're trying to import to Texas at a time when we should be emphasizing and focused on making families better and stronger.
steve bannon
When is that fight going to take place on the gambling?
unidentified
Oh, it's going to take place this session.
I mean, there's going to be a vote on the floor about it.
And here's how I know that.
One of the people, Charlie Guerin, who's involved in leadership in the Texas House, is carrying the bill.
State affairs is chaired by someone who's in leadership in the Texas House, and calendars is chaired.
So they have a conduit to get it to the floor for a vote.
steve bannon
Because they control the agenda.
unidentified
They control the agenda, but not only the agenda, but every single committee that will permit it to get to the floor.
steve bannon
That's breaking news.
We're going to follow up on it.
What's your social media?
You're one of the fighters.
I knew when I first met you that this guy's going to go places.
Please, Paxton's got to stay as Attorney General.
We need him here.
unidentified
We need him desperately.
steve bannon
And we need you to keep fighting.
unidentified
He's a man of action.
It's at Real Mitch Little on Twitter.
steve bannon
Mitch, from when you got in here, is it worse than you thought?
unidentified
It's way worse than I thought.
steve bannon
It is way worse.
unidentified
Everybody that you meet in politics, you meet some really wonderful people in the grassroots, but then you get inside the building and you will encounter some of the worst people you've ever met, Steve.
steve bannon
Unbelievable.
Mitch, thank you so much.
Hang out here for a second.
We've got about 30 seconds.
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You told me it was bad, and I've been trying to come down, and we've been fighting to save Ken Paxton, and then the races, and then stop the speaker.
I had no idea of the depth of this problem until coming down and spending a couple days and seeing these great fighters, and I know.
People are in shock.
In Texas, we've got to sort this mess out.
glenn story
Yeah, it's much, much worse than you've seen.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
And I say this to everybody that doesn't understand.
The guys that you met today are three or four of 20 or 30 guys that are on our side.
steve bannon
Fighters.
glenn story
Yeah, they're fighters.
And here's the real thing.
Nobody hears the truth.
They'll cut off their mics, right?
They don't let them talk about it.
So here's what I really wanted you to walk away with.
Is to understand just the beginning of it.
unidentified
Oh, it's a problem.
steve bannon
And we're going to be all over it.
Because this problem is kind of nationwide in every state, the grassroots.
But here, it's much more insidious.
And since Texas is the size of France, I mean, it's the seventh biggest economy award, and Tarrant County would be the 37th or 38th state.
As Tarrant County goes, so goes Texas.
Texas goes, so goes the country.
And trust me, Soros and those guys are all sitting there trying to pick off Texas.
And now they kind of control things through the back door.
glenn story
Yeah, they know it.
They know it.
They're after them.
There's bad guys in there.
And here's the reality of it.
If we don't educate the war room posse, we lose the state of Texas.
There's just no debate about it.
I think our, what did I say, $330 billion budget?
steve bannon
Unbelievable, right?
It boggles your mind.
$330 billion.
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glenn story
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Talk to us about it.
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glenn story
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Do you get grief for being a company that's got values, Judeo-Christian values, and live up to that?
glenn story
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steve bannon
They're trying to shut you down all the time.
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glenn story
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steve bannon
Mike Lindell, is Keith Ellison now the chairman?
Is he the working chairman of MyPillow, sir?
mike lindell
He'd like to be Steve, but no.
My lawyers worked till midnight last night.
He gave us a deadline.
I kept telling my lawyers, I said, what's he going to do?
I've done nothing wrong.
Just give him everything.
I said, Mike, we already did.
Now he's coming after you personally.
So they worked till midnight.
We're back and forth with all these papers.
It's disgusting, Steve.
It's an all-out attack.
The only thing you can say is, like Glenn just said there, they attacked my company and we hope that people have gotten behind us before.
If they get behind us now, we'll get through this.
steve bannon
Okay, we're going to get behind you.
Sell me a pillow.
You got 30 seconds before we go.
Brother, what do you got?
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The MyPillow 2.09 dollars and 98 cents.
Free shipping.
There's the My Crosses, you guys.
That's a War Room exclusive to save for 30%.
You have the flash sale on the blankets.
Once they're gone, those are gone.
You guys take advantage of the free shipping on all those big ticket items that we make here in the USA. The beds, the mattresses, the mattress toppers, and the greatest pillow ever, MyPillow.
steve bannon
MyPillow.com, promo code War Room.
Thank you, brother.
Okay, we're back 10 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time on Monday.
Thank you, Glenn, for making this happen.
Glenn Story, my patron.
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