WarRoom Battleground EP 957: Sharia Law Spreads To Idaho; Pre Game To Corpus Christi
WarRoom EP 957 examines Steve Bannon’s claim that Sharia compounds in Texas face a March 3, 2026, ballot challenge, while Idaho’s GOP pushes foreign court jurisdiction bans and cites Qatar-linked training at Mountain Home AFB. Texas’s 2026 Democratic surge—60% early voting vs. Republicans’ 40%—alarms Bannon, who warns of $30M "Texas Together" dark money push by groups like Beto O’Rourke’s PAC and the Muslim Brotherhood, risking House control and Trump’s political future. Grassroots volunteers counter Democratic tactics in Tarrant County, a MAGA stronghold now showing a 20% voting gap, proving local mobilization may outpace outside funding—but failure here could doom national conservative efforts. [Automatically generated summary]
Okay, so we're only recently been talking about the early vote.
But if you look at the Cal Shea prediction market, what you actually see is the chance to have higher Texas primary turnout.
Right now, the people putting their money where their mouth is actually slightly predict that there will be more votes cast on the Democratic side than on the Republican side, 60% to 40%, still a close race.
But given that Republicans have been so outvoting Democrats in Texas, the idea that more people could actually vote on the Democratic side in Texas, again, as I said at the top, whoa.
Okay, it's Thursday, 26th February in the year of our Lord 2026.
Brian Glenn, our own Brian Glenn, who happens to be a Texan.
Brian Glenn is on a plane.
He's decided to come out tonight, so he'll be with us all day tomorrow.
He was going to fly out on Air Force One, but coming now early.
So he'll be in Corpus Christi and doing our coverage, starting with his show at 7 a.m. in the morning Eastern Standard Time will kick off, and we'll be doing all-day coverage of President Trump's trip to Corpus Christi.
That's how important I think this trip is looked at.
President Trump coming to South Texas.
Also, we're trying to get a feed.
There's another event that Make America Healthy Again.
Bobby Kennedy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is in Austin for an event that's going to take place right towards the end of War Room, Texas.
If we have to, we'll extend the errors.
We'll figure this out as we don't want to miss that.
So two very important MAGA and Make America Healthy Again events back to back in Texas.
And our own Brian Glenn is on a plane right now, and he'll be up doing his show from Corpus Christi or thereabouts around there tomorrow.
And we're going to have all-day coverage, including the event with the president when all likelihood take place during the war room's first hour.
And we'll continue all the way through war room, Texas tomorrow.
We're very honored.
We have two chairmen of two different Republican parties in two different states, but states are kind of similar as being railheads of the MAGA movement.
And they're similar in the fact of some of their dressing.
Abraham George is going to join me in a minute.
He's the chairman of the Texas Republican Party.
He is heading towards, just like Brian Glenn, he's heading towards Corpus Christi right now.
I want to bring in Dorothy Moon's Idaho chairman.
Dorothy, you've been on many times in the past.
I wanted to have you on tonight, particularly to address this audience, because you are wrestling with something up in Idaho that's quite similar to the situation.
Remember, one of the things that's very different down here in Texas right now, there's been an awakening about this issue with Sharia law.
Sharia law is actually on the ballot.
Proposition 10 to prohibit Sharia law in the state of Texas is on the Republican ballot on 3 March and obviously for early voting.
What is happening up in Idaho?
Because there's been reports and we had folks on that you introduced us to over the last couple of months about, I guess, training that's going on for Qatar.
There's other issues about the concentration of Muslim population up there.
Now you're taking things to the state legislature.
Thanks, Steve, for having me on and good to see you again.
Well, there's a lot going on.
I think I sent you a couple of months ago a resolution that was passed at our winter meeting about Sharia law and concerns by a lot of the citizens and a lot of our central committee members about its influence not only in Idaho, but we've been watching what's going on in Texas, which has been very alarming and a lot of other northeastern states.
The resolution in turn wound up being reworked.
Now we have an actual bill that is moving and I shared that with you last week.
And this bill would more or less try to remove some of the confusion of, you know, foreign courts do not have jurisdiction in Idaho.
And so it just reinforces that we do follow the U.S. and Idaho Constitution, and that's what we intend to do.
And we're going to ignore any move for these foreign courts to come in and try to bring their laws and influence anything whatsoever.
I think the people in Texas would say, and it's awakened now that Governor Abbott's designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CARES terrorist organizations.
There's a move because their legislature only meets every couple of years.
There's a move to have hearings sometime in the spring and maybe even have a special session to deal with this.
And a lot of people, I've been down, we've been in here about a month so far.
A lot of people saying, you know, this thing was brewing for years, but we needed a permission structure to actually talk about it.
And now, as Abraham George is going to join us in a moment, it is top of mind.
In fact, every other ad or every third ad is about, I don't support Sharia.
You know, Sharia can't be in Texas.
In fact, Cornyn actually not only took a 30-second spot out that was against Sharia and his support of being anti-Sharia, he actually submitted a bill in the Senate with Tommy Tuberville last week that bans Sharia law throughout the United States of America.
How much of a problem has it been in Idaho?
Are you guys trying to get ahead of it?
Or is there already a problem?
Because as soon as this happens, the mainstream media goes, you're a bunch of religious bigots.
You're Islamophobe.
You know, you people are white nationalists.
You're white supremacists.
All this is you're trying to other another religion.
So what is the real situation in Idaho and what caused this?
Well, I think what the real situation is, is that people want due process and they don't want to have a foreign court tell them that now some gentleman's wages or retirement is being garnished to support someone in a divorce proceeding that's in a different country.
That was one issue that kind of come up, did come up.
We need to protect our citizens, especially from foreign courts and then trying to come in and cash in, I guess, or to get support for another person in a different country after the divorce has occurred.
So that was a couple of years back.
So we haven't really seen a lot.
And then, of course, the cutter, a Qatar, there's a lot of pronunciations for that word.
And they are coming into Mountain Home Air Force Base and to buy jets and be trained to use them.
And I know that you did speak to Senator Lenny and you also talked to Representative Heather Scott on your show about the concerns that they had been receiving from many of their constituents around the state.
So there are concerns.
People have heard a lot.
We've seen what happens around the nation.
And everybody's spidey senses are kind of up on end up down here in Idaho, up here in Idaho.
We had some grassroots precinct strategy people from Texas on the show on Monday where the precinct strategy, they got people dropping mailers on them and saying they're not really Republicans and they're rhinos.
I mean, they're going everything to get rid of precinct chairs.
There's always been a big fight between the establishment up in Idaho and the grassroots.
And what stuns me is Idaho, I think, is the best example of, and maybe Oklahoma is the second, of the reddest states in the country really have an awful lot of moderates and rhinos in elective office and particularly in federal office, ma'am.
And, you know, after going to the RNC meeting in Santa Barbara last month, you know, two years is the norm for a chair to stay in a statewide chair position.
But you know what?
We're gaining ground.
The grassroots have never been more active.
And, you know, we've got an abortion, nine-month abortion issue coming up.
I told you I was at a meeting for that today.
We've got a lot going on.
The left is trying to come in and really flip things upside down.
And the moderates are trying to help as well.
So we've got a big fight on our hands, but we're Idaho and we're very conservative.
And people moved here from California to come into a state that they don't want to change.
They want it just to be a state of liberty and freedom.
So the fight is real.
The fight is on.
I think this bill that I hope does get through the Senate, I guess the next question is whether the governor vetoes it or not.
Something's Texas is the center right now of the political universe.
Actually, over at Punch Bowl, they said that the other day.
President of the United States, and look, President Trump's trying to negotiate peace in Iran.
He's dealing with the situation in Mexico.
They got the Venezuela situation.
He's trying to get through the Save America Act.
The report in the Washington Post, they couldn't be a bigger blockbuster.
They said President Trump is going to cite foreign interference in these elections and maybe sign a really tough executive order that has emergency powers in it.
My point being, if you look at the economy, what he's doing on DEI and culturally, war, peace, the economy, the stock market, all of it, he's got the weight of the world on his shoulders.
So what does he do?
He changes his entire schedule to come out here tomorrow, to fly out here tomorrow to Corpus Christi, Texas.
Game day is on Tuesday, and President Trump wants to make sure his troops got the message and they got the message for him.
Let me play that.
And we knew this was going to happen because we could kind of see these forces out there.
That's why we shifted the show about four weeks ago down here to Texas so we could meet as many people as possible and talk to them and work with them.
I want to play this CNN clip again so you hear it again, see the numbers again.
And then I'm going to bring on the chairman of the Republican Party for the great state of Texas, Abraham George.
Okay, so we're only recently been talking about the early vote.
But if you look at the Cal Shea prediction market, what you actually see is the chance to have higher Texas primary turnout.
Right now, the people putting their money where their mouth is actually slightly predict that there'll be more votes cast on the Democratic side than on the Republican side, 60% to 40%, still a close race.
But given that Republicans have been so outvoting Democrats in Texas, the idea that more people could actually vote on the Democratic side in Texas, again, as I said at the top, whoa.
And we are absolutely grateful for President Trump to change his schedule and show up to Corpus Christi because it is absolutely important for Republicans to turn out.
I think what happens is when everything is starting to go right and look good on the economy and the border and things like that, Republicans get complacent and they just stay home.
And we cannot have that in 26 cycle.
They got to show up.
And president knows that.
That's why he's here.
He's going to show up tomorrow and we're going to have a great time.
But this is a clear message to the base that he needs them to show up to the polls.
Abraham, why Corpus Christi, you know, for years with Steve Cortez and others, and actually I started Breitbart, Texas, down in the Rio Grande Valley.
The Rio Grande Valley, we had targeted in South Texas that working class Hispanics are, you know, they're pro secure borders.
They're pro-deportations.
They're pro-law and order.
They understand that this wave of illegal alien invaders drove down their wages.
Is the president going to South Texas?
Because the changes, like in Shaw County, some of Stark County, the changes in South Texas, the Rio Grande Valley were historic.
Have you advised him or is he coming to South Texas to Corpus Christi to reinforce to the Hispanic American community down there that he's with them and that his policies are starting to work?
I mean, to choose Corpus Christi, given you got the massive TV market in Houston, you got the massive TV market in Dallas and Fort Worth.
We've been around North Texas for most of the time we've been here because there's a huge fight up here or San Antonio.
One, in the 24th cycle, we flipped 12 out of the 14 counties in Texas.
I mean, in South Texas, those are all Democrat counties.
Some of them haven't elected a Republican in more than 100 years.
And that's because President Trump was on the top of the ballot and people were absolutely tired of Biden policies.
And now we are in a market.
Like you said, it's not a TV market.
Corpus Christi, South Texas, is a different kind of market.
It's where you relationships matter more than TV at.
So we are very thankful.
This is a different kind of market.
This is a different kind of group of people.
They want to know how they're going to get their property tax down, how they're going to get their kids' education correct.
And so all of these things, the practical things that matter to them, you know, they're very grateful.
We had a town hall a few days ago where we had a little over 150 people, all Hispanic background.
Showed up and they were very grateful to have a closed border and have a legal immigration back on the back on the table because they did not appreciate what was happening.
They had to pick up dead bodies to bury in their backyards because of Biden policies.
Those days are over.
They're very grateful for that, but they're also looking for what are you going to do for us now.
So, President, he made an amazing decision.
This is absolutely critical for Texas that he shows up.
And I'm glad he's doing more than what we can ask.
Abraham, you know, it's ASCOS, Texas, who goes a nation in this regard.
And I'd like you to hold through the break because I think people want to hear more from you.
If Spamberger on April 21st in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and this is how this stuff is inextricably linked, on April 21st in the Commonwealth, there's a referendum to shift the Commonwealth of Virginia, which is basically a 5248 state, okay, to shift it from 6-5, Democrats have control of six House seats to Republicans, five, to shift that to 10 to 1.
And unless the courts got involved, and the courts are a little bit on the side, but the state courts in Virginia are not going to change this.
If they win that referendum and go to 10-1, then I've been telling people the entire calculation shifts to Texas.
Now, you guys do a Herculean effort in the state assembly, picked up five additional seats.
You should have eight, but you picked up five just with fair redistricting.
But it will come down, sir, I believe, to two or three of those seats, particularly in South Texas, that could determine whether the House of Representatives is still controlled by the Republicans.
And we know, and Hakeem Jeffries is bragging to people, the moment they take charge, they're going to peach President Trump right off the bat.
Your thoughts about that?
I mean, do you envision right now that the entire fight in the midterm elections could come down to a couple of these House seats in Texas and particularly maybe South Texas?
When I look at the numbers, the early voting numbers, and remember, I just want to repeat this, there's a big part of the Trump movement that's just not comfortable with early voting.
You're not going to change your mind.
They're dug in on this and they say, look, I don't want the Democrats to know.
I don't want people to have this information.
I just feel comfortable.
I'm a game day voter.
I've always been a game day voter.
I'm going to go out on game day and vote.
And that when you look at these numbers, this is not surprising.
The Republican turnout is not bad for a midterm election primary year.
But the Democrats, correct me if I'm wrong, the Democrats are putting up presidential cycle numbers.
And the reason is this is not a policy debate, folks.
This is purely Trump derangement syndrome.
They're making the argument if Trump, we can stop Trump and stop the entire Trump revolution by defeating him now.
And he doesn't really get the second two years of his administration because we're going to impeach him.
And if you don't do that, you're going to have the handmaid's tail.
I mean, that's the level of sophistication of the argument.
Do you buy that?
That you're looking at a presidential cycle turnout by Democrats because of their hatred of President Trump.
And many Republicans think, hey, President Trump said, we got the House and the Senate.
Then we looked at the numbers to see who has shown up.
Well, the Democrats have shown up.
We also saw a fairly large amount of Republicans that we thought was Republicans are casting a ballot in the Democrat primary this year.
So, see, as you know, Texas is an open state.
We can have any primaries.
It's an open primary state.
So, if you're a Democrat and you're living in, you live in a district or area where it's all Republicans, only choice you have is cast a ballot in the Republican primary to find the most moderate rhino representative possible.
They've been doing that for years.
This is one of the reasons why the Republican Party has filed the lawsuit against the state of Texas to close our primaries.
So, with Kyler Riccum and Jasmine Crockett running, we think a lot of these people who are closet Democrats or extreme rhinos have now said, okay, we can go and cast a ballot in the Democrats.
Of course, I do want to mention that Sam Houston and David Crockett were both Virginians also.
This is a serious one, folks.
And this is why we had Dorothy Moon, the chairman of Idaho, to start the show off.
People around the country are watching this intensely.
I want to go or intently.
I want to go back, Abraham, just so people understand this, because I'm down here and so many of the grassroots are saying, and you're suing, the GOP is suing to stop this.
They've had these open primaries, and the grassroots said, hey, this is how the Karl Rove apparatus has always controlled us because they got these guys that are really not Republicans that vote in open primary.
This is going to get a thing.
And this is how we always get these terrible rhino, the rhino, you know, elected officials, not grassroots, because they're beaten by people that are not really Republicans.
Is it your belief now, when you've seen this big shift that's gotten everybody over there, that these are not people are saying, particularly moderate Republicans, saying, I've had enough of Trump.
I've had enough of MAGA.
I don't like it.
I don't like Minneapolis and I'm going to shift to Democrats.
Or do you actually think we're exposing people that have always voted in these Republican primaries to put their thumb on the scale, but are really Democrats?
Steve, I think about more than 70% of that is real Democrats who finally have two candidates that they can choose from.
They have Tyler Rico and Jasmine Crockett, and they want to pick a side between those two.
And they can't do it in the Republican primary.
So they went and finally decided they're going to be real Democrats.
There is probably a small amount of Republicans who just doesn't like Trump and the MAGA movement and the further right America first group of, you know, we call it ourselves and the grassroots people.
They want the Bush Republicans.
They want everything to be nice, even though everything is going wrong.
That group may be out there saying, you know, I'm going to vote on the Democrat primary this time.
But a good amount of them are Democrats for forever, and they just decided to finally show their true colors.
If the president asked you tomorrow, hey, tell me what the plan is, both for game day and then for November, because I've met a lot of people who said, Steve, don't get too worried.
It's just this primary.
It's not going to prime.
I said, this is different.
After Mamdani in Minneapolis, the whole world is watching this, particularly this left, because this is kind of DSA and Working Families Party.
There's going to be, if they put these numbers up and beat on total numbers on Tuesday, a billion dollars of dark outside money is going to flood into this state because they see Texas as the lynchpin of the entire thing.
You saw Dorothy Moons.
Dorothy Moons knows as much going to Texas as going on in Idaho.
She told me, she said, this Texas situation has concerned everybody throughout the nation.
So when you talk to President Trump, just walk me through what is the plan to turn this around, sir.
Well, the major thing the Republican Party and our grassroots have to do is get people to the polling locations.
We have put together a great plan.
It's now funded.
We're going to have TV ads, text messages, emails, and most importantly, real people knocking on their neighbors' doors and saying, why haven't you showed up?
What is it that matters to you that you don't care anymore?
So we want to know that the November election is all about going to be what do you want for the next two years of President Trump's legacy to look like?
Is there going to be impeachment and try to put him in jail?
Or do we want to stop wars in everywhere?
And do we want to build our economy again?
Do we want to have a secure border?
So this is going to be the difference.
And Steve, I am excited for 26 and I'm scared for 26.
And along with that, we have the Sharia problem in Texas.
That is an all-hole another issue that we have to deal with in Idaho and everywhere in the country that we're having to deal with.
These people who think they can have a parallel government inside our country is just, it's just crazy.
We have, Governor Abbott have categorized care and Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.
But I think the next session, we're going to have to say if someone runs and create a parallel government inside our country, we should look at them as enemies of our state and prosecute them with that kind of weight behind our law.
So this is an important thing for Texas.
Texas is changing a lot.
And a lot of times it's for good.
A lot of times it's for bad.
So we've got to work on this.
And we have a great amount of precinct chairs and county chairs and SREC members who is doing the work, but it's not enough.
I mean, it's actually the Sharia situation, because I spent a lot of time in Texas all my life, but now very engaged here.
It's actually worse than I thought.
We sent Peter McElvaney here a couple of months ago from London.
He told me at the time, he said, Steve, you don't understand this thing is farther gone for the time period than London was when they did that.
That's why the Muslim Brotherhood, the DSA, the Working Families Party sources money, all this dark money, they understand.
Texas is the jewel of the crown of the union.
And as Texas goes, so goes the nation.
You know how Alice believes that?
Don't take it from Abraham George and don't take it from Stephen K. Bannon or Brian Glenn or the War Room posse.
Take it from the president of these United States, Donald John Trump, has changed everything to fly out here tomorrow in the last day of early voting to send a message to his people that we got to stand up here and represent.
We have to stand and deliver.
Abraham, you're heading toward Corpus Christi all day tomorrow.
Brian Glenn's on a plane right now.
He'll kick it off 7 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow with his show live from Texas.
We'll pick it up later in the afternoon, but all the way through the Charlie Kirk show, Jack Pesobic, we'll pick it back up here at five, all the way through Texas, all the way through Warhammer, Texas, live coverage of the Corpus Christi rally.
And the very front page of it, you can see how to volunteer, get involved.
If you become a volunteer, we will text you your neighbors information who hasn't shown up, who is a Republican in the next few days, knock on their doors, tell them to show up and cast a ballot.
And Tarrant County is so important because it's the railhead.
It's one of the reddest counties in the country and it's considered the railhead of really the Trump movement.
The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, north of that, you have all these used to be frontier towns or small towns that are now these hubs of just growth, economic growth, et cetera, tech, all that.
And they've been so weighted towards not just Republican, but really have embraced the Trump movement.
And that's why people are so concerned.
But this is why Senate District 9 became not just a national story, it became a global story a couple of weeks ago when he had this shocking turnout.
And remember, President Trump, through all the source money coming here for years and $350 billion, President Trump won by 14 points and Ted Cruz won by 12 points in the 2024 election.
And I said, if that happens, you're going to have $500 million flood into Texas from all these dark money groups overseas and back of these kind of shells like this to do door knocking because they understand they've got something that works.
The Trump derangement syndrome works if you put money in back of that, go door to door.
It's what Mamdani taught them in New York City.
And what they've tried to do is bring it here to Texas and they're going to put a ton of money back.
And they're saying they're going to put their money in back of 1,000 candidates.
That means that means the county level, the city council level, the Texas House and Senate and federal offices, right?
The other thing is that it's, and this is why President Trump's coming out in South Texas.
With what's happening in Virginia and the referendum that's going to take place on the 21st of April, if Spamberger, and I think right now, all systems look like she's going to pull it off overwhelmingly.
If they shift Virginia to a 10 to 1 federal, the House map, that is then going to focus back here to Texas of the redistricting.
And three of those seats in South Texas are going to be the difference between holding the House.
Right now, I think they're the difference between holding the House and President Trump losing the House and being impeached.
At the White House with President Trump, they're working 18 or 20 hours a day.
The schedule is so jammed with what he's trying to do legislatively still with Save America, what he's doing in the economy, having meetings, this entire peace deal.
And when I heard the other day, because the flare did go up from a number of us, that, you know, this is all important, he responded by changing his entire schedule and coming out here on the last day of early voting to motivate people to come out on Tuesday.
I said it doesn't have to take that RAV or Real America's Voice or War Room Posse or Steve Banner or the people at Patriot Mobile or Abraham George thinks it's important.
The president of the United States thinks it's important.
And what I found most fascinating, not to go to one of the big media markets in Houston or Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas or San Antonio, but go to South Texas where this fight is really going to take place.
Now, let's talk about are the grassroots, are you comfortable right now that enough of the grassroots are pulling?
I realize there's no money at that scale, but do you think the grassroots are coming together to understand that?
Because I tell people, there's at least a third of the grassroots movement, particularly President Trump's movement, people that back guys like Doc Chambers, who's a great guy running for governor.
When I showed up for the pre for the for the grassroots leaders meeting, there was 150 organizations and people there talking about how they were getting together and back of this and going to push Proposition 10, which is banning Sharia law in the state of Texas.
And you pull off a tremendous, is that what you talk about about building coalitions?
You may not have the same number of volunteer door knockers as you do with paid door knockers, but you do have a lot more passionate people that really believe in the cause.
And, you know, this is a lot of folks that will give up the day from work or, you know, from their families and they go out there and they spend a lot of time even like during the SD9 special election.
They were out there in the ice storms knocking doors.
I mean, that's incredible.
We have a lot of wonderful volunteers and we should thank all of them because we wouldn't be where we are today without them.
You have Cornyn spending an unbelievable amount of money.
Wesley Hunt and Paxon, not so much, but it's a hotly contested Senate primary that looks right now may go to a runoff.
But the Democratic, Tallerico versus Crockett, that is the ones getting national attention and that's everywhere.
So you see ads and you see this news.
Are the grassroots, is this a wake-up call for them to say, wow, I never thought I'd see a situation where the Democrats are putting up numbers that look like presidential year numbers and we're putting up good numbers for a midterm election.
Well, a lot of people say, well, it's just a primary.
It doesn't, the physics of modern politics doesn't work like that.
If they show they can make Texas competitive, it's an unlimited amount of money that'll come in here from foreign sources and from dark money groups.
Why?
Because they understand that Texas is the hub.
Texas is the jewel in the crown.
If you can take Texas, but not just that, if you can make Texas competitive, as you just said, people come to Texas to raise, like the Democrats go to California.
They come to Texas to raise money for the nation.
Well, if Texas is sitting there and people like Jenny saying, hey, for this one, we got to hunker down on Texas.
That changes the whole calculation for the entire country.
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