Full Transcript for Harris County Election Integrity Fight

00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:56.959 I'll be doing a live broadcast at the Using Gun Clutch Association show tomorrow from 11 to noon. 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:58.800 Uh, it'll be a really good time. 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.439 But that's going on today, tomorrow and Sunday. 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:05.519 Uh, today from 12 to 5, tomorrow from 9 to 5, Sunday from 9 to 3. 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:13.439 Uh, and it's a$15, one-day pass, or if you want to go a couple days, uh, you can get the$20 pass and it'll get you in all three days. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.759 But that is at the Marriott Houston West Chase, right there in Houston. 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:21.120 Uh, they also have a$10 raffle coming up, so be aware of all of that. 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:22.240 We'd love to see you out there. 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:28.720 Uh again, I'll be there tomorrow doing a live broadcast, but the Patreon and Tony Booth will be out there all weekend, and so we'd love to see you. 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:33.360 It's a very, very exciting time, and so I'm very, very excited about that as well. 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:34.959 Uh, we got a text in. 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:48.399 It says, I do a lot of retail visits in October, and in October, stores place Halloween displays simultaneously with Christmas displays because they know, they know, and watch what they do come November 1st. 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:50.639 The stores have it right in this case. 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:55.120 I'm not usually a big mega corporation supporter, but in this case, they're correct. 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.480 Come November 1st, one of two things will happen. 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.680 Either you'll notice the Halloween decorations are just gone. 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:04.240 In some cases, they don't want to lose all their money. 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:10.480 Sometimes things don't, you know, I don't want to say they don't last a year, but you know, these days with how they make stuff, they don't. 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:19.600 Sometimes they'll sell a lot of stuff on huge discounts come November 1st, but for the most part, you'll notice like if you go to Costco, yeah, I mean, it's just Christmas starting. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:24.000 Really, it probably already is, but starting especially November 1st, it's just Christmas decor. 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:25.360 That's what it is. 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.199 Uh, that's because that's what people are doing. 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:28.079 Come November 1st. 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:29.439 It's time for Christmas decorating. 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:32.560 And and and I know, I know the hold off. 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:34.720 I know what it is, and I'm gonna address it here. 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:36.720 It's that there's Thanksgiving. 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:41.360 And Thanksgiving, as I'm well aware, often gets let fall by the wayside. 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:42.959 People kind of forget about it. 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:44.399 It's not, you know. 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:48.800 But that's not that's not a result of Christmas decorating, ladies and gentlemen. 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:51.120 That's a result of other issues. 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:59.759 What we do in our home, this is my recommendation, actually, is you decorate for Christmas, November 1st, and then come Thanksgiving, you take a day break. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:04.399 You don't have to turn the lights off for Christmas, but you do dedicate that day to Thanksgiving. 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:10.000 Um, and and of course, we'll do kind of a show on what dedicating that day to Thanksgiving actually looks like. 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.360 We do that every year. 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:12.959 And we'll go into that. 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:18.639 But yes, you should absolutely celebrate Thanksgiving, but that does not require that you wait till after Thanksgiving to put up your Christmas decorations. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:21.600 I start the Christmas season as early as it's tenable to start. 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:29.519 And it just so happens that November 1st often falls right around either our first or into the cold front season. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.240 And so the cold front is coming just a couple days after that. 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:33.759 Christmas decor will be up. 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:42.399 And really, it Christmas is and probably always will be my favorite holiday for good reason. 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:44.480 And it's just so jolly. 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:45.199 It really is. 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:46.639 It really is a jolly season. 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:51.439 And even just putting up the Christmas decorations, the house just feels jollier. 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:53.040 And so I highly recommend it. 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:57.120 It's really good for you uh to just have the Christmas stuff up as soon as possible. 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.120 If you do it in October, it's still, you know, so in a lot of cases, it's still warm. 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:02.720 People are celebrating other stuff. 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:03.680 It just doesn't, you know. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:09.600 But if you start November 1st, you can justify the Christmas music, you can justify the Christmas decorations. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:10.879 Highly recommend. 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.199 But I do want to start off a story for our political talk show. 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:18.160 Uh, and that is what's going on here in Harris County. 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:24.959 Now you might remember we had Hunter Bernie on from Texas Scorecard on Wednesday. 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:31.600 Uh, he was talking about um a potentially racially targeted set of advertisements. 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:52.080 Um and you might remember that we were actually talking with Hunter Bernie about a man, a researcher named Parker Thayer, who was looking into these advertisements on Meta and was finding that they appeared to be, right, at the time, they appeared to 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racially targeted. 00:08:52.320 --> 00:09:04.559 Because all of the targeted uh filters they put on, which aren't exclusionary, it just kind of pushes it that way, were uh foreign countries and of foreign things, right? 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.440 Afro, beat, Africa, India. 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.600 They were clearly pushing it towards non-white folks. 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:13.519 That's what it appeared like. 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.919 And so we got a major update in what's going on there that you're gonna want to hear. 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:26.000 The office of the attorney general has now filed a lawsuit against the Harris County clerk for running racially discriminatory advertisements. 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:37.919 The announcement from the Office of Attorney General accuses the clerk's office of using Meta's ad tools to intentionally target its get-out-the-vote style ads to certain racial and ethnic groups while avoiding targeting other demographics. 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:48.720 Back on Monday, the Harris County's elections department was accused of using Meta's detailed targeting function to target a non-white Spanish-speaking audience in its early voting reminder ads. 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:55.120 Nonwhite demographics have been shown to consistently affiliate with the Democrat Party over the Republican Party, with the opposite being true, of course, of white demographics. 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:58.559 You know, white folks typically vote Republicans, just on average, just statistically. 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:04.720 And so investigative researcher Parker Thayer wrote in a post on X quote, this is an official government office. 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:10.720 Race shouldn't even be a consideration for them, and definitely not for their remember to vote ads. 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:17.279 This seems like a clear attempt to try and boost turnout against among the demographic most favorable to people like Talerico. 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:21.600 And so the Office of Attorney General at least would seem to sort of agree with that assessment. 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:30.320 According to the Office of Attorney General, they said that by classifying based upon race when advertising to provide Harris County voters with election information, the County Clerk's office exceeded its authority. 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:38.320 It engaged in racially discriminatory advertising in an attempt to increase voter turnout among particular races and ethnicities, but not others. 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:49.840 They also noted the Harris County Clerk's office spent an estimated forty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars in the past thirty days on one set of advertisements that is set to be shown preferentially to certain populations. 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:04.559 She said essentially this is a government entity engaging in election engineering, they should target everyone or no one. 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:11.919 And by the way, before there's any

complaints of some sort of discrimination or conflict of interest, I think is the biggest concern. 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:13.519 Well, Ken Paxton's running against Talarico. 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:20.720 So if you're saying that this would, you know, get out the vote for Talarico voters, well, Ken Paxton's suing it, of course he is. 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:25.200 Well, here's the thing: they clarified that because Attorney General Ken Paxton is the current Republican nominee for U.S. 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.120 Senate, he's recused himself from the lawsuit. 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:30.559 It's his office, but he's not even participating in the lawsuit itself. 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:51.519 And so the the Attorney General's office announcement reads, quote, this state brings the this ultra virus suit, which is a suit filed against a government official in their official capacity to ensure that all Texans have an equal opportunity to be informed of and participate in the electoral process regardless of race or demographics. 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:57.919 Now I want to be very clear because the Harris County clerk does not work for the Republican Party. 00:11:58.080 --> 00:11:59.840 They also don't work for the Democrat Party. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:06.559 They they don't work for James Salarico or whatever political coalition it has momentum or cultural influence. 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:11.279 They don't even, you know, they're not even in support of a technical binary system, though that's what we really have. 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:13.679 They're not even supposed to not support independence. 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.240 And so that office exists to serve every single citizen of Harris County. 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:29.919 And when you're given public money, when you're entrusted with that, you you you don't get to treat it like your own personal political campaign fund for whatever targeted advertising you particularly want. 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.000 That that's not your job, right? 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.200 And again, this is alleged discriminatory conduct. 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:38.000 The courts will have to determine whether the law was actually violated. 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:52.879 But what bothers me about this sort of underlying principle in this particular case is the government has absolutely zero business deciding which racial groups are more deserving of its attention when it comes to exercising their constitutional rights and exercising their privileges to vote. 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:53.600 Zero. 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:54.879 Absolutely zero. 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:00.639 And again, this isn't just about whether you're, you know, black, Spanish, Asian, so on and so forth, or whether you're white. 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:10.960 The government ought to treat you as a citizen, not some sort of demographic category in someone's political spreadsheet that they want to advertise to, that they say, well, those are the people that we

want to get out and vote. 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:24.399 And again, I find this obsession with the government consistently doing things like this, like when you had the political gerrymandering situation in Texas earlier, and you had the Democrats coming out saying, well, this appears to be racially targeted. 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.240 And we said, Why does it appear that way? 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:27.679 We've not looked at the races at all. 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:29.840 We don't even know what the racial demographics are when we made these maps. 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.240 We only made this based on political districts. 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:43.679 I mean, we've, again, spent decades, decades now having to deal with encroaching DEI, racial inequality, um, and all these sorts of things. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.840 And then they don't want to apply any sort of standard at all to what they do, right? 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:54.159 Equality in the law shouldn't apply when it's politically convenient for whatever party it is. 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.559 Um and again, this this is a a very important Christian principle. 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:08.399 Um and I've gotten into impartiality a little bit before, but you know, when we hear, and this is not just one verse, this is both in the old and new testament. 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:16.159 You know, you know, you look at it and you say this is a lasting principle even after Christ, you we know that we're not supposed to do injustice in our judgment. 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:20.960 Uh, we're not supposed to be partial to the poor or to the person of mighty or to the rich. 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.279 And in righteousness, when we judge, that's how we're supposed to judge. 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:25.440 It's not supposed to be based on any of those other factors. 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:34.480 It doesn't say show partiality when it achieves some sort of political objective you want, or favor one group because they've been disadvantaged historically, according to your claims at least. 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:46.159 And it certainly doesn't say that you are supposed to treat one group differently from a civil magistrate perspective, a government perspective, because you want those people to vote. 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:50.799 Again, the principle is that you're impartial in that sort of justice, in that sort of judgment. 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:55.919 And so it's not supposed to change depending on who's administering it, who's benefiting from it. 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:59.840 Those things are sinful examples of partiality. 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:10.240 We've increasingly accepted the idea that every single institution, and this is now true, uh, is is involved in advancing some political or ideological election, right? 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:12.639 Some i uh ideological agenda. 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:18.559 But there are responsibilities that demand a higher level of public trust. 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:23.039 And administering an election is absolutely one of those things. 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:33.679 Because if citizens believe that the people that are running their elections are also trying to influence who wins and by extension, who loses those very elections, now you've got an enormous problem. 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:36.879 Now you've got an incredibly bad situation. 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:47.840 Because even if nobody changes a single ballot, if even if every vote is counted perfectly, public confidence depends on more than just that sort of mechanical process. 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:55.600 It's not just were the votes counted fairly, you know, were their ballot drops, were their mules and harvesters and so on and so forth. 00:15:55.679 --> 00:16:04.799 Uh, it actually depends on the belief that the officials that are administering those elections aren't using their offices to favor particular political outcomes. 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.919 That's and that's exactly what this appears to be, right? 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:17.200 A Republican County Clerk also shouldn't be using, and I would be consistent about this, public money to selectively encourage conservative voter turnout. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:17.519 Right? 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:18.720 I would condemn that behavior. 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:20.000 I'd say, you you can't do that. 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:22.720 The same as Southern Democrat does it, I'm not trying to be inconsistent here. 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:23.840 I would say the same thing. 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:25.840 Public officials are not above the law. 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:36.000 They're not entitled to exercise authority however they want to, simply because they would argue their intentions are good and they believe in the principles of whatever political party they happen to be supporting. 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:40.480 They're entrusted with power and they are then to be held accountable for however they use it. 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:52.000 And and government is supposed to be an instrument of justice, not this sort of machine that it's become where it's it's all about how can I influence things, how can I have a say in the election, how can I change voter turnout. 00:16:52.399 --> 00:17:06.160 And if the allegations in the lawsuit ultimately are substantiated in the courts, if they if they come out, the courts say, Yeah, this is exactly what happened, and they agree with the Office of International General and they go after the Harris County clerk, then the Harris County officials should be held accountable. 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:07.599 That that's what should happen. 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:13.759 Not even because the NeroCrats might have benefited from it, but because they influenced the Democrats to benefit from it. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:22.160 Because the government belongs to the people, and the officials of those people have an obligation to administer the law impartially. 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:25.680

And this is an example of what we would call sinful partiality. 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:31.680 Now, I want to be very clear, just as a side note, as we wrap up here, not all partiality is sinful. 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:45.039 Um that's, I think, been another thing that the the left is so is so comically ironic sometimes, because on top of exercising this sort of partiality, which is sinful, then they say, well, any sort of partiality is sinful, right? 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:52.160 I would argue and say, well, we should be cautious which countries we even allow to participate in immigration. 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:57.039 That I wouldn't select from Muslim countries and Hindu countries and Buddhist countries. 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:05.440 I would select from countries that have historically been Christian, uh, that culturally align with our ideals, that ideologically align with us for the most part. 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:06.960 That would be my standard. 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:20.000 I'd say, why wouldn't we automatically just select countries for immigration from people that are largely going to and you can't prove that they'll assimilate, but they're far more likely to assimilate. 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:21.680 That's what a good government would do. 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:25.440 You would select from people that you think are likely to assimilate into the country. 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:34.799 When you look at the tenets of Islam and of Hinduism and of Buddhism, they don't ideologically align with the principles of a Christian nation like the United States of America. 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:36.640 And so you wouldn't select from them. 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:39.680 Well, that would be partiality, and where are you choosing to get people from? 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:41.440 That wouldn't be sinful partiality. 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:42.960 That would be under the rule of government. 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:47.759 In similar fashion, I'll even break this down further so you can see a very clear-cut example of this. 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:54.480 Um, and it's one that's been used historically, I think, to to be very clear about this particular situation of partiality. 00:18:55.599 --> 00:19:02.559 For those who are married, do you love your spouse more than you love other people or differently than you love other people? 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:08.799 And if you're a man, do you love your wife more or differently than you love other women? 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:15.200 And women that are listening, do you love your husband more or differently than you love other men? 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:17.279 Well, obviously the answer is yes. 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:23.519 Well, you are showing a level in that regard of partiality to your husband or to your wife. 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:25.839 Obviously, that's expected. 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:31.599 That's a level of discrimination, it's a level of partiality, but it's not sinful partiality because we're called to engage in it. 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:32.880 It's a good thing. 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:35.359 And so not all partiality is sinful, right? 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:38.559 You have a special partiality for your children over the children of others. 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:47.920 You're supposed to have a good partiality towards your own countrymen when you offer jobs, when you when you offer benefits, right? 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.000 You're supposed to be offering them primarily with taxpayer money to your own people. 00:19:52.640 --> 00:20:03.279 This is why I I've long held that the charities that I want to support are largely ones that do a lot of operations here in the States, because there are a lot of problems here in America that I want fixed. 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:04.799 And these are the people that I prefer. 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:05.839 These are my countrymen. 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:07.680 I I want to see these issues fixed first. 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:10.559 Once that's done with, I'm happy to help other countries. 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:15.440 But our first and primary obligation should be to our own people, our own countrymen, our own friends and family. 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:21.279 God says a man who does not leave an inheritance for his children is worse than an unbeliever. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.440 So we recognize there are cases of partiality that are acceptable, and there are ones that are not. 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:38.079 And I hate to say it, but racially targeting groups for the purpose of elections from the local county government is not an example of good partiality. 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:45.920 It is a very clear example of that sort of sinful partiality, especially when the intent is so obviously to turn out Democrat votes. 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:46.160 Right? 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:51.519 They may not have put Democrat in there, but it is painfully obvious that by targeting racial groups, that's what they're doing. 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:56.720 And I know they can make the argument, well, these people are disadvantaged and they're less likely to vote. 00:20:57.200 --> 00:20:59.680 Okay, that's their that but that's their privilege. 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:01.279 They get to decide whether or not they want to vote. 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:08.640 You don't get to particularly target people that don't turn out to vote who just so happen, I mean, they just happen to vote Democrat. 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:11.519 It's painfully obvious what they're doing. 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:17.359 And I know these are unsubstantiated allegations as of yet, uh, even though they're now coming from the Office of Attorney General. 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:19.680 But we'll have to see how it plays out in the courts. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.200 With that being said, when we get back from the break, the U.S. 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:34.799 Supreme Court has now declined to pause Texas and Trump's administration's agreement on deportation

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00:27:06.079 Baltimore, Maryland, New Haven, Connecticut, Columbus, Ohio, and Central Legal de la Raza Legal Services Group for Immigrants, had demanded the emergency pause after other courts declined to halt the order. 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:08.000 The positive temporarily blocked U.S. 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:12.000 District Judge Rito Connor's consent judgment that abolished administrative closure. 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:26.559 The office, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, adopted the administrative closure rule back in 2024 authorizing immigration judges to indefinitely suspend certain deportation proceedings, such as when a crime victim or witness was seeking another form of immigration relief. 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:34.400 Back in June, Texas argued in federal court that the EOIR does not have the power to adopt the administrative closure rule. 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:36.799 The Justice Department joined Texas' efforts. 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:42.960 With both parties in agreement, no one in the case was arguing to keep the rule in place, and so just by nature, the rule fell out. 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:48.720 Judge O'Connor of the Northern District of Texas found the rule unlawful and entered a consent judgment, vacating it. 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:54.640 The three cities and Central Legal de la Raza attempted to join the case to appeal the consent judgment. 00:27:54.799 --> 00:27:58.000 However, O'Connor determined that the challengers did not have anything to sue. 00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:03.039 He rejected the city's arguments that eliminating the rule would cost them money because their taxpayers are likely to be deported. 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:05.680 That that was a wild claim, by the way. 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:06.480 After the U.S. 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:13.519 Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined to pause the consent judgment, the challengers requested the Supreme Court to pause the order back on October 9th. 00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:18.160 The application went to Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency matters from the Fifth Circuit. 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:22.240 An order submitted just over the past couple days has now denied the request. 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:28.160 The challenger's appeal remains pending before the Fifth Circuit, but the rule remained vacated while the appeal moves forward. 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:34.640 In other words, saying that judges don't have the authority to pause deportation proceedings for these particular reasons. 00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:36.000 That's not within their scope. 00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:37.759 Texas knows it's not within their scope. 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:40.160 The federal government knows it's not within their scope. 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:43.279 And now everybody else does too. 00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:51.200 That that's the real kind of quintessential version of events here is that we have certain authorities as a state and as a nation. 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:57.759 And you don't get to have political activists in the roles of judges who come in and tell you, no, we don't want you to do that. 00:28:57.839 --> 00:28:58.319 Don't yeah. 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:00.079 You can't I know that guy is here illegally. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:01.359 I know he's broken the law. 00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:03.200 I know that he's not allowed to stay. 00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:07.200 I know that that violates every standard by which a country can judge anything. 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.079 Uh but we're judges and we get to do that. 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:19.759 And so judges historically had a lot of authority, especially under the Biden administration, that said, Oh, you know, uh yeah, I guess I guess we can stop them. 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:23.359 We're gonna stop them from these sort of these specific deportation proceedings. 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:25.759 Uh and it's just it's just heinous what was happening. 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:26.559 We all know that. 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:27.359 We're all aware of it. 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:32.559 And so it was exciting when both the Trump administration's DOJ and the Texas reached this sort of agreement. 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:37.920 And now it seems like yet again you have the court saying, We're we're not gonna we're not gonna pause it. 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:39.599 There's not gonna be an injunction here. 00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:42.960 Let it play out in the courts, we'll see how the appeal actually goes. 00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:45.359 But no, we're not giving you some sort of emergency pause. 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:46.319 It's not worth that. 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:48.640 For now, Texas and the DOJ have agreed. 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:57.119 This is how it's gonna go until the court determines that for whatever reason it seems to be in violation of federal law, state law, you know, in in violation of the the U.S. 00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.119 Constitution, which by the way, none of this is. 00:29:59.200 -->

00:30:01.440 It's up to the federal government to do that. 00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:08.160 And so we'll see, we'll see kind of where it goes from there when it actually moves through the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. 00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:15.680 Knowing the Fifth Circuit, I'm gonna go out on a limb and just guess that more than likely they're not gonna rule in favor of these Lib cities. 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:18.799 Um, but nevertheless, we do have a couple texts in uh that we got. 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:25.920 One says Harris County election clerk Tanisha Hudsmith was voted on to a Democrat election group board earlier this year. 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:27.680 I'll have to search back to find the reference. 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:30.880 There is no such thing as non-partisanship. 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:32.400 And I've said that for a long time. 00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:46.319 You know, there's races they say are nonpartisan, but you can look at the history of how people have voted and what they voted in and what they've been appointed to and elected to and who they're endorsed by, and you can get a pretty good idea of what they actually believe. 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:51.440 And regardless of what position they're in, those beliefs are going to spill out. 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:53.440 That's just the way that humans are. 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:55.359 I I hate to say it, but it is impossible. 00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.680 It's why whenever I hear somebody say unbiased, I don't even like that word really. 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:02.160 I I like im you know impartiality. 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:06.640 But the the term of non-bias is literally impossible. 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:12.000 In order to be truly non-biased, you would have to have no beliefs. 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:25.680 Because humans, the way that we are, when you have a belief, that belief influences the things the everything else that you think, everything else that you operate under, all the ways that you function, all of those things are a result of your beliefs. 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:27.599 And so you're you're exactly correct. 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:29.759 There's no really such thing as nonpartisanship. 00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:33.519 It's actually not possible to have that truly, even in nonpartisan races. 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:38.319 Hence why, if you've not already voted, first of all, today is the day, go vote today. 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:43.680 Today is the last day of early voting before you get to the actual election day on November the 3rd. 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:45.759 So if you've not already voted, make sure you vote. 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:50.240 But vote all the way down the ballot for Republicans, and that includes the races that say nonpartisan. 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:56.960 Do your research beforehand because I promise you, probably one of them has Republican endorsement, one of them probably has a Democrat endorsement, and there's reasons for that. 00:31:57.039

--> 00:32:00.079 Uh, and vote for the Republican candidate in a nonpartisan race. 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.079 We also got another text in. 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:13.119 It says, Dem Commissioner's court Rodney Ellis just sent me a slick brochure at taxpayer expense pointing citizens to go vote to the to go to the Harris votes and get to the polls. 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:19.599 Yeah, and and and again, it's not that I have an issue with get out the vote reminders, but again, how are our taxpayer dollars being spent? 00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.319 Are they worthy uses of those taxpayer dollars? 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:24.160 Are they allowed use of those taxpayer dollars? 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:28.640 And a good example of this to kind of contrast that a little bit is Leslie Brionis. 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:29.839 What's going on there? 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:35.440 Well, there's the tax uh Texas Ethics Commission complaint and investigation currently ongoing. 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:50.559 Um that'll be rectified sometime in, I believe, uh early December is when they have their scheduled meeting to actually have her up there and to go over all the claims against her and all of the evidence uh and all the stuff that the investigations produce to see if she needs to be held accountable for them. 00:32:50.720 --> 00:33:02.799 But again, she's spending millions of dollars, I mean unbelievable amounts of money on what appear to be political advertisements under the guise of, no, no, no, no, I'm just I'm just informing the taxpayers. 00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:08.079 No, no, no, I'm using this because the taxpayers need to know our projects and how we're doing and we're keeping them informed and updated. 00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:15.759 We actually had Barbara Denson who filed that campaign on the show last year or last week, pardon me, and last year was the f there was no complaint yet. 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:26.799 Last week, who was highlighting exactly these sorts of problems where you're spending taxpayer money on things that have no use being taxpayer funded, and they appear to be targeted at people to to vote for particular candidates. 00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:35.039 It's it's exactly the same problem, just done differently as what's going on in Harris County with the clerk's office right now in their their lawsuit from the Office of Attorney General. 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:36.880 Same thing that may be going on with Rodney Ellis. 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:38.160 I've not seen enough of that case. 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:50.319 Uh, but again, this is what you expect from these sorts of government entities, these sorts of individuals who are so incredibly biased that they're at at that point, they're just clearly violating the law. 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:55.680 And so we'll keep you guys updated on all those stories as they come out and as details can continue to get filed. 00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:05.279 But uh when we get back from the break, we're actually gonna jump over to Harris County just to talk about our early voting records, because we've now broken early voting records for a midterm election. 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:07.200 We knew that actually on day one. 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:11.440 We already knew we'd broken early voting records for day one of a midterm. 00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:15.440 But we've gotten more updates uh since that point. 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:19.119 And I'll I'll let you guys know what it is when we get back from the break. 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:27.840 If you as well would like to text in, if you have any thoughts, whether it's on the county clerk or it's on these racial targeted ads, or it's on James Dallarico, uh, or it's on what's going on from the U.S. 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:39.199 Supreme Court, whatever it may be, you are always welcome to text in with your thoughts, your questions, your concerns, your disagreements, or things that you want to hear more about here on the show, especially on 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00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:20.480 My prescription drug plan sucks. 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:27.199 When you need some help with Medicare, go to Senior Health Services.com. 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:36.880 In all seriousness, we know you're frustrated, but if you'll call 281-894-7540, we'll help you with your Medicare and we'll do it for free. 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:40.880 Plus, we're not with the government and we are fully licensed to help. 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:48.480 I can help. 00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:51.119 I'm Tom Gresham, host of Gun Talk. 00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:57.920 Call in Sundays between 1 and 4, right here on Houston's Leader for Gun Owners, Patriot Talk 920. 00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:30.880 We have a text and it says, Um, I would like to look at the story about the University of Houston Student Government Association hosting Democratic candidates on a get out the vote. 00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:42.239 And I I'll go ahead and address it very quickly here, but if you want more details on that story, uh if you look up the Lone Star Conservative podcast, it's on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcast, you can go check it out. 00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:44.880 Yesterday's show uploaded as a podcast. 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:46.000 I actually addressed it. 00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:51.199 We had Jonathan Sines on for the first part of the podcast, and then I went into what was going on at U of H. 00:39:51.440 --> 00:40:00.639 So if you'd like to see more details about what went on at U of H, uh they hosted Gina Hina Hosa, they hosted Bernie Sanders, uh it was absolutely bizarre. 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:01.760 And we went over that. 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:03.679 They uh we went over their apology. 00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:06.000 It was the U of H Student Government Association. 00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:10.800 They went over their, their, their, you know, they said, Oh, we've taken corrective action, we went over the lack of transparency there. 00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:12.159 Um there's a lot of details about that. 00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:15.280 But sum it up to say that yes, it was absolutely awful. 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.159 Their quote-unquote corrective action totally lacks transparency. 00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:20.239 There's no real accountability at all. 00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:29.920 And another thing that they've done has has helped the damage they've potentially done, which is incentivizing students to go vote for Democrat candidates. 00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:31.679 That's obviously been a partisan issue. 00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:45.760 And I I said there may need to be some sort of state investigation into that misbehavior because, again, it's caused, could cause catastrophic election results, especially when a lot of these elections end up being so close here at the county level to incentivize young voters to get out for Democrat candidates. 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:50.159 Uh but again, you can go check out yesterday's show on the Lone Star Conservative. 00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:55.840 I think it's at the top right now, and uh I did a full, I did a full segment on that particular story. 00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:58.400 But I appreciate the text in regardless. 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.360 Uh we also get another text in it says 9 20 a.m. 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:02.559 preaches to the choir. 00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:06.719 How can the live app be pushed out to get more listeners since listening on terrestrial AM radio is spotty? 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:13.679 I thought about City Democrats and Independent Registered Voters, an SMS message simply saying they talked about you today on 920 a.m., including a link to listen live.

00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:15.199 It's a very funny idea. 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:20.639 And yeah, I I I do think um that for the most part, our lineup is is I don't want to say it's moderate. 00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:21.920 It's not at all. 00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:23.840 Uh it's very conservative. 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:31.679 But one thing that I do appreciate a lot of our hosts, uh, and I hope to include myself in that, is that we're not like vicious against Democrats. 00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:37.119 That yes, I'm vicious against the politicians, I'm vicious against liars and against hypocrites. 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:42.079 Um, but I think for the most part, I've done my darndest to communicate in a way that is clear and effective and loving. 00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:43.679 And that I say, hey, here's why. 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:48.639 I don't just say, oh man, I start calling names and throwing names out and being rude. 00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:54.639 I do my best to present this fairly and in a matter of love, uh, but to to present the truth. 00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:57.920 And so I do think that there could there could be independence, especially. 00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:07.519 Democrats, they don't want to hear anything they disagree with, but independents especially, I think there's a lot of opportunity for them to hear these sorts of things because maybe they might draw different conclusions than they would have drawn without it. 00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:09.519 Um I I hope to provide that. 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:12.480 Uh again, appreciate all the text in from everybody. 00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:13.519 We really appreciate them. 00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:14.800 Now, I really quickly want to get to this. 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:18.400 Harris County has set a new record for early voting in a midterm election. 00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:22.800 And they're still today, to push that number even higher, with closed battles for those of the U.S. 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:29.280 Senate and the Governor's House, more than 862,000 people had voted before the polls opened yesterday morning. 00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:37.920 The previous record for a non-presidential election was 2018, when 855,711 people cast ballots during the entire early voting period. 00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:42.400 And so Harris County Clerk Tanisha Hudsm said Harris County voters are making history. 00:42:42.719 --> 00:43:00.559 Uh, she predicted that one million voters will have cast a ballot in the time uh by the time that early voting ends today, which would put the county just short of the nearly 1.2 million people who voted in the 2024 presidential election, races that typically draw far more voters than in midterm elections, usually by several hundred thousand. 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:08.960 The original Meg Weekly Community Center in Cyprus has become the most popular voting location in the region with more than twenty-nine thousand ballots cast through the first ten days of voting. 00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:14.639 The Metropolitan Multiservice Center is the second busiest vote center with just over 28,000 ballots cast so far. 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:18.239 And so, again, turnout's not an indicator of which candidate will win. 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:23.360 There's no way for us to know uh how votes, how voters are sort of casting their ballots. 00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:34.239 I mean, you can look and they've had released some data as to how did the people vote in the primary, how they voted in other elections, where do they typically, so on and so forth, how do they typically register? 00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:36.719 So all all of these sorts of things we don't have. 00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:40.320 Party registration here, you can get a pretty good idea, pretty good general feel. 00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:46.079 And the data so far still in that with the data we have puts it fairly neck and neck. 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:47.760 And so we just don't know. 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:50.559 We're not gonna know until we start counting ballots on election day. 00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:54.800 And so if you've not already voted, don't think that it's too late or it doesn't matter. 00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:57.519 Things appear very close across the board. 00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:09.840 Your vote actually does matter, and the votes that Those you might be able to take with you, friends, family members, people in your neighborhood that you're friends with, taking those people with you, getting them to vote, can have genuine impacts on the outcome of these elections. 00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:12.719 And so we'd greatly encourage you to do that if you've not done so already. 00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:18.800 With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're going to wrap up the first hour of the show with our weather report. 00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:27.440 If you have any thoughts that you want to get into, any things you want to see addressed, you can always text in at 713-779-5978. 00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:28.000 One more time. 00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:32.639 That is 713-779-KYST. 00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:34.800 You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:36.400 I'm your host, Michael Wilson. 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:42.800 And Lord willing me right back with the rest of our weather report to wrap up the first hour of the show after this short break. 00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:44.480 Don't go anywhere. 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:51.599 Patriot Talk 920 is your Houston base camp for the America First Movement. 00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:59.519 I'm Todd Stearns and join me weekdays at 11 on Patriot Talk 920 and online at PatriotTalk920.com. 00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:02.960 Listen up, Patriots. 00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:04.400 Got armory needs? 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not seeing a ton of rain. 00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:06.880 We will have our chances. 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:12.800 Look for the potential for some of this rain to try to reform over the Houston area late today, probably after about five o'clock or so. 00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:18.159 Uh we could have a few hours of moderate rain this evening before things gradually subside later overnight. 00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:24.320 Um again, I don't think the entire area is gonna see rain this evening, but there is a chance that a chunk of the area does, especially south of Houston. 00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:27.760 So keep that in mind uh for tomorrow. 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:29.039 This is the big question. 00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:30.960 Uh there is a ton of stuff happening this weekend. 00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:33.039 Not the least of which, of course, is Halloween. 00:50:33.199 --> 00:50:36.480 Uh but the daytime crowd, we do still expect scattered showers. 00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:40.159 Um perhaps just a third of the area is gonna see passing downpours throughout the day. 00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:43.840 The best chances for rain tomorrow will be in the very early morning, and again, after 3 to 4 p.m. 00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:48.480 means in some neighborhoods, you know, trigger-treating might be a sort of game time decision. 00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:50.559 You kind of wait, kind of keep an eye on the sky. 00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:55.360 Um the rain should end, hopefully just offer up a bit of a delay, but do be aware of the conditions before you head out. 00:50:56.079 --> 00:50:59.039 Um these are not expected to be overly crazy scattered downpours. 00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:02.800 There is still the potential for some lightning, so just just be aware of that. 00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:05.360 Um for Sunday, conditions should markedly improve. 00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:07.920 We'll still have some cloud cover around, but we should see at least some sun. 00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:11.760 Highs will depend on that sun, a lot of it, and we do mid-80s, only a little bit of it. 00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:13.920 We do upper 70s to around 80 degrees. 00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:19.199 Uh similar to Sunday is Monday, should be a little bit more humid, whereas dew points will be in the 60s on Sunday. 00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:21.599 We may see them rise up into the 70s by Monday. 00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:24.320 This will be out ahead of a developing storm system to our west. 00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:29.920 Winds begin to pick up off the Gulf of America Monday night with gusts up to 20 miles per hour or so. 00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:34.960 There's a developing storm on Tuesday going to drag a front into the Houston area, either in the morning or early afternoon. 00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:36.400 With it will be a line of thunderstorms. 00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:43.199 Again, I don't want to overpromise and you know get you built up, but it does seem like we'll get a burst of locally heavy rain as that front passes through. 00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:47.360 We'll probably be back in the 70s Tuesday morning, creeping up to the 80s again. 00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:52.320 But behind the front, we'll fall into the 60s and possibly into the 50s by Wednesday morning. 00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:55.119 And it looks like a calmer rest of the week after that. 00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:00.079 High pressure will build back, uh temperatures in the 70s and 50s by night. 00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:02.400 And so that should be absolutely beautiful. 00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:05.840 With that being said, we'll have Charles Blaine coming on for the weekly local recap. 00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:08.719 We do every Friday at the second hour, at the top of the second hour when we get back from the break. 00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:11.679 Text in 713-779-5978. 00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:12.719 I'm your host, Michael Wilson. 00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.760 I'll be right back with Charles Blaine at the top of the next hour. 00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:17.280 Don't go anywhere. 00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:34.480 From deep in the heart of Texas, it's Houston's God-loving patriot and the voice of reason. 00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:38.719 This is the Lone Star Conservative, Michael Wilson. 00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:56.320 Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. 00:52:56.400 --> 00:53:01.360 I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot 920. 00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:05.440 Joining me now is our very good friend, Charles Blaine, coming on. 00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:11.679 I always want to say from Urban Reform from localinsights.ai coming on for the weekly local recap. 00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:13.039 Welcome to the show, Charles. 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:14.239 Thank you for having me. 00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:17.039 Don't feel bad because I feel saying urban reform every time I talk about it. 00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:20.480 I don't know why it is, but your name feels like an urban reform kind of name. 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:21.039 You know what I'm saying? 00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:25.119 Like you say Charles Blaine, it feels like urban reform is just the title, like a Sir Charles. 00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:27.760 I might just need to change it again, change it back to that. 00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:30.320 I mean, it did it's like kind of associated with me at this point. 00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:31.199 So yeah, I agree. 00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:35.119 Yeah, like it's still local insights.ai, but it's it's called urban reform. 00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:36.800 We're gonna go back to the name. 00:53:38.159 --> 00:53:39.119 We'll get it back. 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:40.320 Um, lots going on. 00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:42.639 First of all, Halloween is tomorrow. 00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:47.119 Um, and of course, early voting ends today, and election day is November 3rd. 00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:52.559 And quintessentially, with election day, we also have an upcoming cool front, which I'm sure we'll all be very excited about. 00:53:52.719

--> 00:53:56.639 It's gonna bring our highs down into the 70s and our lows back down into the 50s again. 00:53:56.880 --> 00:53:59.760 So that'll all be happening with the next week. 00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:04.719 The only way I can get any better is if they also announced that James Taller Rico did not win when we get that cool front. 00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:10.000 That's because I mean I mean, I guess if you get a you can win some, you lose some and get a cool front in James Taller Rico. 00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:12.079 It is what it is, but man, goodness gracious. 00:54:12.239 --> 00:54:26.000 Now, speaking of, I want to first talk about what's going on down in Galvison County to kind of contrast this because we talked before about what's going on in Houston, how they almost lost hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding because they were like, we hate ICE all of a sudden, and all that all that stuff. 00:54:26.159 --> 00:54:32.000 Um, I want to contrast that because Galveston County is not only cooperating, but I think they've taken it a step further. 00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:35.519 Can you walk us through some of the new updates coming out of Galveston County Commissioner's court? 00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:48.000 Yeah, so whereas Harris County is kind of backing away from even uttering the words ICE or trying to uh, you know, uh have any sort of association with them, Galveston County is doing the complete opposite, which I think you hope your county officials do. 00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:50.239 Um and so they have a couple different things. 00:54:50.400 --> 00:55:09.280 It's a three and a half million dollar, which I guess you call it investment into this partnership with IES 2.3 for the sheriff,$50,000 for different constables precinct, and the federal money that they're getting is going to support the 287G program, which is the thing that has kind of been always at the crux of Harris County's issue, where they didn't want to be a good thing. 00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:10.400 Yeah, I know absolutely. 00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:31.920 And here's the thing that I want to remind everybody of uh that I think needs to be absolutely clear, and that is that when you look at Gavison County, first of all, they obviously are I don't want to say red, but compared to Harris County and what's going on in Houston, um, it is painfully obvious how different those counties are uh when it comes to at least bare minimum the leadership, right? 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:42.480 Because obviously uh there are some people in in Houston that are more conservative, and same in Gowson County, but when you look at the leadership, it's it's painfully obvious that Gavison County has a significantly more conservative leadership. 00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:56.239 And so I just want to make it painfully obvious to everybody that's listening when you look at what's going on in Gavison County, this is an example of how you can actively benefit, you know, your your county by doing these sorts of

programs. 00:55:56.400 --> 00:55:58.400 Because again, Charles, this is federal funding, right? 00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:00.559 Yeah, this is federal funding. 00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:06.880 Um, this is coming from that through that 287G contract that they have that makes cities eligible for this federal funding. 00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:08.320 And so it's really great to see. 00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:18.800 I mean, it's it's like I said, night and day, but um, if you look at what happens in Harris County and even in Houston with the Alejandro Salinas Orients a couple months ago and what's happening in Galveston, they should be very proud of their local government. 00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:19.840 Absolutely. 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:25.039 Um now, speaking of being proud of your local county government, um, what if we're not, right? 00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:28.559 What if we turn to Harris County and we talk about one in particular? 00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:31.440 What if we talk about, I don't know, Leslie Brionis? 00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:34.159 What's going on? 00:56:34.880 --> 00:56:49.920 We've gotten updates because Barbara Denson, who you know, uh came on the show last week because uh Leslie Brionis was being accused by her uh of violating Texas Texas ethics law uh and to the point where the Texas Ethics Commission actually did pick that up and it's gonna have a trial for it. 00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:57.440 Um and so that was already going on because of potentially sending out mailers that look like political ads as opposed to what a taxpayer dollar is supposed to be spent on. 00:56:57.599 --> 00:56:58.800 What's going on now? 00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:05.440 Yeah, so Leslie Brionis, um, and that's still you know kind of going to be going on for a while because there's more information to be had about that. 00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:13.280 But there's this I'm calling it kind of like a bribe package, if you will, but there's this um big package for infrastructure project. 00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:21.760 And uh it wouldn't seem kind of suspicious otherwise, but this entire election season she's been getting hit on the fact that she did not spend a lot of money on roads and bridges and things like that. 00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:28.320 And so here she is a week before the election, bringing forth this$80 million package,$15 million is coming from her office. 00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:36.320 The other$2-ish is coming from uh private companies that she's encouraged to donate to this and to uh and to spend money on these infrastructure projects. 00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:44.960 But these are same county contractors who also donate to her campaign, and it's just kind of like a big cycle ultimately to encourage people to vote for her so everybody can stay paid. 00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:45.360 Right. 00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:48.239 And it it seems, look, I get it, right? 00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:55.199 It's tough when you talk about ethics violations because a lot of this, arguably, it shouldn't, but it does in many cases come down to intent. 00:57:55.360 --> 00:58:07.119 And so that's how that's why we have it fully outlawed, you know, that potential contractors can donate to campaigns, because, well, is that really a conflict of interest, or do you have enough integrity that they just happen to be the same big companies that also want to get involved politically? 00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:08.320 Uh, and they're allowed to do that. 00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:09.840 And so there's those big questions. 00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:19.119 This seems like one of those cases where I get it, it's a case-by-case basis, but somebody needs to, somebody in authority position needs to look at how painfully clear this is. 00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:25.199 Um, because this feels uh, I think wrong is maybe the best way to sum it up. 00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:27.199 I mean, yeah, there's no other way to put it. 00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:44.079 And you know, this is one of the things that's always been a critic uh criticism of county government as a whole, is that you have all these contractors who kind of sit around waiting for different things like this, whether it's an election or even like a birthday fundraiser so that they can kind of pump money in and then get returns on it when they come in for these infrastructure projects. 00:58:44.159 --> 00:58:48.000 And if you look at the campaign finances, they're largely the ones who are funding the campaigns. 00:58:48.159 --> 00:58:54.559 Um and I think there's an argument on both sides of this, but yeah, this is definitely one of those things that people should be paying attention to. 00:58:54.800 --> 00:58:55.119 Absolutely. 00:58:55.199 --> 00:59:04.159 Now, I also want to get into what's going on here in Harris County being sued for, I don't want to call it electioneering, but that's that's not my words. 00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:09.119 That's uh Christy Wellbourne, president of Advancing Integrity, who said that this looked like election engineering. 00:59:09.360 --> 00:59:17.440 Can you walk us through what's going on with Harris County right now when it comes to the way they're pitching out election ads, get out the vote ads? 00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:33.679 Yeah, so uh Harris County was found targeting specific groups, and I guess you could say leaving out other groups when they were putting out the information and then paying for Facebook ads and other social media ads to target people so that they know where to vote, when to vote, and all that kind of stuff. 00:59:33.840 --> 00:59:46.400 And so the the lawsuits from the AG's office against Clark Station Hutspith and her communications director, um, and it's saying that they're using taxpayer funds to fund Facebook, Instagram, voter information ads that are deliberately by race or ethnicity. 00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:56.559 And a lot of them are when you look at kind of the breakdown, and then you and I were talking about some before, they really are like directly

targeting uh particularly black and I think to a lesser extent Hispanic, but largely black people. 00:59:56.800 --> 01:00:07.920 And uh the state cites an estimated$43,000 over 30 days spent doing this, and uh they're suing over it and hoping to stop it and saying it's uh Tanisha's saying it's lawful and not partisan. 01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:08.960 Um so we'll see. 01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:10.159 They deactivated it though. 01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:14.079 So if it was lawful and not partisan, I would fight and I'd say I'm gonna keep it up. 01:00:14.159 --> 01:00:17.039 You know, deactivating is kind of an admission here, so we'll see. 01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:20.880 In the court of public opinion alone, that's always a bad idea. 01:00:21.039 --> 01:00:28.480 Um, it's why I I applauded Bo French because he was having comments about how UC has a lot of Indian immigrants, and this is an example of how bad it's gotten. 01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:31.760 And John Cornyn called him out, everybody called him out, and he refused. 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:33.280 Like, I'm not gonna delete my post because I believe it. 01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:34.320 I'm not gonna apologize for this. 01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:36.159 Like I that would make me a coward, and I'm not one. 01:00:36.239 --> 01:00:37.840 So it's staying up, even if you disagree with me. 01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:38.800 And I was like, there you go. 01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:41.039 That's that's how you handle this, if you're right. 01:00:41.199 --> 01:00:45.519 Um and so if you didn't do that, if you're gonna put your yeah, exactly. 01:00:45.599 --> 01:01:01.519 If you're gonna put yourself out there and whether it's say a statement or whether it's do something like this, you're like, you should think through the whole thing and then like recognize that you're gonna own it, but then you need to stick with it because when you backtrack or back off it, you're either admitting that you were wrong, you're admitting that you're doing something wrong or inappropriate. 01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:04.239 So, like, I I I don't see why they often do that. 01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:06.400 Um, but yeah, this one's gonna be an interesting one. 01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:16.960 Obviously, it's not gonna be settled uh to the final extent by Tuesday, but um, it might have some set some precedent for how they move forward when they use these uh targeted social media ads and things like that during election. 01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:21.920 And it's absolutely wild because I don't want to say it's one-sided, but it it largely is. 01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:39.679 You know, if you add up all the stuff just in the Harris County region, so Harris County itself is being sued uh through the clerk's office for these these electioneering uh you know advertisements, potential, um, where they, by the way, the targeted things were like Afrobeat, other countries, the only language they had listed as a potential language to advertise was Spanish. 01:01:39.840 --> 01:01:41.119 They were targeting Spanish voters. 01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:42.079 There was no English. 01:01:42.559 --> 01:01:46.559 Um it was very obviously targeting specific ethnic groups. 01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:57.760 And then you look at Leslie Brionis, who again is being accused of not just bribery, but is being accused of this particular sort of hey, here's me sending out advertising taxpayer dollars that benefit my campaign. 01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:05.519 And then you have U of H, uh, which their student government association is in trouble because they hosted an event called Get Out the Vote with Gina Hina Hosha. 01:02:06.079 --> 01:02:08.159 And they had another one with Bernie Sanders. 01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:11.119 And U of H has come out and been like, well, we we've taken corrective action. 01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:13.119 We're so sorry for the mix-up, we've deleted the post. 01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:19.760 It's like, yeah, but you invited thousands of college students to hear from a Democrat candidate as an official tax or subsidized university. 01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:25.760 And that's three very clear examples benefiting Democrats in a single area in a single month. 01:02:26.639 --> 01:02:27.199 Yeah, yeah. 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:27.920 I mean, you're right. 01:02:28.079 --> 01:02:30.960 Like it's and that's the thing, it's you're you're right, it's very clear. 01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:35.440 And the things that conservatives often get in quote unquote in trouble about or have to backtrack on. 01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:47.920 Like I re I remember a couple months ago where they were talking about doing uh different Charlie Kirk statues, and then it was gonna be privately funded and they were gonna do it themselves and put them in various locations, and they were getting attacked because one wanted to do it on a college campus or this or that. 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:55.280 But yet you can use funds to fund these left-wing and democratic causes left and right um from college campuses and any other public institution. 01:02:55.440 --> 01:02:58.719 But yet you start using something with private funds on the conservative side and you're just shot down. 01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:11.760 No, and I hope that the OAG and the courts uh are able to push this through with the Harris County because uh, as far as U of H is going, at least right now, U of H literally put on a statement where the most they said they did was they quote, took corrective action and deleted the posts. 01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:17.280 And that seems to be the end of it, despite the fact that they may have influenced, again, hundreds or thousands of students to turn out for Democrats. 01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:19.360 It's corrective action that we don't even know what it is. 01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:23.840 And so hopefully we have a case here where there's some justice uh given for these violations. 01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:25.760 Now, I do want to jump over. 01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:27.599 Can you

kind of walk us through the details? 01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:33.519 Uh, maybe some background would be helpful here on the Harris County Ankle Monitor Program, because that's been broken for a while. 01:03:33.599 --> 01:03:38.000 Uh Lee Gilly, of course, is the recent high-profile escapee of that program. 01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:39.519 Can you walk us through what's going on with those? 01:03:39.599 --> 01:03:42.719 Because I know we were supposed to get new funding and implement it. 01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:47.679 And there was recently, I think this week, actually, they kind of did a press conference of sorts where they talked about it. 01:03:48.079 --> 01:03:51.599 Yeah, so the ankle monitor program, your listeners might remember. 01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:55.280 Um, it has been broken for, I think we're going on now two years. 01:03:55.440 --> 01:04:04.239 And so with the big thing that they might remember is when we had the 24-7, it's supposed to be 24-7 ankle monitoring and always monitors, they take it off, they're alerted, but that's none of that is true. 01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:05.039 None of that happens. 01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:13.920 And so there was a 24-7 um blackout or rollout backed by uh one and a half million dollars from commissioners court to pursue fixing this issue. 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:15.519 They're still understaffed and all these other things. 01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:20.559 But the big issue that I was referring to before was when um there was a weekend where they just kind of went dark. 01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:30.639 The entire system went dark and they were unable to keep track of anyone who had an ankle monitor, and then it didn't come out for maybe a week or two after that, where they kind of came out instead, kind of like through an audit report thing. 01:04:30.880 --> 01:04:31.679 This is what happened. 01:04:31.760 --> 01:04:41.360 And for a weekend, I think there's tens of maybe tens of thousands might be a stretch, but it's not far from about 10,000 of uh individuals with ankle monitors where it's kind of unmonitored. 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:45.280 And even today you're still seeing issues with them cutting them off and removing them and not being caught. 01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:46.559 No, absolutely. 01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:55.440 And and one thing that I want to highlight is again, it's not just that this is a problem that exists, it's also that it has legitimate ramifications that we can we can literally witness. 01:04:55.519 --> 01:05:07.920 Um, for instance, when you look at Lee Gilly, uh, who is alleged to have murdered his pregnant wife, who it was 60 hours after he cut his ankle monitor, he was already in Canada on his way to Italy by the time they found out he was even gone, supposedly. 01:05:08.559 --> 01:05:14.239 And by the time they did it, now now he's still, by the way, not back in Houston because Italy said you can't give him the death penalty because we don't believe in that. 01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:17.679 We won't extradite until you say you won't do that, despite him murdering his pregnant wife. 01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:21.679 So we, of course, bent over backwards and said, fine, I guess we won't pursue justice. 01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:22.880 We won't pursue the death penalty. 01:05:23.039 --> 01:05:24.400 They said, No, no, no, still not enough. 01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:29.920 We actually don't want you to even do capital murder charges either, because those charges could result in life in prison without parole. 01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:30.800 And we don't believe in that either. 01:05:30.960 --> 01:05:34.000 You have to give him the parole opportunity, so it needs to need to be murdered, not capital murder. 01:05:34.159 --> 01:05:40.239 And we're waiting still months later for Italy to send him back because of the program. 01:05:41.440 --> 01:05:47.039 I mean, it's mind blowing to think in the it's mind blowing to think in general, but it's also mind blowing to think that this is like a Harris County issue. 01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:49.119 Why is it always Harris County that we're dealing with something? 01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:51.440 Here we are in like this international scandal. 01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:59.760 But it is interesting, and with that, with that, um with him removing his, I remember when they first came out and said it that they said that they were not monitoring over the weekend and that. 01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:07.360 This isn't something that they didn't know would fill a gap because they couldn't fill enough positions to have people there and they didn't have enough overtime left in the budget to do it. 01:06:07.440 --> 01:06:15.840 And I mean it's just kind of crazy to think that these systems that we have in place that are supposed to be kind of operating in the background without us having to think about them are actually not. 01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:17.920 And we probably should be thinking about them more than we are. 01:06:18.159 --> 01:06:25.840 Again, you also had a Harris County defendant this month who was released on a$10,000,$100,000 bond filed following a sexual assault charge. 01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:30.079 Uh he removed his GPS monitor and then didn't appear for his trial on October 16th. 01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:31.599 He apparently had traveled to the U.S. 01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:32.320 Mexico border. 01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:35.920 He was an illegal immigrant and they apprehended him in South Texas. 01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:36.719 Uh, thank goodness. 01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:39.440 Because he if he managed to Mexico, just no way you're getting him. 01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:54.960 And so again, and and the lady on the bus that was shot uh back, I believe it back in January, maybe, maybe late last year, she was shot by a guy uh who was out on bond who had taken his ankle monitor off, and that's how she died uh from this guy in this gang-related shooting as a bystander. 01:06:55.119 --> 01:07:04.639 And so again, we have legitimate

ramifications we can see with our own eyes, just in the last little bit of time, where we can see why why are we even going after this program? 01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:06.159 Why do we not have better bond conditions? 01:07:06.239 --> 01:07:08.400 I couldn't tell you, but clearly something needs to be done. 01:07:08.480 --> 01:07:12.159 Now, speaking of something that needs to be done, can you walk us through B exemptions? 01:07:13.679 --> 01:07:15.519 Yeah, uh you broke up on that last one. 01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:15.920 What was it? 01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:17.280 B exemptions. 01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:18.320 I want to hear about B exemptions. 01:07:18.480 --> 01:07:19.119 Oh, D exemptions. 01:07:19.280 --> 01:07:19.920 Yes, yes, yes. 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:22.159 So this is an interesting one that I've been uh working on. 01:07:22.239 --> 01:07:28.400 So, you know, you gave me an opportunity on your show to talk about the homestead exemptions for a number of weeks that we kind of rambled on about those. 01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:31.039 And so the next thing that we were looking at are these B exemptions. 01:07:31.119 --> 01:07:36.159 Now, these aren't illegal, they're not improper, it's just a very interesting thing that's happening here in Harris County. 01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:47.199 And what it is is that people are uh realizing that they can have beehives on their property and take advantage of a very generous agriculture exemption um on a very small piece of property, and so you don't have to have much. 01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:55.119 And so right now you think you have a minimum of five acres um that you can keep bees on, keep hives on, but that's also not being necessarily enforced. 01:07:55.199 --> 01:07:58.320 But there are a lot of properties that are significantly decreasing. 01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:21.359 I'm talking about from like millions to less than tens of thousands because the numbers of different things of hives that they have um are reduced at that value on their property because of these and other agriculture exemptions as well, but the bee exemptions in particular have skyrocketed in Harris County, and there's about um 500 alleged uh beehive keepers across Harris County who are benefiting from the exemptions. 01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:25.199 And so, in theory, these they should be producing things and we should be buying them. 01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:29.279 But I don't know that there's about 500 that I see on the regular selling homemade bee products. 01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:29.680 Right. 01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:32.720 That that's again the thing where it's like, where's the legal line on this? 01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:34.079 How do we enforce it? 01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:43.119 And especially when you're talking about something as as controversial as property taxes, because you're getting into property taxes going up and people not paying their fair share and people getting out of it, especially when we're talking all about the homestead exemption problem. 01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:48.880 It's like, well, where do we go from here when these sorts of things are happening and it's obviously benefiting this particular group of people? 01:08:49.039 --> 01:08:54.800 Now, to wrap up, Charles, real quickly here, I just want to highlight for you, so our listeners can get your response to it. 01:08:54.880 --> 01:09:05.439 Uh, the record for a non-presidential election was 2018 here in Harris County, when 855,711 people cast ballots during the entire early voting period. 01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:09.119 This early voting for 2026 is now the record. 01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:13.039 As of Thursday morning, when the polls opened, we were at 862,000. 01:09:13.119 --> 01:09:19.279 So before the last two days will be counted, we had already broken the early voting record for Harris County. 01:09:19.439 --> 01:09:24.079 The only other the last record was 2024 for a presidential election, which was 1.2 million. 01:09:24.159 --> 01:09:29.520 And you have Tanisha Hudsmith who said that we may have over a million people by the end of early voting this year. 01:09:29.920 --> 01:09:32.319 That is uh it's I mean, it's truly mind-blowing. 01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:37.920 And like I think it's it's concerning because what is driving people out to vote, we don't necessarily know that yet. 01:09:38.079 --> 01:09:40.800 They could say one thing, they could say another, but we just don't know. 01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:48.800 And so to see this many people who have, and a lot of them with without you know, sense of prior voting histories, um, that we can kind of just guess or determine where they're gonna fall at. 01:09:48.880 --> 01:09:51.119 It's uh it's gonna be interesting on Tuesday. 01:09:51.199 --> 01:09:54.640 And so I I I just hope for the best, as as as I always do. 01:09:54.720 --> 01:09:55.279 I hope for the best. 01:09:55.520 --> 01:10:01.920 I was gonna say, during the weekly local recap next Friday, hopefully, hopefully the way that you can bring up updates is very good. 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:07.279 Um, I'll have covered elections some, but hopefully on Friday we can really say, hey, look how good we did. 01:10:07.359 --> 01:10:09.119 I'm I'm really optimistic there. 01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:16.560 Uh with that being said, when you're not here on the show on Fridays, where can people find all the stuff that you're putting out, all the information that you've got available for people? 01:10:17.279 --> 01:10:21.840 They can just check us out at localinsights.ai or local insights all across social media. 01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:23.840 Those are all our platform names the same. 01:10:23.920 --> 01:10:28.560 And uh, we're posting a lot of interesting stuff there and should have a video up about the beehives this morning, actually. 01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:29.520 So check it out. 01:10:29.680 --> 01:10:30.000 Excellent. 01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:36.800 Well, Charles, as always, we appreciate you coming on the show, giving

us your time, and for all the work that you do behind the show as well. 01:10:37.359 --> 01:10:38.079 Thank you so much. 01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:39.359 Looking forward to talking to you next week. 01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:39.760 Absolutely. 01:10:39.920 --> 01:10:40.800 That being said, we get back. 01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:44.000 An Indian National has been convicted of illegally voting here in Texas. 01:10:44.079 --> 01:10:45.920 We'll talk all about the details of this guy. 01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:49.039 His name is Call Winder Singh Ben Gura. 01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:50.800 I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. 01:10:50.880 --> 01:10:54.000 You can text in 713-779-5978. 01:10:54.079 --> 01:10:57.039 That is 713-779-KYST. 01:10:57.119 --> 01:10:58.319 I'm your host, Michael Wilson. 01:10:58.399 --> 01:11:04.720 You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and Lord will be right back with the rest of that story after the breaks. 01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:06.159 Don't go anywhere. 01:11:09.840 --> 01:11:14.399 Patriot Talk 920 is your Houston base camp for the America First Movement. 01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:22.319 I'm Todd Stearns, and join me weekdays at 11 on Patriot Talk 920 and online at PatriotTalk920.com. 01:11:24.720 --> 01:11:26.800 Are pests creeping into your home? 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questions or range reports, and let's tackle everything Second Amendment here on Houston's Leader for Gun Owners, Patriot Talk 920. 01:15:21.520 --> 01:15:23.039 Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. 01:15:23.119 --> 01:15:35.279 I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, a federal jury, convicted a non-citizen living legally in the United States of illegally registering and voting in a federal election in Tarrant County, Texas. 01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:42.239 Indian National Colwinder Singh Ben Gura was found guilty of voting by an alien in a federal election and making a false claim of U.S. 01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:44.479 citizenship in order to register to vote. 01:15:44.640 --> 01:15:45.520 He's not a U.S. 01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:49.920 citizen, and as far as anybody is aware, he never even applied for citizenship. 01:15:50.159 --> 01:15:58.800 According to evidence presented at trial, Ben Gura became a lawful appropriate resident back in June of 2022 and applied for a driver's license through the Texas Department of Public Safety back in 2024. 01:15:59.039 --> 01:16:06.800 The motor voter provision of the National Voter Registration Act requires DPS to offer driver's license to applicants an option to simultaneously register to vote. 01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:11.439 So in his application, Ben Gura checked boxes stating that he was a U.S. 01:16:11.520 --> 01:16:12.960 citizen and wanted to register to vote. 01:16:13.039 --> 01:16:18.720 Based on that application, he was registered to vote in Tarrant County, Texas, although the form appears to have originally been routed to Dallas County. 01:16:18.880 --> 01:16:24.159 On November 5th, 2024, Ben Gura voted in person at the East Library and Recreation Center in Arlington. 01:16:24.239 --> 01:16:27.520 The general election ballot included both federal and, of course, state elections. 01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:33.119 The voting record indicates that Ben Gura showed acceptable photo ID, presumably his driver's license, which is all you have to show. 01:16:33.359 --> 01:16:38.159 Law firm residents receive Texas driver's license that look identical to license issued to citizens. 01:16:38.560 --> 01:16:43.039 Uh attorney Ryan Raybold said, Voting in our national elections is reserved for U.S. 01:16:43.119 --> 01:16:43.439 citizens. 01:16:43.520 --> 01:16:44.560 This should not be unclear. 01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:51.600 Every unlawful vote undermines the voices of eligible citizens, and this office will hold accountable anyone who undermines our elections. 01:16:51.840 --> 01:16:58.239 This verdict reflects the jury's careful consideration of the evidence and our commitment to protecting the integrity of the electoral process in North Texas. 01:16:58.479 --> 01:17:08.239 He faces up to five years in federal prison and a fine of up to$250,000 for making false statements of citizenship and up to one year in prison and a fine of$100,000 for voting by an alien. 01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:13.920 He could also be subject to deportation after serving his term of imprisonment. 01:17:14.079 --> 01:17:17.920 And by the way, sentencing is set for February 11th of next year. 01:17:18.159 --> 01:17:23.840 And again, for everyone saying that illegals can't vote, that also means people who are here legally that should not be able to vote. 01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:25.199 That's included when we say that. 01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:27.039 People who shouldn't be able to vote that are voting. 01:17:27.199 --> 01:17:28.640 We've had numerous cases like that. 01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:37.119 We had last month we had uh we had a Mexican national in September, we had seven foreign nationals arrested on unlawful voting charges. 01:17:37.439 --> 01:17:44.319 Uh, you also had uh a UK a citizen of the UK living in Houston, admitting to illegally voting in the 2024 election. 01:17:44.399 --> 01:17:51.439 You also had another UK citizen who was lawfully residing in Cady pleaded guilty to in August to illegally voting in the 2020 election. 01:17:51.680 --> 01:18:00.720 And so Texas Secretary of State Robert Howden has referred 117 cases of potential non-citizen voting to the Texas Attorney General's office back on September 15th. 01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:03.039 And so there's obviously a massive problem going on here. 01:18:03.119 --> 01:18:07.279 So for all the leftists that have told you, no, no, no, that's not happening, it's impossible, there's no way to do it. 01:18:07.600 --> 01:18:08.800 Clearly it's not impossible. 01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:10.000 Clearly it's happening. 01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:13.680 And I do want to say, for the sake of the record, I want to be very clear about this. 01:18:14.960 --> 01:18:32.479 For this particular, for all of these individuals, whether they're here illegally or they were lawful residents, if you take advantage of the system which is supposed to benefit the citizens, and you take advantage by coming here, staying here, and then breaking our laws, that should automatically subject you to deportation. 01:18:33.039 --> 01:18:34.960 It should be a one-strike and you're out sort of scenario. 01:18:35.039 --> 01:18:36.000 You don't get three strikes. 01:18:36.399 --> 01:18:41.600 If you're here, you are here as a privilege, not a God-given right, like those who are born on U.S. 01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:42.000 soil. 01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:50.159 Like those of us who are actually Americans, you were given a privilege to come here and to stay here among the people and to live in the greatest country on earth. 01:18:50.399 --> 01:18:51.199 That is a privilege. 01:18:51.439 --> 01:18:54.960 And that privilege can be revoked at any time for a good reason. 01:18:55.439 --> 01:19:12.800 And you breaking the laws, especially laws like voting, these are quintessential to our rights as Americans, uh, to our ability to exercise our voices and to elect our representatives to represent us in office, if you do that, it shouldn't 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host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot 920. 01:24:20.399 --> 01:24:22.079 Joining us now, a very exciting guest. 01:24:22.159 --> 01:24:27.600 We have Richard Vega coming on, of course, running for Precinct 2 Harris County Commissioner against Adrian Garcia. 01:24:27.760 --> 01:24:29.119 Welcome to the show, Richard. 01:24:29.840 --> 01:24:30.880 Hey, thanks, Michael. 01:24:30.960 --> 01:24:32.000 Thanks so much, man. 01:24:32.239 --> 01:24:32.800 Absolutely not. 01:24:33.039 --> 01:24:37.520 I want to, without without holding off, I want to get into this because I think this is incredibly important for our listeners to hear. 01:24:37.760 --> 01:24:42.239 Can you kind of walk us through, and you can put some background with this so we understand what we're actually talking about? 01:24:42.399 --> 01:24:53.279 Can you walk us through some of these projects, this funding, line items that got removed from the last commissioner's court meeting, and what's going on with the negligence in our commissioner's court when it comes to utilizing the funding that we were literally given? 01:24:54.319 --> 01:24:55.520 Yeah, absolutely. 01:24:55.680 --> 01:25:04.479 So my opponent uh at commissioner's court decided to pull last commissioner's court uh the on the agenda line item 93. 01:25:04.560 --> 01:25:06.800 That's very important, line item 93. 01:25:07.039 --> 01:25:16.079 Uh because the flood control district director was to give an update on what was going on with our flood mitigation project and our disaster relief project. 01:25:16.479 --> 01:25:30.479 But in that presentation, uh, that director was going to be able to testify on why we have lost$113 million to go to our infrastructure. 01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:41.840 Um, and what happened in that project was that there's there's letters of correspondence between the land commissioner, the GL, and the county commissioners. 01:25:43.119 --> 01:26:03.439 And in the letter from the land commissioners, he has been completely committed and complete information required what did that mean? 01:26:03.680 --> 01:26:08.640 What he has made because we've already been in place in final extension. 01:26:12.640 --> 01:26:34.319 He had to pull$113 million of money, of the rent money that we're to receive off of the um the money that we were getting from our uh our uh we had the fund, and it was like a matching fund, and he was getting pulled to go to a different county. 01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:50.640 And so what we discovered was is we got both letters, and then also um there was correspondence between Adrian's number two person, but but Adrian did not take the leadership role, he didn't even address the situation. 01:26:50.880 --> 01:26:53.520 What he tried to do on commissioner's court was hide it. 01:26:53.600 --> 01:27:02.800 He pulled the line item so the fed for the so the flood control district uh director couldn't testify, so the media couldn't get a hold of it.

01:27:03.039 --> 01:27:03.199 Right. 01:27:03.279 --> 01:27:16.479 And I want to uh one thing that kind of meant was mentioned in passing that I do want to clarify, because again, this actually makes it even worse, is this was not that they had a couple of months to really quickly figure this out, get projects underway and get them finished, like like in the snap of a finger. 01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:19.119 They were given multiple extensions. 01:27:19.199 --> 01:27:27.199 You mentioned the final extension, which would lead me to believe that it wasn't a little short, you only had a second to decide you had one commissioner's court meeting and you ran out of time. 01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:31.840 This sounds like, and I don't want to you know put words in anybody's mouth, but it sounds like negligence to me. 01:27:32.880 --> 01:27:33.920 A hundred percent. 01:27:34.079 --> 01:27:46.640 So all of these emails and correspondence between the land commissioner's office and the flood control office was all fit to Adrian Garcia's office. 01:27:47.119 --> 01:27:53.279 It's the fact that they just keep on looking over this and not and not uh and not even addressing it. 01:27:53.680 --> 01:28:47.520 In fact, uh the land commissioner even wrote also in her letter, she said because So she just turned around and denied them and said, No, you guys have had too many opportunities. 01:28:47.680 --> 01:28:49.119 You don't know what you're doing. 01:28:49.279 --> 01:28:50.640 I'm taking the money. 01:28:50.880 --> 01:28:51.119 Right. 01:28:51.199 --> 01:28:52.960 And again, I've said this before, right? 01:28:53.119 --> 01:28:54.000 People make mistakes. 01:28:54.159 --> 01:28:56.399 Uh, that doesn't justify when they do, but they do. 01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:02.640 And, you know, there's a lot of respect that I have for people who've made mistakes, and then they come out, they announce their mistakes publicly, and they say, I'm very sorry. 01:29:02.720 --> 01:29:06.560 Let me explain my my rationale here, not as an excuse, but as an explanation. 01:29:06.640 --> 01:29:11.600 Um, and I'll also give you a detailed reason why I'll make sure this doesn't happen again. 01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:13.359 I have a lot of respect for those sorts of people. 01:29:13.439 --> 01:29:20.800 Who I don't have respect for are people that cover them up, that pretend they didn't happen, and that do anything in their power to pretend as though nothing went wrong. 01:29:20.880 --> 01:29:30.079 Uh, and we see this from a lot of local government all the time, where they just I either they remove line items or they don't talk about it, or there's a charge and they just kind of skirt past it. 01:29:30.239 --> 01:29:37.279 And this is another example of where we have obvious incompetence, and there might be a level of some sort of respect if that was addressed publicly. 01:29:37.359 --> 01:29:38.880 And they said, here's why that happened. 01:29:39.039 --> 01:29:42.159 I understand how frustrating

this is, but we're not even getting that. 01:29:43.760 --> 01:29:45.119 No, we're not even getting that. 01:29:45.279 --> 01:29:55.680 What we got was political theater to where he pulled my opponent, pulled the line item in commissioner's court, so the media couldn't get a hold of it. 01:29:55.920 --> 01:29:56.079 Right. 01:29:56.159 --> 01:30:02.159 And again, I think this highlights the importance because a lot of people, of course, uh either have already early voted, if they have not, they need to go do that. 01:30:02.239 --> 01:30:05.279 Uh, that's an important thing that I want to keep highlighting here through the rest of the show today. 01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:14.159 You need, if you have not already gone, to go out to vote either today, if you can't make it out today, you of course also have election day, that's Tuesday, November the third, uh, to get out and vote. 01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:18.079 But this particular story, again, highlights the importance of a lot of these local races. 01:30:18.239 --> 01:30:20.479 Because I know that the big races on everybody's agenda. 01:30:20.560 --> 01:30:33.920 Yeah, you have the governor's race, you have the Senate race, you've got the the Railroad Commission, you've got the attorney general, you've got the lieutenant governor, but you have a lot of these races that have less participation because there's fewer people that can vote in them, right? 01:30:34.239 --> 01:30:38.319 Not as many people can vote in a Harris County election as opposed to a statewide race. 01:30:38.560 --> 01:30:43.199 And because it's further down the ballot, less people are going to go that far or know who these people are. 01:30:43.279 --> 01:31:00.319 And so this is a phenomenal opportunity, and Richard, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a phenomenal opportunity to change the leadership so that stuff like this, where we have these massive budget deficits, where we're raising property taxes to historic highs, uh, while throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars for our flood infrastructure so that we can start fixing those sorts of problems. 01:31:01.520 --> 01:31:03.920 Absolutely, you're 100% right. 01:31:04.239 --> 01:31:05.760 And so I think it's very important. 01:31:05.920 --> 01:31:14.640 Richard, as always, want to thank you so much for coming on the show, for joining us, for giving us these details so that people can make informed decisions when they go to the polls. 01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:17.760 Oh man, thank you so much for having me on. 01:31:17.840 --> 01:31:21.760 Let's continue to educate the voters and get people to the polls. 01:31:21.920 --> 01:31:24.079 Republicans are behind right now. 01:31:24.239 --> 01:31:28.479 We need to get our conservative uh folks out and vote. 01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:30.640 Today's the last day of early voting. 01:31:30.800 --> 01:31:32.479 We gotta get you out to the polls. 01:31:32.640 --> 01:31:33.119 7 p.m. 01:31:33.279 --> 01:31:33.840 they close. 01:31:34.000

--> 01:31:35.039 Get to the polls. 01:31:35.279 --> 01:31:35.680 Excellent. 01:31:35.760 --> 01:31:40.079 Well, Richard, thanks so much for coming on and uh Godspeed to you in your election, my friend. 01:31:40.479 --> 01:31:41.199 God bless you. 01:31:41.279 --> 01:31:41.600 Thank you. 01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:42.079 Of course. 01:31:42.159 --> 01:31:45.199 With that being said, before we go to the break, let's real quickly also talk about another thing going on. 01:31:45.279 --> 01:31:53.199 And again, this highlights the importance of these local races uh because that directly contributes to your quality of life on a day-to-day basis as a reminder. 01:31:53.279 --> 01:32:02.399 Uh, because again, yes, it's important that we have good senators in office, it's important that we have a great governor, it's important that we have as much as possible a good comptroller, a good railroad commissioner, a good uh attorney general. 01:32:02.560 --> 01:32:04.079 We've been very blessed with those things. 01:32:04.239 --> 01:32:09.119 But I want to remind everybody how crucial it is that you have good local elected representatives. 01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:12.720 Because the reality is that when it comes to flood control, we have hurricanes here. 01:32:12.800 --> 01:32:14.079 I don't know if you guys noticed. 01:32:14.800 --> 01:32:22.159 Um you you have to understand that your day-to-day life is heavily impacted by these local races. 01:32:22.239 --> 01:32:37.039 Whether that's your property taxes being collected by the local county, whether that is the the projects that are going through, where the spending is going, what budget deficit you're in, how much debt your county's taking on that you, not them, you will then be accountable for. 01:32:37.199 --> 01:32:43.039 All of those things are direct repercussions of who gets elected to these local positions. 01:32:43.199 --> 01:32:45.520 But I do want to know about the controller's race as well. 01:32:45.760 --> 01:32:55.920 Controller Don Huff Hines issued an executive order barring entities with financial participation by certain convicted human trafficking offenders from receiving contracts or grants administered by his office. 01:32:56.079 --> 01:33:09.359 The order requires contractors and grant recipients to certify that no person with financial participation in their organization has been convicted within the preceding five years of an offense related to the direct support or promotion of human trafficking. 01:33:09.600 --> 01:33:12.880 And again, you might be thinking to yourself, why did this not happen before? 01:33:13.039 --> 01:33:13.920 Why is this happening now? 01:33:14.079 --> 01:33:15.199 Well, I'll tell you why. 01:33:15.439 --> 01:33:18.560 Because again, we didn't have good leadership in these positions. 01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:25.520 We had people that were kind of just idling by, doing the bare minimum, if even that, uh, to the point where things just weren't getting done. 01:33:25.680 --> 01:33:32.159 And let's be honest, Don Uffines has been doing an excellent job just in the few months that he's been in the office. 01:33:32.399 --> 01:33:36.960 Another important reason to get out and vote and vote all the way down the ballot for every Republican on that ballot. 01:33:37.039 --> 01:33:48.640 According to the controller's office, Texas Government Code Section 252 2155.0061 already prohibits state agencies from accepting bids or awarding contracts involving financial participation by individual with those convictions. 01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:53.199 However, that prohibition only extends to contracts, not to grants. 01:33:53.359 --> 01:33:58.720 And so Hubbine's order applies the eligibility certification to both contracts and grants administered by his agency. 01:33:58.880 --> 01:34:06.319 He said human trafficking is pure evil, and Texas will not allow a single dollar of public money to flow to anyone connected to it. 01:34:06.399 --> 01:34:08.640 The government's first duty is to defend the innocent. 01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:18.880 No agency, no nonprofit, no contractor should ever benefit from state funding if the organization is financial participation from someone convicted of such a horrific crime. 01:34:19.119 --> 01:34:29.520 Under the order, contractors and grantees must also acknowledge that the controller's office may withhold payment or immediately terminate an agreement without further obligation if their certification is inaccurate. 01:34:29.680 --> 01:34:33.840 The requirements will be incorporated into all relevant future solicitations and agreements. 01:34:34.079 --> 01:34:42.399 He said Texas, Texans should never have to worry about their tax dollars supporting criminals engaged in the exploitation of women, children, or any vulnerable person. 01:34:42.560 --> 01:34:46.159 And again, this is not a one-off where you finally have a comptroller doing one good thing. 01:34:46.319 --> 01:34:50.079 Uh back on October 13th, it barred the use of comptroller grant money for flock cameras. 01:34:50.319 --> 01:34:54.560 On October 15th, there was an order prohibiting taxpayer funding for discriminatory DEI initiatives. 01:34:54.720 --> 01:35:01.119 You also had an October 21st order barring businesses requiring COVID-19 vaccine passports from receiving comptroller contracts and grants. 01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:05.600 And his office has said that additional contract and grant requirements will be announced in the coming weeks. 01:35:05.760 --> 01:35:10.720 We actually got to talk to Don Hoffein's last year, uh back when the primary was kind of ramping up. 01:35:10.880 --> 01:35:13.920 And I distinctly remember, by the way, an excellent candidate. 01:35:14.079 --> 01:35:19.199 He came on the show and was telling us there is so much waste, fraud, and abuse. 01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:27.600 And my goal getting in there, running all the budgets, making sure all the money is flowing to where it's supposed to go, my number one job is

to make sure that people are being represented well. 01:35:28.079 --> 01:35:31.359 And a lot of that is stuff that is easily fixable when you get in. 01:35:31.439 --> 01:35:34.239 It's it's orders, it's making sure that stuff is being operated. 01:35:34.319 --> 01:35:42.640 He said there's so many inefficiencies, so much wasteful spending on things that the taxpayers have never consented to, would never consent to if it were put on their ballot. 01:35:42.800 --> 01:35:46.880 And by extension, these are things that nobody wants and nobody should be getting. 01:35:47.039 --> 01:36:03.840 And so his promise to me on the show and to all of our listeners a year ago was when I get in, if I win my election, when I get in, I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna find all that waste, all that fraud, all that abuse, all of those things that are directly benefiting the wrong people instead of the taxpayers, and we're gonna root them out. 01:36:04.000 --> 01:36:13.039 And so far, despite the fact that he had not won his election yet, but has been put in the position, all I've seen is evidence that that promise is true, uh, that everything that he was campaigning on is actually accurate. 01:36:13.199 --> 01:36:17.359 It's all the more reason to vote for Don Huffein's for Comptroller. 01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:19.840 Um if you have not already gone out and voted, again, you can do that today. 01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:21.279 Today's the last day of early voting. 01:36:21.359 --> 01:36:22.800 Uh, so get out if you can today. 01:36:22.960 --> 01:36:30.960 If not today, make sure that you go on Tuesday, November 3rd, that is election day, so that we can win these races. 01:36:31.199 --> 01:36:34.880 With that being said, this is the last break before we wrap up the show. 01:36:35.039 --> 01:36:41.920 As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. 01:36:42.399 --> 01:36:52.079 In the last segment, Lord willing, uh, we'll be going over a search warrant which has detailed the Harris County investigation into the ICE agent for the crash that injured a Houston immigrant. 01:36:52.319 --> 01:36:54.239 We'll talk all about the details of that when we get back again. 01:36:54.399 --> 01:36:54.800 You can text in. 01:36:54.880 --> 01:37:02.159 This is your final chance during the show this week, during the show uh today, and potentially this month, though we'll have a live broadcast tomorrow, which we'll talk about in the last segment. 01:37:02.239 --> 01:37:06.079 But text in 713-779-KYST. 01:37:06.159 --> 01:37:07.359 I'm your host, Michael Wilson. 01:37:07.439 --> 01:37:11.760 You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and Lord will be right back to wrap up the show after this final break. 01:37:11.840 --> 01:37:13.039 Don't go anywhere. 01:37:15.119 --> 01:37:19.680 Patriot Talk 920 is your Houston base camp for the America First Movement. 01:37:19.840 --> 01:37:27.600 I'm Todd Starns, and join me weekdays at 11 on Patriot Talk 920 and online at PatriotTalk920.com. 01:37:29.680 --> 01:37:30.960 Listen up, Patriots. 01:37:31.199 --> 01:37:32.479 Got armory needs? 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media interviews, even saying the agent ran Para Hernandez down and hit him. 01:41:59.359 --> 01:42:08.640 The document is the first publicly available court record outlining what actually happened as well as what steps authorities have taken during the past three weeks to investigate the crash. 01:42:09.439 --> 01:42:20.239 Now, one thing I want to say is even when they start pursuing these charges, which they haven't even started yet, so this is all just hearsay, even when they do, as I always highlight, these are allegations, right? 01:42:20.319 --> 01:42:21.840 And we should not make determinations based on them. 01:42:21.920 --> 01:42:35.920 If you're convicted, I will hold, as I always have, a level of consistency in saying if there are if there is wrongdoing, if there are cases where somebody has broken the law, where they've violated the law or they've violated policy, there should be accountability for that. 01:42:36.239 --> 01:42:41.680 And we have to be very clear as conservatives that we're not showing that simple partiality. 01:42:41.920 --> 01:42:42.960 Do we all like ICE? 01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:43.439 Yes. 01:42:43.600 --> 01:42:45.199 Do we all support ICE operations? 01:42:45.439 --> 01:42:46.159 Absolutely. 01:42:46.319 --> 01:42:53.920 But we have to be cautious that we're not just like the left, or there's this sort of tribalism that doesn't allow us to pursue justice when it's people we like. 01:42:54.159 --> 01:43:05.119 No matter who it is, whether it's a political candidate, somebody who's been elected to office, whether it's a law enforcement agent at any level of law enforcement, any agency, there should be accountability when crimes are committed. 01:43:05.199 --> 01:43:15.760 And we should have the comprehensive constitution, the comprehensive consistency to say if there's wrongdoing, there must be accountability for the thing there was wrongdoing for. 01:43:16.720 --> 01:43:19.520 And by the way, that applies to you too, Democrats. 01:43:19.840 --> 01:43:32.479 So when Leslie Brionis is allegedly violating campaign law, when when U of H is inviting Democrat candidates to their events to basically endorse them and to get the vote out for them. 01:43:32.720 --> 01:43:39.600 And when you have cases where Harris County is targeting biracial demographics, there also needs to be accountability for that, too. 01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:40.960 That'll do it for the show today. 01:43:41.039 --> 01:43:44.079 I want to thank everyone for texting in, tuning in, and being a part of the show. 01:43:44.159 --> 01:43:45.600 We of course appreciate each and every one of you. 01:43:45.680 --> 01:43:48.640 As we wrap up, I just want to tease a couple things, let you know what's going on this weekend. 01:43:48.800 --> 01:43:52.560 Tum today, tomorrow, and Sunday will be the Houston Gun Collector Association show. 01:43:52.640 --> 01:43:57.600 Uh that'll be today from 12 to 5, tomorrow from 9 to 5, and again Sunday from 9 to 3. 01:43:57.680 --> 01:44:01.279 It's a$15, one-day pass or$20 for all three days. 01:44:01.439 --> 01:44:09.199 I'll be out there tomorrow doing a live broadcast from 11 to noon that you can either tune into or come out and see it live in person. 01:44:09.600 --> 01:44:14.800 And uh, by the way, our booth will be there all weekend, so you can check by the Patriot 920 booth. 01:44:15.199 --> 01:44:20.800 On top of that, I also want to highlight I will be on Newsmax twice over the next couple of days. 01:44:20.960 --> 01:44:24.319 I'm gonna be on tomorrow and Sunday on Newsmax programming. 01:44:24.399 --> 01:44:25.600 It'll be very exciting. 01:44:25.760 --> 01:44:31.359 I'll be going on live on Wake Up America weekend on Sunday at 6 in the morning. 01:44:31.439 --> 01:44:36.159 And then I'll also be going on live tomorrow morning as well. 01:44:36.399 --> 01:44:37.119 Can't wait for that. 01:44:37.199 --> 01:44:39.760 That'll be tomorrow at 9.10 a.m. 01:44:40.319 --> 01:44:41.680 So again, that's 9 10 a.m. 01:44:41.840 --> 01:44:43.359 tomorrow and 6 a.m. 01:44:43.520 --> 01:44:44.079 on Sunday. 01:44:44.159 --> 01:44:49.920 If you'd like to tune in to my appearances on Newsmax, we're going over midterm elections, all the stuff going on down here in Texas, everything you need to know. 01:44:50.079 --> 01:44:53.439 With that being said, enjoy your Halloween, enjoy your weekend. 01:44:53.520 --> 01:44:58.399 Lord will be here tomorrow, 11 to noon, and then again, starting Monday for the regular show. 01:44:58.640 --> 01:45:01.840 Enjoy your weekend, ladies and gentlemen, and God speed.