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Feb. 1, 2026 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Radio Show Hour 3 – 2026/01/31
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Ice Blockade Catastrophe 00:12:14
You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Well, welcome back, everybody.
Third hour of the last broadcast of January.
We have had, how many weeks have we had in January?
It seems like January never ends.
This is the fifth week in January.
Well, the fifth Saturday.
We all know you can only have four weeks in a month, but the fifth Saturday, and I'll be damned, Keith Alexander, if we have not hit the road, this frozen path that we have trod here in the Mid-South the last few weeks with a blistering start here to 2026.
If people have been wondering why Keith hasn't been in the studio the last couple of weeks, there's been pretty much an impenetrable ice blockade here on the streets of Memphis starting last week through this week.
And so, and still to this day, we got out on the road a couple of days ago and down in northern Mississippi, I-78, or excuse me, Highway 78, now called Interstate 22 in Northern Mississippi, was still blocked a week after this ice storm, Winterstorm Fern hit.
And Keith, I mean, I'm 45.
I'm five years short of a half century.
I have never seen ice like this in Memphis.
Well, I tell you what, it's been pretty daunting.
The streets, the main streets seem to be pretty clear.
The back streets are still icy.
And the real threat for getting stuck is if you go on a parking lot because those parking lots, a lot of them haven't seemed to have had much of a melt off at all.
So it is, you know, I got stuck last night.
Well, you live right off of a major street there in metropolitan Memphis.
I can assure you, in the suburbs and the exurbs, way out where we are, it's basically, you're still getting stuck.
And it wasn't a regular Libra.
I mean, folks, if you didn't follow it, there was a line of ice that passed through about last week when we were doing the show.
It came in last Friday through Saturday and Sunday, and it moved in a northeastern line from Texas all the way through New England, and it just skirted Memphis.
And I say skirted, I mean, we got inundated with anywhere between six inches and a foot of ice.
I had, there was a drift of ice taller than Caroline, our youngest daughter's head, next to the window.
It is slick.
You cannot break it with a shovel.
You cannot break it with a hammer.
And we were sledding.
I mean, we had a ball with it.
We never lost power.
But just about 20 miles south, Keith, and to the east of us, as you know, it was 100% power outage in those counties.
In Alcorn County, where Carnath, Mississippi is, in northwestern Mississippi, down in Oxford, where the University of Mississippi old missed your alma mater, Keith, completely, completely destroyed.
Entire forests have laid down as a result of the ice accumulation on the branches and the leaves, not the leaves, but the branches and the limbs of the trees.
And they've called trees to fall.
The mayor of Oxford, Mississippi, which is only about an hour south of Memphis, very close, said it looks like a tornado went down every street.
I mean, this has been cataclysmic.
This has been a catastrophe for the Mid-South.
We're fortunate in Memphis that we didn't get a lot of sleep because sleet turns to ice and ice is what brings down the power lines and the trees and everything else.
We got snow, but just, you know, typical Winter Wonderland type of snow falling.
We had a lot of it.
And when it got on the ground, it did.
I mean, about five inches, four to five inches of ice is what has been the result of the low temperatures we've had.
But luckily, we didn't have a lot of accumulation on power lines and things like this, or else we would have been in the same situation as I was.
See, it was a very narrow difference.
I mean, we had just enough accumulation on the power lines and the trees not to cause that damage.
But, you know, I'm a little bit to the east of you in the adjacent county.
I mean, we're only about 45 minutes away, 30 minutes away.
But another 35, 40 minutes to the east of me and 45 minutes to the south of me.
And you're looking at 100% power outage, you know, a week ago anyway, and all that damage.
I mean, homes destroyed all these trees.
I mean, you know, how would you describe Oxford, Mississippi?
I mean, it's been all over the news.
Folks, if you don't know what we're describing right now, just Google Oxford, Mississippi ice.
But Keith, you've been down there.
I mean, the University of Mississippi, all the students had a huddle in the student union.
I mean, it has been an absolute natural disaster.
And it's not really getting a lot of news.
And even tonight, the Carolinas, our friends at Dixie Republic, there's hurricane force winds, but instead of water, it's snow.
I mean, we have a listener in East Tennessee who's getting 16 inches today.
You know, global warming.
My God.
Well, our friends out there, they're experiencing snow mageddon, I think.
And it's, you know, I've seen some of the footage from there, and I'm glad I'm not there.
I'm glad I'm here.
But still, I've been hunkered in the bunker.
I went out with, you know, my girlfriend to dinner last night, and my car got stuck on the parking lot driveway.
I mean, it was dicey.
It took us about 40 minutes to get out of there.
And it was, I remembered some old tricks about driving on ice and finally got out of there.
But I mean, it was, you know, I wouldn't, I don't go on any parking lots until on Monday, we're supposed to have 51 degrees in the rain, and that ought to take care of the streets.
But right now, you said I was on a main street.
There are two tire tracks, one on eastbound and one for westbound traffic.
And the rest of it is ice, you know, and that's after this has been a week.
You know, it's incredible.
It has been.
And now we had a lot of fun with it because we didn't lose power.
We were snowed in.
We couldn't get out, you know, for several days.
But, you know, what's interesting about it is the snow is like, excuse me, the ice.
I mean, now out where we live, it came down as freezing rain.
So it didn't accumulate like the normal, you know, puffy, flaky, you know, snowflakes.
You couldn't, you know, do a snowman or a snowball even because it was just pure ice.
And I mean six inches a foot plus everywhere.
Everywhere where I lived, it was like an ice cap had just covered it.
And we had a lot of fun with it because we didn't lose power.
I mean, me and the kids, my wife, we were sledding, and it was slick as a rocket.
I mean, you could just get on a sled and you would just, with a very marginal grade of an incline.
Did you drive around on any of it?
Yeah, you couldn't.
No, you couldn't get out.
I mean, not today.
I didn't even start driving until, you know, Friday.
Yeah, I mean, yes.
So from the show last week through Thursday.
And even then, people were still getting stuck.
I mean, never has Ice stayed in Memphis this long, not in the 45 years that I can remember.
I mean, you had a big ice storm in 1994.
My dad was working at the fire department, and everybody lost power then, you know, but we didn't lose power this time.
But we lost power then.
The big ice, historic, if you're here in Memphis, the ice storm of 94.
But I was a kid, you know, I was 13.
I went, I turned 14 in June of 94.
I was 13.
Me and my brother, my cousins, we all gathered around the fire.
I mean, it was ice and snow.
It was fun.
My dad was the captain at the fire department at that time.
So we could go down to the fire station to take a hot shower.
So we just had a great time.
But we didn't lose power this time.
I was in a historic storm.
When I was 12 years old, we had in 1963 on December the 13th, a similar type of event.
And I remember all the boys got on as much clothing as they could, kind of Arctic hats and some like welding goggles.
We went out and had a BB gun war in it, if you can believe that.
That shows you how reckless Flaming Youth was back in 63 as compared to today.
Oh, well, I got a story for you about that.
And then we got to get to, I guess we got to get to some substance this hour, but I don't know.
I'm having fun, so we might not.
No, we will.
We're going to, folks.
But just give me one more indulgence here.
So it has been a historic ice storm.
I mean, there's no doubt about it.
But you mentioned the BB gun thing.
I got to say this.
So this was in the 90s when I was, you know, I was born in the 1980s.
So in the early 90s, you know, I'm still a boy.
And me and two cousins, we were all shooting each other with BB guns.
No helmet, no eye goggles, no protection, nothing.
And we called it in the line of fire because there was a Clint Eastwood movie called In the Line of Fire at that time.
And we said, you want to play in the line of fire?
That's where we go hide.
We just shoot each other with BB guns, but with no protection.
And so I'm hiding in the tall grass at my neighbor's.
So we lived at one house.
You've been to my house in Alteria when we still lived in Bartlett.
And so it was that house.
And then there was a house in the middle.
And then my cousin's house was two houses down.
And so I went in the neighbor's yard, and they had tall grass, and I would hide in it.
And I would shoot at my cousins who were like, you know, hiding behind trees and behind, you know, obstructions.
And we were just shooting each other with BB guns.
And I remember getting, you know, pelted, I can't remember how many times.
And, you know, everybody would laugh when they got hit.
But I didn't ever think, you know, it could put out somebody's eye.
Yeah, I heard that.
I heard some Christmas story since then.
My cousin was hiding behind a wagon that he had turned over and was using it as a shield.
And I was waiting for him to stick his head up.
And I shot him right in the head.
And, you know, we were too stupid and too young to know that that could have been major, major, major damage.
And it hit him right in the chin.
But if it had been two inches up, he'd have been blind.
Oh, my God.
But it hit him in the chin.
And he still to this day, that was in the early 90s.
He still to this day has a BB in his chin.
He didn't even know it was in there until he went to the dentist and got an x-ray.
And they said, you know what?
There's a BB in your chin.
And so that's how close.
And we never played that game again after that day because we got to bark that were a little rougher than we were down white.
We did all kinds of things that were so stupid.
I mean, when you're kids, you do that.
I mean, we would hide.
They had a persimmon tree at their street, and we would get persimmon that they met cars as they drove by.
And we never thought that was anything other than funny.
Minnesota Memories 00:12:48
I mean, anyway.
Yeah, I did that.
I remember some guy chasing me.
Yeah.
Well, one guy has stopped, and you know, he was going to rat on us.
And we were jumping fences.
I mean, you know, when you do, as George Bush said, as George W. Bush said, when you're young and foolish, you do things that are young and foolish.
But anyway, that was in a debate with Al Gore.
I guess we should probably get to some substance here.
So let's just get into it now.
And so, anyway, we told the story.
The reason Keith hasn't been in the studio the last two weeks is because the roads between his place and our studio have been nigh impenetrable.
But nevertheless, we're happy to have him any way we can get him.
And tonight he's on the phone again for the second consecutive week.
But he has been tuned in, and he did listen to Sam Dixon's first-hour appearance and Christian Sikour's second-hour appearance.
And so, Keith, because I know you go as far back as Sam does, let's begin there.
I was asking Sam a question that I would love to get your response to, and that is: how do you compare and contrast the, you know, the tough guy persona that Tampon Tim Waltz is presenting versus our heroes, Faubus, Barnett, and Wallace?
Sam says a lot of differences to compare and contrast, not the least of which being the system is on one side and not the other.
But break that down in response to how things have shaken out in Minneapolis since our show a week ago tonight.
Well, you said, you know, who has the establishment on their side?
Unfortunately, the people that were representing our interests in the civil rights movement, that are white southerners, were, you know, totally marginalized.
We were, you know, the people, the bad people.
Okay.
Now, in a lot of America today, Minnesotans have appeared to be a bunch of crazy people.
Somebody told me the other day that Minnesota is the new Mississippi, you know, as far as being people, you know, people of Mississippi was on the right side.
Minnesota's on the wrong side.
And that's a comparison.
However, exactly.
Yeah, but see, we didn't have, you know, the left-wing Jewish-run media was alive and well back then.
We didn't know it.
You know, nobody really had that on their radar screen.
But I mean, we got nothing but negative press.
And so did Ross Barnett and George Wallace, Henry Loeb, mayor of Memphis, who is Jewish, by the way, but a staunch segregationist, Orville Faubus in Arkansas.
And, you know, all these arguments like posse comitatus and insurrection act and stuff like that.
Nobody mentioned that on the news then.
Everybody mentions it on the news now, but all those good arguments against form people standing up to federal authority were never uttered by the newscasters back in the late 50s and early 60s because, you know, there was a conspiracy against Southerners in particular and white people generally back then.
And, you know, it was driven by people like the people in Minnesota.
You know, my father told me that the people in Minnesota were salt of the earth in some ways and will give you the shirt off their back, but they were crazy left-wingers.
And he said, particularly on the issue of race, and he said they used to get on him all the time about how badly white southerners supposedly mistreated blacks.
And he'd just shake his head and roll his eyes.
He said, it's like people that lived in the desert, presuming to tell people that lived in the jungle about jungle survival techniques.
But see, we still have that, you know, bias in the media.
Only this time, the people in Minnesota, the protesters, are getting the benefit of it back in the old days in 57 at Little Rock with the integration of Central High School or 62 with the integration of Old Miss or 63 with the integration of the University of Alabama, things like that.
All of that, you know, our people were on the losing end and you couldn't get any word out at all.
You know, there was no internet back then.
So consequently, basically, all people could do is go down to the coffee shop and talk with each other and you'd get some ideas there.
But as far as getting some outside information, you just couldn't get it.
You had the local newspapers, for the most part, had not been taken over by the left at that point.
And you could get some, you know, pro-white coverage in your local newspaper.
But it wasn't shortly after that that these big publishing conglomerates like Gannett and Scripps Howard and whatnot bought up all the local newspapers and replaced the editors with people from Portland, Oregon, or Portland, Maine, or something like that.
And it's, you know, so you it was unrelenting back then.
And we need to understand that it's really important to control the narrative because this is what's happened to Trump.
This is why Trump is doing all these kind of reckless things overseas that really aren't in our interest, like threatening Iran with war.
He's doing it because he can't get a win in the United States on domestic policy because ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, all these other, you know, even Fox News, they're really against him.
And he can't win because of that because he is too attached to public relations and what his appearance is on public relations.
And, you know, if he gets too much negativity like he did in Minnesota here, he backs down.
And that's demoralizing to white advocates because he's really in the perfect position.
You know, basically what these people are doing, these protesters in Minnesota are doing is obstructing justice.
He needs to just go in there and arrest them all and he needs to arrest them and take them not in front of the federal courts down there or the state courts that are staffed with liberals.
What he needs to do is take them to the immigration courts.
They have a special set of immigration courts and he can stack those courts with partisans on the right and he could get some convictions and he could be in control.
But see, what we're getting, the reason that he's not succeeding domestically is because of lawfare, which started with Brown versus Board of Education.
That was the great victory of lawfare.
It showed the way out of the wilderness for the left and the way to the gulag for the right.
So we need to understand that there's internationally, you know, I guess the International Court of The Hague could try to bring some type of measures against Trump, but he'd just laugh at that just like everybody else does.
Like Putin does, like Ziu Jiping does.
And, you know, everybody, Netanyahu definitely does.
So, see.
You really have no constraints on you internationally, but the unfortunate thing is that in the international sphere, you're playing with nuclear-armed enemies or foes in this thing, and you've got to be very careful.
You can't be reckless.
Right now with Iran, we're going to see whether the so-called rapprochement between China, Russia, and Iran is really effective or not for them.
But, you know, again, who is benefiting from that?
Not white advocates in America, not white Gentiles in America, but the Israelis, you know, the Jewish Israelis.
So consequently, you know, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yeah, no, I got you, my friend.
And what a great holding of court there on the radio you just did.
And I know a lot of that was in response to the general conversation during the first hour with Sam Dixon.
Let's, before we go to the break, the bottom of the hour break, and we're skipping a lot of breaks because we've got to make haste.
We've got to free up this time because these conversations, I had no idea we're going to be coming in so hot in 2026 as we have this month.
The first five weeks of January have just been so much news, so much to cover, not a minute to spare.
But I know you also listened to Christian Sikour, the former J6 hostage.
You heard his story again.
And we were all together a year ago, Brad Griffin and Linda Baum and Bill Lord and that whole thing came in and that was when Christian was in town.
They all set in with us here in Memphis for that particular show.
And Christian, that was Christian's first time on the show last year, right after all the J6 hostages were released.
But you heard Christian tonight, who says he grades Trump certainly lesser now than he did a year ago today.
And a lot of that had to do with his handling of the Minnesota thing.
Well, that's what we're talking about.
It's a domestic but feels much more comfortable on the international field because he does not have to contend.
Well, not necessarily with regard to Iran and Venezuela.
I mean, you know, I don't know what international feeling.
No, I'm saying that is where he can succeed.
He can't succeed like that domestically because domestically he has to deal with these Jewish liberal justices in blue states.
And if he wants to come in there and really, you know, he's not having any problem with his agenda in Memphis because Tennessee is a red state.
And even the people in Memphis, you know, that are left-wing at least have a modicum of common sense.
They're not crazy like the people in Minnesota.
And the people in that, you know, they talk about Minnesota nice.
I think we need to replace that with Minnesota crazy.
Well, I've heard of Midwestern nice.
And when I hear that, I think of like Steve Kings, Iowa, not Minneapolis-St. Paul.
But I mean, I hear what you're saying.
And there was something else I was going to say with regard to that, but the thought escapes me now.
Always jump in when you get an idea, okay?
Because I know.
I had something hot.
I had something real good.
Maybe it'll come to me during the break.
You remember it at midnight.
Call me and tell me.
No, it was damn good.
It was so good.
I can't believe I'm not remembering it.
You got me off on the Minneapolis Nice.
I've heard of Midwestern Nice.
Well, I guess Minneapolis is Midwestern person.
Minnesota nice is what they that's what they advertise that on their tourism department.
You know, it's like, you know, De Moin nice, but it's like, you know, Atlanta is a southern city, and Memphis is a southern city, and Birmingham's a southern city.
You know, the south's a little bit different than that.
But now I hear you.
Anyway, well, there's the music.
We got to take a break.
We haven't taken minis tonight, but we got to take this one.
And Keith Alexander, I've missed you the last week and tonight.
But, you know, when global warming eases up and we can get out on the streets again, we'll do so and we'll reconnect.
But until then, we'll reconnect via telephone.
Keith at the studios.
Stay tuned.
30 minutes to go tonight.
All right.
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Winter Storm Update 00:05:11
The winter storm gripping the eastern part of the country may have played a role in the sinking of a fishing vessel off the coast of Massachusetts.
Bob Agnew reports.
The investigation has just begun, but the Coast Guard search and rescue coordinator, Tim Jones, says sea spray combined with a bitter cold may have been a factor.
As the sea spray hovers over the boat and then it quickly freezes when it hits the cold metal, posing a grave danger to the fully loaded Lily Jean and her crew of seven.
As it upsets the writing arm of the ship and makes it more likely to potentially capsize.
A sudden event that experts say may be why the crew had no time to issue a May Day.
Coast Guard Audio, courtesy of WBZ in Boston.
Von Agner reporting.
The Senate has voted to fund most of the government after President Trump and Democrats struck a deal on homeland security.
Senators passed the measure a few hours before Friday's midnight deadline.
To win passage of the bill, the president agreed to fund Homeland Security at current levels for two weeks, while lawmakers debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids demanded by Democrats.
Because of the change in DHS funding, the bill heads back to the House, which is not due back until Monday.
So technically, part of the government is shut down temporarily this weekend, but the impact should be minimal before the House vote.
Greg Klodston, Washington.
Tens of thousands across the South are still without power nearly a week after storms and frustration is boiling over.
Nashville residents are criticizing their utilities response.
While the Carolinas and Virginia brace for a major winter storm, North Carolina and South Carolina have become two hotspots for growth in the U.S. North Carolina was the top destination for domestic migrants in the U.S.
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Keith, I don't even know what to do.
I don't even know what to say or where to go from here.
Exponential Material Flow 00:15:21
This last 30 minutes, does it feel like we've done like a year's worth of broadcasting the first five weeks?
I mean, January has been pretty busy.
Is it just me?
Well, we've always said that we, you know, the establishment never leaves us with a lack of material.
But, you know, with Trump being in here, things have ramped up to, you know, exponentially, I think.
And that's how we're doing.
Yeah, I hear you.
And I mean, you know, I look at the annual ebb and flow of our yearly broadcast calendar.
And here we are now at the end of January.
We're supposed to be still easing into another, you know, production year, a couple of weeks away from the, you know, annual Valentine's Day show with the ladies.
And then we've got a couple of months of special programming coming up in March, March around the world.
April's Confederate History Month.
And then we just continue on and we have our normal routine here at TPC.
But I tell you, it has gotten busier every year.
21 years and counting now, year 22.
The states are so high now.
You know, the studies are basically different.
It's just like what everybody was saying.
This is basically existential.
Existential isn't some concept.
That means life or death.
We know that if the left gets back in, they're going to come after right-wingers with a vengeance.
And that means that we can't lose and we won't lose if we have full and fair elections.
But you need to need to do something.
We need to, first of all, do away with the filibuster while we still have the power to do it.
Then what we need to do is we need to get elections so that mail-in ballots cannot be used at all.
And then back it up.
with federal troops if necessary in blue states to make sure that that does not happen or in blue areas, blue electoral districts.
If we do that, we will win the election.
We wouldn't have lost any of these elections.
I'm sure, for example, I wouldn't have lost two elections I lost, but for the fact that under the Voting Rights Act of 65, they basically have endorsed proxy voting on behalf of black citizens.
They don't have to vote themselves.
They can have someone vote on their behalf.
That's not officially the position, but practically speaking, that's what's happened.
And, you know, Trump needs to get some wins.
You know, he does not need to lose in a heavyweight boxing match with Tampon Tim in Minnesota.
And he could do it.
He could do it by resorting to the immigration courts that have been set up.
You know, all federal courts, not just U.S. district courts and courts of appeal and the Supreme Court.
They have a whole set of federal courts for bankruptcy, for example.
And we have those for immigration too.
He needs to just, and he can just appoint those people.
He needs to appoint them.
He doesn't have to go to Congress to get them appointed.
They're not District 3 courts.
And basically, he can arrest the illegal immigrants in Minnesota, charge them in immigration court.
And he doesn't have to do with immigration courts right there.
He can do it to any immigration court in the nation and take them somewhere else and warehouse them, you know, in a holding center until they can get around to having them actually tried, getting trials.
So that could really, you know, he could win if he wants to get tough, if he wants to really, you know, take off the question.
It's prologue.
It's not going to happen.
It hasn't happened yet, but why is he not getting good advice like this?
You know, he needs to get some advice from somebody that really.
Well, I mean, a lot of people say that his administration is further to the right than he is.
And I probably agree with that.
Well, then he needs to get with the program.
You know, he's not going to, you know, when I hear Christian say that he'd give him a D or an F or a D or a C, that's a shame because, you know, he basically sprung Christian from jail.
But unfortunately, Christian is right.
Wait a minute.
That entire 14 panel, you know, consortium that we put together in December gave him a C or a D.
And that's basically everything.
Well, I'd say a 70.
Yeah, well, that's with the old, basically the old grading system.
A 70 in a Memphis public school is an A-plus.
Oh, yeah, right.
It is now.
But back then, you had to make below a 50 to fail.
And you had to make below a, I mean, yeah, it was 10 points for every grade and whatnot.
But, you know, what he's right about is that Trump is not winning domestically, and he needs to start winning domestically, and he needs to start doing whatever it takes so that he can win domestically because it doesn't matter.
You know, pussyfooting around is not going to impress the other side.
If they get control, they are going to impeach him.
They are going to try to put him in jail.
You've had Larry Krasner saying that he wants to execute.
Larry Krasner is the left-wing DA of Philadelphia.
He says he wants to hunt down the ICE agents like Nazis in Germany, and he doesn't care if it takes it until 20, 30 years.
We'll make sure that we get all of them executed.
And he talked about executing them.
Okay.
All right.
Let me ask you this.
We don't need to consider that type of thing to be idle speculation.
They are actually saying that, and they mean it.
Well, let me ask you one thing.
It would take me 20 to 30 years to read all the mail we've gotten since December.
But do you want to try to take a stab at it to hear the last thing?
Let's go for it.
I want to hear what the people have to say.
It's a totally different change of direction, but I've been meaning to work some of this mail.
As I said, I wake up every day to a couple of hundred text messages that grows to several hundred by the end of the day.
And don't get me started on emails, phone calls.
Keith, what happens to a phone call?
It drops into the ether somehow.
It disappears forever.
Letters, I do like snail mail letters.
Old school, I like that.
I mean, we try to read everything.
We try to get to every little, but it's just impossible.
But I want to say hello to Carol in Merrillville, Tennessee.
We love you, Carol.
I know you're under snow tonight.
You're listening, and I want to say hello to you.
You've been texting my wife for the last couple of days.
You are a part of our family, as you all are, ladies and gentlemen.
But we do want to say hello to Carol in Merrillville, Tennessee tonight.
And yeah, Keith, I mean, there's just been, I got a pile of mail here.
And, you know, how do you pick them out?
We got 15 minutes left, basically, tonight.
And I've got, you know, 100 letters here, just off the top of the mailbag.
And just we'll just go through them as quickly as possible.
I'll read them.
You get five seconds to respond.
Mark in Beaumont, Texas.
2025 was a great year for the show.
Look forward to seeing what you have in store for us in 2026.
Wish you all the best.
You want to wish Mark the best in Beaumont, Keith?
Absolutely.
That's having loyal people like Mark that just give us wind in our sails.
No, sometimes you wonder whether you're talking to yourself.
Our mail lets us know that we're really making an impact.
I have never wondered that.
I can tell you with great certainty.
Here's Tom in California.
And he was one of the people who received the signed copy of Cultural Insurrections.
That was our fall fundraiser, although Mark writes on December the 16th of last year, just a month ago.
I'm sure Kevin McDonald will be quoted for many years to come.
He's very smart and an intuitive thinker, much like you and Keith and Pat Buchanan were years ago.
In fact, Pat is being quoted more today than he was 25 years ago, and I love that.
Tom writes, I listen to the program every Saturday live.
So he's tuned in right now, Keith, as we speak.
And again on Sunday, he writes, because things are always busy here on Saturday night, and he's frequently distracted.
So he listens to you twice, Keith, once live and once in the archives.
And he writes that he hopes that we have a very prosperous 2026.
We win in the end, and I know it.
Well, that's from Tom in California, Keith.
Well, I appreciate him as much as he apparently appreciates us.
And to compare us with Pat Buchanan and Kevin McDonald is really high praise, I'll have to say.
Thank you very much.
Indeed, it is.
Here is a listener who was at, well, actually, I don't know what, I don't know who this is, but we're going to read.
Dear TBC, thank you for all you do.
I love your radio show.
It inspires and uplifts me much.
It's so great.
I hope you guys keep going and keep encouraging people.
Many blessings.
Well, we're certainly going to try, right, Keith?
I tell you what, keep them coming, man.
I love this type of praise and background, you know, having people appreciating this.
I've been meaning to do this with you for at least a couple of months now.
I mean, this is just off the top.
But this comes from Michael, and I believe Michael's in Ohio.
Michael writes, dear James, always look forward to your interviews in the American Free Press.
Keep up the good work.
Our friend Harry Cooper came through again.
This was a contributor to our fourth quarter Christmas fundraising drive, Keith.
Thank you for the card.
Your beautiful family is growing up.
Yours in the struggle.
And he even signs his shark hunters members number.
Well, you know, that is something that I also enjoy.
I mean, it's a relationship and a cooperation and a friendship with our listeners and our guest.
And he mentions Harry Cooper and our fundraising incentives.
It's all in the family.
That's right.
I'll overlook the fact you didn't mention me in that letter.
Here's one for you.
I got one for you right here from my listener in the middle.
I'm glad he got recognized.
Well, indeed, you can't beat Harry.
This is another in Whiteville, Tennessee, which Keith, you'll know, is a little bit, I believe, to the east of Bolivar, if I'm doing my math right here or my geography right here on Tennessee.
All right, sorry.
Here's what he writes.
Dear James and Keith, and you so often are included in that, as you know.
But he writes, Dear James and Keith, no, no, no.
I got to pay.
I'll even send this to you on text message so you can see it.
But Mary, he writes, successful New York, keep doing what y'all do.
And my third great-grandfather actually did ride with Forrest.
So this is something that Gene Andrews often talks about.
Anybody who served in the Confederate States Army in the Western Theater, they say that their ancestor rode with Forrest, which means he would have had, you know, like, you know, a couple of hundred thousand.
Well, look, mine did, I know, because I've got the certificate when he applied for membership in the Confederate Veterans Organization.
Not the sons of Confederate veterans, but the actual Confederate Veterans Group.
Well, this was, we all find each other later in life.
It's like my ancestor fought with Michael Hill's ancestor at Shiloh.
And salute to you, Levi Smith, who was Grandma Ruby Smith's.
She later became Ruby Austin's grandfather, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, my great-grandmother's grandfather.
Anyway, but he writes that his third great-grandfather did indeed ride with Forrest in Mississippi's 19th Duffs Guard and 8th Cavalry.
He was present at the battles of Collierville, Moscow, Oklahoma, Bryce's Crossroads, Tupelo, and in the raids on Memphis.
What an honor to know he fought locally.
Well, did you know that Pat Buchanan's own great-grandfather fell at the Battle of Ogalona?
I think I remember him saying that.
Unfortunately, John McCain had an ancestor that fought in the Confederate Army, too.
See, my grandfather or great-grand-grandfather, IES Alexander, Independence Ellen Shuler Alexander, was in Forrest's 15th Tennessee Cavalry, and he fought in most of those battles as well.
So, you know, it's good to know that we've got people with that same heritage that we have.
You know, it's really a matter of pride to have ancestors that fought with the Confederacy.
A winner like General Forrest, my gosh, you know, that's what everybody wanted to do.
They wanted to ride with Forrest because they know that they won Forrest.
Might survive.
They might survive if they did.
They might live.
They might win.
It's kind of like what we're facing in the next election.
You either won or you died.
Well, and to know that, you know, I'll say this about Pat.
Pat was the last major presidential candidate that ever appeared at a campaign rally at a Sons of Confederate Veterans reunion.
They call them reunions, not conferences.
But, you know, Pat, you know, Pat's ancestors come from, you know, they were actually there.
And they didn't just fight in Oklahoma.
They were from that adjacent county to Pontotock County and to Alcorn County, where my ancestors were.
So we find each other later in life.
Is that Itawamba County?
That's right.
Itawamba is where IUCA is on the Alabama border.
No, he was down in the Oklahoma, whatever county Okalana is in.
The Secretary is still down there.
I went down there to take a picture.
That's your assignment for the week.
Find out what county of Oklahoma is.
I'll find it.
But anyway, but Pat's ancestors are from Mississippi.
And anyway, we talked about that years ago.
We were feeling about that years ago.
Yeah, I don't know about every side, but he's a southerner through and through.
Nevertheless, that's an aside.
We're spending too much time.
We're down to the last eight minutes.
Jim up in New York, all over the country.
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What a great supporter and friend he is.
He sent, you know, and they do this.
We love our audience, and we love Jim because he's a fellow traveler.
But he sent in a card from his son's wedding, and it's the wedding picture, and he addresses it to the family here.
But how about this one?
This comes from Trevor in Florida.
And he writes, when I was younger, you and some of your friends kept me from going in a bad direction in a lot of ways and pointed me toward the right path toward the following of Jesus Christ.
He is a great savior indeed.
I am writing with anticipation and hope for what God has planned for me in 2026.
I hope we can meet again before too much longer.
You know, that's a legacy worth celebrating, Keith.
Well, that knows that you, you know, that's a young man that surely got his head screwed on right.
He knows what's really important.
And the fact that he says that you in particular, and I guess our show generally, set him on the right path.
I mean, there's no one could say anything more heartwarming to me than that.
How about this one?
And this is a brand new donor who came online just last Christmas.
Hi, James.
Love the show.
Can't contribute much because my son's in his third year of law school.
You should know something about that, Keith.
We don't have much disposable income, but I hope you can put the money to good use.
And don't have to.
He said, don't have Papa John's before the show again.
Gross.
But I guess that was the night we had Papa John's.
I don't remember mentioning that on the air, but surely we must have or he wouldn't have known it.
Tell Keith that we love his boomerisms, and we root for old miss every Saturday.
How about that?
Well, that's good.
You know, Old Miss is basically a memory.
At least the old miss is worth supporting, but it's still, you know, it's hard to give up.
You know, old habits are hard to break.
So we do it and quite frankly had an exciting year this past year.
They almost won it.
Almost won it.
We didn't even talk about that.
They almost won it.
Well, you know, the best games in the college football playoffs were old miss games.
They were the ones that were the most exciting.
Everything else was blowing.
I watched that last game.
They could have gone to the national championship game, lost it on the last play, but they were right there, my friend.
I got you.
But let's go to this one.
Local listener, right here in Memphis.
Dear James and Keith, it's Saturday night, and I turn on the radio, and you're there, and I rest easy for a while.
Wish I had more to contribute.
I'm always learning from your guests, and I will be in better shape next year.
Hope you and your families stay well.
And thank you.
And I told this listener, I actually wrote her back.
She lives in Memphis, very near to you, Keith.
She lives, well, I won't say where, but very near the Pink Palace.
Let's just say that.
And I told her we would take her out to supper.
If she writes back with a phone number, you and I will take her out to supper.
Her name's Carolyn.
Absolutely.
I can't wait to do it.
And I hope that whatever health problems she's having, that she gets well soon.
Okay?
And let us take you out to dinner.
Where would we want to take her, Keith?
Well, we could take them to, well, we would take her to Char.
We could take her to the Cupboard.
We could take her to the Belmont.
There are all sorts of good restaurants in that vicinity.
No shortage in Memphis.
That's indeed.
Luckily, we still have some restaurants left.
Carolyn, send me your phone number and we'll take you out.
That's a fact.
All right.
As we've taken out Ethan Ralph and so many people who have traveled to Memphis, she actually lives here and is listening here on the local AM 1600.
Here's Dale not listening on 1600.
He's up in Pennsylvania.
And he writes that he gives us daily prayers for us, our loved ones, and our associates here at TPC.
He prays that our work and our special projects are very successful.
And he donates every quarter.
And we would not be sustained otherwise.
Where did 2025 go?
I'm still asking myself that.
31 days into 2026, Dale.
I can tell you that.
But he's wishing and praying for the best in 2026 for all of us here in the fight.
And he never misses a show.
Well, that's heartwarming to know that he prays for us because we need all the prayers we can get, basically.
The good guys are always on the short end of the stick and have been basically ever since World War II in America.
You know, all the civil rights movement, feminist movement, homosexual rights movement.
But you know what?
God is in charge of everything.
And I think we're going to eventually be the one to sign on this.
We're down to two minutes left.
We could have spent, as I said, with Sam Dixon in the first hour tonight.
I could have gone three hours with him.
We could have gone three hours.
We could probably go the whole year just reading mail.
But I'm not trying to cherry pick or just take a few off the top or play favorites.
I mean, this is just, you know, a grab.
Well, we've got first-rate listeners.
We've got first-rate people that are our fans.
So much, so much.
So important to us.
Let's try to work in as many as we can in the last two minutes.
John writes: Your steadfast, unwavering support for our people is the bedrock upon which our nation's sovereignty and legacy are built.
We must preserve our unique identity and heritage, or we will be painfully suffering the consequences, as sadly, our friends in Great Britain are learning every day.
Thank you for another great year.
He's writing at the end of 2025 and wishing us the best for 2026.
And we're still embarking on that journey.
But that's a listener out in California, John in California.
That's right.
And the people in Britain seem to be finally waking up that neither the Labor Party nor the Tory Party is going to do anything there.
And they are going with the Reform Party.
They really need to be going with the British National Party and our friend Nick.
Well, maybe the BNP of 20 years ago.
But I hear you.
I hear you.
I'm sure whatever it is now is better than what they've got.
But who is this here?
A different John, a different John.
John, but a different John on the other coast.
Well, this is interesting.
Huge, longtime fan here.
And your show has been a regular part of my nighttime walks around the neighborhood for years, but he's a first-time writer.
And long may it continue.
I live out in the country in an all-white society, and you do so much to keep me updated on the nightmare I left behind and provide a much appreciated dash of southern charm.
Thanks for everything you do, and all the best.
That comes from John on the opposite coast of John in California.
Well, that shows there are even good people in New York, doesn't it?
I tell you, we know a lot of people.
I don't know if he was in New York.
I mean, there's a long eastern seaboard that extends south of New York.
See, we need to remember there are good people there, and we know a lot of them.
And like Joel and the Copperhead and people like that.
So, you know, God bless you all.
I know that you're behind enemy lines, but, you know, we do appreciate you, and we always have your best interests at heart.
Here's Mitch in Maryland.
Mitch is a quarterly donor.
There's some people who give intermittently.
There's some people who give one time.
There's some people who give, you know, maybe once or twice a year.
Some people who give every month.
And Mitch is one of those in Maryland.
And he says, please give Keith my best.
I think about him too, looking forward to great things to come in 2026.
Well, I hope we haven't disappointed you, Mitch.
These first five weeks of the 2026 broadcasting calendar.
And I hope we haven't disappointed anybody whose letter we haven't read tonight.
I'm thinking about you, Mike, in Virginia.
You know, we did this big show last week.
We did a week or two ago on Virginia, everything that's happening there.
Mike in Virginia, we're thinking about you.
We're thinking about you.
Mark in Oklahoma.
We're thinking about everyone who's written in.
We're all equal.
And I hear the music playing, Keith.
I hear the music playing, and I can barely hear it.
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