WarRoom Battleground EP 954: Ridding Texas Of The RINOS
Wendy Sue Yockey and Kim Weber expose Montgomery County’s "Rhino" Republicans—Cecil Bell, Will Metcalf, and Dustin Burroughs—as corporate-backed betrayers, citing $8M dark-money campaigns and PAC ties like Texas for Lawsuit Reform (funded by Sands Corp., linked to Macau’s gambling empire). Grassroots conservatives, including Kristen Plaissance, fight back via Rule 44 censures and the Freedom Caucus, framing their battle as a defense against election integrity attacks and systemic corruption. Bannon declares Texas’s grassroots victory essential: "As Texas goes, so goes the nation." [Automatically generated summary]
Of course, this is the special show we've been doing for like the last, I don't know, three or four weeks when we had the big conference down here to talk about Proposition 10 and how important it was on the ballot.
We have shifted operations here as we committed to through the primary on the 3rd of March and probably a couple of days afterwards.
It's been very enlightening about what's going on.
One is not just about Sharia law and the H-1B visas, all these different issues that are obviously Texas is under assault.
One of the things that surprised me the most is the vitriol that has come against the precinct strategy, which is the backbone of really the Trump grassroots movement.
These are volunteers throughout the country that go in as precinct committee men into the Republican apparatus, take over these committees and make sure that we drive MAGA policies, MAGA concerns, MAGA issues, at the same time driving President Trump's agenda.
In Texas, it's been shocking to me to find out that the established order, and we always knew because we've covered, in fact, the reason we came up with the idea of doing Warwarm, Texas, that we were very engaged a couple of years ago on the impeachment of Ken Paxton.
And we got involved and every day we did live coverage, got very involved, and we're one of the key elements to make sure that impeachment didn't go through because the Warwick posse and particularly folks in Texas were outraged by what they were seeing.
I also told people at the time it became a national, I mean, the show blew up on a national basis and international basis because people were fascinated by this grassroots versus the Republican establishment order, this really this business community down here in Texas since all these massive issues of the border security and all of it were going on.
Then after that, we had the redistricting fight.
That was just in the summer of this past year.
The redistricting fight was the biggest one that kicked everything off.
We had about 20 seats total that we could redistrict.
Texas had a potential of eight.
I think they went for five, but every day that fight about the special session in the Texas House and Senate galvanized just not a huge audience in Texas, but throughout the country as they said, hey, these lessons that you're seeing in Texas play throughout the country.
And that is why I consider Texas as a Virginian.
Of course, Sam Houston was a Virginian, and Davey Crockett was a Virginian.
They say that Texas is the crown jewel in the Union and something's going on here that's very insidious about the spread of Sharia law.
And so we ought to do a conference, get Gert Vilders, get Glenn Beck, and let's just kick it off and roll.
And the response has been overwhelming.
But as I've been here, I'm learning a lot more about what's going on.
One of the things I want to alert all the country to, and particularly the Trump movement, is that the precinct strategy, which has been under assault in other states, this is a very organized, this is an organized method done by the Republican establishment.
Remember, the Democrats have picked up on Dan Schultz and Steve Stern's idea of precincts right.
They're now having their own precinct strategy to get people to fill those billets and actually become actively part of the political process.
Steve Stern joins me.
Steve, I do want to talk about the precinct strategy overall before I get our two guests in that are going to give us the eyewitness account of what's happened in Montgomery County, Texas, as an example of what's happening in many places throughout the country.
First off, the other day we heard the appeals court in Colorado turn down Tina Peters.
You're 84 years old.
I tease you all the time.
You're the most ambitious 84-year-old I've ever seen, but you have really dedicated, you're an entrepreneur, but you've really dedicated, I think you've turned almost the company over to your son to dedicate virtually all your time to supporting President Trump and President Trump's policies because you're a patriot and say, hey, you know, Trump in the MAGA base and what Trump stands for is what's going to save this country.
You've dedicated, I don't know, 80 or 90% of your working hours.
I talk to you on weekends.
I talk to you late at night.
You're hammering.
And you've gone around this thing called the precinct strategy as a great platform to do it.
Part of that precinct strategy is to get people involved in issues like election integrity.
And Tina Peters, a 70-ish old gold star mother, which are like the most revered women in our country because their sons or daughters gave their lives in defense of this republic.
How important is it this situation of Tina Peters remaining in a state prison, although President Trump has pardoned her, and now you have an appeals court that's basically saying she's got to stay?
And, you know, on our show, we have a lot of people on it.
We had Peter Ticton on.
We've had her main lawyers on.
Everybody is trying to help.
But I think one of the most important things are we always ask people to call the governor.
And I'm going to bring that up again later.
We need to call the governor and get her out.
I mean, the problem is we had 40,000, 50,000 people call.
Imagine if we had 10 million people call.
That's the only difference going to make.
So maybe starting on the 2nd of March, when we're going to have our election security call at Trump International, and Peter Ticton will be there.
We'll get him on and we'll start this thing all again because this poor woman, she represents us.
She doesn't even complain about all the tactics that they use to silence her.
She just said, please help me get this word out how Colorado has been fraudulent in the election.
And what we need to do, we need to do what we did in Georgia, bring everybody in there, get all the ballots, show how she was 100% right, get Lindell, get everybody doing this.
Now, the other day we had a big precinct strategy meeting.
Now, I want to go to precinct strategy for a second.
We'll get back to Tina, some of the other shows.
The precinct strategy, this is essentially became a huge deal.
Dan had been working on this year, but when President Trump, when the 2020 election was stolen and President Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago, two things kind of happened simultaneously.
One was a group of public intellectuals, the Russ Votes and the Stephen Millers and others, started forming these think tanks.
You know, America First Policy Institute, America First Law, Center for Renewing America, Russ Vote, where actually policies and networks of people are being put together.
So in President Trump's victory, if President Trump would come back, that you would have a victory that you could start off with an administration, unlike the first time when we won.
We didn't have enough time to put policies or people together.
We were down three points with 48 hours to go against Hillary Clinton.
We would not have those issues.
At the same time, a political movement kind of led by Dan Schultz, been trying to do this for years, people like Steve Stern to say, let's get all the MAGA base, let's get the MA warriors to literally start taking over the fundamental framework of the Republican Party and do that precinct by precinct.
That is what led to the massive ground game that led to President, first of all, the victory in 2022 to take the house back, but then the historic comeback in 2024.
The precinct strategy has been so successful that it's come under an onslaught.
And you've seen this, Steve.
Just talk to me about you've relaunched the site.
You've, because people around the country, you're going to hear some folks in Texas of how it's a knockdown drag every day.
But we do realize throughout the country, many of the precinct strategy folks were not welcomed with open arms by the Republican establishment.
The exact opposite took place.
In fact, you were ridiculed.
They fought you every step of the way and they tried to get rid of you.
Steve, you've gotten ahead of this and saying, we understand this.
We're going to reboot a new site.
We had a kickoff conference the other day where you had representatives from all 50 states to not rejuvenate, but say, hey, look, we know we have a winning structure.
We know we have a winning strategy because we know it, because the Republican establishment is out there to destroy us, sir.
So what happened was the first thing we talked about was there's 400,000 slots and only 200,000 people involved.
Many people started asking questions.
We didn't know that.
And one of the things that when we started, we had five different speakers and then we started asking questions.
We found that people want to connect with each other.
They didn't realize that the person in Washington state was doing this, that the person in Delaware was doing that.
And we have this site up, which I want everybody to go to, the new site, and maybe you can put that up for us.
Patriot Project USA.
And if you go to patriotprojectusa.org, you can sign up.
And there'll be one person in every state that's listed there that you can call and find out how to get involved.
And why is that important?
Because if you go on the websites of a lot of these states and a lot of these counties, you can't even get a hold of anybody.
You call them up, they never return a call.
But we have the people that are going to put you where you want to do.
And so what happened during this meeting and what was so important?
People said, hey, we got to go door to door to meet new people to get them involved.
You know, like you always say on the phone, I'm 84.
We need to get the young people involved.
So they talked about turning point.
They talked about young people in college and how to get them involved.
And that's one of the things we're going to work on.
They talked about getting college students involved, asking moms for America to help, ask the Blexit, ask all the different organizations to start to put people in the precincts so that they can get involved.
We're going to get them training manuals.
So many things that they ask for that they don't even have.
And we're going to communicate with each other.
We're not going to take down precinctstrategy.com.
We're going to leave that up because that has a lot of information about how to join in different areas because a lot of states have different ways to join.
So we want you to go to Dan Schultz's book.
He hasn't retired continuously, but he's in the background now and he's going to run for office in Wisconsin.
So one thing you said to me the other day, do we need a convention for precinct strategy?
Yes, we do.
We need to have it in West Palm Beach and get all the people from yournews.com, from your studios and everything else there to support us because we need more support.
So you can go to Stern American Rumble to see everything's going there.
You can see us on yournews.com.
You can see us on precinctprojectusa.org.
And you can go to sthern1054gmail.com.
My email is back down there to find out what to do because we have a lot of people that are watching your show that have never really volunteered.
And now they're coming to me and said, how do we take this country back?
Especially what we saw last week when the Congress doesn't even want to get the SAVAC pass, which is one of the most important things.
Thank you for having me on today and action, One of the foundation, thank you, Steve.
One of the foundational elements of President Trump's comeback was to take MAGA people that had never been involved in politics.
President Trump brought all these people and had never been involved in politics and really give them a method into that.
That was the precinct.
Get into the local precinct, become a committeeman, maybe then become the committee chair, and you move up.
I want to go to, and I didn't realize the fight that we saw in the impeachment of Ken Paxon, the fight we saw for the redistricting because Republican established didn't want to do it.
The two big grassroots fights and then you had the massive Trump win by 14 points in 2024.
Highlight to me that the precinct strategy is really working.
Now I've seen an organized effort by some of the smartest political operatives in Texas to destroy it.
I want to talk about the situation Montgomery County have Wendy Sue, Yaqui, and Kim Weber.
Wendy Sue, let me start with you first, because Texas is like a country, right?
It's the eighth largest economy in the world.
It's got 31 million people.
It is a magnificent, you know, it's got agriculture, commerce, construction, real estate, tech, some of the great universities in the country.
It is really an amazing place with amazing people.
Talk to me about Montgomery County.
Just talk to me about your county and what it's like.
And so they're many, many MAGA people, but we don't have as much engagement as you would think we would because they're so comfortable with the fact that we are conservative and represented by Republicans that they don't necessarily pay attention as much as they should.
In fact, one of the reasons the whole precinct strategy started was to let MAGA folks and people that say, hey, look, I don't have any political power.
I'm not engaged.
You volunteer to get involved.
What was it?
What is it that is the situation down there between if it's the reddest county in Texas, what's the issue between the Republican establishment and grassroots leaders like you and Wendy Sue?
Okay, let's talk about that for a second because that's an issue that's coming up in other parts of Texas.
When you say because I think people got shocked as we did, and this is what led us to War Room, Texas about Sharia law, as we did a couple of years ago.
Remember, the whole war room turned over virtually for those weeks of the trial of Ken Paxton.
And Ken Paxton, just our audience knows this, is that on the day that Biden had that phony inauguration back in January 2021, where President Trump left that day at noon to go back to Mar-Lago, kind of in exile, because they had stolen, as we now know, and we believe the time of the 2020 election, Paxton was the first guest we had on the afternoon show, the morning show.
We finished at noon.
President Trump left from Andrews Air Force Base.
Biden had like 50 people there during COVID, and it just felt phony and looked phony.
Ken Paxton came on the show in the afternoon, and Ken Paxton said, as the Attorney General of the Great State of Texas, where Biden is within the bounds of the Constitution and it's good for Texas, we will work with the Biden administration where he's outside the lines of the Constitution and he's hurting Texas.
I'm going to go to court.
And Ken Paxton, I think 48 hours later was in court because Biden signed all those executive orders that basically opened up the border, everything President Trump had done.
People were shocked when we started doing the impeachment aspect a couple of years ago and then the fight for redistricting how so many Republicans in the state legislature really acted like Democrats.
In fact, I think the speaker is almost, I think he is a Democrat.
And the audience was asking, well, hang on, Trump just won Texas by 14 points.
Texas is the railhead of the MAGA movement.
How in the hell can you have Democrats?
So answer that to the audience, Kim.
How can you have these places?
I think Montgomery County's got a very bad situation of people voting Democrat.
Once they get in as Republicans, they vote Democrat, but more importantly, they push Democrat leadership.
Two of our representatives, Cecil Bell, who is in House District 3, and Will Metcalf, who's in House District 16, both of them betrayed the Republican caucus and left a team up with Democrats to elect the Rhino Speaker, Dustin Burroughs.
And I had organized a bus trip from Montgomery County to Austin the day of the speaker vote.
And we all wore our red band Democrat chairs shirts.
And we went and we visited with our representatives before the speaker vote.
And we encouraged them, our constituents want you to vote for David Cook, who was the choice of the House Republican caucus.
And Cecil Bell's response to me after he had already promised that he would vote for Cook.
He says, Well, you're just going to have to trust me.
And his office was full of grassroots conservatives saying the same thing.
And we were locked out of the gallery.
People with the red band Democrat chair shirts on were not allowed in.
Wendy Sue, I'm going to visit with her about what the establishment believes down in Montgomery County, right, about Texas and the grassroots and what the grassroots believe.
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We're going back to Montgomery County.
Wendy Sue Yockey and Kim Weber next in the war room.
We were, that meeting was our county executive committee, and we were voting and deliberating on whether or not to censure Speaker Dustin Burroughs for all of the colluding with the Democrats, giving them more money, more power.
And Wayne Doljofino is a paid reporter.
People pay him to do a story.
So when he came in, he was asking people questions and he's walking around filming people.
And during the meeting, I saw him directing Scott Baker, who is one of the precinct chairs, the Rhino precinct chairs, who is challenging our conservative chairman, Gwen Withrow.
So I saw him directing Scott Baker, and that was very strange.
And I saw him whispering in the ear of Eric Opiella.
Eric Opiella is our previous Rhino County Chairman's lawyer.
And Eric Opiella was there to represent Dustin Burroughs.
So I went up to ask him a question and say, hey, are you here representing Dustin Burroughs to get on record whether he was being paid by Dustin Burroughs, whether he was being paid by Scott Baker, or Brian Christ, our previous county chairman's lawyers, there also?
A lot of people have talked about, we've had a lot of people on War Room and people on War Room, Texas that complain about Dustin Burroughs and what happened.
Down in Montgomery County, you were actually taking action.
That place was packed.
Just walk me through what was exactly happening because this is where you see the grassroots forcing the action.
You're just not going to sit there passively and take it.
What was that whole meeting about?
And I believe, I think that you might have been the first guys in the state to actually call Dustin Burroughs to account, ma'am.
So it starts with the grassroots has been wanting to be able to take action against representatives who promise one thing on the campaign trail.
And then when they get in office, they do something completely different and shock and enrage their voters.
So at the convention, the last biennium, the state convention, there was put in place a Rule 44 censure ability.
It gave the precinct chairs more power to start a censure.
The precinct chairs are the only body that can start a censure.
So if we don't do it, no one else can.
So since Speaker Burroughs represents the whole state, we were able to start a censure on him.
And then it goes to the state Republican Executive Committee to decide whether or not the censure will move forward.
And if there are penalties, the Rule 44 censure has the ultimate penalty.
We, well, the State Republican Executive Committee can strip a censured representative or any elected official of the name Republican, and they will not be able to run as a Republican.
They can run as an Independent, they can run as a Democrat, but they cannot use the Republican brand if they betray the Republican voters.
We had previously already censured Will Metcalf and Cecil Bell for the same thing that we were fixing to censure Speaker Burroughs for, and they took it very serious.
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Cecil Bell was yelling at us as he left the building.
And we later came back and applied penalties to Cecil Bell and Will Metcalf and told them, you cannot have your campaign materials at our headquarters.
We fundraise.
We spend our time, energy, and money to get resources to promote the Republican brand and people who support the Republican Party.
If y'all are not going to, you know, abide by the Republican Party priorities and promote Republican policies, then we're not going to use our resources to protect and defend y'all in the primary.
And so they take it very seriously.
If nothing else, when we stand up, it stiffens the spines of others and others stand up.
And they do not want to have their name associated with the word censure.
So, Kim, explain to people: you've got Cecil, you've got Will Metcalf, you've got Dustin Burroughs.
What is the gap?
What is it that the working people in the middle class down there that join the precinct strategy are part of the grassroots and you see these guys elected?
So the Sands Hotel, and they had this up at Tarran County and that's that's Senate District 9 that really, I think the guy was named Huffman, who had been a mayor of one of the communities here, but was essentially a moderate Democrat, ran in the Republican primary and kept the very conservative state Senate Republican candidate from getting 50 plus one votes in the first round.
And then in a runoff, his people basically backed the radical Democratic socialist candidate and actually beat her.
So we saw it in real time here.
And it's a huge issue.
This is why I keep telling people now that I'm down here, this is a very big issue.
Mary Madelson is the Sands Hotel.
Now she's one of the biggest contributors to President Trump and one of the biggest contributors to the Republican Party.
What is the problem?
The problem you're seeing at a local level is that, do you believe they're going in and buying these politicians because they want casinos to come to Texas?
And so they're funneling the money not only to our representatives, but they set up these PACs and with other organizations like Texas for Lawsuit Reform.
And so they're going against the conservative precinct chairs because we chose to hold our representatives accountable and we voted to censor them.
And they are coming after us.
They recruited candidates to run against the conservatives and they are funding their campaigns.
They have sent a ton of mailers out supporting the candidate, Scott Baker, who is running against our county chair, who has Gwen Withrow.
She has done a phenomenal job at getting out the Republican vote.
We did an amazing job at getting out the vote for President Trump.
You guys, the magnificent job at getting the vote.
This is what President Trump won by 14 points after sources put $380 million into here to turn it.
I just want to make sure everybody in Texas and everybody in this country understands this, because this is what's kind of even shocked me.
There is a very organized effort in the state of Texas to basically run moderates against precinct committeemen, precinct committee chairs, all of it to take them out and run with all this paraphernalia and handouts and mailers.
And some in North Texas, they've actually kind of taken a version of the war room logo.
So people think, well, this maybe is the war room doing it.
What they're trying to do is take out actually the most Trump, the most MAGA precinct chairs by an organized effort of dark money.
Well, let me tell you, we started the Montgomery County Freedom Caucus of the conservative precinct chairs because the RINOs establishment was already targeting the conservative precinct chairs in the county executive committee before the casinos and Texans for lawsuit reform stepped in and started funneling money to their campaigns to help make it easier for them to defeat conservatives.
So we formed the Montgomery County Freedom Caucus, same as U.S. House of Representatives, same as Texas House, to, you know, protect each other to form a common defense.
And I could just cannot even imagine what it would be like if the casinos were actually in Texas, considering what they're already doing now and they're not in Texas.
They will completely own our politicians.
They have so much money.
And I literally get five mailers in one day against me and for my opponent in a precinct chair race.
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And we get multiple techs for our opponents in a precinct chair race.
And people should understand this is that's when you're sending text messages and sending mailers, those are enormously expensive, particularly talking about precinct chair races.
I might note, too, I believe, because I saw this up in Senate District 9, where they put in $8 million, $8 million in a primary in a text race against the conservative candidate, $8 million.
The SANS for a state Senate race, $8 million for a candidate who came in third, but it was against, it was all done so that the conservative candidate wouldn't get 50% plus one vote and win it outright.
The SANS at the time, I don't believe, I think they've sold all of their assets in the United States.
The bulk of this money in the, in the uh the, the um.
I think they're pretty open about this.
I think most of the money, most of the assets they own are in China or in Macau and most of that money this was a big issue up in Senate, district 9 that you essentially had money in the Macau casinos are.
You know, human trafficking, sex trafficking, money laundering?
I mean, the Macau casinos are as dirty as you can get.
I mean, it's just a, it's a way the Chinese Communist Party uh, money launders out to the outside world and they're just a nest of vice uh.
So it's kind of shocking, but this is you're absolutely correct.
If the, if the casinos ever got in here, you would be overwhelmed with casino money that will run the state.
Look, this is the first kickoff.
We're going to do this multiple times.
I want to tell you i've been all over this country and fought this fight for the precincts right.
You people are absolute heroes.
The videos and maybe we'll play more videos next time the stand that you have taken down in Montgomery County to me is the equivalent of the stand that the folks in Georgia are taking on the stolen election.
This is where patriots are standing with very little money and they're being overwhelmed by a system that because what's interesting in Montgomery County?
They're not interested in defeating you, they're interested in destroying you.
They want to make sure you're an example that if you stand up like these patriots, we're going to not just win the races back, but we're going to destroy your reputation.
We're going to crush you.
We're going to make you spend money.
If you got to go in bankruptcy, that's your problem, but we will not let you stand up to the iron boot that's trying to come in here and folks remember this has nothing to do with the Democratic Socialist and the Working Family Party, which is more organized and vicious.
This is the moneyed interest in the state of Texas against the grassroots, and that's why you guys are heroes and, just like the folks in Georgia that are standing up to the stolen 2020 election and have been, have been indicted and been put in bankruptcy and everything.
They refuse to quit, and that's where we are.
Can you give your social media or your campaign sites?
Before you punch out Kimberly, let me start with you.
Where do people go to find your story and to go to your website?
You represent you two represent the best of the Trump movement.
This is the mega movement that will not back down, that will not quit.
If uh if, president Trump did not have followers, uh like you and people like you when the election was stolen in 2020, went back to Mar-a-lago, it would have been lost to history.
It was people like you, throughout this country that stood in the breach, that made the difference.