1 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:05,680 We ready to rock and roll? 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,080 Alright, here we go. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,080 So I want to get to questions, right? 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,280 So that we can address the things at least as 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,440 best we can that you guys may have. 6 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:27,440 But look, I want to just closing thought. 7 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,640 It is all connected, right? 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,240 So I mean, public education is the fight we're fighting 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,560 in the legislature right now. 10 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:40,960 Immigration is being fought, right? 11 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:41,920 All of these things. 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,480 The things to remember as we're talking about Christian nationalism 13 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:50,000 and Seven Mountains Dominionism, which is I'm not gonna get 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,720 into that today, but that's like the But they go 15 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:53,840 hand in hand. 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,440 That that is the engine that drives Christian nationalism, okay? 17 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,120 But this idea that all of these things that all 18 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:02,560 of you in this room, right? 19 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,080 The things that we mobilize and we go fight, right? 20 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,560 It may be choice that we all show up and 21 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,120 we march and we go and we fight back. 22 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,520 And it's hey, we're gonna show up and rally for 23 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,840 public education on the Capitol steps, right? 24 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,560 Because they're attacking this next, right? 25 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,080 When I I think about what we see happening as 26 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,960 we have this beautiful green lawn and we have a 27 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:26,720 weed that pops up, right? 28 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,800 And we all mobilize and we run and we go 29 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,520 pull the weed, and then the next weed pops up 30 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,080 and we go over and pull that one. 31 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,920 But the reality is we're gonna continue pulling those weeds 32 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,880 until we figure out there's a route to the rot. 33 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,080 And the root to the rot's Christian nationalism. 34 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:47,120 Okay. 35 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,920 Once we can get enough people understanding that all of 36 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:56,160 these things we're fighting against come from the same place, 37 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,280 that's when we start to turn the tide. 38 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,960 And the thing that I've used as my mantra lately, 39 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,520 and I Buddy's here, so he likes when I use 40 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:07,960 this mantra. 41 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:13,320 Is look, what we're striving for is we want you 42 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,720 to be able to see what it is that's happening, 43 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:18,120 right? 44 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,840 And once you see it, you gotta call it what 45 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:21,320 it is. 46 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,000 It's Christian nationalism. 47 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,040 That is what is attacking our democracy right now. 48 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,160 And once you can see it, once you can name 49 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,720 it, then you're ready to fight it. 50 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,040 So see it, name it, fight it. 51 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,360 That is what all of this is about, and that's 52 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,240 why Mindy and I show up at things like this 53 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,360 to talk to people, to help you understand what's going 54 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,800 on, to arm you with at least a few talking 55 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,240 points that you can go out, see it in your 56 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,120 community, call it what it is, and then go fight 57 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:52,600 it. 58 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,360 Because it's gonna take all of us to fight back 59 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,600 against the oligarchs who are trying to impose all of 60 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,000 this on us. 61 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,920 Okay. 62 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,040 Questions? 63 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:06,600 Let's go. 64 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,120 All right, the bill's in special sessions right now for 65 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,600 about your question. 66 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,120 You know, they're real big on accountability and teaching to 67 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,880 the test, but all the testing. 68 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,520 Who's gonna test these kids that are uh homeschool? 69 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:23,880 Who's gonna test the kids? 70 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:25,320 They're not. 71 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,240 Is there any permission in there for that? 72 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,760 There's there's not elements in the bills thus far. 73 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,520 I mean, it is one of those, you know, of 74 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,720 course, as we go through a legislative process, there's opportunities 75 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:42,520 to put forth amendments, but there's also lots of opportunity 76 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,000 for those to be voted down or scripped out or. 77 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:45,600 whatever 78 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,160 Look, the the idea is they don't want accountability, right? 79 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:55,280 Because in in when you look at studies broadly in 80 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,160 states that have rolled out broadly vouchers and things like 81 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,240 that, the kids don't do better, right? 82 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,360 In very small focused groups, right? 83 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:12,960 You may see some some elevation in overall performance. 84 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,160 But there's lots of studies out there at this point 85 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,000 that show as voucher programs, ESAs, whatever you want to 86 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 call them, right, as they go broader and more kids 87 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,840 start to take it, there is a knowledge gap that 88 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:28,960 starts to show up. 89 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,320 They're not performing better than the public schools. 90 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,840 And as soon as you drive that accountability, as soon 91 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:40,160 as you drive, you have to test as a requirement 92 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:44,000 to get the voucher, all of a sudden now that's 93 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:44,800 strings attached. 94 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,000 And it's actually in the GOP platform that they want 95 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,120 vouchers with no strings attached. 96 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,040 That's five cases. 97 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,000 What is the end game? 98 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,680 So can you take a microphone? 99 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,480 Or is it asking what is the end game in 100 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:13,760 1954? 101 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,960 We know that after the Brown speech board, they wanted 102 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,960 to not um desegregate. 103 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,640 Is the end game to create a society of people 104 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,960 who don't think about like the 1800s, where women don't 105 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:27,600 have rights? 106 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,560 I mean, what is the and because as you mentioned, 107 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,680 public education is the cornerstone of democracy. 108 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,640 So are they trying to just create workers who don't 109 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,200 know what is the end game? 110 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,720 Well, I would say, especially if you look at our 111 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:50,840 uh new speaker of the house, no, and you listen 112 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:53,480 to some of the things that you know he has 113 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:54,600 said, yeah. 114 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:59,400 Um and all of these folks who fall into the 115 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,480 same hard-line Christian nationalist ideology he has. 116 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:08,520 Yes, they want they are looking for a conservative 117 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:14,040 Christian-driven nation where they're choosing what we learn 118 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,480 and don't learn, they're choosing what we read and don't 119 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,800 read, they're choosing what people know, they're choosing what rights 120 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:27,160 we have, they're choosing, you know, who has an elevated 121 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,520 voice and who doesn't have an elevated voice. 122 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:35,720 It is a very, you know, uh narrow-minded, 123 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:41,320 narrow-visioned, um, hierarchical, authoritarian 124 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:42,600 vision. 125 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,000 That is what they want, and that is their end 126 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:45,720 game. 127 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,240 Um, they don't want LGBTQ people to have rights. 128 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:50,840 Period, end of story. 129 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:55,480 They don't want men or women to have reproductive rights. 130 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,000 End of story. 131 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,960 Um, you know, and and public schools are a place 132 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,320 where people learn to think critically. 133 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,480 They don't want people to think critically. 134 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,120 They want to tell you what it is you should 135 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,320 think and how to interpret it, and the kind of 136 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,480 information that that you're going to. to be allowed to 137 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,080 be exposed 138 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:20,800 And the kind of history that you're going to learn, 139 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,040 their version of history, right? 140 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,880 So that that's really their their end game. 141 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,320 It's scary stuff. 142 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:34,880 So I guess my question is fatigue, so I 143 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:40,960 can do my one 144 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,280 after the other and have the time. 145 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:44,640 I don't know if that would be a good idea. 146 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:50,000 So my question is they're looking 147 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,040 at passing a school voucher law amendment, 148 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,520 whatever you want to call it, right now. 149 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,400 I'm sure that almost everyone in this room has at 150 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:04,160 least written every one of their representatives telling them that 151 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,480 they are 100% against it. 152 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,840 And I know that we probably all know 10 or 153 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:11,680 15 people who feel that way. 154 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,800 So we know that there is, I guess, a silent 155 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:20,000 majority who do not want this to happen, but yet 156 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,680 because the money is where the money is, it's going 157 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:24,640 to happen. 158 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,280 I guess is is my question. 159 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:36,320 And it's a small majority of the Christian nationality, these 160 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:37,360 Christian nationals. 161 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,400 I mean, it's such a small majority, but that's all 162 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:41,440 we hear about. 163 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,360 I mean, it's it's so almost overwhelming to a point 164 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,520 where like you're frozen into not acting because you feel 165 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,080 like there's nothing that you can do to stop it 166 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:53,920 from happening. 167 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:59,840 Yeah, I mean, the the challenge is when 168 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,800 people start to pay attention too late the horse is 169 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,240 out of the barn, right? 170 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:10,520 We've got the elected people in Austin who are representing 171 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,920 us, right? 172 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:18,760 Well, they're not, but as a society, we have allowed 173 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,800 those people to receive a majority of those who voted 174 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,040 in the in the last election set. 175 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:29,560 Now, look, there is a coalition of basically every Democrat 176 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:36,280 and like 20 some odd Republicans who um are 177 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:37,640 against the vouchers. 178 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,920 I won't say they're pro-public education because they'll vote against 179 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,480 the LGBTQ community and those kids are in the schools, 180 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,200 they'll vote against the transgender kids, they'll you know they'll 181 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,200 do all of these, they'll ban books, they'll do all 182 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:48,520 of that. 183 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,960 So they're not pro-public yet, but they're at least anti-voucher, 184 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:52,760 right? 185 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,800 Now, the amount of pressure that is being leveraged on 186 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,040 those lawmakers is ridiculous, right? 187 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,400 I mean, we're in the fourth special session because the 188 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,280 governor won't take no for an answer, right? 189 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,080 And the lieutenant governor won't take no for an answer. 190 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,520 But the thing is, he just got re-elected. 191 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,840 And the people who gave him the money said this 192 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:21,800 is where we want to go. 193 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,160 That's what's so frustrating. 194 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:23,400 Right. 195 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:29,640 And that's look, I will say continue to call 196 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,000 and try and reinforce the message. 197 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,160 But the thing we have to do is make sure 198 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,800 we aren't getting lost in where we gotta go. 199 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,800 And we have got to get different people in Austin. 200 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:46,800 That is the only way 201 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,920 We may lose the fight today, right? 202 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,960 But if we get the right people in place, we 203 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,200 can make sure we win tomorrow. 204 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,760 So one of the things you have to realize is 205 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,720 they want us to think we have no chance. 206 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,280 And they've been playing the long game for a long 207 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,440 time, and we're in catch-up mode. 208 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:09,680 And so you cannot get discouraged. 209 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:12,080 You have to keep getting, you have to push, but 210 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:13,760 you have to get involved. 211 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,120 The last election was the first time I got involved. 212 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:19,840 Because the previous time when Trump was going up against 213 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,160 Hillary, I thought there's no way in heck America would 214 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:23,200 elect Trump. 215 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,160 I was wrong, and so I got involved. 216 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,080 We have some wonderful people. 217 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,880 They need resources, they need money. 218 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,360 I didn't even know what a phone diver was, but 219 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,480 that allows a politician to reach so many more people, 220 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:37,760 but it costs money. 221 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,920 And so we need to get involved, we need to 222 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,480 donate, and we need to not ever lose our hope. 223 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,960 The Iliad that's up there put together a heck of 224 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:45,760 a team. 225 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,440 They did a lot of good work. 226 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,320 We also need candidates that will work their butts off, 227 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,480 not candidates that just want to put their name out 228 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,640 there and maybe knock on a few doors. 229 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,440 We need folks that will knock on every footing door. 230 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,040 There are more of us with sanity than the insane 231 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:01,600 folks. 232 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,200 But we have to show up. 233 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,160 Well, and I want to follow up on what he 234 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,520 just says because everything he just said is absolutely right. 235 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:11,600 There are more of us. 236 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:12,320 Period. 237 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:13,120 End of story. 238 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:14,480 And I know a lot of people go back and 239 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:15,360 forth on this. 240 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,000 Is Texas purple or is it whatever? 241 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,800 There aren't a lot of us. 242 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,280 And we absolutely, once we all get going in the 243 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,360 same direction and get enough of us going, uh, can 244 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:30,600 turn the state. 245 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,040 We can't. 246 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:34,680 the And hopeful thing that I will say 247 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:37,240 to all of you, and Chris will concur. 248 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,040 When we first started talking about all this a few 249 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,720 years ago, people did look at us like we were 250 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:44,440 crazy. 251 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,160 I mean, I'm not gonna lie, it's cost us some 252 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:51,560 relationships, it cost us, you know, the way people thought 253 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:55,480 of us in our town, um, but we kept saying 254 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,160 it, and there wasn't anybody in the media at the 255 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,880 time, other than the experts that we were going and 256 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,920 hunting out, you know, at universities that have been writing 257 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,160 about this, some journalists and whatnot. 258 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,680 There wasn't anybody talking about Christian nationalism. 259 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:13,640 It is something a lot of people know about now. 260 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:17,320 Like the word is out, and not people don't look 261 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,960 at us like we're crazy anymore. 262 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,160 People get it. 263 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,560 So the hopeful thing is the media talks about it. 264 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:27,880 You can walk up to somebody and carry on a 265 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,080 conversation, and more than likely they have some kind of 266 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,360 idea as to what you're talking about, and so we 267 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,760 just have to keep talking about it, and we have 268 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:41,240 to encourage people not just register to vote, go to 269 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,840 the polls and actually vote because that is really where 270 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:46,040 we have our problem. 271 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,560 We're low voter turnout, and we have to get people 272 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:53,240 to show up to the voting booth and cast their 273 00:13:53,240 --> 00:14:02,200 vote against Christian nationalism and against authoritarianism. 274 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:07,320 I will concur with pushing people for 275 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,720 our next selection. 276 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:14,240 We have several candidates here or representatives from candidates. 277 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:15,920 Pasele support them. 278 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:20,480 They're going to be huge repercussions from 2024 279 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,520 And we also still have several seats that we do 280 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:30,640 not have a candidate on our side running for. 281 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,480 So do your research, ask the questions. 282 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:39,440 Is somebody running in my district and get some help 283 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,280 on how to go about that process? 284 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,840 The deadline to file for the ballot is December 11th, 285 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,840 papering up on us very soon. 286 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,360 But I did want to ask a question if you'll 287 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:57,440 talk ever so briefly about Dominionism. 288 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:58,480 Sure. 289 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,200 Um Seven Mountains Dominionism, 290 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:07,600 right? 291 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,560 I said it's the it's the engine that drives Christian 292 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:11,840 nationalism. 293 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,960 Um it is what people like David Barton, who runs 294 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,560 an organization called Wall Builders, False Historian, has the ear 295 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,440 of the new speaker of the House, right? 296 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,720 Told him he looked up to him and learned so 297 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:27,520 much from him. 298 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:32,160 People like Lance Walnow, Rafael Cruz, who we've talked about 299 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:37,840 earlier, all subscribe to this idea of seven mountains dominionism. 300 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:42,800 And the idea is it's an end times theology. 301 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:43,760 Okay. 302 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,120 It's this idea that there are seven mountains or seven 303 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:51,600 pillars, is what you'll hear it called sometimes of society. 304 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:58,480 And until you can gain control of those mountains, 305 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,000 Christ will not receive. 306 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,120 But once you can gain dominion, and that's why it's 307 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:09,320 called Dominionism over each of those mountains, that will 308 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:10,760 allow end times to come. 309 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,840 Now, the seven mountains, it's the church, and they'll tell 310 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,920 you, oh, yeah, we've always played there, but the church 311 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:18,760 should be outside the four walls, it should be out 312 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,040 in the community, right? 313 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,360 So that's what their church is is one family, is 314 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:28,360 the second mountain, and that's this one man, one woman, 315 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,640 it's where all the anti-LGBTQ stuff comes from. 316 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:36,760 The third mountain is education, and that's where taking over 317 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,240 the public school systems, and if you can't take it 318 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:40,280 over, you break it. 319 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,560 We had a chaplain bill here in Texas. 320 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,800 Oh, yeah, yeah, the chaplain bill, right? 321 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:46,280 Right? 322 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:46,920 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 323 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:52,440 We can replace school counselors with chaplains that got 48 324 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,240 hours worth of training from a focus on the family 325 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:56,040 program. 326 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,120 Seriously. 327 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,920 Um, so education is three, government is four, because they 328 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,880 know they have to seize control of levers of power 329 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,760 at all levels, right? 330 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,960 National, state, and local. 331 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,200 Because they can cast the laws that now impose the 332 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:17,560 ideology. 333 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,600 It's arts and entertainment. 334 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,440 They're not very good at that one yet, but they're 335 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:23,800 sure trying. 336 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,720 Um with I mean, look, they had the the the 337 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,360 child trafficking movie, right? 338 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:35,000 Which was run and funded by Christian nationalist people, right? 339 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:41,000 Um, arts and entertainment, uh, there's the media, and if 340 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,520 you've seen the Daily Wire with like Ben Shapiro and 341 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,960 some of those. other horrible folks that are on it, 342 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,040 it's owned by Ferris Wilkes 343 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,080 When you heard um groups like um Prager University, which 344 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,720 is the it's a YouTube thing, right? 345 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:02,000 All the videos, not really a university that uh apparently 346 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,600 Texas was at Florida has adopted some of their curriculum, 347 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:09,680 Oklahoma has Texas was rumored to have, but not quite. 348 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,480 Julie Picker jumped the gun a little bit there. 349 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,800 Um but that was seed funded by Ferris Wilkes too, 350 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:17,200 right? 351 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:20,560 So all of these people, these these billionaires, plenty and 352 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,040 lots of these spaces, but so media is one, they 353 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,560 want their own ecosystem where they can control what's there, 354 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,720 and then the last one's business, because they know they 355 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,160 need money to make it go. 356 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,840 Those are the seven mountains, and this idea that once 357 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:38,960 you gain control of all of them, that's when you 358 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,360 take the nation. 359 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:47,120 That's that's Dominionism, and that's scary stuff. 360 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,480 Victor Orban has done this in Hungary. 361 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,720 Yeah, yes, I mean Orban is held up as like 362 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,280 this model that they should be following. 363 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,880 If you Google CNN, Wilkes Dunn, they did an episode 364 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,200 on this called Deep in the Pockets of Texas. 365 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:09,920 Very good. 366 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:10,960 Terrifying, very much. 367 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:16,720 I'll say, CNN called 368 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,200 me and said, we want to talk about money in 369 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:19,760 Texas. 370 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,560 What can we do? 371 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,520 So they went and found all the good people, there 372 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,680 are a bunch of good people to talk to, but 373 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,560 I gave them that story. 374 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,880 story What was the name of the again? 375 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,360 Deep in the pockets of Texas. 376 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,520 Deep in the pockets of Texas 377 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,000 And you can Google it, and it'll go to Chris's 378 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,920 YouTube page and you can watch the whole thing. 379 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,360 Or you can go to see it, name it, fightit.com. 380 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,400 And there's a link to the video there too. 381 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,720 And just one more quick thing on the Seven Mountains 382 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,240 Dominionism and the taking nations and whatnot, they're not just 383 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,000 working on the US folks. 384 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,840 I mean, Ferris Wilkes brother in law travels, he's got 385 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,880 a church out in West Texas too. 386 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:10,360 And he travels to other countries and visits with other 387 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:12,920 uh national leaders. 388 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:16,680 I mean, there this isn't just a United States thing, 389 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,400 and and you're right, Hungary has already gone down this 390 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:19,880 road. 391 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,000 This is this is just and it's it's it's kind 392 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,280 of ick like you don't really want to think about 393 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,080 that, but you do kind of need to have a 394 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:33,320 general idea of that there's a bigger there's a bigger 395 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,960 goal for these people. 396 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,760 And that's why they didn't go away in 2018, right? 397 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,920 That's why they came back because it wasn't just money 398 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,760 and power, it's ideology. 399 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,400 That's what's driving it. 400 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,160 Um, I'm from New Jersey, and most people in New 401 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,040 Jersey actually get out and vote. 402 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:56,360 And when I moved here, I couldn't believe the lack 403 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:57,640 of information. 404 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,480 Um when votes are, how do you vote, where do 405 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:02,520 you go? 406 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,520 It's just not available. 407 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,280 You have to search for it yourself. 408 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,120 You have to get on the internet, you have to 409 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:08,920 find it. 410 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,800 Uh, when I lived in New Jersey, the League of 411 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:18,240 Women Voters sends you a sample ballot, 412 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,600 and it also explains the questions. 413 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,320 You know how they're all like worded so they can 414 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:25,680 vote for it. 415 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:31,520 Uh, they actually explain what it means, and everybody 416 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,160 who votes gets that. 417 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,200 Each person, so like my husband got one, and I 418 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,680 got one, so you can take it with you when 419 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,760 you go vote, and we voted in our neighborhood. 420 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:49,120 We can actually walk to where we voted, so 421 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:50,800 we didn't have to get in a car to go 422 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,920 vote, we could just walk to it, and uh there 423 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:55,840 was never a line. 424 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,320 So voting was easy. 425 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,800 Voting was in your face. 426 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,560 You got a whole sheet, big huge sheet of the 427 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,240 ballot, and it explained it, so that it was a 428 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:09,040 no-brainer. 429 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:10,800 You didn't have to get on the internet and re 430 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,240 research. 431 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,200 A lot of people don't have time to do that. 432 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,000 Or don't understand the number of polling places and making 433 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,440 it hard to vote. 434 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,520 Yeah, that's all by design. 435 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,560 The people in power, I mean, I'll go back to 436 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,800 Paul Wayrick in 1980, speaking in Dellis, Texas to a 437 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,880 group of conservative um evangelical leaders. 438 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:40,240 He said our leverage in elections goes up when 439 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:41,840 fewer people vote. 440 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,040 So we want to make sure our people vote and 441 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,200 it's hard for other people, right? 442 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,320 So the way you see now, let's not say that 443 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,920 we don't have the League of Women Voters, and they're 444 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,600 doing a lot of good work, and we're doing lots 445 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,960 of things to try and educate, but you don't have 446 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,760 the broader mechanisms of the state working 447 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:08,280 to make voting and a culture of voting something 448 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,280 that is desired. 449 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:17,640 College people say and say that. 450 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:23,720 But so we are working against the system inside 451 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:24,840 that space. 452 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,480 I mean, that's why we don't have campaign finance reform, 453 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,760 and people can write million dollar checks because the people 454 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,400 in power like the million dollar checks. 455 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:38,760 We actually had representatives, um Aaron Zvener tried to get 456 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,120 a couple of different amendments onto a Charlie Guerin bill 457 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:47,800 that would cap contributions that would force all local 458 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,880 elections to actually file with the Texas Ethics Commission. 459 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,880 So we could see all the money. 460 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:38,840 How do we keep that from happening? 461 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:46,000 Well, we have to acknowledge that there's the books that 462 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:51,120 are in our public schools may not be 463 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:53,680 somebody's cup of tea, right? 464 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:58,640 It may touch on subjects that people are uncomfortable with. 465 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,040 But when I look and I talk to kids that 466 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:08,480 are in high school, 467 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,920 the things they are seeing everywhere else in the world, 468 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,120 I would much rather them be seeing it and learning 469 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:19,360 it in a book rather than seeing somewhere else. 470 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:22,720 Because when they talk about the books and porn being 471 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,440 in books or the things they're trying to ban, right? 472 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:30,560 It's this idea that they're taking passages out of books. 473 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,440 Out of context out of context or out of the 474 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,560 full realm of the story, right? 475 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:41,600 The idea that look, what is happening now, and the 476 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,520 reason why groups like the ACLU and others haven't been 477 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:50,400 able to effectively challenge these bans, and they are bans 478 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,400 no matter what these people you can still buy it 479 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,280 in the store. 480 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:54,720 It's being banned from the school. 481 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:55,520 Come on. 482 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,320 But the reason they're not challenging those things is our 483 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,760 court system has been infected because we didn't show up 484 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,960 and vote enough, and the people who got in power, 485 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,320 but people on the bench who will now side with 486 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,040 those who want to ban books, right? 487 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:16,480 And so challenging book banning as it goes up 488 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,080 through the system, the people who in the ACLU and 489 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,800 Pan America and all those who are doing everything they 490 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,000 can to fight back, they know if it goes to 491 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,600 court and gets to the Supreme Court, they lose. 492 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,240 And those books get banned permanently everywhere, rather than 493 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,440 just a couple of districts. 494 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,800 So it takes our voices showing up at school board 495 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,800 meetings, supporting our school board members who are saying those 496 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:49,000 books stay, supporting our librarians, trusting the 497 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,560 expertise that they're actually curating a collection appropriately, and you 498 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,600 show up and you make noise because we talked about 499 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,280 they're the minority, right? 500 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,760 And they're so loud. 501 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:06,040 When we don't talk, we cede ground to them. 502 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,320 We let them control a narrative. 503 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,880 And we can't do that. 504 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,240 It's not easy. 505 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,160 It's uncomfortable showing up and raising your voice. 506 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,560 But we've all got to get better at it. 507 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,360 You went right into what I wanted to say. 508 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:23,800 I'm Michelle Chandler. 509 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,520 I'm the vice chair of recruiting for the club for 510 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,600 Silent Area Democrats. 511 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,080 And this is a call to action, guys. 512 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,880 What we have to do is do what I'm doing 513 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,240 all the time, which is messaging everybody saying, hey, we've 514 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,360 got a club here. 515 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:40,840 We get together on a regular basis, we spend time 516 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,320 with each other, we've got happy hour, we have two 517 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,200 book clubs, we have all kinds of things going on, 518 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,480 service projects. 519 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,280 We get together and have wine with our neighbors. 520 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,320 We have lunch before we go vote so everyone can 521 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:54,360 ask questions. 522 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,480 So what I'm saying is you guys um reach out 523 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,280 to me on Facebook or in my email, get my 524 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,240 phone number, I'll send you whatever information you need to 525 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,480 do to help me recruit our friends family and neighbors 526 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,360 because this is a call to action what we have 527 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,640 to do is leave this meeting and say it's those 528 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,720 of us in this room already know what's going on 529 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,520 it's the people that don't know what's going on that 530 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,600 we have to reach you have to reach out to 531 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,040 your neighbors family members people that you think um we 532 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,840 can cross the aisle to we cannot isolate ourselves anymore 533 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,680 we've got to work together in the community so um 534 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,200 I'm Michelle Chamber I'm the vice chair of recruiting please 535 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,920 connect with me or any of our other leadership members 536 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:54,480 so we can get the ball moving forward my 537 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,520 name's wooden I'm running for HD63 and my question to 538 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,120 you all is messaging so Michelle you led right into 539 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,240 what I want to talk about which is can you 540 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,040 please give us some input about everyone in this room 541 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,480 is politically involved these are our block walkers these are 542 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,800 our volunteers I'm gonna be producing literature what have you 543 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:21,440 found to be the most effective messaging what are the 544 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:26,240 words what are the media modalities that you suggest could 545 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,600 you give us as candidates and as politically involved volunteers 546 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,640 some input on that thank you of course we got 547 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,760 a question um look there's a 548 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,760 huge education component right that you have to be able 549 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:46,960 to get across to voters to understand what they're dealing 550 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,040 with, right? 551 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:52,880 As Democrats, I think in large part it's been a 552 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,760 message of look, we can't focus on the the scary 553 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,120 things. 554 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,320 L'ets let's focus in the message of where we're trying 555 00:29:58,320 --> 00:29:58,760 to go. 556 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,120 It's not about attacking the other candidate, but I I 557 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,600 think it is walking a line between what your strategy 558 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:11,320 is for where we can go and understand what could 559 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,200 happen if we're not paying attention and electing the right 560 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:17,320 folks, right? 561 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:22,920 It is finding that sweet spot in between because 562 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,400 they're we if we keep doing the thing we've always 563 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,640 done, we're gonna continue to get this the same overall 564 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:36,920 result, which is not winning in too many races, right? 565 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:42,120 So it is and and I'll 566 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,400 say look, I I saw well, I was listening to 567 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,160 Pod Save America the other morning and listening to um 568 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:54,040 a representative from Louisiana, and she was like, Look, our 569 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,520 party's been telling us this whole time, we gotta go 570 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,880 find the the moderate white people so they can vote 571 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:01,080 for us, right? 572 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,080 And she's like, Look, there are no more moderates, those 573 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,960 people who were moderates, they're voting for Trump. 574 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,360 And she was like, we have to connect with the 575 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,520 people who aren't voting. 576 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,640 Embrace the progressive message and see, you should have the 577 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,680 microphone, and embrace the progressive message because that is the 578 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,880 thing that helps connect when we talk about being a 579 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:31,160 non-voting state, finding those people who have checked 580 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,200 out of the system, it's going it, and it may 581 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,040 look. 582 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,640 We have we have two kids, 23 and 19, and 583 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,760 they vote every time because we're like, you're gonna vote. 584 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:44,640 Right? 585 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,640 But we know they're friends, and even our kids sometimes 586 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:49,600 go, but what is it? 587 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,200 What is it gonna matter? 588 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,800 And it's like if we don't show up, if your 589 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,360 generation doesn't show up. 590 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,760 You agree with all the things we're advocating for. 591 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,800 We just need enough of you and your voices to 592 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,080 help us get there. 593 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:11,360 Look, if you look at the 2022 election, and 594 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:16,320 you focus on 11 counties that were blue and getting 595 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,240 bluer, the 11 biggest counties or some of the biggest 596 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:25,680 counties in the state, and we bump turnout in those 597 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:26,560 spaces. 598 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,040 Greg Abbott's not the governor, right? 599 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:36,960 When we talk about the next 11 counties that are 600 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:41,200 red but getting more blue, if we invest in, and 601 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,440 again, there's some of the biggest in the state. 602 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,440 Terrant counties is like right there on the edge, right? 603 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,240 But we invest in those spaces. 604 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,600 There were so many people who didn't vote in those 605 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:54,480 counties. 606 00:32:54,480 --> 00:33:00,080 You run this state, and it's not gonna be flipping 607 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,920 R's to D's. 608 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,560 that's not a phrase or a slogan, so But that's 609 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,080 at least a theme. 610 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:25,440 All right. 611 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,440 Um, right here. 612 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:27,840 Sorry. 613 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,200 Uh so Gail Frey running for DHT106, but. I also 614 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:31,480 want to do my own homework too 615 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,320 So let me ask you how is it that Wilkes 616 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,600 and Dunn primarily um funds their targets? 617 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,680 Is it directly or is it more so to a 618 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:39,000 packs? 619 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,800 I think I'm aware of the uh Defend Texas Liberty 620 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:42,280 Pack. 621 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,840 But what other packs should we be looking for and 622 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:45,960 following? 623 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:51,080 Well I want to say Wilkes and Dunn 624 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:51,880 are important, right? 625 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,880 And defend Texas Liberty is absolutely where they went. 626 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,520 And over the last two years, you know, we talk 627 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,480 about well, we talk about Empower Texans and how big 628 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,000 and a big bad wolf they were. 629 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,520 The money that's gone in to defend Texas Liberty in 630 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,000 the last two years versus what went in the entire 631 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,880 time Empower Texans Pack existed. 632 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,960 It's equal, right? 633 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,160 So they've pushed so much more money in in the 634 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,960 last two years to defend Texas Liberty. 635 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,480 So that's scary. 636 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,160 But the thing is, it's not just Wilkes and Dunn. 637 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,920 That's the thing you gotta be careful with. 638 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,480 It's easy to fall into this trap of there's two 639 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,960 big bad guys behind the curtain. 640 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,720 Now, what they've done is they've created a model that 641 00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:40,120 others are following, right? 642 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,040 I I liken it to somebody doing a cannonball into 643 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,360 the deep end of a swimming pool, right? 644 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,720 They made a big splash with Empower Texans. 645 00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:53,880 And what we're dealing with now, even more not just 646 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,120 at the state level, at the local level, right? 647 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,640 Or or more local races. 648 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:03,480 Others who may not have the same billions but carry 649 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,760 the same ideology, they're investing heavily. 650 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,960 So the thing you've got to watch for is just 651 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,760 significant donations going in anywhere to an opponent, right? 652 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:19,920 It's looking at those campaign finance reports, understanding what's actually 653 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,840 coming from in the district versus outside the district, and 654 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,840 where are the big checks coming from? 655 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,760 Because as soon as you start to see a big 656 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,280 check, and you can go to my website and look 657 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,920 because I'm I'm ripping all the reports every time. 658 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,240 Is start to say where else are they giving? 659 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:38,560 And when you start to see it connected to multiple 660 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,360 candidates, and you start to understand what those candidates are 661 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,680 about, it becomes very easy to see where the Christian 662 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,120 nationalism or the ideology broadly is pushing. 663 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:54,400 See it, name it, fight it.com. 664 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:55,600 That's the easiest one. 665 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,520 You can get all of the stuff from there. 666 00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,040 Oh, it's it fight it or save. 667 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:00,080 Fight it. 668 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,680 See it, name it, fight it. 669 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:02,880 Because I don't want you to just say it. 670 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,640 I want you to go fight it wherever you can. 671 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:07,520 Sorry. 672 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,680 We take the good next tool questions. 673 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:10,960 Last year, yeah. 674 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,840 I'm going to change the direction that we're going a 675 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:14,480 little bit. 676 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,400 Um, when you talk about dominionism, you're talking about government. 677 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,480 So I come from a really small town up here 678 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,040 in North Texas, 3200 people. 679 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,360 And we've got this going on in a municipal level. 680 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:33,440 We've got Monty Bennett, a major benefactor of 681 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,920 uh our town council right now, and people are sitting 682 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:36,800 on it. 683 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,080 We have Matt Krauss coming in. 684 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,680 He has a new tool, folks. 685 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:46,320 It's called the Texas Government Accountability Association, and he is 686 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,040 trying to take over control of our municipal governments with 687 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:51,440 this. 688 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,600 He wants to take the place of TML, which all 689 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,440 of our municipalities rely on for governance. 690 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:01,560 Try to make municipality. 691 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:02,360 Yes, ma'am 692 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,680 We just went through this. 693 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,920 We had to deal with Aaron Harris. 694 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:13,000 We had to deal with Matt Armstrong, Tree Texas Project, 695 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,560 and Jill Glover, Grassroots Project, We the People. 696 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,480 Bringing this into our town, creating a political action committee 697 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:25,880 with 32 people hundred in our town, a political action 698 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:26,680 committee. 699 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,840 And Chris is right. 700 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,440 It opened a door that can't be closed. 701 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,480 The question is, how can we stop it? 702 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,080 Wow. 703 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,160 Yeah, I mean, I think it really just comes back 704 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:44,840 to those of you. 705 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,480 You have to do the very best you can to 706 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,720 coordinate and organize as many of the 3200 in your 707 00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:57,000 community as possible to say we're not going to elect 708 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,640 people that they're backing, right? 709 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,040 They're kind of trying to do the same thing with 710 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,240 TASB, right? 711 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:05,480 They want to statewide, they want to get rid of 712 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:10,520 TASB and install their own Christian nationalist-driven school 713 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,760 board association to advise and inform school boards. 714 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:19,080 So we're going to see this at local community level, 715 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:20,360 state level. 716 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:26,120 Again, it just comes back to educate and mobilize 717 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:30,280 as many people within your community as you can to 718 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:35,560 ensure that the people they're backing, who would make policy 719 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:39,720 once elected to move these things, right? 720 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,280 Don't get elected in the first place. 721 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,000 Or if they're there now, it's their last. term 722 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,800 Um it really comes down to whether it's at a 723 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,080 local level or it's a state level, or we're going 724 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,440 to see again in a national level the fight, who's 725 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,600 in office because the people that hold those offices are 726 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,320 going to be the people who are making the rules 727 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,200 and the decisions that the rest of us are having 728 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,120 to live with. 729 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:10,480 So last question. 730 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,760 This when I think back to what we managed to 731 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,600 do with the Affordable Care Act and knock that just 732 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,160 flat off of the platform, when I'm gonna talk to 733 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,680 people, and if I use the term Obamacare, this is 734 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:34,720 what I got. 735 00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:36,000 I got a wall. 736 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,120 But when I said the Affordable Care Act, that's like 737 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,120 I mean, what if when I walk up to somebody 738 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,720 and I say, Well, I want to talk to you 739 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:44,000 about Christian nationalism. 740 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,560 I'm gonna get a wall because you know we're Christian, 741 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,080 I'm gonna be against that. 742 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,640 Last time be from the police, I thought just broke 743 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,480 us because it was and it's just the message. 744 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,840 But here's here's what you can do with that, and 745 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,720 we totally understand because when we started talking about Christian 746 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:06,000 nationalism, we got a lot of talk to my hand. 747 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,760 I don't want to talk to you, right? 748 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,560 You're you're attacking my religion personally. 749 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:15,200 But here's the thing we have asked the experts that 750 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,720 we have become acquainted with and we have relationship with, 751 00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:22,000 we've asked them multiple times is there some other word 752 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,240 that we could use that's more palatable? 753 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:25,120 There isn't. 754 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,360 You gotta call it what it is, and it is 755 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:28,560 Christian nationalism. 756 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,720 Now, understanding a workinging definition so you can hold a 757 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:35,880 conversation and not be attack somebody but just inform them. 758 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,800 What does that term really mean? 759 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:38,200 Right? 760 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,560 That's really important. 761 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,320 So everybody in this room, like go and here's a 762 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,960 couple of groups here in Texas, and I mentioned one 763 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,720 of them before that that are faith-based groups that you 764 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:52,440 can say, let me tell you about my friends at 765 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:57,640 the first one is the BJC, the Baptist Joint Committee, 766 00:40:57,720 --> 00:41:02,360 and they have an entire initiative called Christians Against Christian 767 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:03,480 Nationalism. 768 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,240 Amanda Tyler is uh is the person that heads up 769 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:08,120 that organization. 770 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,840 She used to be at DC, she's just recently moved 771 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,280 back down here to Texas. 772 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,800 They have fabulous messaging, lots of resources. 773 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,720 Go online, Google them. 774 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,560 Say the name again. 775 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:25,320 Uh BJC is the acronym, I guess, and it's Christians 776 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,280 against Christian nationalism. 777 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,840 And then the other group that I'm gonna tell you, 778 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,040 and Chris will tell you to uh get to know 779 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,880 about and and they they have messaging as well, especially 780 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:38,920 for public education. 781 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,680 That's their focus, is pastors for Texas children. 782 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:47,000 Charlie Johnson, some of y'all may know Charlie, he's fabulous, 783 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,000 he's worked for years on fighting vouchers, that is their 784 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:51,800 focus. 785 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:56,840 But they have faith leaders of all denominations and all 786 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:01,800 faith uh uh faith traditions that organize across the state 787 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:06,720 of Texas and uh speak and fight vouchers. 788 00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:11,080 They'll come to your organization, your church, they'll come to 789 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,880 your group and speak. 790 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,960 Um, you can just go on their website or their, 791 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:22,000 you know, follow them on Twitter, Facebook, whatnot, get information. 792 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:27,280 But I think having sometimes when you can um de-arm 793 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,480 somebody, you know, with but let me tell you about 794 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,880 my faith-based friends that are also trying to fight Christian 795 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:40,320 nationalism because as faith people Christian nationalism doesn't 796 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:45,920 just attack our democracy, it it attacks Christianity, right? 797 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,440 It breaks the integrity of Christianity. 798 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:54,400 So anybody who is an already an activist within that 799 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,160 space will tell you if we want to protect the 800 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:03,200 integrity of American Christianity or Christianity anywhere, but 801 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,120 we're dealing with America, we have to fight Christian Christian 802 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:08,160 nationalism. 803 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,320 And you know, I'll tell you that the folks at 804 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:14,880 the BJC have fabulous messaging about that, um, and you 805 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,840 can get a lot of you know, bumper sticker type 806 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,840 things that you can you can share, you know, with 807 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,720 friends or family or whomever you're trying to have this 808 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:26,080 kind of conversation with. 809 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,840 And I Chris and I understand it's a hard conversation 810 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,360 to have, and we definitely lost some relationships, and when 811 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,920 you're talking about it and you're going to friends and 812 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,280 family, you kind of have to go into it knowing 813 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:44,400 it might cost me something, but what we all gain 814 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,880 from having those conversations is well worth it in the 815 00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,240 end, we feel like. 816 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:52,880 So thank you all for having us. 817 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:00,920 Very much for coming. 818 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:02,040 We really appreciate it. 819 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,480 This was great. 820 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,760 Um, if you enjoyed this, we have programs like this 821 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:07,320 every month. 822 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,480 Last month we covered the um uh propositions and learned 823 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,640 what they were about and what to vote for uh 824 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:14,600 in January. 825 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,920 We're skipping the meeting in December in favor of a 826 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:17,880 Christmas party. 827 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,800 Uh so in January we are having Christy Wood. 828 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,840 She's going to talk about how Denton County runs elections. 829 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:29,800 And in February, surprise candidates were having a primary candidate 830 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,320 forum, and as well as uh a part of a 831 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,320 presenter to come talk to us about how to run 832 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,200 for office because we can't win if we don't run. 833 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,280 So really important things coming up. 834 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:41,320 Fun things coming up. 835 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,800 We have a breakfast this Saturday. 836 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,400 Uh we have one every third Saturday or the Saturday 837 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,880 after the meeting, and this time it's going to be 838 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,800 at first watch over on Justin. 839 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,400 Go about 9 a.m. 840 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,680 And we're just hanging out with people that have the 841 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,360 same values that you have. 842 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:02,280 We have First Fridays uh at Taco Ocho. 843 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,320 It starts at about 5, 5:30. 844 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,640 Uh, so please come on out for that and join 845 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:07,880 us. 846 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,240 It's a lot of fun, lots of times. 847 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:12,120 Colleen's uh boyfriend will be playing, and her daughter will 848 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:12,520 be singing. 849 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:13,560 That's fun. 850 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,640 And um finally we have our Christmas party coming up 851 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,520 on um the 10th of December. 852 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,920 10th of December at Gabrielle and Sophia's. 853 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,520 Yes, at Gabrielle and Sophia's four to seven, yes. 854 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,280 Um, so in closing, first of all, I want to 855 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,200 say um thank you to Gina Daly who sponsored this 856 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:35,400 with us. 857 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:40,560 Thank you, Cecilia, for all of your support and and 858 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:41,480 running this. 859 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,120 I want to, I'd be remiss if I we don't 860 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,000 do this all by ourselves it's a lot of people 861 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,680 so I want to just recognize our leadership team Mariah 862 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:54,960 Martinez uh well 863 00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:59,040 we met Michelle but she left anyway and Laura Haynes 864 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:05,520 and then Canada Rongo and people that couldn't be here 865 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:10,080 David Stanaway unfortunately couldn't make it Vaughn Munro and Anthony 866 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,560 Sanders had other but they're also part of this team 867 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,600 and helped out with this effort so uh thank you 868 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,080 please look us up on Facebook please follow us and 869 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,080 I just want to close with what everybody else is 870 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,040 saying there's only one way we're taking we're taking this 871 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,680 date back there's only one way we're getting out of 872 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,240 what we're what's happening with the schools and habit and 873 00:46:28,240 --> 00:46:31,200 that's to vote and not just vote but you've met 874 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,400 several candidates here go talk to them join one of 875 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,640 their campaigns uh we and and join us because we 876 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,840 will be supporting these candidates after the primaries we'll be 877 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,440 out every weekend Michelle be organizing block walks and uh 878 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,840 and meet and greets and whatever we can do to 879 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,400 get people elected but you need to come out and 880 00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,840 support them too with us and you need to uh 881 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:55,520 and you need to make sure you vote and tell 882 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:57,840 everyone around you to vote and be sure and talk 883 00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,560 to your neighbors because even if you think they're um 884 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,080 uh Republican they aren't they don't understand democratic values if 885 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:08,720 they did they'd be Democrats all right thank you oh 886 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,640 by the way you can be talking if you want 887 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:12,160 to help us put away the chairs we've got to 888 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:12,640 give them away