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Aug. 7, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Texas Fights Back - August 7th, Hour 2
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The President Donald Trump uh has said today that he has directed the Department of Commerce to launch preparations for a new and highly accurate national census, according to a post that he put on his Truth Social account.
I'll read it to you.
It says I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate census based on modern day facts and figures and and importantly, using the results and information gained from the presidential election of 2024.
He said people who are in the country illegally will not be counted in the census.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Now, what is interesting in all of this under the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Census Bureau is required to conduct a count every ten years of every resident of the country, regardless of citizenship or legal status.
Now the census is used to determine how many members of Congress are elected from each state.
And there's one little uh problem when you get to all of this.
Um illegal immigrants should not be counted and used to create congressional districts.
They're not in the country illegally.
Now, all of this stems from the fact that what the Democrats have mastered, which is gerrymandering, what they have been experts at, which is gerrymandering, what they have done in every blue state has been effective in taking away representation from Republicans in all of these states.
I've been giving you the numbers.
I won't stop giving you the numbers.
New York, for example, and in that particular state, uh, and I think New York is representative of many.
If you look at Republicans for House seats, they won 42% of the vote.
They only have statewide 27% of the seats available.
But it's a nationwide trend.
California, Republicans for House votes, they win 39% of the vote.
They have only 17% of the states.
In Connecticut, Republicans want a respectable 40% of the House vote.
They have zero seats.
Illinois, the most gerrymandered, you know, map or state in the country.
Republicans won a very respectable forty-seven percent of the statewide vote, but they only have eighteen percent of congressional seats.
Maryland, they won thirty-five percent, but they only have twelve percent of representation of Republicans.
Massachusetts, and this is what's funny about the governor of Massachusetts, saying, Well, you've got to fight fire with fire.
Okay, in the state of Massachusetts, Trump won thirty-six percent of the vote.
They don't have one Republican, have not had a Republican congressional seat uh going in back to the nineteen nineties.
New Jersey, Republicans get 45% of the House vote.
They have 27%.
In Nevada, Republicans won the statewide house vote by 10 points, walked away with one single House seat in the whole state.
New Mexico, 45% statewide House votes, zero seats.
Uh Oregon, 42%, statewide House vote, 17% of the seats.
Washington State, 42%, statewide House vote.
Uh less than fifty, less than half of that, 20% of the seats.
That's it.
And now the Massachusetts governor is actually uh healy is threatening to redistrict her state, even though it now has zero Republican House members.
One Texas Democrat comparing Republican redistricting and gerrymandering to the Holocaust.
And then James Carvel is going full scorched earth and talking about if Democrats get back in power, they will unilaterally add Puerto Rico and the D.C. and declare them and give them statehood, which would give Democrats in their minds four additional Senate seats and and more congressional representation.
Uh also talked about uh expanding the Supreme Court to thirteen members, packing the court.
Now, all of this in response to the fact that all that the Texas governor Greg Abbott wants to do is follow the same rules that have been applied in blue states to his red state of Texas, and this has sent the Democratic Party spir uh spirally.
Anyway, Texas governor, friend of the program, Greg Abbott is back with us.
Governor, I l I love everything you do.
It's like when the borders were wide open, and you said, okay, well, you're a sanctuary city or state.
We're gonna send all of our illegal immigrants to your state.
That was an that was political jujitsu at the highest level.
Well, Sean, I tell you, you're doing a great job of exposing the gerrymandering that's taken place across the entire country.
I gotta be honest with you, I think if Texas were not doing re redistricting right now, most of America would would not know about the facts you just articulated.
And it must be re-emphasized.
All of the large blue states in the country have been gerrymandered to the maximum amount.
And all Texas is really doing is based upon a change in the law, uh, we are no longer requiring coalition districts, and we are able to ensure that voters in the state of Texas who are voting for Congress get to vote for their candidate of choice.
We're creating five new seats where the the residents and voters in those districts, they voted for Donald Trump, but they were also uh against their will, packed in a district where they had to uh exist under a Democrat member of Congress.
We're just redrawing the lines as fully authorized by law, and Texas is nowhere near uh drawn to the extreme ways that you see Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, California, and so many other blue state.
All right.
And by the way, I want to emphasize here this is perfectly legal.
I had on your attorney general Paxton, he was on.
I had uh Dan Patrick on, again, both emphasizing that this is perfectly legal.
There's nothing Democrats can do.
Instead, they picked up their toys and they went to of all places, I thought somewhat ironically, Illinois, where you know it's the most gerrymandered state in the country.
Which is amazing unto itself.
Uh they're they're fleeing.
So Texas is known uh as a state where you stay and fight.
But we're known because of the Battle of the Alamo, where everybody chose to state and fight, even though they faced a dire outcome.
And now we have Democrats who turn and flee whenever they don't get their way.
And I gotta tell you, this is hurting them back in their home district.
For one, uh every one of their voters, they have to go to work, and if if their voters don't show up to work, they'll get fired.
These Democrat members of the Texas House, they think they don't have to show up to work.
The their voters will remind them.
Their voters will also remind them they don't like Texas legislators cutting and running.
The last thing I'll say, Sean, is this we are still grappling with the devastation of the floods that ripped across Central Texas and especially the Kerrville area.
I put on this 30-day special session agenda helping to address the victims of this horrific flooding, and the Democrats turned their back on Texans and repairing from the flood.
The the reparation from the floods has been slowed because Democrats chose to go to Chicago and New York and other leftist areas.
All right, let's talk about what what options you have available to force them back either into the state, so you can get a quorum and you can have the vote take place, and and of course the emergency monies that are needed for the victims of the flood.
By the way, again, uh Governor, I'll express to you my sincerest, you know, um uh prayers and and regrets of all that you've gone through there.
It's been very tough for the people of Texas.
I know a lot of people uh that were very close to the camp in that uh that I think it was what Camp Mystic and and all the people that lost loved ones, it's heartbreaking what happened there.
Well, it's it's horrendous.
Uh we are still searching for two people who remain missing around the Camp Mystic area, including one of the campers there.
Uh and while that search continues, while we continue the process of rebuilding those communities, uh, we're we're trying to implement reforms such as uh warnings and things that would actually save lives.
And these Democrats have chosen to play politics over saving lives by running to Illinois.
And I you gotta understand this, Sean.
It's it's a feudal exercise.
The democ the Democrats are going through.
They've done this before.
Every time they break warm and run off to some other state, they eventually come back.
Uh And they will come back, whether it be tomorrow, the next day or next week, whatever the case may be.
But what they did in the meantime, they slowed the recovery process of the people who desperately need it the most.
And the people who are going to remember that here in the upcoming elections will be the voters who knew they had a Democrat who was a chicken, a coward, and they run off to some other state as opposed to taking care of business.
Let's talk about you going to the state Supreme Court.
What are you asking them to do and and when do you expect a decision?
We I filed the lawsuit in the Texas Supreme Court two days ago, uh requesting the removal of the ringleader of the Democrat operation.
He's the chair of the Democrat caucus, uh, and there's plenty of evidence uh to show that he has abandoned his office.
Uh there's a uh legal term called Coaronto, uh, and that uh proceeding is brought before the the Texas Supreme Court.
I'm I'm allowed to go directly to the Supreme Court as opposed to a trial court to seek the removal.
The same night that I filed a petition in the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court issued an order uh to this legislator, his name is Gene Wu, telling Jean Wu he had to respond by tomorrow uh to the legal action that I've taken.
My point is this the Supreme Court of Texas is taking this very serious, looking very closely at the possibility of removing from office uh the the ringleader of the de uh the Democrat operation that run away from Texas, abandoned their duty, and is preventing the Texas legislature from taking action.
One last point about this.
The Texas Constitution is clear.
It says that the legislature shall conduct business and take up bills as they arrive and take action on those bills.
And it doesn't say that you can cut and run and prevent action.
They must take action.
So they are in direct violation of the Constitution.
They should be removed from office, and that's what I'm seeking at the Texas Supreme Court.
Let's just imagine a scenario, and I hope it doesn't uh come to fruition where they maybe the court doesn't go your way whenever you get before a court, you never know how it's gonna turn out.
And these people just stay away and stay away and stay away and stay away and stay away.
Um at some point, there's got to be some mechanism to compel them to do their job and show up.
Well, let's talk about the what is possible, and and that is uh as we're talking on the phone right now.
Uh there are Texas law enforcement uh who are scouring the state of Texas.
We have a dragnet going on around the state, uh, looking for some of the Democrat House members who are still here in the state of Texas, and we will seek to arrest them and bring them to the Texas Capitol, and we may have enough vote for a quorum sometime soon without even having a worry about these people who ran away from doing their job.
In other words, as a matter of law, you have the ability to pick up elected officials and bring them to the state capitol, and their very presence is enough to create the quorum that would allow for the vote to go through.
Exactly right.
Well, I hope that happens.
Umbe you can ship them off when it's all said and done uh to New York like you did the illegal immigrants or California of any sanctuary city or state in the country, and maybe they can stay there if that's where their views are.
I don't know if you saw the article that came out this week.
Did you see a hundred thousand uh Californians annually or are headed to your state of Texas?
That's a pretty high number.
I know I'm thinking about maybe putting a tariff on them or something like that to raise some more revenue for the state of Texas.
A tariff if you want to come to the f free state of Texas, is that what you're saying?
Exactly.
We need to tear up all our all of our imports.
But uh, all kidding aside, I'm gonna tell you something that's very important, and that is yeah, what there are a lot of people leaving California because they cannot stand the leftist government out there.
What some people don't know, and that is there's actually a large number of people leaving Texas and moving to California.
And before they go to California, they know the crazy government they have out there.
So here's the point.
We have a massive exchange program going on where we are getting conservatives from California, and California's getting liberals from Texas.
Well, I think that's a fair exchange.
I I keep saying if you want to go to Texas, if you want to go to Florida, if you want to go to Tennessee or the Carolinas, it's fine if you come from one of these deep blue states, but don't bring the policies that ruin the state that you're coming from to your new state.
Otherwise you're not wanted.
Exactly.
And I mean, look at some of the people who have come here.
We've got uh Elon Musk, Jill Lonsdale, people like that who are heavily involved in uh what is now Republican politics.
And so we we've got uh some people who are making a difference here in in a way that's good for the state, uh while at the same time we're we're losing some leftists who are deciding to move out to California.
That's a fair track.
And you're you're gonna be a huge beneficiary.
This announcement that took place in the Oval Office yesterday with Tim Cook of Apple, Texas is is getting a huge chunk of the billions of dollars they're gonna build a massive manufacturing center in Texas.
That's exactly right.
So uh Apple already has massive operations in the state, they're about to expand it even more with the announcement yesterday.
And it's just a part of the way that the Texas is leading the innovation age because Texas ranks number one for semiconductor manufacturing.
We've been number one for more than a decade, and and number one for semiconductor exports, uh we're number one for space.
Uh we're number one uh for artificial intelligence uh advancement.
And so uh everything that's gonna be hugely important to the future is taking place right here in the state of Texas, and now Texas, uh we have created our own stock exchange.
And that created competition.
Now the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, they've set up operations in Dallas, Texas to compete with the Texas Stock Exchange.
Well, I I love the my friends in Texas.
God bless Texas.
Again, we're playing praying for the families as that lost loved ones during that terrible flood.
I mean, it was a flash flood at the worst hour of the day.
Um maybe it was one in a hundred year flood, and our prayers are with the families of the victims and all Texans that have been impacted by this.
Uh Governor, you always show a lot of innovation, a lot of courage.
Uh, you think out of the box.
Uh I know you'll get over this hump, and uh thank you for your political courage that you always show.
We appreciate you.
You got it.
God bless you, and God bless your audience.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Um, let's say uh hi to Lorne in Colorado.
Lorne, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you, Sean.
Um thanks for taking my call.
Um Thank you, sir.
I I uh first time caller.
Um, but I I have a question for all of those Palestinian protesters that uh I believe is uh a rhetorical question, and the question goes like this.
There's a hundred and ninety-eight countries in the world, and to the best of my knowledge, there is not one country that is offering, let alone allowing the citizens of Gaza to seek refuge.
And the question to us Palest the protesters is so why is that?
I wanted to get your take on that.
You mean are you asking me why countries the surrounding countries have not absorbed the Palestinian population over the years to give them a home of their own?
Well, it not not so much that, but during the war right now, they're talking about all this uh starvation and everything like that, and historically in in the world when there's been war and famine like that, people leave the country and they seek refuge in other countries.
Well, they well, and then that's so that that basically is what I was saying to you.
And that there is a reason, and I can tell you the reason, in my view, is that if you and we have we've covered this now for a long, long time on both radio and TV, if you look at how young Palestinian children are raised and how they are radicalized, and you have cartoons that that talk about killing the Jews, and you know, they go to they go to first, second grade, they're learning basic fundamental math.
Okay, you have five Jews, you kill two, how many more Jews are left to kill?
I mean, we've shown these books, and and they are that bad.
Is this is not hyperbole on my part.
And so do if you're f in Egypt or Jordan or Saudi Arabia, um uh are you real or the emirates or any of the Gulf nations, are you really going to want to absorb that population?
I don't think so.
Uh most of those countries on their own have issues with radicalism and extremism.
Anyway, appreciate the call, but at this point, you know, there there's always been one solution to this whole problem.
And I and the fact that people have forgotten what happened on October seventh is kind of mind numbing to me.
You know, the fact that you can see a guy that looks like he's, you know, in one of the terror tunnels that is so emaciated and believes he's digging his own grave, a hostage that has been held since October 7, 2023.
Desperately he's dying on this on this propaganda video tape.
And I understand why a lot of networks don't want to air it because they believe it's Hamas propaganda and they want to scare people.
Um and I I respect their decision.
I understand it's a tough moral issue for people.
But all you you you lost the equivalent of 40,000 people if you extrapolate out and compare the population of Israel versus the population of the US.
Forty thousand people in a day.
And there was murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, and beheadings.
I've seen the video tapes that the IDF would show certain members of the media.
And at this point, when does Israel have a right to exist without having in close proximity, like Gaza, you can see it with the naked eye.
The leaders that were put into power, Hamas, that in their charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
And when I'd been there, they had fired tens and tens of thousands of rockets uh over ten thousand in the one city I went to, Starot.
And I went to the police station.
I saw the the the varying the level of sophistication of the rockets, they become more lethal every year because they they would have the remnants of them.
They'd have rockets that had fallen into the city, or the underground bunker playgrounds the kids play in, or the number of people that have died as a result of this.
So at some point you gotta realize that Hamas if you want to know all starvation, all death, all dying, is because Hamas has been at war with Israel the entire time.
And they of course being supported by the number one state sponsor of terror, Iran.
And if you don't take out the cancer at its root, then it's gonna come back.
Uh, do I think that all the Palestinian people that I think a lot of them want to live in peace, but they are too deathly afraid of the leadership, and this is where a lot of the food and and humanitarian aid has been stolen, but still a hundred plus million um meals have been given out to people.
And Israel at at that point, I don't know why people don't understand murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, and beheading.
I have a hard time understanding the argument or the fact that they want to blame Israel.
Uh let's say hi to Rebecca, Arkansas next Sean Hannity show.
Hey Rebecca, how are you?
Hey, Sean, I'm doing great.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you for calling.
Okay, so I'm this isn't reference to um reference to you and Mike Rowe talking on the the phone the other day.
Um I hung wallpaper, had my own business back in the nineties, and um I just wanted to tell you I was like five foot three, weighed a hundred and thirty pounds, terrified of height, but I had no choice because I was single mom and I had to make money for my three daughters and myself.
So I started I got a little internship from a friend of mine that hung paper and I started my own business.
And what wild tales do I have to say about that?
So I came up with No, I it's funny you say this because uh when I I was in Rhode Island, I was in my early twenties.
I got a big job at ITT Grinnell and I had a painting company at the time that evolved into a construction company, and part of the job was I had to bid on hanging wallpaper, and I'm oh yeah, we hang wallpaper too.
And I mean while I never had hung wallpaper in my life.
I was fortunate a friend of mine, Andy Fienn that I went to high school with went to the Vermont School of Wallpaper hanging, called him, he came up, and when he came up, not only did he do a great job, he taught me how to do it, and then I ended up adding that to my repertoire, and I made a fortune hanging wallpaper because I got really good at it.
Yeah, yeah.
I did too, except I was short and afraid of heights, so I had to come up with all kinds of creative ideas on how to reach the walls, like in like tall kit kitchens, I'd like you were you were afraid of getting on a ladder?
Well, I was afraid of heights.
I mean, I didn't mind, you know, like no more than nine feet elevation, but when I got into, you know, ten and eleven and stuff like that, so when I couldn't reach places like in the kitchen, I put my ladder on top of the refrigerator and move the refrigerator around the kitchen and to hang the paper and um yeah,
I so many crazy stories like one lady had a bunch of birds and she had a macaw named Katie and that bird would squeak and holler at me if he couldn't if she couldn't see me, so I had to move her cage into the kitchen where I was hanging wallpaper so she'd shut up.
So um listen, I made I would be able to hang a kitchen or a bathroom usually in just a few hours.
I got that fast at it.
Uh I tell you where I made a lot of money was was removing wallpaper.
You know, most people have no clue how to remove wallpaper.
No clue.
And if it once you know how to do it, I mean I could go in and strip a room down in an hour and a half, walk out with three hundred dollars in my pocket, and people would be amazed, but also happy that they didn't have to do it.
Right.
Remember you remember you would use diff, you remember the the chemical, and then you'd use a remember the one of those garden hose sprayers and you'd spray the wall and it would just basically fall off, unless you had to scour it because it was plastic and the diff wouldn't penetrate behind the wallpaper.
In that case, you either were able to strip it off, strip off the cover and then take off the underlying wallpaper.
Um but I did a lot of that work.
I l and there was a great sense of satisfaction because you get in there, you you go in through your day, you focused, you're dialed in, and then at the end of the day you take a look at the room and it's totally transformed, and you get I always had a a very high sense of self s satisfaction doing that.
I did too, and and um and people just loved it.
I mean, people would leave me these nice little love notes, you know, if I didn't get it all finished in one day and how wonderful it looks and and um and stuff.
If I couldn't get the paper off, I learned that I would paint it with kills and then I would float out the seams of the wallpaper, sand them down, and then put kills on them, then I'd hang over it, and I mean I came up with tons of Okay.
You brought up kills.
Do you remember the oil based kills?
Not they they don't even make it today.
You remember that?
Yeah, oh yeah.
Yep.
Yep.
Okay.
I was stupid enough to spray kills because the walls were a mess.
It was in New England.
Spray an entire room because I had a paint sprayer.
Uh-huh.
And and the walls were a mess, and kills would prevent stains from coming through the wall.
Right.
Uh it was just very it was very powerful.
I sprayed the room and I came out of that room.
I only had one of those, you know, white masks on that we used during COVID, and I was high as a kite.
I think I was wasted for twenty-four straight hours.
Oh dear Lord.
Oh.
It was you did not want to get in a room full of kills being sprayed.
It was I I couldn't believe it.
I was I was high as a kite, it was so bad.
And probably destroyed half my lungs.
Well, probably.
Yeah, but I um you know, it's something like remember those metallic wallpapers that only would come off like in gum wrapper sizes.
Um yeah.
So I I what I finally decided is like I'm gonna paint the whole thing with kills, float out the seams, repaint those and hang over it.
It took me a while to figure that out.
But you know, I just Well, here's another trick too.
If you had pre-pasted wallpaper, if if you didn't put what was kind of like the equivalent of a paste with with Elmer's glue on it, if you hung that paper, pre prepasted wallpaper, and you didn't prepare the walls with the Elmer's glue where the seams would be, they would split apart.
You'd leave and three days later you get a call, uh, excuse me, this job is horrible because the the paper dried out and it split.
But that would prevent the splitting.
So that was another trick that we had to use.
Well, I I also had like a um like an animal um they called, you know, needles um with a tube, and so if I had any bubbles or anything, I would go ahead and use that and puncture the and then squirt squirt it in where things were coming up and um I I don't know, you just get really creative, you know, how the more you but you made a good living, and I I think the moral of the story here is a lot of young people don't want to work hard.
And if you are willing to work hard and learn a craft, it's very easy to learn how to do to paint.
It's very easy.
Yeah.
I could teach people how to paint.
I could teach people how to hang wallpaper.
I could teach people to strip wallpaper.
Yeah.
And the only thing you need is a desire to learn and and you could then make really good money doing it because that is a job I promise you nobody wants to do.
It's a job that they're not going to do well on their own.
Do it yourself or is not going to do well.
Nope.
Nope.
Looks like crap.
Yep.
It does.
Yeah.
So all right.
Well, I'm glad you call, Rebecca.
God bless you.
All right, quick break, right back to our phones.
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Trina in Florida.
Hey, Trina, you got the last minute.
Hi.
Thank you for the call for taking my call, and I'm so grateful for what you do on the radio.
Thank you.
I just wanted to make a mention about uh today's generation of kids, and I'm talking about even the twenty-five, thirty-five year olds, they don't want to use any elbow grease.
They lack self-esteem to the point where they have no ambition.
I mean, to get up and go to work every day, it's like, are you serious?
You know, i it's just it just boggles the mind to think this is the upcoming generation that's right here looking at us.
And automation is kind of like owning an exclusive automobile.
When it runs, it's terrific, and when it doesn't, it's a piece of crap.
You know, and their their attitudes are just so give me, get me, I gotta have.
And that generation is just I I listen, I I can tell you I see it all the time.
And here's the last part I'm gonna say, and I have to run only because of the constraints of time.
You know, we can tell right away on radio and TV when we hire somebody if they're gonna make it or not.
And you either have the desire to put in the time, learn the culture, put your head down and work hard, or you don't.
And it is and there's an entitlement and mentality that I'd never seen before, and but it never works.
You're not gonna you're not gonna be able to survive in my business if you do that.
You just can't.
Uh anyway, I do appreciate your call, Trina.
You're right about that, but the the good news is if you're willing to work hard, there's more opportunities for you.
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