Morning Wire - Warren Embraces Socialist & Woke Teacher Litmus Test? | 8.6.25

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

A big name among Democrats backs New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani, California Governor Gavin Newsom butts into the Texas redistricting fight, and Oklahoma sets a new requirement for teachers from out of state. Get the facts first with Morning Wire. - - - Wake up with new Morning Wire merch: https://bit.ly/4lIubt3 - - - Today's Sponsors: Good Ranchers - Visit https://goodranchers.com and subscribe to any box using code WIRE to claim $40 off + free meat for life! Shopify - Go to https://Shopify.com/morningwire to sign up for your $1-per-month trial period and upgrade your selling today. - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy morning wire,morning wire podcast,the morning wire podcast,Georgia Howe,John Bickley,daily wire podcast,podcast,news podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A powerful Democrat Senator lends her support to New York socialist Zoran Mamdani as the future of the party. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Zoran Mamdani is New York's best choice for mayor. I'm Daily Wire, executive editor John Bickley, Georgia Howe is off today. It's Wednesday, August 6th, and this is Morning Wire. California Governor Gavin Newsom has jumped into the Texas redistricting fight, promising to wipe out any gains the GOP makes in the Lone Star State. Whatever they are doing will be neutered here in the state of California.

And they will pay that price. And Oklahoma implements a non-woke pro-America test for teachers moving in from progressive states. We now have over 1,000 teachers on track to make $100,000 in the classroom for getting exceptional results. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. Hey, guys, producer Brandon here. I used to think I knew what I was buying at the grocery store until I discovered that over 4 billion pounds of meat were imported into the U.S. last year, and it could still be labeled as a product of

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Kathy Hochel in New York, they're staying pretty quiet. about Mom Donnie, but what is Warren saying? Well, you know, she's really embracing some of his most provocative policies, things like rent control, government-controlled grocery stores, massive tax hikes on high earners. Basically, she's making it clear that she agrees with him that the party needs to move further to the left. In fact, this was what she said on the campaign trail over the weekend. When someone stands up and says, I will lead this city by making it more affordable. And here are my plans, real plans, plans to deliver on child care, plans to

deliver on housing, plans to deliver, we're going to experiment, we're going to try things on groceries. That is the democratic message. But as you pointed out, John, the party's senior leadership seems to be trying to put the brakes on this. When CNN asked Corey Booker about Mom Donnie, he avoided answering the question and said, let New York politics be New York politics. And I think the silence does suggest that Democrats are worried that MomDani's platform is going to alienate swing voters, as you said, as they approach those midterms. And this was highlighted by a contentious interview that Elizabeth Warren had with CNBC on Monday. The issue is affordability. Do you know how many working families are chased out of New York City every day? Because they can't afford

housing. They can't afford groceries. They can't afford child care. What Zauron is saying is I want people to be able to afford to live in New York City. That's what keeps a vibrant city. That's what makes people want to live here. Nobody disagrees with that, Senator, but raising taxes in order to do it? Why is that the answer? Oh, dear. Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry? No, I'm worried that they're going to leave and spend their money elsewhere. To his point, you're hearing the party's establishment, like Obama's former Treasury Secretary, Jack Liu, warning that these kinds of tax hikes could drive businesses out of New York. Right, lots of warnings to that effect.

Now, Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is also out criticizing her party for not being far enough to the left. How does that play into this division? Well, I think it just further highlights the difficult position that the Democrats are in. You have some of these younger candidates really promoting more extreme language, more extreme policies, and it's winning them a lot of coverage and a lot of popularity with maybe younger voters, but it isn't necessarily drawing the moderates. For example, this was Crockett on Sunday. Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of, okay, we know that.

Yes, yes. He is. He is. He is. But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to get away with this. But he's been able to get away with this because the House Republicans are complicit.

He's been able to get away with this because Senate Republicans are complicit. But most importantly, the courts, especially the Supreme Court, is complicit. Now, trying to campaign on hating Donald Trump was the exact same thing that the Harris campaign ran on, albeit maybe with a little bit more PG language, and it didn't necessarily pan out for them. And it's also worth remembering that a recent poll in the Wall Street Journal found that the Democrats' popularity is now at a record low. And that's largely because many voters are viewing them as too extreme. So when it comes to those midterms, having Mom Donnie and Crockett and people like that as the party's poster children,

well, that could really push away older, moderate voters in places like Pennsylvania and Arizona, where the Democrats are really going to need to hang on to or pick up some Senate seats. It's going to be really interesting to see how the party's longtime leaders try to thread this needle of capturing the sort of energy of younger stars without alienating mainstream America. Megan, thanks so much for reporting. My pleasure. The arms race to redistrict heats up as the showdown in Texas continues. Now California Governor Gavin Newsom is promising to reshape California to wipe out more Republican seats.

Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about the ongoing fight over redistricting in Texas A. Tim. So what's the latest year? Well, the action seems to be at a standstill. Democrats haven't relented despite threats and fines. And Republicans have to find out what legal means, if any, they have to force these lawmakers. back to Texas. Here's Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson talking about a few options. Yeah, so one, we got a Supreme Court ruling saying we could arrest these people. So that's an option that the Supreme Court has validated, and that was a pretty important

decision. Second, we threw out an opinion talking about this quo warranto where we could potentially take some of these people that are out and take them out of office, removing from office. It's never been tried, but we think it's a possibility. As we reported yesterday, arrests likely won't work because Texas warrants can't be enforced in other states. And extradition isn't likely because Democrats fled to blue states. Right. Now, how long can we expect this to actually continue? We've seen this happen before. How did it play out in the past? Yeah, last time in 2021, Democrats stayed out of the state for six weeks to protest election reforms. Of course, their protest didn't stop anything. Democrats eventually

broke and the measure was passed after they returned. But this time around is a bit different. After the last walkout, Texas approved a $500 a day fine for lawmakers who break quorum in case it ever happened again. Well, it's happened. So in addition to the cost of staying at a state, each one of the nearly 60 rogue lawmakers will accrue huge fines as well. Even so, Republicans are pretty irritated at this, and they don't want it to become a common occurrence. So even with the fine, they still want to find a way to force these Democrats back to the legislature. Texas Senator John Cornyn has even written to the FBI for help. And Republicans insist this redistricting is necessary. as well. Here's Paxton again. We have massive population growth over the last five years. I think we've

gained several million people. We're at 31.3 or 4 million people now. Our population centers have grown. Other parts have not grown as much. And so we don't have fair representation right now because our population has changed and it's increased. And so in states like ours where things have changed so dramatically, it does make sense to redistricting. So the argument there is that so much has changed in the state, this really is merited. What about on the other side? What are Democrats saying? They're in a tough spot. This protest is highly unlikely to be anything more than symbolic. On top of that, the Democrats are also holding up legislation to help flood victims from earlier this year. But Democrats are pushing back, in some cases, pretty radically. Here's state Congresswoman

Jalonda Jones comparing Texas redistricting to the Holocaust. I would liken this to the Holocaust. People are like, well, how did the Holocaust happen? How was somebody in a position to kill all their people? Well, Good people remain silent or good people didn't realize that what happens to them can very soon happen to me or somebody I love. And Texas Democrats are getting some help from the outside as well. Other states such as California, Illinois, and New York are threatening to gerrymander their maps as well if Texas moves forward. Here's California Governor Gavin Newsom. We'll fight fire with fire.

We'll assert ourselves and we'll punch above our weight and it will have profound impacts. President Trump weighed in on those threats from Newsom and other governors on Tuesday. Well, they'll do it anyway. Is it worth it? Yeah, they'll do it anyway. Why, if we stop over there, they would have done it anyway. So we'll see if the Democrat pressure campaign will work. But some Republicans are confident that no matter what Democrats do,

the numbers just aren't on their side here. Right, they don't have much leverage to work with at this point. Tim, thanks so much for reporting. Thanks for having me on. 60% of the vans on Amazon come to vander independent, like sack magic. Hello, here, Camille, de Sac, Magic. Our compresses of hot-fraud are fabriced here

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first test before they can step foot in the state's classrooms. The new test aims to make sure teachers who move from blue states don't get the chance to indoctrinate Oklahoma kids with liberal ideologies.

Daily Wire reporter, Marita Lorty, is here with more Hey, Marad. So tell us about this new test for vetting teachers. Hi, John. Yes, so teachers who move to Oklahoma from liberal states don't just get to start teaching Oklahoma's kids anymore. Starting this school year, they will have to prove that they align with Oklahoma's curriculum standards, which don't allow indoctrination on things like transgender ideology or bashing America. We spoke to Ryan Walters. Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction about the new test. He said they took action when they saw California's radical curriculum standards, which require instruction about gender identity.

We want good teachers, but we are absolutely not going to take social justice warrior woke indoctrinators into our classrooms. So we started looking at some other states that are doing this as well. These blue states are using schools to indoctrinate our kids, and we will not tolerate those teachers coming into Oklahoma. We need to test to make sure, first of all, what's a woman? This isn't a tough question? It's not a trick question. It's a very easy question. My four-year-old can answer the question. So we've got to make sure that the teachers coming into the state, understand that, understand that there is a difference between the genders. There is a difference between its biology. It's simple. It's basic. And the second part is,

are you coming in to teach a hatred for America? We will not tolerate the anti-Semitism, the anti-Americanism that we've seen being pushed by blue states. Our parents have been crystal clear. They want their kids to get a patriotic education. They want their kids to understand how America became the greatest country in the history of the world. Besides California, Maine and New York also have left-leaning curriculum standards that Oklahoma opposes, Walter said. And by the way, Oklahoma is working with Prager You on developing the test. The two have worked together in the past to develop patriotic history curriculum content.

Right. And I should note that Prager You is an organization that Daily Wire partners with. So give us some more details about the test itself. What have you learned? Yes, well, Walters actually went into some detail about that as well. It's a written test. It's past or fail. What you're going to have to be able to identify is the biological differences between men and women. It's not overly complicated. And then an understanding of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence. I'm very similar to the civics test that we require of all teachers. And so we need reading, writing, math, history, science. Absolutely. But you know what else? We have to have an understanding. of what is America? How does America? How does the form of government work? Why did the founders set it up that way? What is American exceptionalism? What are those core fundamental principles and

values? Every teacher has to know those to teach in the state of Oklahoma, and we're going to hold the line against left-wing indoctrinators. Walters also said that not only is Oklahoma working to recruit the top 10% of teachers in the country, they're putting teachers on track for merit pay, and they now have over 1,000 teachers on track to make $100,000 for getting exceptional results. We are bringing the free market to the classroom. The free market principles work in every sector it's ever been instituted in. The teachers and the class, the teachers union, the classrooms, the education system have been socialist for decades now. We're saying no, it will be a free market environment. We value student outcomes. When kids are inspired, when they

understand the American dream, when they see it through American history, what it's done, not only what we've done for our citizens, but look at the impact we've had on the world around us. It is inspiring students. It lifts their spirits. It gives them hope. It gives them that bright future. So absolutely, we are focused on outcomes and we're focused on creating patriotic Americans. One member of Oklahoma's Board of Education criticized the test arguing that teachers' contracts already require them to align with Oklahoma's curriculum standards. But Walters thinks the precaution of a test is still necessary. Yeah, understandable given how far left some of these blue state standards are now. Mary, thanks so much for reporting.

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