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Creating Chaos in 2026
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| Fulton County. | ||
| Fulton County is right now the target, the only county right now fighting over an election that already happened, but it is coming to a place near you. | ||
| This is the beginning of the chaos of 2026 that is about to ensue. | ||
| You put that pretty clearly because many of us are wondering, what is the FBI? | ||
| What is Chelsea Gabriel? | ||
| What are they all doing at this Fulton County election hub? | ||
| What's your sense of what the goal is here? | ||
| Oh, I mean, we already know what the goal is, create chaos, create distrust, you know, manufacture a crisis that doesn't really exist. | ||
| I mean, this is his playbook, and there's nothing new about it. | ||
| It was not surprising when I got the phone call that they were there. | ||
| I knew exactly what they were trying to do, which is to circumvent a case that is right now in state court that would set forth the procedure for review of these documents once again, because we all know that they have been reviewed multiple, multiple times, and there has been found to be no fraud or maladministration. | ||
| But he was trying to circumvent a state court case that is due to come up on March 9th, where there would be procedure to reviewing these documents. | ||
| There would be cost to the Republicans to review this document, and there would be only copying, not originals taken of these documents. | ||
| But he decided to circumvent that civil court case that's happening right now and to bring in a criminal warrant to seize the original copies of ballots, results tapes, recap sheets, and even envelopes from absentee ballots that contain people's personally identifiable information. | ||
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Here and there, I hope everybody's inspired to join together as a community of artists and speak out against what's going on. | |
| And I'm going to leave this and say ice. | ||
| There are signs that they're trying to build a large detention center just 45 miles outside the city. | ||
| So that's got to get through a lot of state reviews. | ||
| Let me just say that. | ||
| I'm going to be looking to see, is it on wetlands? | ||
| Is there zoning involved? | ||
| Is there, you know, maybe there's some snails that are environmentally sensitive. | ||
| Deeply busy. | ||
| You know, so I just, what, that's a warning sign I'm concerned about, but I think they know that if you come after New York City, you will destabilize the economic engine of the country. | ||
| You do not want to go there. | ||
| This is why we have the amazing music we have. | ||
| This is why we are able to export culture back. | ||
| If we didn't have this culture to export, where is the greatness? | ||
| Right now, America is in a situation where we are trying to fight for our greatness, and our greatness is under attack by folks who believe that they are protecting it. | ||
| This is why I have an ISO pin. | ||
| My parents were Nigerians. | ||
| They came here. | ||
| They had seven kids. | ||
| All of them are doctors, lawyers. | ||
| I myself, I'm here, so obviously I did something right. | ||
| And this designer that designed my dress, she is all over the place. | ||
| We are making things happen and we're doing everything we can to pay homage to this lovely country that allowed us to thrive. | ||
| Why would you say we got to go when Weirdo Reason is great? | ||
| But I don't know where this goes. | ||
| Like, what's Trump going to do? | ||
| He's going to claim that he won the 2020 election so he doesn't have to leave in 2028 or he gets a do-over of his presidency. | ||
| How does this all play out for you? | ||
| No, it's a really great question. | ||
| I think it's really important to connect the dots between what we're seeing in Minnesota, what we're seeing in Georgia, and the kinds of legislation that we saw being proposed in Washington, D.C. this week. | ||
| Donald Trump cannot cancel the 2026 midterms, but what he's showing right now is that he has many, many tools at his disposal, including federal law enforcement, if he wants to mess around deeply with them. | ||
| This could well be a dress rehearsal for interfering with election administration and vote counting in the 2026 midterms. | ||
| And we are seeing it unfold right now in a crucial swing county. | ||
| We're also watching in Minneapolis as law enforcement and immigration enforcement is making it so that people are afraid to leave the house and get groceries and go to work and go to school. | ||
| Imagine what that means when it comes time to vote. | ||
| If you see this replicated in places like Detroit and Milwaukee and Philadelphia along with Atlanta on Election Day, what does that mean for crucial governor and U.S. Senate races in addition to the handful of congressional races that could tip control of the U.S. House? | ||
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Concerns Over Poll Safety
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| And this week in the U.S. House, you saw the introduction of the MEGA Act, the so-called make elections great again, which is perhaps one of the most chilling and far-reaching attempts at congressional vote suppression that this country has seen in decades that would go a long way towards demanding voter ID, toward purging voter roles, towards banning mail-in voting. | ||
| You cannot look at all of these things, all of these patterns, and not fear for the free and fair elections coming up in November. | ||
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Remember breathe Exhale. | |
| Inhale. | ||
| Leftist white women. | ||
| This is a Karen Intifada. | ||
| It is. | ||
| Saw that online. | ||
| It's so right. | ||
| It's a Karen Intifada. | ||
| Leftist white women. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm just going to put it on the line. | ||
| All of whom are unattractive, most of whom are overweight, the vast majority of whom clearly have no jobs nor any sex in their lives. | ||
| Like that just seems really clear. | ||
| Let's be honest, okay? | ||
| If you're getting some at home, you're not this angry all the time. | ||
| Don't we all kind of know that? | ||
| They're pissed off. | ||
| There's a reason you don't see slim, fit, good-looking women at these protests. | ||
| They're off living their beautiful lives. | ||
| Every single one of these women is like they spent too much time with the lazy potato chips and the little Debbies and not enough time getting some at home with some hot, loving dude or a dude at all. | ||
| Not that you can have, you can have lovely lesbians. | ||
| I haven't seen any of them in Minneapolis. | ||
| So that's part of what we're seeing here. | ||
| It's on the Karen Intifada, which is a ban on federal agents wearing masks or using unmarked vehicles. | ||
| How will you enforce that? | ||
| Well, we're working with our mayoral administration, our police department, to talk about these things. | ||
| I mean, as you heard, our DA, Larry Krasner, is ready to prosecute any ICE agents who are violating the law. | ||
| And what's really important is that in Philadelphia, our police department has a set of standards and rules that really build on police community relations. | ||
| You don't want to stop here for a second. | ||
| So we know what you want, but are you gearing up for your police department to be at odds with ICE, to be enforcing some of these laws that you're putting in place? | ||
| You know, this is ongoing conversations with the police department. | ||
| This will be up to them. | ||
| But as I said, our DA is ready to prosecute folks who are not following the law. | ||
| Most important thing is we're trying to set the standard, right? | ||
| We are trying to show that our expectations of when you're in Philadelphia and if they descend on Philadelphia is you're not allowed to wear masks. | ||
| You're not wearing masks. | ||
| You got to show your badge and you got to use marked vehicles. | ||
| So we know who you are and what you're doing here. | ||
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I'm going to say, eyes out, we're | |
| not savaged. | ||
| We're not animals. | ||
| We're not aliens. | ||
| We are humans and we are Americans. | ||
| We definitely have something to worry about. | ||
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Voting Rights Under Threat
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| And this is what he knows. | ||
| And this is this type of intimidation that keeps people home, makes them afraid that the polls are going to become militarized. | ||
| I am concerned that that is going to happen, that there are going to be police out at the polls and people are going to be like, I'm not going to go to the polls if I think maybe there's a warrant out or maybe I have a case that is coming up. | ||
| Of course people would react that way. | ||
| And this is exactly what he wants them to do. | ||
| But I always tell people, I've been flooded on my social media. | ||
| Well, what can I do? | ||
| What can I do? | ||
| You need to protect your right to vote. | ||
| You need to check the roles to make sure that you're not purged. | ||
| You need to make sure that you're registered. | ||
| You need once a month to check your registration to make sure that it is valid and that you have everything to be equipped to show up to the polls. | ||
| Because the only way we can fight this tyranny that he is bringing to our elections is to actually use our power and show up to vote. | ||
| This is the primal screen of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on this people. | ||
| Here's not 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're trying to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
| MAGA Media. | ||
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
| Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | ||
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| It's Monday, 2 February in the year of our Lord, 2026. | ||
| A political earthquake, or was it yesterday in Texas? | ||
| We're going to have Luke Macias on momentarily, one of the best political analysts, grassroots in Texas to break this down for us. | ||
| I want to go to Mike Davis, though. | ||
| Mike Davis, this insurrection, which only gets more heated. | ||
| Now they're saying President Trump, and Fulton County does tie to Minneapolis. | ||
| They're saying everything about the stolen election of 2020, all the investigations. | ||
| They're coming after Tulsi Gabbard this morning. | ||
| There's some leak, some whistleblower about Tulsi Gabbardson. | ||
| She's overseeing this. | ||
| We've got a couple of minutes in this segment. | ||
| I'm going to hold you over. | ||
| The president announced, hey, we're going to really, in the sanctuary cities, protect the federal buildings and we're going to up armor on that. | ||
| But unless we're invited in by mayors of these sanctuary cities, we may not be doing patrols. | ||
| Right now, the government's going to go through a shutdown unless they have some tiebreaker. | ||
| And it still means two weeks to negotiate the DHS budget of which they want to take out masks, unmarked cars. | ||
| Guys have got to wear their badges up on their everything to do that docks them. | ||
| They can't do patrols. | ||
| They're not indemnified. | ||
| You have to have a federal warrant from a judge to deport any illegal alien, which means the 15 million will be here in 15 million years. | ||
| Mike Davis, your overall thoughts of where we are, sir? | ||
| We've talked about this before. | ||
| Our most crucial sovereign power as we the people is controlling our border and controlling our populace. | ||
| And we didn't give that away to not after the Civil War, not at our founding, not after the Civil War, not in any subsequent Congress. | ||
| We the people demand that our federal government, through the laws that we have passed through our elected representatives in Congress, we demand that these immigration laws are enforced, right? | ||
| And President Trump campaigned on this. | ||
| He campaigned on the fact he's going to secure our border and expel illegal aliens, starting with the most dangerous among them, Trende Aragua, MS-13, and other violence criminals. | ||
| And President Trump, again, is doing the unthinkable. | ||
| He's doing what he promised American voters he would do. | ||
| That's why he's a different politician in D.C. than almost all others because they never do what they say they're going to do. | ||
| And President Trump is actually doing that. | ||
| He has been sabotaged every step of the way. | ||
| He won a broad electoral mandate to do this. | ||
| 312 electoral votes, all seven swing states, kept the House, won a comfortable margin in the Senate. | ||
| He's being sabotaged, right? | ||
| You have these activist judges who are trying to sabotage the president of the United States executing federal immigration laws, which is his constitutional duty. | ||
| The Supreme Court has largely stopped this judicial sabotage. | ||
| And now these activists are turning to violence on the streets. | ||
| And they're trying to kneecap them in Congress. | ||
| Mike, hang on for one second. | ||
| We'll take a short commercial break. | ||
| Mike Davis, Luke Messiah, next. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Mike Davis, on the legislation that we're putting forward on make elections great again, it requires, it's going to require vote, an ID to vote. | ||
| It's going to have a nationwide actual real purging of the voter rolls state by state. | ||
| So in some cases, they got hundreds of thousands of, and Tom Fenton tells me it's at least eight to 10 million that could be purged if you did logically. | ||
| And they're going to put restrictions on mail-in ballots so just not anybody can vote in a mail-in ballot. | ||
| That you saw in the cold open, they're saying that that would destroy, would destroy America, the American Constitution, destroy the American Republic. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| Well, Congress has this power under the U.S. Constitution's elections clause where Congress can set the rules for federal elections. | ||
| So this is certainly within Congress's power. | ||
| And I would say this to the Democrats. | ||
| Why are you so worried about having clean voter rolls? | ||
| Why are you so worried about having voter ID? | ||
| Why are you so worried about having election security? | ||
| When illegal voters vote, that cancels the vote for a legal voter, right? | ||
| So if you actually care about democracy, you would want secure elections. | ||
| But obviously, the Democrats don't want secure elections because the Democrats have been rigging and stealing elections for decades, including in 2020, when they used COVID as an excuse to mass mail ballots to old voter lists, including college students who have moved many times since the last election. | ||
| And COVID somehow gets rid of the need for signature verification because COVID apparently changes your signature. | ||
| And so Democrats got rid of signature verification. | ||
| Of course, they don't want these measures because they steal elections. | ||
| Mike, last night at the Grammys, virtually every, I mean, we could have done a 30-minute cold open just on virtually every artist stood up there and the host everything, ice out. | ||
| ICE is destroying the country, that illegal alien invaders are the people that actually make the country and make the country great again. | ||
| Your thoughts on that? | ||
| Well, first, I didn't watch the Grammys because I don't want to watch mentally ill people for three hours on TV. | ||
| It'd be more fun to go to an insane asylum. | ||
| But I would say this, who cares what these Hollywood people think? | ||
| We had an election and we've had several elections where we've passed legislation, including immigration laws, and we the people demand that our border is secure and we control our population. | ||
| And no, we don't want a bunch of third world Marxist trash in America. | ||
| We learned that the hard way with the Somali pirates in Minneapolis. | ||
| Mike, this is going to get very tough in the Senate in the next couple of weeks because the Democrats think they got momentum and they think they got leverage over President Trump. | ||
| No masks, no unmarked cars. | ||
| You got to have your badge with your identification so your family, you can get dox, they can go terrorize your family. | ||
| You have to have a federal judge sign off on a warrant, no patrols, and no indemnity for the officers. | ||
| If all that passed, first off, you wouldn't have anybody in ICE. | ||
| They'd all leave. | ||
| But we would not deport, there would be no mass deportations. | ||
| We would never even get to the bad ombres. | ||
| Your thoughts about the perilous situation we're in in this negotiation, quote-unquote negotiations, because there shouldn't be any negotiation on these topics, on these issues with ICE, sir. | ||
| This is a hell no. | ||
| This is a red line. | ||
| We had an election and we the people with the sovereign power to control our border and populace made the decision that we want President Trump in there enforcing our decades-old immigration laws. | ||
| And if any Republican tries to cut a deal to undercut we the people's sovereign power, as evidenced by this last election, if any Republican does this, they must be primaried or Republican voters should just stay home and let that Republican get beat. | ||
| This is the ultimate betrayal to try to kneecap the president of the United States when he's doing his constitutional duty to enforce our federal immigration laws on behalf of we the people, the sovereign citizens of America. | ||
| So any Republican who tries to cut a deal on this can go to hell. | ||
| They need to be primary. | ||
| need to lose their election. | ||
| What would you say to the president? | ||
| The president says that he lost, the country lost two points off of growth in the fourth quarter. | ||
| The growth could have been, I don't know, over 5%. | ||
| The Atlanta Fed, I think, is now saying four, four and a half percent for the private economy, not the federal spending. | ||
| They're quite worried that the Democrats are going to use this to shut down the government. | ||
| He's got to really thread the needle here. | ||
| What would you say in this regard? | ||
| Because it's a tough one for the president. | ||
| Because you've already seen some wobbly Ron Johnson, I love, I think he's already saying, well, we could have a conversation on body cameras. | ||
| If you have a conversation with these guys on anything, they're going to try to run the tables on you. | ||
| So what advice would you give the president, knowing that the Democrats actually want to shut down the government to hurt the economy? | ||
| Shut down the government. | ||
| I mean, the Democrats shut down the government last time and they got their asses kicked by President Trump. | ||
| Shut it down again. | ||
| It's the Democrat who needs all this government largest. | ||
| You know, they need to, it's the Democrats who need to send money to their Somali pirates for the votes, right? | ||
| It's not Republicans. | ||
| We don't need the federal government to send money to freeloaders like they're Somali pirates. | ||
| Shut down the governments, right? | ||
| If Democrats want to try to kneecap the president on immigration, shut down the government. | ||
| That's the most crucial duty of the federal government is to secure our border and to protect us from an invasion of third world Marxist trash. | ||
| What would you say to Tom Holman? | ||
| There's this philosophy now, particularly in the sanctuary cities in the California, Illinois, New York, Minnesota, and the sanctuary cities to protect. | ||
| President Trump said he's not going to let happen what happened in Portland, Oregon the other night and what happened in Los Angeles with these federal buildings, but to put a shield around those and wait to be asked by the mayors. | ||
| And he said, hey, they got to ask and say, please to go in and start to enforce immigration law. | ||
| What are your thoughts on that? | ||
| The federal immigration law is the supreme law of the land under the Constitution. | ||
| And the federal government should enforce federal law regardless of whether these modern day Confederates Democrat governors and mayors don't like federal law. | ||
| That's too bad, right? | ||
| You have to enforce the law. | ||
| They certainly like to put their Somali pirates on the federal dole, right? | ||
| So all Americans have to pay federal taxes to support their freeloading third world migrants in these sanctuary cities. | ||
| If we have to pay for this, then we should enforce federal law so we don't have to keep paying for Somali fraud in Minneapolis. | ||
| Right now, it's unclear. | ||
| Ellison said he may allow Tom Holman and the ICE team into these jails and prisons in Minnesota, which I hear there are hundreds of criminals, illegal alien criminals. | ||
| But so far, I don't think that's happened. | ||
| If they continue not to cooperate, because essentially in Illinois, California, and in Minnesota and New York, you have, I think, noncompliance. | ||
| Very different in Texas, Florida, other states where you don't see this problem. | ||
| But if they continue to non-comply with the very basics, which is to get the bad ombres into ICE and get them out of the country, what would you recommend to Tom Holman? | ||
| I would say finish the job, finish the job. | ||
| Look, we don't have the resources with the federal government to chase down every illegal immigrant in America. | ||
| They are targeting the worst of the worst, the most dangerous criminals out there. | ||
| And these Democrats are coddling these very dangerous illegal immigrants because Democrats care more about their own power than they do about the safety of Americans in their states and in their cities. | ||
| So it's just collateral damage to these Democrat politicians when women are getting raped and murdered, when kids are getting raped, when people are getting robbed, when there are burglaries, home invasions. | ||
| Democrats. | ||
| Democrat politicians do not care. | ||
| That's just the cost of doing business for them because they care about power more than they care about people. | ||
| Mike Davis, where do people get you? | ||
| Now more than ever, we need Article 3. | ||
| These are going to be huge. | ||
| Legal fact, one of the federal judges the other day backed ICE, but this is all going to fight through the courts. | ||
| There's going to be a huge fight in Congress. | ||
| President Trump, they're trying to jam up President Trump. | ||
| A bunch of weak Republicans right now are starting to spit the bit. | ||
| And it gets back to we're going to do Tarran County in this state Senate seat in District 9. | ||
| What happened there? | ||
| Because that was an earthquake. | ||
| Are people just not showing up because they don't think we're taking enough action or do they think we're winning too much and not showing up? | ||
| So Mike Davis, social media, you're putting great stuff up on Twitter all the time. | ||
| And where do they go for your, to go to Article 3 to join up? | ||
| One final point. | ||
| Immigration is a civil proceeding, immigration enforcement. | ||
| It's not criminal. | ||
| We do not, we have never required judicial warrants to arrest illegal aliens and to deport them. | ||
| This would make it impossible for ICE to do their jobs. | ||
| It's a red line. | ||
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| It's a hell no. | ||
| And any Republican politician who goes along with judicial warrants for immigration enforcement needs to lose their job. | ||
| They need to be primaried or people just need to stay home and let them lose. | ||
| And it's article3projects.org, article number threeprojects.org donates, follow us on social media. | ||
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Focusing on the Republican Ticket
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| And again, the war room posse, superpower, action, action, action. | ||
| And thank you, Steve. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Good way to start off the week. | ||
| We're going to go to Texas next. | ||
| Luke Mousias is going to join us. | ||
| As you remember, he was here during the entire Paxon impeachment, gave us great guidance every day. | ||
| A couple of things. | ||
| Number one, I told you this was going to happen. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party, Xi came out, huge article over the weekend. | ||
| They're making all efforts. | ||
| This is part of the reasons they're having these discussions with Great Britain. | ||
| One of the reasons they're having these discussions with Germany and France. | ||
| They're going full out to make their currency a prime reserve currency, a reserve currency to compete with the United States of America. | ||
| Now, gold and silver have been all over the map ever since the announcement of Kevin Worsh as head of the Federal Reserve. | ||
| Kevin Worsh is a strong dollar guy. | ||
| He's also a hawk on interest rates, kind of the polar opposite of President Trump. | ||
| President Trump is a kind of a dove on interest rates. | ||
| He wants low interest rates to spur growth. | ||
| And he's for a weaker dollar because it drives exports. | ||
| Two different philosophies, but gold and silver all over the map. | ||
| Go to Birch Gold. | ||
| Take your phone out. | ||
| Text Bannon, B-A-N-N-O-N at 989898. | ||
| The ultimate guide to invest in gold and precious metals in the age of Trump, plus get direct access to Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| I think we're going to get Philip on tomorrow to walk us through everything that's going on in these turbulent capital markets. | ||
| This is all about a special election for a Texas state senate seat around Fort Worth. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Texas 9, Texas 9, because what happened in Texas 9? | ||
| It didn't just swing to the left. | ||
| It took a rocket ship to the left. | ||
| My goodness gracious, the Texas 9 Senate District election marches. | ||
| This was a district that Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. | ||
| The Democratic candidate in the special election on Saturday, hello, won it by 14 points. | ||
| That's an over 30-point shift to the left. | ||
| Any Republican, unlike Ron DeSantis, who doesn't take this seriously, they should realize that this is very perilous. | ||
| They ignore this result at their own peril. | ||
| Ron DeSantis is right to say, hey, special elections can be quirky, but this ain't no quirk. | ||
| Congressman Pete Sessions from Texas basically told me, he said, no Democrat should ever win in North Texas like this. | ||
| Although he also said, yeah, there was an ice storm, 31 points. | ||
| That's not an ice storm. | ||
| No, that ain't no ice storm. | ||
| If you ignore this, you're going to ice yourself out of a majority come to midterm. | ||
| All right, when we look at these special elections, and this is something you and I talk about a lot and look at very closely in between the federal elections, what can they tell us? | ||
| Okay, so you know, you see this 31-point shift to the left, right? | ||
| If this were just one election, that would be one thing. | ||
| But it's the slew of special elections that together paint a picture, and it's a picture that Democrats should love and a picture that Republicans should be really worried about. | ||
| Because what are we talking about here? | ||
| Okay, the average 2025-26 special election, Democrats are doing, get this, 12 points better, 12 points better than Kamala Harris did in 2024. | ||
| You know, that was a state special election that happened in Texas on Saturday. | ||
| If you look at the federal special elections, this 12 points is actually north of 15 points on average. | ||
| I was looking back through the history books. | ||
| This looks a whole heck of a lot like what we saw during the 2017-2018 cycle where you saw these Democrats outperforming. | ||
| It may not be 2017, 20, maybe 2010. | ||
| I mean, people got to get focused on this. | ||
| Bring in Luke Mousias from the Luke Masias show. | ||
| Luke, you were great during the Paxon impeachment. | ||
| Every day you were on War Room walking people through what the grassroots needed to do. | ||
| Give us your assessment of what happened. | ||
| Was it low turnout? | ||
| Are the Trump people frustrated? | ||
| Are they just not focused? | ||
| I mean, to have this election on a January and a Saturday, months after the first round, I always thought was ridiculous. | ||
| I thought you should have it three or four weeks after the whatever Texas law allowed, have it in November, early December and not wait. | ||
| But people did. | ||
| So you're the best at feeling at the grassroots. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Well, I like our former Texas GOP chair, Matt Rinaldi's views. | ||
| He said, my view on the recent election results is that they completely validate all my political opinions, disprove everyone who has disagreed with me, and show that if my faction got everything we want, we would win every election, every time. | ||
| So that's probably what almost every single person is saying right now. | ||
| I think there's an important thing that's missing out of that CNN piece. | ||
| When this election happened in November, it already showed us that Democrats had energy, more energy than Republicans. | ||
| You and I have talked offline about this problem, Steve. | ||
| 2,000 less Democrat votes were cast in the special election for Taylor Remett in that swing, even though he came short in the first round. | ||
| But more than 20,000 people that came out and voted for a Republican for Senate in November did not come back out. | ||
| Governor Abbott actually called this as soon as he could by Texas law. | ||
| There's some restrictions on mail and ballots and overseas people and things like that. | ||
| But the reality is that Republicans did not take this race as seriously. | ||
| And I think there are three factors that we need to think about. | ||
| One is that there are some disenfranchised conservatives. | ||
| They're patriots. | ||
| They're people that you and I know very well that are just very frustrated with the lack of things that are happening. | ||
| But some of those people are not participating in elections. | ||
| The Democrats think they are at war. | ||
| They think they are about to lose. | ||
| They think they're one election away from some fascist takeover of our country. | ||
| And that's their mentality. | ||
| So they're showing up in droves. | ||
| And honestly, you don't even have to spend a lot of money talking to them. | ||
| The left doesn't have to talk to them tremendously. | ||
| They're just showing up where we're having to yell at our people. | ||
| So there's some disenfranchised individuals. | ||
| There's some Republicans that just think we're winning. | ||
| They're consuming the daily media storm from Fox News and other places. | ||
| And they just think Republicans are winning. | ||
| Democrats are losing. | ||
| What do I have to worry about? | ||
| And then the third thing, and this is the most heinous part, is that the other Republican who lost this, John Huffman, who's a more moderate Republican, he represents that Bush moderate Chamber of Commerce establishment wing of the GOP. | ||
| He was celebrating the night of this election and put a statement out basically saying that he and his people didn't feel that Lee had done enough to ask them to vote. | ||
| And understand that that moderate wing is trying to, not only in this special election, but I think they're thinking about doing this for November, is they're thinking about sitting out for any Republican nominee that is a true strong conservative in an attempt to try to take the party back in the direction of the Bush wing. | ||
| The moderates in the Texas GOP that have been out of power for a decade are already trying to recruit someone to try to take the party back so that they can get a Texas GOP chair who's not actually holding Republicans accountable. | ||
| So you see a lot of different things at play here. | ||
| I'm sure there's several ways we could take this conversation. | ||
| Yeah, look, one thing I don't think people are cognizant of, maybe down here in Texas, but this guy was a machine shop foreman. | ||
| He's a part of a union and nothing about him personally, but the energy you see in the Democratic Party is not your old Democratic Party. | ||
| The DSA and more of these far left wing, you see it with Mamdani. | ||
| You see it in Minneapolis. | ||
| You nailed it. | ||
| These people believe they're at war. | ||
| If you go back to the make elections great again legislation, we're asking for basic stuff, voter ID, right? | ||
| Purge the ballot, purge the roles of people that are not eligible to vote in these districts anymore, right? | ||
| And just do some basic stuff on mail-in ballots so they can't be abused like they've been in the past, like signature verification, very modest things. | ||
| They think it's the end of them because they know if that is enforced, it is the end of them. | ||
| You have DSA, Working Family Party, Working Family Party, DSA down in Houston is already a pretty prominent thing. | ||
| You're seeing the tactics. | ||
| This was, they had a grassroots movement. | ||
| This movement is energized because they do believe that President Trump and MAGA is the end of them. | ||
| And they're fighting like it is the end of them. | ||
| We are not yet. | ||
| For some reason, people are just sitting there going, hey, President Trump's in. | ||
| We've got the House. | ||
| We've got the Senate. | ||
| I look at various broadcasts. | ||
| Oh, I see is winning. | ||
| It's too much winning. | ||
| And they have the energy to get out. | ||
| And these people are far left wing. | ||
| This is not, these are not moderates. | ||
| These are not old school Texas Democrats. | ||
| It's a whole different reality. | ||
| It's closer to what Mendami stands for in New York City. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| The war room posse is probably hearing this going, what are you talking about? | ||
| Because everybody I know knows we're at war. | ||
| And the truth is, that's why they know who Lee Womsgonce is. | ||
| That's why those who were in Tarrant County went out and voted for her. | ||
| The reality is, though, most of the Republicans you know in your life do not have that mentality. | ||
| They don't believe that we're actually one election away from having Democrats take a substantial amount of power back. | ||
| This is happening in the reddest county in America, the largest red county in America, Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Arlington. | ||
| Democrats have been trying to get a larger foothold in Texas for a long time, and they're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars this election to do so. | ||
| The problem is, if you just consume your average Republican media, you think we are winning. | ||
| They focus on the things that are happening and they talk about how dumb the left is. | ||
| But I think what you understand is that the left is energized. | ||
| You do not even have to tell them to vote. | ||
| I'm telling you, these guys are just showing up. | ||
| And that's what I'm concerned about. | ||
| The Republican Party of Texas was texting and reaching out to every Republican. | ||
| The Terrant GOP, actually, our local GOP chair, grassroots guy, working really hard. | ||
| The statewide elected officials, Lee's campaign, other outside groups reaching out to people. | ||
| There were individuals who got 10 texts, five mailers, the addresses. | ||
| People talk to them. | ||
| They get invited to teletown halls with Ted Cruz and Brandon Gill and all these people, and they didn't show up to vote. | ||
| And the Democrats were showing up every single day. | ||
| So I think understanding just how much energy they have is really important. | ||
| But yeah, I will say this: CNN is not accurate to say this means that Texas is going to shift by 30 points. | ||
| But what it is an indicator of is the fact that they have way more energy on their side. | ||
| And if we don't wake up, we are going to lose seats we otherwise wouldn't have lost. | ||
| And know that the moderate establishment forces in Texas are doing everything they can to make sure that any conservative Republican nominee does not fare well in an attempt to steer the entire party apparatus back into the middle. | ||
| Two things. | ||
| Number one, they think they're going to pull a Colorado on Texas. | ||
| You can see how they're already laying the issues down, et cetera. | ||
| Also, 2018, as I warned, if you didn't focus on 2018 and do the work that Nancy Pelosi was doing that summer, she was promising they were going to impeach Trump, and they did impeach Trump, and that's going to happen. | ||
| My fear right now, if you look at it, it's not a 2018 problem. | ||
| I think you have a 2010, the great Tea Party revolt. | ||
| We won 63 seats. | ||
| These people are putting in the work and the effort and they have the energy. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| What's the primary? | ||
| We're down here and we're going to spend the month in Texas. | ||
| What is this primary on 3 March going to tell us about what our prospects are for November, sir? | ||
| Yeah, my dad always told me that I was really good at running with the football before I caught it when I was a receiver. | ||
| And that's what often happens at the primary. | ||
| So look, next month, if you're over 65, you might be getting a mail-in ballot to your house. | ||
| If you requested one, there's about five or six percent of the people that vote that way. | ||
| In two weeks, you can go early vote and then you can go vote. | ||
| Of course, this election is four weeks from Tuesday. | ||
| This thing is going to be upon us before we even know it. | ||
| And the reality is that there are a lot of liberal Republicans, especially in the rural areas, that are being challenged by conservative challengers who should be held accountable. | ||
| Now, there's a really good opportunity we have to make sure that the Republicans are on the ballot in November are actually the conservatives, the ones who are going to walk the walk after they win in November. | ||
| So I think there's a massive battle going on in Texas for the next 30 days. | ||
| You know this, but 17 Republican incumbents lost their primary two years ago to conservative challengers. | ||
| We have been moving this state to the right consistently every single election cycle. | ||
| And this election cycle should be no different. | ||
| So there's open seats that matter. | ||
| There are current champions in the legislature, Andy Hopper, David Lowe, Brian Harrison, these guys who are being challenged from their left. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So the Austin Swamp has recruited people to try to take them out. | ||
| They are running. | ||
| So everybody needs to be on the alert. | ||
| And I just want to remind everybody, you know this, but if they vote and actually just post on their social media that they did vote, that they researched the candidates, that they know who actually are the good conservative choices, they're going to have multiple friends reach out and not even know there's an election going on. | ||
| They're not going to cast one ballot. | ||
| They're going to cast two, three, four, or five legally because they're actually informed. | ||
| So I think there's a really good opportunity here in the next 30 days. | ||
| And I hope we can keep talking about that. | ||
| Thank you for coming down to Texas to focus on these important elections, Steve. | ||
| Luke, one more time before I let you go. | ||
| Your advice and warning to the grassroots of Texas, the grassroots, as Texas goes, so goes the nation, and particularly President Trump's presidency. | ||
| If we're to lose these midterms, we lose the House. | ||
| It's going to be a very different deal starting in 2027. | ||
| What is your advice and warning? | ||
| We got about a minute, sir. | ||
| First, let's focus for the next 30 days on making sure that the Republican ticket that we have going forward in November is one that we can be proud of and know with confidence is going to deliver on the promises that give us the energy to go out and tell every single person we know to go vote. | ||
| And then, when that happens, we have to make sure that we also don't start shooting other conservatives in our own party. | ||
| Now, we do have moderate forces in our party, but we have really good conservative leadership that's actually been willing to be a voice for the grassroots. | ||
| Everybody's really frustrated right now. | ||
| So, I think we need to really hone in our frustrations on the most moderate forces in our party and try to minimize their influence, win in March, and then actually work our tails off knowing that the Democrats are really, really, really angry, really scared. | ||
| And we're not. | ||
| Some of that lack of fear comes from our faith in Christ, but some of that just comes from a complacency. | ||
| We can't be complacent because if you wake up in November and Democrats have made serious grounds, you're going to have red counties that went blue. | ||
| You're going to have a House majority that has swung not just a little in Democrats' favor, but a ton in Democrats' favor, which gives them a lot of wiggle room to screw up the America First agenda for not just one cycle, but the next 10 years. | ||
| Luke, social media, and where do we get to your show, sir? | ||
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| At Luke Macias, TX on X and on YouTube, the Luke Macias show. | ||
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| We do once a week, not every single day. | ||
| Sorry, Steve, I just don't have the stamina. | ||
| But we talk about what's happening in Texas. | ||
| Less than 30 minutes, the inside of Texas politics. | ||
| Sir, you're terrific. | ||
| Thank you for coming on this morning. | ||
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| Welcome back. | ||
| Make sure you go. | ||
| Peter and I go talk. | ||
| Dr. Navarro, we're going to go to the White House. | ||
| He's going to join us momentarily. | ||
| You know, Peter Navarro is one of the best analysts and observers of what's going on with the Chinese Communist Party, not just their economics, but also their military, political, all that. | ||
| She's come out over the weekend and let the ket out of the bag that he's very focused on making the Chinese currency a competing reserve currency to the United States dollar. | ||
| That is something we've warned about for years. | ||
| This is why we did the end of the dollar empire because it's quite evident that the Chinese Communist Party is going to kind of compete with us everywhere to become a hegemon. | ||
| Go to birchgold.com, promo code bannon, end of the dollar empire. | ||
| You get all up to speed. | ||
| In five years, we've been putting this out. | ||
| Started when gold was a thousand golds all over the place now. | ||
| Talk to Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| Do it today. | ||
| I'm trying to get Philip on tomorrow. | ||
| So I've got a bunch of hitters in a row. | ||
| I got Peter Navarra. | ||
| I got Peter Schweitzer, Captain Finnell, Natalie Winters. | ||
| All we're going to talk about China geopolitics and your money and the foreign powers, CCP in Mexico assisting this invasion of the country. | ||
| Dr. Navarre, I want to come on with you, bring you up now. | ||
| By the way, the president put out a very nice photo. | ||
| If we can put that up today, it says some nice things about Dr. Navarra and yours truly. | ||
| And I want to, that is from Peter Navarra's wedding. | ||
| I was, I think I was giving a toast to you, Peter. | ||
| It was a great, your bride was absolutely beautiful, Bonnie. | ||
| You definitely married. | ||
| I think you were talking about the rise of gold, man. | ||
| Well, I had to, you know, I was given, I was given a toast. | ||
| I had to make it. | ||
| I thought, you know, I'd get a sponsor hit in there just in case. | ||
| You had a pretty prominent proof. | ||
| You were at the right place. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| The gold. | ||
| Peter, growth, economic growth. | ||
| President, I think, is quite concerned about a government shutdown. | ||
| You know, his theory is that, hey, it took a couple of points off of last year's growth as your guys' economic plan, particularly tariffs, forcing manufacturing back here. | ||
| Also, the money cash coming in of tariffs, the big, beautiful bill, the supply-side tax cut. | ||
| It's all clicking. | ||
| I'm here in Texas in the Sunday paper in Texas because they had a huge freeze last week, Peter. | ||
| It had this huge story on the front. | ||
| It said, freezes over, economy heats up. | ||
| In North Texas and the Dallas area, I think things are starting to kick in as you guys forecasted. | ||
| How treacherous is the Democrat or the Democrats right now? | ||
| Because we talked with Mike Davis. | ||
| I mean, they are really trying to jam us up on immigration enforcement, particularly mass deportations, with all these things they want from President Trump, including judicial warrants to basically deport anybody. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Chapter 37 and the Democrats hate Trump more than they love this country. | ||
| This is just a variation on that theme. | ||
| I mean, the shutdown will slow things down. | ||
| It'll cost people's jobs and it will lessen the good pressures to increase wages. | ||
| So I guess what's important as we move into the November cycle, Steve, is just to keep reminding people of how we got to where we were when Trump took over. | ||
| We were in one of the worst places we've been in since the Great Depression. | ||
| We had skyrocketing inflation. | ||
| We had recession on the horizon. | ||
| We had real wages, which were once again negative, meaning that inflation was outrunning the wage level. | ||
| And Donald Trump has turned that around. | ||
| I mean, 2026, absent shocks like government shutdowns and things that could happen geopolitically, is positioned to be, Steve, one of the best years in this country's history. | ||
| It's pretty amazing. | ||
| It's all Trump policy driven. | ||
| I mean, the fountainhead is the drill, baby, drill policies because it's not just lower gas we pay and lower heating oil. | ||
| I mean, it filters through transportation costs for companies, fertilizer and food prices, and the whole ball of wax. | ||
| We've got the largest tax rebate coming in history in April for sort of the middle class. | ||
| And that's going to be a tremendous lift to the economy. | ||
| We've seen $18 trillion of investment pledged and already beginning to bear fruits. | ||
| And one of the things I'm doing, Steve, is I do these little three-minute hits on the Navarro Express podcast where I look at the data and actually give you the right interpretation of the data. | ||
| For example, just on Friday, the producer price index came out, and it was like people were like tearing their hair out. | ||
| Oh, it's inflationary, this, that, and the other thing. | ||
| But when you look beneath the hood of that, the increase was driven purely by an artifact of, I don't know if you know this, Steve, but when the stock market goes up significantly, it actually pushes the inflation index up. | ||
| But it's got nothing to do with meat and potatoes, bread, bread, and things like that on the table. | ||
| And in fact, the same PPI report showed that what I've been watching very carefully is the rebirth of our manufacturing capacity. | ||
| So, you know, 100% expensing on a big, beautiful bill. | ||
| And then people are going to have money in their pockets. | ||
| It's not just the rebates, the no tax on tips, no tax on overtime in seniors, no tax on Social Security. | ||
| Steve, that's huge. | ||
| That's a big hit. | ||
| So, and of course, the trade deficit. | ||
| I mean, I've been saying this for 10 years now. | ||
| It's like when you have a falling deficit, that's reflected in higher GDP growth. | ||
| It's purely a mathematical equation. | ||
| And we were losing 1 to 2% of GDP every year for the last 20 years as our factories have gone offshore. | ||
| And now that's coming back. | ||
| So things look really good. | ||
| The new Fed chair announcement, I think you and I agree, is puzzling in the sense that he has a reputation for being hawkish and a strong dollar guy. | ||
| And I always thought the term weak and strong dollar were wrong. | ||
| That's not what it's all about. | ||
| It's like, what's a fairly valued dollar in a world of fair trade? | ||
| And it's been hurting us. | ||
| And by the way, you led off with the Chinese, dude. | ||
| It's like, how is Xi Jinping going to create a global currency when they've got like 30 years of history engaged in currency manipulation? | ||
| I mean, why would any country want to tie their currency to the biggest currency manipulator in world history? | ||
| Peter Hamilton. | ||
| Of course, China's doing that to avoid sanctions. | ||
| We just want to hold you quickly. | ||
| I know you got a bolt. | ||
| We just want to hold you quickly through the break. | ||
| The bold choice of President Trump for Fed chair. | ||