#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Iran War Escalates. Robin Kelly Eyes Durbin Seat. Georgia GOP Racist Ad. Talarico Defeats Crockett

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

3.4.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Iran War Escalates. Robin Kelly Eyes Durbin Seat. Georgia GOP Racist Ad. Talarico Defeats Crockett As Operation Epic Fury enters its fourth day, tensions continue to rise in the war between Israel and Iran -- and the United States. Retired Army Lieutenant General Russel Honore and Illinois Congresswoman Robin Kelly be here to discuss this war.  Representative Kelly will also discuss her desire to replace Senator Dick Durbin.  More on blatant racism in America from MAGA Republicans. Georgia Republican State Senator Greg Dolezal is under fire for posting a racist ad.  We'll talk to the Democratic Senate Minority Leader, who called him out for his  Racist 'Sharia law' video. The city of Atlanta is being described as a tale of two cities. The Co-Founder and CEO of The Gathering Spot, Ryan Wilson, will join us to talk about why a seven-mile difference in Atlanta can mean a 20-year gap in life expectancy -- and what Atlanta's Mayor plans to do about it. Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Also, a DA race there, a big change there, a big upset there. Plus, we're talking about North Carolina, where three incumbents, two African-Americans, who often voted against Democratic governor. They lost last night as well. Plus, we'll tell you about the CBC member in North Carolina, who barely won in that case as well. So lots to break down the Tuesday night's election. A couple of weeks from now. primary in Illinois.

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I'm going to break that whole race down and cover what took place in Texas, as well as North Carolina in two weeks. voters in Illinois will go to the polls to vote in the Democratic primary who's going to replace incumbent Senator Dick Durbin who announced his retirement. One of the folks who wants that job is current congresswoman Robin Kelly. She joins us right now. Congresswoman, glad to have you on a show. Running statewide is obviously a beast. Illinois is a little bit different from any other state. There have been more black U.S. senators from Illinois than any other state. You had two elected. You've had a third with Roller Burr that was appointed.

in terms of setting you apart from the other candidates, why should Illinois voters, Democratic voters, pick you as their nominee? Well, if people check the record, there's no question. I'm the most qualified person running. I've worked on every level of government. I have worked the whole state as a party chair, as the chief of staff, to the treasurer, who's now the secretary of state, and I've done the work.

I have a proven track record of accomplishments that they don't have. Chicago obviously gets all the attention in Illinois, but there are other cities in the state as well. And so what is your priority to deal with, obviously, the two things that are dominant everywhere, that is affordability, that's gas prices, that's houses, and also economic development? Well, you know, my district is urban, suburban, and rural.

I start in the city of Chicago, go south. actually 4,500 farms in my district. So I've been dealing with the microcosm of Illinois all the time I've been in Congress. And I'm running on a platform of people over profits where finally millionaires, billionaires, and corporations pay their fair share. And once they do that, we roll back, you know, his big ugly bill with a trillion dollars of tax cuts. We can have affordable housing. We can have, you know, raise the minimum wage.

We can have health care for everyone in the richest country in history of the world. and we still don't have health care for everybody. Talk about those 4,500 farms. Donald Trump's economic policies, his tears, have been destroying farms left and right. What are they telling you? That's what they're telling me. And they started by saying we know a lot of us voted for him,

but first it started with USAID. So you being real nice because I'd be like, I'm like, hashtag, we tried to tell you. Well, no, no, no, I'd say that. You know, it started with USAID. Yeah. The dismantling, we buy the food from the farmers and we're not feeding the rest of the world or medicine. And then the tariffs killed them.

We're number one in soybeans in Illinois. China are number one customer? Not anymore. They've invested in Brazil and we'll probably never get that share back. And then what he just did was snap. If less people have vouchers or money to buy food, less people, you know, spend money in the grocery store. They hire less people. They buy less food from the farmers.

So what I tell them, we're all in this together. you might have thought he was talking about the other guy. Right. But if you're not, you know, well-off or well-connected or well-protected, he's talking about you too. Well, I'm going to say it. That's what those maggot idiots didn't understand. So they thought, oh, cutting USAID, you're hurting all the people across the world. And then they thought, oh, snap benefits, we're tired of all you broke.

They were really thinking about black people. No, I know. All y'all broke people who on welfare without understanding where are you getting the food from? and as soon as he comes in, Doge cuts, these farmers were like, oh, my God, I'm like, yeah. So when y'all were voting, and yeah, you thought, well, that's not what I voted for, that is what you voted for.

Because they said what they were going to do. That's what they thought it was going to be them, not us, but he cut homeless, veterans, he changed the age of the people eligible. So that's a lot of food that's not going to be purchased. Oh, but also all the changes in the Department of Veteran Affairs. So there's a lot of events all of a sudden who are not, getting the services they were getting before. And again, it's like, we tried

to tell you what was going to happen. Y'all didn't believe us. I know. I could say so much, I mean, so much bull that he spoke and people bought it. And even with the whole immigration thing, oh, he was just going to get rid of, you know,

the terrible people. Yeah, we see how that's working. No, absolutely. How do y'all, so listen, there's a lot of folks who are running. And for folks who don't know, so in Illinois, is it 50 plus one? No.

So whoever wins, that's who wins. So unlike Texas, where you've got to be 50 plus one. Only, as far as I know in Illinois, just the Chicago mayor's race, you have to have 50 plus one. But everything else is... Well, first of all, they changed that also because that was because of Harold Washington. They were mad that the black guy won. They were real mad lately. And Jay Byrne and Daly were running to kind of like, yeah, we got to go ahead and change those rules.

So that's what that was all about. So with that, how do you break through? And also, having a lieutenant governor in the race, African-American woman, there have some concerns there. My goodness, the black boat is huge in Illinois, especially in Chicago, Cook County. So what happens if you split? So, again, your strategy is trying to break through two weeks left. You know, I'm getting in front of as many people as I possibly can.

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I've done. I'm not new to the, right, to people. You talked about having a district that is rural, urban, and suburban. And we talk about rule, rural parts of the state. And it always happens. People think, well, you know what, if I just crush it in Chicago and Cook County, but it's sort of like saying, I'm going to break it down a little bit later, how Telerico, he won all of those those rural counties and all of those votes added up. And so how are you communicating there? Because, listen, it's not as big as Texas, but still, that's a lot of ground you've got to cover.

And part of the issue you also have to deal with is, yeah, you're the Chicago market. But when you talk about other parts of the state, you're really talking about the Missouri TV market that bleeds into the state. I have been up and down this state. And again, the way my district is, I do it as part of my daily job.

So a lot of people don't know. My entrance in Illinois was central Illinois. I lived there on and off, mostly on, for 20 years. My kids were born down there, still associate with my university. So that's all helped. But I've been all over, East St. Louis, Southern Illinois, up and down the state, and every vote counts. When you don't have the money, every single vote counts.

I'm leaving no stone unturned. Well, I always say that, I mean, look, you give a lot of money, but actually, votes always beats money. I mean, so there's a lot of people who raised a lot of, there's a lot of folks who raised money over the years who lost. Yeah. Because it's not about that. I got three panelists here.

I want them to ask a question of you, Rebecca Carruthers. She's president's CEO of the Fair Election Center out of Washington, D.C. Dr. Zachary Kurt. He is educator and content creator out of Atlanta. Wincinni Seant, co-founder of politicking Washington, D.C. Rebecca Carruthers, you get the first question. The show tonight, Congresswoman. You mentioned that, um,

With not having money that every vote counts, and I would definitely say as a voting rights leader that all votes count regardless of money. We're hearing a lot of worry across the country as folks go into this midterm election cycle, especially very worried about the Save Act, about the mega voting bill. what should voters do to prepare for the fall, regardless if the House and Senate passes new voter suppression bills? I tell everybody you can't get weary, you can't get lost in the chaos, you can't stay on the sidelines. You know, you have to make your voice heard. You have to vote. Now, as far as we know, it's not going to pass in the Senate unless they make some changes. It did, you know, pass in the House, but they don't have enough votes thus far. in the Senate and it ostracizes about 70 million women no matter who you are because if your name now

doesn't match your name when you were born, then you can't even register to vote. And then even if you get past that, you have to have more proof and you cannot use your driver's license or like in Illinois, we have the real ID. You cannot use that either. So there's a lot of people that are not for it because many people, no matter what color you are, where you live, you know, they will be a no count.

But not only that, one second record, but not only that in that bill, that bill is not just about ID as well. It also deals with turning over your voter data. Right. Yeah. To the federal government.

Right, right. Well, they're trying to do that in many ways. That bill, even I just wrote a letter to the all the tech companies because they're trying to work through that and we're letting them know, oh, you're just going to give out my information. I'm your customer without letting me know. So we're waiting to see what their responses to that.

Well, the reason I brought that up is because, again, they want to use the ID. So, oh, 80% of Americans support voter ID. Okay, that's fine. That's very broad in general. But people don't understand the details under that and also the other parts of the bill that a person say, I'm not supporting that. So, Rebecca, you got the second part? Yes, it requires a documentary proof of citizenship clause, which is either your birth certificate.

We know over 20 million Americans don't have readily access to their birth certificate or requires using a passport and over 150 Americans don't have a passport. But I wanted to follow up with my question procedurally. Could the Senate try to attach it to a funding bill like in a CR or try to insert it during a reconciliation process? I don't put anything by any of them on the other side of the aisle. They could do that. I still don't know if they would have the votes because we just know how important it is for that bill not to pass.

So they might try different gimmicks. You know, we'll see. We'll see. But right now, they don't have the votes. Zachary. Representative Kelly, it's so great to see you again. I want to take a moment. Like I'm a fan of your work.

I love what you've done. People over profits, the impeachment efforts against Christy Knoe with Operation Midway Blitz. When you become a member of the Senate representing the state of Illinois, what will you take to the Senate to make both of those two things a priority in our Senate? Well, definitely going to keep talking about in people over profits. That's just something we have to do. And, you know, we know we have to change what millionaires, billionaires, and corporations are getting away with. There's corporations that are paying no taxes.

And then there's the loophole. So we'll definitely pay attention every day to affordability and accountability. And with Christy Nome, we're looking right now either fire her, she quits, or we're going to start the investigation. And, you know, we're still going back and forth about the DHS bill and what they'll agree to. And part of what we're asking is that she, you know, loses her job one way or another. And we're prepared to move if it's not she quits or he fires her. Winconi.

Congresswoman Kelly, you've been a national voice on gun violence prevention. What federal policies do you believe are most achievable for the next Congress? Well, we still didn't even have background checks. And Rep Clyburn still is pushing for the Charleston closing the Charleston loopholes, as we call it. You know, you have to have a background check in a brick-of-mortar store. But after three days, if it comes back, if it doesn't come back definitively, no, they can sell you the gun. And we see what happened. They sold the guy the gun.

When it was too late, they said, don't sell him the gun, but nine people were dead. So doing that also safe storage, eight kids a day died because a parent or guardian or someone in a household has not locked up their gun. And eight kids a day die from that. And that is something very, very preventable. And then funding, you know, he took a lot of funding back. He clawed back for gun violence prevention programs and programs that are proven effective, you know, if you're closest to the problem, you're closest to the solution. So the people on the streets doing something about gun violence.

Last question for you. There's somebody who's watching, somebody who's listening, they say, you know what? It's voting stuff, don't matter. It means nothing to be. It has no bearing on my life. What do you say to them? Are you kidding? I mean, do you see what's happening now?

People have lost their jobs. They're paying out of the wazoo just to go food, shopping, the health care. if this big ugly bill goes into full effect after November 2026, millions upon millions upon millions of people will lose their health care. Hospitals will close. Nursing homes will close. Federal qualified health care centers will close. And it doesn't matter if you're on Medicaid or not.

If your hospital closes, your hospital closes. Nine are scheduled will close, predicted to close in Illinois, 33 in the state of Louisiana, with Steve Scalise and Speaker Johnson live. So your life, as you know it now, will not get better. It will get worse and people will die. This actually was another topic, which will be the last question. Just your thoughts on what the heck is happening, the United States involvement with Israel in attacking Iran,

this war that we're in the middle of. Oh, that the President of the President of Peace said we wouldn't be involved in any wars. Horrific. You know, we didn't know anything about it. and we'll be voting this week on the War Powers Act, and why did we get in? Did we tell Israel or did Israel tell us? They seem like they can't make up their mind about it.

So, you know, my heart goes out to the sick service people that have died. Their families are worried. Our colleagues that have bases in their district are saying that people are calling them and saying, you know, what the hell? You know, what is going on? because no one seems to know. And so it's terrible. Once again, he has us, you know, he's trying to take over the world, you know.

Iran, Greenland, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba. Yeah, Cuba. Yeah, he said that. I know. And then, of course, the strikes in Ecuador. Right. It never ends with the king. Never ends.

Or the dictator. All right, then. Carnigwin, Robin Kelly. We appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thank you. All right. Hold that one second.

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living in. Join the conversation only on the Black Star Network. My name is Bill Duke and you're watching Roland Hart unfiltered. Folks, this war that's taking place with Iran, it continues. We're on day four and it's intensifying and what's crazy as this administration keeps giving us all of these different reasons to what the hell is going on. As Congresswoman Robin Kelly said, a resolution that calls for congressional approval, military action against Iran. It, of course, was dealt with the United States Senate. The Democratic-led Iran-war powers resolution was introduced by Senators Tim Kane and Adam Schiff. It would direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Iran that Congress is not authorized.

Earlier today, Defense Secretary Pete Hegg said that a U.S. Navy submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters. In fact, last night, we sunk their prize ship. The Soleimani looks like Potus got him twice. Their Navy, not a factor. Pick your adjective, it is no more. In fact, yesterday in the Indian Ocean, and we'll play it on the screen there, an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo.

quiet death. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II. Like in that war, back when we were still the war department, we are fighting to win. This idiot really thinks this is a game. Folks, this took place at Capitol Hill today where former Marine Sergeant Brian McGinnis stood up during a hearing to say what millions of Americans are thinking before he was dragged out and his arm was broken. What's the fuck? Palestine from the halls of Manizupah to the shores of Tripoli. Palestine will be free.

My God, they broke his arm. Oh, man. We just witnessed a Marine veteran interrupting the hearing, and they broke his arm. Why did he interfere? Because there is a war in Iran, and our military brothers and sisters are going to die for Israel, and we are here to say no, we do not support Israel.

We do not want to die for Israel. Stop the war. And what did they do to him? They pulled him out, got his arm trapped in a door, broke his arm, like, tackled him to the ground. It was a very, very intense situation. Please stand up as a Marine. Stand up for America. America does not want to fight this war in Iran and the soldiers don't.

right Brian? No, they don't. Let's go behind there. Don't send their sons and daughters to fight in Iran. We're fighting for our edge. I want to go to $5m. Out! No one! Everybody sit down, please.

Everybody sit down, please. Everybody sit down, please. Everybody sit down, please. That's fine. Everybody sit down, please. Is your hand up? No, it's not. This is disgusting.

Disgusting. Folks, that war powers resolution in the United States Senate did not pass. Pass. Joining us right now, we're talented General Russell Honor. Ray, uh, joining us from his home in Louisiana. General, first and foremost, um, just your assessment thus far of what has taken place over the last four days. Well, let's start it out as the next Monday. Our 2026 I-Hard podcast awards are happening live at South by Southwest. This is the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year and celebrate the most innovative talent and

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the Iranians, Iraq-Iran war, the Iranians pushed the IEDs and that killed a main, a lot of Americans, and there was marine bombings. I mean, it goes on and on this long legacy. of our hostile relationship with Iran. And then in recent months, Prime Minister Netanyahu has been pushing for this for the last decade, going back to the Obama administration. Actually, last 30 years.

CNN had a video of him going back to 1996. Yeah, it's, yeah. Thanks for the day correction. So this has been an ongoing, attempt and consideration of many of presidents. But if it wouldn't easy, it'd been done already. That's a country of 90 million people that is hard to get to. And the way we've done it is through airpower and naval forces,

which have the capability to maneuver in there. But at the beginning of this war, our regional partners stood back, from the Saudis to the Emirates to Dubai, Turkey, all of our allies in the region, said, we're not going to participate in this one. But once the war started, the devastating attacks from the Israeli and the United States Central Command,

unlike the 12-day war response, the Iranian, to use a word from the great Muhammad Ali, Polaropadoop, as opposed to showing all their missiles toward Israel, they made this a regional war, as you described earlier, bringing in other nations by attacking U.S. forces and capabilities inside regional partners from Saudi Arabia oil production to the LNG production in the Emirates. They have made this now regional to include a potential attack on Turkey, which the successful will turn back, with air power and missiles to destroy that missile from Iran going toward Turkey to make

this then a NATO operation. So that rope and dope, meaning back up, move around and attack in a different direction, unexpected direction. I think it's somewhat surprised our war department. And we want to see how soldiers, sailors, air, and the Marine get the job done as assigned by the president. But I think the plan that they went into has taken a setback as a result of the Iranians attacking neighboring countries making this a regional thing. So they plan, again, quoting another box, you're playing work until you get hit in the face.

And they're having to adjust now. Now they have degraded the heck out of the Iranian forces and taken out the cleric. leadership. But this isn't over yet. And my recommendation to the administration has been, it's time to declare victory and get interminaries to start talking now about a ceasefire because further destruction of Iran is not going to help the people of Iran. Well, absolutely. And the thing here, right, all the different reasons, all the back and forth, it's crazy. They can't sell it on one, which tells you they don't even have a real reason. to do so.

And the other thing is this here, and this is very difficult folks have to understand. And that is when you're talking about, when you begin to use the United States military, the U.S. military serves, frankly, a single force, a single reason. When you unleash it, it's about killing. It is a killing machine. It is not about, you know, you know, peaches and cream

and dropping rose petals. That ain't what it is. And the problem here is, and this is why I tell people, this is not excusing or anything, we understand Iran when it comes to the issue of terrorism. We absolutely understand that. But we also have to recognize is that there are a number of countries that deal with terrorism. And you have to make judgments because if you say, well, I'm going to take you out for this reason, well, when you pull that thread, that thread begins to unravel,

and the implications now hit three, four, five, eight, ten countries. And so we now see the Strait of Harmoots. We now see with them hitting the Dubai airport and all the traffic that comes through there and the grounding of flights, everything coming to a standstill, hitting luxury hotels. And I saw Trump complaining by saying, well, you know, we're hitting military targets

and they're hitting luxury hotels. Well, they're hitting those hotels for a reason because what they're doing is they're trying to wipe out the tourism industry for many of those countries that are going to lead to massive, massive losses. And so when you attack a country and then to say, well, like, so what is it? Regime change?

Well, who's there? Well, it might be like Venezuela. Well, okay, but Iran ain't Venezuela. Iran is also a bigger country than Iraq was. And so when you make a, frankly, a one-dimensional decision and you don't consider all the facets, then we're getting ourselves into a bigger mess than just striking the Ayatollah.

Absolutely. That's why I thought the Senate could have done a better spent time that they needed to get people on the record for voting for against the war revolution. But they should spend more time on starting the language of seeking a ceasefire, just more death and destruction. We've proven before, we'll just look at Gaza.

We bombed Gaza until in the rubble. I'm about to do the same thing in Lebanon with Israelis going after the Hezbollah. It's time to stop the bombing and the killing because it's not ensuring peace. We're creating two more generations of people that's going to be mindful of the fact that we destroyed their country

and destroyed thousands of people that dead. That killing, we can't kill our way out of this war. We need a political solution that allows an opportunity for the people of Iran to rise up at their proper time that they choose. But with 90 million people under the guns of Israeli and American guns, this is not sustainable war. and we're doing it with a naval fleet with very little capacity on ground because the Europeans didn't play with us this time. They decided to stay out of this war. And they are very critical to our logistic capacity and our overflight rights that we need to be able to get into the theater. So it's time to end this war within the next 72 hours.

And I hope there's some reasoning come from somebody like Macron or the Pope or the international community. that start calling into the White House to end this war and declare victory and get the hell out of there because we don't have the capacity now to occupy Iran. Last point here, we discussed this on yesterday. Iran has 50, 60, some, or 40,000 drones. In many ways, they could treat America like the Vietnamese did, and that is use unpredictable tactics.

And when Donald Trump says, well, you know, we can go four or five weeks, we start talking about the U.S. military, the price begins to add up. When you have folks in the Pentagon talking about, well, do we have the munitions to support this as well? All of that is real. And so that's the thing that people are not understanding. You know, we go back to Donald Rumsfeld. We love this whole, oh, we can go in quick and easy, get it done. few days, and then we're out.

No, that never... You can't show me where that actually happened, where we actually did a little war, and yeah, it lasted four or five days a week or two weeks, and then we were able to get out. No, it doesn't exist. Yeah, and you know what we're talking about now, escorting ships through the strait of...

That is a high-risk operation. And the last time we did this, the Iranians didn't have all those drones and ballistic missiles. This is going to be a different operation than the last time we did it. While the Navy has a lot of self-defense capacity on the ships, you do anything enough, you're going to have a failure. And this would be across the red line to God knows what this administration would do if we lose a carrier or a couple frigates in the streets of Al-Moos,

escorting oil. oil for the rest of the world, not necessarily all for America, but oil for the rest of the world as we are escorted oil for China, natural gas for Japan, and oil for India. Because 20% or 25% of the world all go through that street, and it's only 20 miles wide.

Dojahee drones would be very, could be very effective again, our ships. So that's a high risk operation, and I hope the chairman and joint chiefs is, again, as opposed to making jokes about lasers and the cruel language used by the secretary get calmed down, and the Pentagon professional staff can talk to them about the risk of trying to escort ships through the strait with the current technology that Iran has. Well, it's called having some grown-ups in charge.

And unfortunately, we know what we're dealing with when it comes to Pete Head. access at the Pentagon, which is the Department of Defense, not the War Department. Absolutely. All right. General Aramay, we appreciate the brand. Thanks a lot. God bless our troops. God bless America. Let's do the right thing. We need a ceasefire. And I hope our legislators pick up on that and they start talking about ceasefire. Indeed, indeed. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. Folks, I'm going to go to a break. We come back. boy, Tennessee.

They want a Charlie Kirk day. Really? Black lawmakers are like, yeah, we're going to let y'all know how we feel about that. We're going to play that for you next also. Top of the hour, I'm going to break down yesterday's election results in Texas and North Carolina.

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leader of Turning Point, USA, who was shot and killed in Utah. Well, Republican Gino Bullso who was supporting the bill, engaged in a heated debate with Democrats, Vincent Dixie, and Justin Jones. They argue that

passing this bill would be an absolute embarrassment to Tennessee. Watch this. This is a bill that would designate September 10 on our state calendar as Charlie Kirk Day. As all of you know, Charlie Kirk was tragically assassinated on September 10 of last year, 2025 doing what he became so famous for doing, which was engaging young people on college campuses in civil discourse about issues of politics and current affairs. He's someone who I think is a luminary, not just for young folks, but for all of us in public life. And with that, Mr. Chairman, I stand ready for questions. Members, are there any further questions for their sponsor?

Mr. Dixie? Thank you. I feel that this is an opportunity for us to get this right and maybe have a conversation. This person was not a luminary. He was very divisive. And he was, if I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure he said that if he saw a black pilot on a plane, he would wonder if they were qualified. And I don't understand why we would be honoring a person that thought a segment of people were beneath him or not as equal. And, you know, we in this body, we get so upset when we call people white nationalists or racist. But we honor. racist people and we do racist things. So I would suggest that we take this bill off notice

and I would like to motion that we send this bill to the table. So we have a motion and a second, but we also have an objection. So we will vote on the motion. A vote of I will be to send the bill to the table. A vote of nay will be to send the bill to the table. A vote of nay will be to continue with the bill here today. Clerk, would you bring up the vote?

Clerk, would you read the vote? Mr. Chair, you have three eyes and six nays. Motion fails. Representative Dixote, you have something else. All right, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your leniency on this as well. This is something that I can't understand why we're even contemplating this. This guy did nothing special.

He was very divisive. He was a racist and we're going to sit here and we're going to take our time to honor a racist in the state of Tennessee. We just had someone die that was a very powerful person in the state of Tennessee, not not a state of Tennessee,

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Thank you, Mr. Dixie, and I'll give Mr. Bulsow an opportunity to reply. Thank you, Chairman Fritz, and thank you, Representative Dixie, for your comments. I mean, I'll simply point out that I think Charlie Kirk is someone who is the opposite of what I would consider to be a divisive figure, because he was someone who encouraged robust civil debate among those who had contrary opinions. And I certainly would disagree with the characterization of Charlie Kirk as a racist because one thing that you always saw with Charlie Kirk, especially when he was engaged with young people in debates, is to avoid personalities, to avoid personal attacks, to avoid ad hominem attacks, not to debate personalities. but rather to debate ideas. And he was obviously someone who, I think, politically speaking, was on the conservative side of the ledger.

And he was very powerful in articulating and defending and supporting conservative values and ideas. But that, to me, is the kind of example we'd want to hold up to our young people, a young man who gave his life for his country and who didn't back down from any type of debate, but was able to do it in a constructive civil manner, which is, I think, an example to all of us.

Thank you, Chairman. So Representative Jones, you're next. Thank you. Representative Fritz, honestly, just deeply disturbed by this resolution. If I read it correctly, it says that whereas God did send Charlie, who became the preeminent voice of a generation, inspiring millions of young Americans to engage in civic discourse and reclaim the foundational values of faith, liberty,

limited government, and individual responsibility. And I have this, because I'm trying to figure out where in this bill it makes sense. It takes a certain amount of theological gymnastics to claim that this man was a representation of Christian faith. And if you don't mind, Representative Bulls, I'm going to read a few statements. And if you could just say yes or no, if you believe this represents the Christian faith and something that we should commend as a state. This is from Charlie Kirk. Kirk claimed that passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a huge mistake and that has now become an anti-white weapon.

Do you believe that this represents our faith or something we should commend in the state of Tennessee? Chairman Bolsa, would you like to respond? Thank you, Chairman Fritz. I'll wait until the representative finishes his litany of questions, and I'll respond to them all at the same time. Thank you, Chairman. Thank you. I'll continue.

On January 3, 2024, an episode of his show, Charlie Kirk continued his incessant verbal assault and a woman of color saying, quote, if I'm dealing with somebody in customer service who's a moronic black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence or is she there because of affirmative action? Do you believe that's a representation of our faith?

During April 5th, 2023 appearance at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church, Charlie Kirk said, quote, it's worth it to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is the prudent deal. Do you believe that is the representation of a faith that teaches us, blessed are the peacemakers for they should be called the children of God? I'll continue.

Charlie Kirk decried what he described as the myth of Martin Luther King, Jr., calling him in an, quote, awful. and quote, not a good person. Another time declaring him a, quote, serial adulterer, an alleged rapist, a reparations proponent, and a race Marxist, do you believe that's a representation of our faith and something we should commend in the state of Tennessee?

Finally, in a 2024 episode of his show, Kirk quoted Leviticus Passes calling for gay people to be stoned to death, referring to it as God's perfect law and called for a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. Do you believe that's a representation of Christian faith in which Jesus said,

you who are without sin cast the first stone. Do you believe that's a representation of something we should commend to this state? I think what we're doing here is theological malpractice, it's immoral, and it's a disgrace at the highest level of our state government. It is unfortunate that Charlie Kirk was killed.

I'm someone who will continue to advocate against gun violence against all people, but what we cannot do is try and make him into some type of Christian martyr when his life went counter to everything that our faith in our state should stand for. He is one of the most despicable humans to grace this nation

and of all the people we can command with the day in Tennessee. Representative Jones, if I could please, much leeway, because I believe in civil debate here. But let's cut short on demeaning their family members perhaps listen to this. So exercise some Christian compassion, please. Get your point across without being so detrimental

toward a deceased person, I would ask. I hear you, Mr. Chair, and I just ask that we have that same type of standard for Charlie Kirk, who went after a school shooting happened. He said, well, that's the cost of the Second Amendment, who denigrated a dead man named Martha Luther King Jr. and called him a serial adulterer and attacked him, even though he was someone who was dead. If we're going to set that standard for members of this committee and saying that we have to honor Charlie Kirk, let's set the same standard for the way that he lived his life, which was denigrating people and being down on people and not representing our faith.

And, of course, the committee passed it and is going to move on. It's such a joke, Rebecca, how these white nationalists want to turn Charlie Kirk into this martyr. And, oh, he engaged in civil debate with college students. I mean, cut the crap. He was a 30-something-year-old man arguing with 18-19-year-old kids. That takes a lot of guts. That's a profile and courage. I mean, they might want to tap in Candace Owens.

She's right up the street in Nashville and see what she thinks about this. She would probably ask that committee if they would do an investigation on who killed Charlie Kirk. At least that's been, you know, her focus over the last few months with her and the Scooby-Doo mystery machine that she's been working on. So, you know, I appreciate Representative Justin Jones because I thought he had very thoughtful questions. I understand the passion and Representative Dixie. But when you are going back and forth with people who support a white supremacist, white Christian nationalism, just saying, oh, this is bad, this is a racist, they don't care. That's the point. They know they're racist.

They just don't want you to call it out and say that they're racist. At some point, the only way for Tennessee to change, especially in Tennessee's legislative, House, the only way for it to change is voters in Tennessee have to, they're going to have to register people to vote. They're going to actually have to do turnout. And I know there's a lot of barriers in Tennessee that makes it harder for especially black Americans in Tennessee to actually be able to vote. But it's ridiculous, the dribble and garbage that we've been seeing in that legislature.

They just do a bunch of non-sysical stuff and then to even fake Christian sympathy or Christian grace and say, oh, don't speak ill of the dead. Are you serious? And then my final thing is, what connection does Charlie have to the state of Tennessee? He wasn't born there.

He didn't live there. So why is it Tennessee's business and whether or not there is a Charlie Kirk day there? Yeah, absolutely. Zachary? Representative Bolso, okay, Representative Bolso and all of his conservative counterparts are the brethren, are the children, are the offspring of Nathan Bedford Forrest,

another Tennysonian who these people probably idolized and want to uplift and honor in the same way they're trying to honor the fellow offspring of this man in Charlie Kirk and the rhetoric that he spewed and the hatred that he spread towards so many different marginalized groups in America. And I completely echo the sentiments of Representative Justin as well in terms of saying the violence that this man face in no way is justified, it's inexcusable, it's heartbreaking on so many levels. But to say that he sacrificed his life for America and that he should be honored by a day is a slap in the face to every single American citizen living in the state of Tennessee. It is outrage, outrageous that we're seeing Republicans across the country using this man's death as a platform or as an opportunity to elevate white Christian nationalism and the thinking that this man spread around the country so that they can indoctrinate our children in schools and by making holidays. It is, it is, it causes for me extreme, extreme outrage.

Thankful to those brothers and the work they're doing in Tennessee, but it's exactly as Rebecca says, we have got to motivate our black brothers in Tennessee and sisters in Tennessee to get up and vote every single time. And it is hard. It's not, it's difficult. I live in Georgia. It's not easy here either.

I'm from Mississippi. That's my whole, my native land. Not easy there either. But that is the only way that we are going to stop the foolishness that's coming out of that specific. state and their legislation. That's the only way. We've got to vote these people out of office and vote in people who are going to be good stewards of democracy. When, Connie? Representative Balsow is just that. He's full of bull. He's full of bullshit. So the name holds

correctly. I think what's even more disgusting is that Tennessee is not the only state that's doing this. My hometown of Florida, my home state of Florida, excuse me, also passed the bill honoring Charlie Clark. And so I'm really, I'm really concerned. concerned about how the South is acting, but I'm not surprised. And these are the very states that we have to pay attention to in these 2026 midterms. These are folks that, again, are resting on this white evangelical white supremacy that they are, you know, placating black people like Representative Jones by saying, hey, let's try to put some respect on the name of the dead. But as the previous representative mentioned, nobody said anything about Jesse Jackson. Nobody says anything about the people in Tennessee that are slain at the hands of racism.

And so the bigotry doesn't stop. It's not relegated to Tennessee either. And they didn't want to stop just at giving Charlie Kirk a day. They also wanted to create a bill that would require every public university to build him a memorial plaza, which would cost $18 million from Tennessee taxpayers. I'm glad that that bill was actually halted. But unfortunately, Charlie Kirk Day prevails in Tennessee, as it prevails in Florida. I wonder how many more states will see that will follow that charge.

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All right, a lot of folks today. are upset because of what happened last night in Texas, loud of black votes. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett was running for a Texas Democratic nomination for the United States Senate against Texas State Senator James Tala Rico. Those two, there was a third can in the race that really was between these two. And here the election results right here. This is what it came down to. Tala Rico getting 52% of the vote.

97.4% of the vote is in. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett getting 46% of the vote. and so some ballot still have to be counted. And I've been watching all the different commentary. I've been watching people say, oh, my God, this was awful. This was about, you know, white and Latino voters, locking out black voters and all of that. You're wrong. Let me say it again.

You're wrong. Listen, folks, I'm born and raised in Texas. I was watching this race from the beginning. I was looking at every single facet of this particular race. And here's the reality. If you look at the numbers and you're trying to win, understand overall the state of Texas. 60% of Texas is minority. That's Latino, that's African American, that's Asian American, as Native American.

Yet in elections, 60% of the voters are white. Texas has the most eligible black voters of any state in the country. Yet when Colin Allred ran against Ted Cruz, 1.2 million black folks did not vote. Let me say it again. 1.2 million did not vote. And so if you want to understand what was going on, you have to understand what were the strategies of both candidates.

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett made it perfectly clear. She was going to be unconventional. She was going to be putting money on television. She talked about a ground game. She really was locking up trying to focus on the largest counties in Texas. Now, the five largest counties in Texas, they are. Dallas, you got Harris County, where Houston is. You got Dallas County, Dallas is.

Bayer County, San Antonio, Travis County, Austin, and then you have Terran County where Fort Worth is. Four of those five are Blue Counties, okay? Doesn't matter in primaries, though. But Terrant County is the only Red County. Here's the problem, and what did I say? I had the Texas Department, I had the chair of the Texas Department. Democratic Party on this show on Monday. I discussed this last week as well when I was in

Los Angeles for the Image Awards. What did I tell y'all then that in order to win the Democratic primary, you have to do the exact same strategy as Republicans in the general election. That if you only look at the most populous counties and you do not do well in the other parts of the state, you're not going to win. Go to my iPad, Elise. This right here is from the Texas Tribune. This is their breakdown of... Next Monday, our 2026 IHeart Podcast Awards are happening live at South by Southwest.

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really makes it rise to the top. Listen to math and magic, stories from the frontiers in marketing, starting March 19th on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. The map. Look at the map, y'all. You see blue? The blue here, that's all Congresswoman Jasmine and Crockett.

The yellow you see right here are the counties that they have still yet to collect the votes from. The green, that's Tala Rico. What did I say? Now, what I also said was the issue was the margins. When Republicans beat Democrats, they win all of these states that are in central, south, west, and the panhandle because they rack up margins. All those votes add up. And so if you look at, so let's say, let's take what happens, okay? Most of the votes in Texas right here, in the blue, where African Americans are.

This right here, I'm going to show you, this is a map of the New York Times. second. I said, I'm going to pull this up. This is from the New York Times. The New York Times map right here. It shows counties with more Hispanic voters. That's in the teal. The county, of course, where you

see the sort of the purple so that's the areas with black voters, then Crockett. Y'all, the numbers are the numbers. So you see this portion right here, these where all the black voters are in the state. You ain't got black folks who are west. So, you also got to win.

that low. So what a Tel-Rico did? He won these areas here, Latino votes. Down here in South Texas, right down here in South Texas, he won those places. The key is, what were the margins in those places? All right? Now, again, it comes down to math. It's not a question of, well, it's math, but also what kind of campaign that you run? So let me go back to this map right here. Okay, so let me pull this up. So I'm looking right here. Dallas County. You see this right here? Dallas County, the home county of Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. She got 163,379 votes at 58.9%. Tala Rico got 110,577. 39.9%. Y'all, she has no shot at winning if she does not hit 70% in her home county. Now, some of you are saying, well, the voter suppression and the Republicans, because you couldn't vote countywide in your precinct. You're right.

But guess what? It's the job of the Democratic Party and the candidates to tell folks how they must vote. I spoke at the MOK, the city of Dallas MOK program on June, on January 17th at Friendship West Baptist Church, they had an MOK teach in, and they were talking about the election. Do you know what they said? They said then, early voting, you got to vote countywide. but on election day, you got to vote in your precinct. So if I was the Crockett campaign,

I should have been going hard telling people you gotta vote early as opposed to waiting on election day. That was a huge mistake, and I gotta be honest, y'all, on election day, it's a perfect example. There was a brother, he's an alpha named Andre Turner. He was running for a Justice of the Peace position. Yesterday, I got five text messages. I'm still registered there in Dallas County.

I got five text messages from his campaign about election day. I got zero yesterday from the Crockett campaign. I want you to think about that. I got zero. And so the reality is if I had to examine both campaigns, one of them had a campaign. Tela RICO had 30,000 volunteers, 30,000 volunteers. How many volunteers with the Crockett campaign? Let's talk about Harris County, okay, where Houston is.

All right. Let's look at numbers right there. Huge, huge numbers of black voters in Harris County. Look at the numbers. Jasmine Crockett did 52.2 percent, Tala Rico, 46.7. Yo, if that margin, that margin has to be at least 60 percent for her to make up losing in the other areas. Now, if I all of a sudden decided to go down.

down south, look at these numbers right here, okay? This county right here, Telarico, 5441. This county right here, 59, 33. This county right here, 52. Let's go all the way out west, right here. Look at this, Telarico, 68, 30. Let's go right here, Telarico, 5641. Let's go right here, Telarico, 62, 33.

I can go here, okay, close to one, 51-44. The point I'm making is when you lose all of these counties in the rest of the state, you're not going to win the election because all of those votes matter. She's down 154,000 votes in the state. She's down 154,000. You cannot lose with that particular margin. So now what folks should be asking is, what were the difference between the two campaigns?

What was the infrastructure? What were they doing? What was the GOTV efforts? Did you see signs and posters? What did you see? What was the investment? What was going on? Chuck Roca, Democratic consultant,

who was with the Telarico campaign, dropped this video, listen to what he said, what their strategy was. Good morning, everybody. What a crazy election night. You know, I've been in war rooms for 30 years on election night.

Watching results came in, and last night was another crazy one. Before I head to the airport to get back to D.C., I need to tell you how this happened. It starts with the candidate. James Tala Rico is a special candidate, and I take nothing away from Jasmine Crockett, who ran an incredible race, you know, hat tip to her and her team.

Hat tip to her and her team this morning. I love to see the unity and her coming together. We're going to win in November. We're going to beat the Republicans. But James Tolariko ran the right kind of race at the right time. He also had an amazing staff. Seth, his manager, assembled a great crew, and they did an outstanding job.

Gina Hennahosa, that's the Tala Rico, Gina Hennahosa, and JT on the press team. That whole crew just worked day and night, and me getting to spend some time with them and see the energy on the ground really makes a difference. But how did he win? He won because he showed up in communities. He ran advertising in those communities. He had an amazing field team with 28,000 volunteers, over 600 community events in just eight weeks. They sent over 4 million peer-to-peer textageers like grassroots organizing combined with.

Paid advertising in digital, TV, radio, around sporting events, and a robust Latino advertising campaign in Spanish, in English. But a lot of Spanish advertising, a lot of advertising in the Valley. I'm going to write more about this later, but there's a reason why James won last night, because he had the full effect of a great team, a great message. He's a great candidate, and he assembled the right folks to actually get it done. There's going to be a lot written about the Latino vote

and the strength of the Latino vote, and are Latinos moving back to the left? Well, last night, prove one thing for damn sure. They will move back for James Talleyico if you show up and give them a hopeful message. I'll talk to y'all in a little bit. I'm going to go get on an airplane. I love you all.

Thank you for all the love and all the text and all the things this morning. I'm super excited. Gosh, damn, it never gets owed. Y'all be good. The mistake that we are making, and I'm seeing people talk about, oh, Latinos and white voters,

they're locking out black voters. Y'all, it's the primary. The reality is, if you're running a campaign and you're trying to win, you've got to go where the votes are and who are you going to appeal to? Polling showed Crockett with an 8610 when it comes to black voters. Remember the Mamdani race? Remember people like, why is the mom donnie going after black voters in the primary?

Because his whole deal was, well, they were four or five black candidates who are running for New York City mayor. His whole deal was, I'm going to go after these voters here in order to win. So I'm going to go to the general, not going to appeal to all voters. And I'm telling you right now, when I looked at this here, this is what I was looking at. I was looking at who was investing in, who was investing in Black on media, what was on the ground game. I was calling home. I was going home.

And you know what I was doing? I was going to Black neighborhoods. You know what I was looking for? Yard signs. I was looking for posters. I was talking to folks saying, what mailers are you getting? What doork knocks are you getting? How many times are you being visited?

How many text messages you're getting? And here's the reality. Tallarico, they were doing that. And I know it's hard folks to deal with. And listen, I live in Congresswoman Crockett's district. I vote of a Congresswoman Crockett. In terms of she's run a couple of times. But elections are not just about a candidate.

Elections are not just about name ID. Elections are not just about money. It's also about infrastructure. And if you do not put the infrastructure in place, You're not going to win the primary. You can't be focusing on the general if you don't focus on the primary. Now, it was a whole lot going back and forth

on social media between white supporters of Tala Rico, black supporters of Crockett, black supporters of Tala Rico, white supporters of Crockett, Latino as well. But elections, again, are about how do you target your base voter? It's not just in this race. I can go back, same thing.

If I look at 2018, you had a black state senator, Royce West, Dallas County, who was running against a woman who ran for Congress in Austin area. He lost 52 to 48. Guess what? When I pulled the data, he won 60% of his home county, Dallas County. Wasn't going to cut it. He only won Harris County by about three points. Wasn't it going to cut it. If you have a big county strategy that's only five.

big counties in Texas, it's still 249 other counties. That's how Tala Rico was able to win last night, folks. It's the numbers, it's the data, it's also the infrastructure. That's what happened last night. Now, let me do this here. Let's go to some other races that we saw last night. You've got a runoff happening in Texas. for the race for the congressional seat in Houston. You got Menifee versus Al Green. Neither one of them received. Give me one second. Let me go down to that race.

Neither one of them got to 50 plus 1%. And so now they're going to go to a runoff. Now, it was interesting, and has the people hit me, and they were like, well, man, I don't understand. Here you've got Congressman Al Green, you know, very well known. First of all, before I go to that, here in District 29, You had incumbent Sylvia Garcia Latino, who's running against Jarvis Johnson, former black state rep. She wins, holds that 5835.

Now, the seat that Congresswoman Crockett, not necessarily her old seat because the map changed, but in that particular race, Pastor Frederick Douglass Haynes, the third, he wins last night, 72.6 percent against Barbara Mallory Careway. She's run a whole lot, even when Eddie Brie Johnson was there. he wins that. But if I go to Houston, give me one second. Oh, let me stay there in the Dallas area. Colin Alred, who wanted his old seat back.

Colin Alred gets 44% of the vote against incumbent Julie Johnson, 33%. They now go to a runoff in that particular race as well. And let me see here. Give me a second. I'm trying to must have passed it up. I'm going to go to the Houston race. where are we not that one

again it's going to be Meneffey and Al Green in that particular race and here's the problem in that particular race there because people were hitting me up last night hey Christian Menefi he gets 46% to come in Al Green's 44% Amanda Edwards

who actually because you got to remember that was it was very weird because you had to file by a certain day especially election for the old 30th was in January, but you had to file for the 18th by December 8th. So Amanda Edwards lost to Christian Menofee in the special election. She announced that she was dropping out of the district 18 race, but she still got 7,300 votes. And so now, people were

hitting me up saying, I don't understand, my goodness, Al Green's been up for a very long time. But here's the piece. Christian Menofi has literally been running for 14 months. He announced early last year. Of course, Governor Greg Abbott delayed that race until, what was it, December. So he was running all year, special election was actually in January. Then runoff was in January. Then you have this race. So he's been on the ground, airways for that time. So we'll see what now happens in the general election or the runoff election between Minifax. and Al Green, whether or not Green will be beaten. And remember, Menifee is filling the old seat.

Senator Congressman Sylvester Turner died. He replaced Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee. So he's feeling that old seat, but he was running against Green for the new seat. So that's what happened there in Texas. We're going to talk about North Carolina in just a moment. But I want to go to my panel here to get their thoughts. also. There was another also out of Dallas. Amber Green, she stepped down

as a judge. She was being targeted. They had some allegations of misconduct. That didn't matter. She beat longtime district attorney and former judge John Cruzzo, Democratic nomination for a district attorney there in Dallas. She's up three points. Still some ballots to account, but Green is leading in that race as well. So a whole lot that was

happening in Texas last night. Let's go to our panel. to get their thoughts. When Cooney, I'll start with you, just your assessment of this Crockett-Taleroico campaign. Well, it was clearly a lot going on, like you said, but I think when people say the real difference between Crock and Tala Rico was largely stylistic, a lot of the things and legislation and campaign that they ran on was largely similar. The only difference is, you know, Tilarico was running as a white evangelical.

Jasmine Crockett was obviously running as herself as a black woman. I think you said something poignant, though, Roland, in terms of who was investing in minority-owned media, black-owned media, but also what the campaign strategist said, who was investing in Latin-owned media? It was James Talaureka. When you look at what the United States Census Bureau estimates, 40 percent of Texas' population is Latino. So it makes perfect sense to me that those who captured the Latino vote were those who were the winners, which was James Talarico last night. It also makes sense to me that you can't simply focus on the five largest metropoles in Texas and think that you're going to get the entire state.

Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States, and that's the very reason why the margins are so very important. I think what it boils down to is performance across the state, electoral dynamics and messaging, and the different controversies, nobody really has talked about the fact that there was a lot of legal and procedural issues that happened in Dallas County, in terms of how they changed where people had to vote in terms of they couldn't vote at any available precinct. They had to vote at their home precinct. And a lot of people didn't necessarily know where their home precincts were.

But let's stop right there. Let's stop right there. That was well known. So here's the question. I've got to put it out there. If that's the case, then whose job is it to tell people? You're right. You're absolutely right.

It's the candidate's job. to tell people. And I also, I want people to understand something. There are 254 counties in Texas. That only happened in two. Dallas County and Williamson County. That was the only two. So it wasn't like it was all across the state.

And again, as somebody who was there in January, they were telling people then. This is one of those things that if you knew that was going to be the case, then there should have been a massive effort to educate, let folks know, texting, robocalls, all that stuff, and here's the other thing. Push folks to vote early. Because you knew that was going to be election day drama. Finish your point.

No, you're absolutely right, Roland. I think that responsibility falls on the shoulders of the candidates. And unfortunately, like you said, one candidate was simply out messaging the other candidate. And in these elections, that's exactly how people win. Zachary. Rolling. now let me tell you you're not going to get me on this show and then get me canceled by all of black America

no this is not by getting canceled it's called being truthful let me let me be serious for a moment because this is really why you are the voice of black America and you're coming to us at a time when emotions are high and raw and we all feel you know very disappointed and let down but there are facts to this situation

that you have spoken that I actually realized a long time ago as I watched this campaign unfold. I am a huge fan and supporter. Next Monday, our 2026 IHeart Podcast Awards are happening live at South by Southwest. It's the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year and celebrate the most innovative talent and creators in the industry. And the winner is creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display. Thank you so much. Iheart Radio. Thank you to all the other nominees. You guys are awesome.

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really makes it rise to the top. Listen to math and magic, stories from the frontiers and marketing starting March 19th on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Representative Desmond Crockett and will continue to be there for her, like I think many of your viewers will be because we have seen her work. But we also, many of us, some of us may recognize that campaign wasn't run in a way that we may have wanted it to be run or as tight for those of us who know how politics work and know how the game should be played, happened. Part of that is in part due to the fact that she was a late entry into the race for a number of reasons. Part of it is due to the fact of what Texas did to redraw these maps, and this is all a part of it. We saw other very popular incumbents on different sides suffer through what happened yesterday. But I have to be honest with you, Roland Martin, and say with the full conviction of a fellow Scorpio,

that everything that you said just now was 100% accurate and right. and I am in shock that you set your butt up here and said it. Well, I'm notherdolls to you for the big balls. Look, look. Listen, there were people who reacting, and again, I'm watching this from day one. First of all, I understand the point by saying that started late. No, the fouling deadline was December 8th.

The filing deadline was December 8th, okay? Dishes were changed. Congresswoman Crockett jumps into the race. But here's the deal. Even though Tala Rico got in earlier, she starts the campaign off with massive name recognition. Okay? And so, the question

then becomes, okay, how do you construct a campaign in order to win? You've got to win March 3rd before you could run in November. And so if you're, if anybody's focused on, And there were a lot of people who I talked to who were calling me, who were crock and supporters,

who were saying, oh, she got it. And I was like, I'm sorry, what are y'all doing? I said, guys, you got to win March 3rd before you get to November. You can't act like this guy is a pimple on the elephant's ass. I'm like, no, that ain't how this work. You got to really focus on this race. You got to take him out if you want to win. He's got to take her out to get to November.

And again, there were some people, some well-mending people, some brothers and sisters who were saying, oh, man, she got this, she got this. And I said, I'm telling y'all, don't skip over the primary because he's going to run to win. And folks hit me, they were like, damn, man, you were right. I'm like, what were y'all doing? You can never assume. If you are a donor or a supporter, you can never assume. and I'm telling you what I was looking at and understand my mama

and daddy are 78. They have worked campaigns. They have run phone banks. I was with them putting up yard signs and posters and standing out in front of polls. I'm saying what I was seeing was, where was the team,

where were the people, where was the, Harris County. I grew, Third Ward, Texas, where my high school is, is Jack Yates. Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church is a block away. Massive mega church.

TSU is across the street. University of Houston is across the street. I went home to Third Ward. I didn't see crock and stuff everywhere. I went, this is black black. February 22nd, I spoke. at a church in Fifth Ward right next door, Phyllis Weekly High School.

I didn't see what I thought I was going to see. And I was like, yo, we in Fifth Ward and Third Ward. And if you go to Acres Home, if you go to Sunnyside, you go to these black parts of Houston, I wasn't seeing the energy that I thought I was going to see. And I was like, yo, this is a problem because I knew based upon the last, when Royce West ran, that you needed massive turnout in Harris County and Dallas County, because those are the two biggest counties. Rebecca. Thank you.

So I'm going to start my comments with just a little bit of gratitude. I am grateful that I've actually worked on the ground on campaigns in Texas. I'm grateful that I have been a campaign manager, including statewide races. I'm also grateful that I've been a campaign manager for federal races as well. I also have a degree in political science. I understand the read data and also spotting when data is incomplete. I'm also an attorney, lead a national voting rights organization, and spend a lot of time in the VRA. So in saying all of these things, I think it's important in any post-mortem to have complete data.

And while I hear your analysis rolling, I think you have some incomplete data there. How so? Not saying that your conclusion. How so? I'm getting there. Can you put up the screen of the map that you're standing in front of? Yes, right here. It's up.

Cool. Thank you. So here's a few things. And I've worked a lot of war rooms. So like me and Chuck, like in fact, when I was at MoveOn.org, we hired Chuck to do a lot of the Spanish digital and Spanish media. So I'm very familiar with the work that he does. So like, for instance, you're showing, I wish there was a green screen behind me because that can just point to it. So I'll have to get my green screen.

So for instance, you see how you have the breakdown of counties, you have the yellow for tide, you have the green for Tolerico, you have the blue for Jacqueline Crockett. In order to have complete data in doing this analysis, you need to have the map where you can actually pull through and see the raw data of the number of votes per county. Because one thing that... You can. I can. Which county you want to look at? So I want the aggregate total of the counties, especially the eastern part of the state that Jasmine picked up. I want you to pull up the raw data.

I want to be able to see even the population centers. Okay. versus in a lot of the Greek. So right here, you take Navarra County. Now you're standing in front of it, so I can't see it. Oh, okay. So Navarro County, she got 61% of the vote. She got 1,300 votes compared to Tala Rico's 760.

Next door, Limestone County. She got 695 to 293. Next to that, Freestone County, 549 to 196. Falls County, 547 and 165. Coriol. County, she got 1,928, Telerico, 106. Bail County, she got 16,000. So now I want you to go towards Midland Odessa.

I went to the go towards here. Let me move my screen around. I want you to go up towards Amarillo, all of the areas that went for Tala Rico. So showing what those wrong. So in Gray County, that's one in the panhandle, 125, 125, Tarocket, 95,000. Colorado Rico. The next one. So show the Colorado's totals the ones he won. Okay, gotcha. So the one next to it, the one next to Wheeler County, 3326, above Wheeler, was

Hemphill 2619 on the opposite side of that, Hutchison, 171, 18, Armstrong 257, Floyd, 7169. And then also, and then I'm going to go over here. This was Deft Smith County, Telerico, 169, Crockett, 139. Oldham County, Tala Rico, 16, 5, and then I can skip all around. Okay, so the reason why I'm pointing to this is that when I have run competitive primaries, one of the things to know, as you're picking and choosing and deciding where you deploy resources, regardless if, like, I've had candidates who had three months to run, I've had other candidates who had 22 months that they, you know, they started their campaign super early and were able to set up the organization.

The reason why I point that out, it is a little misleading and it's incomplete data just to show the screen of where you see all the green of the counties that Tala Rica won versus the blue counties that Jasmine won. Because any time you have a county and when you see the total Democratic total is less than 200 people, if I'm picking and choosing my organization of where I'm going to deploy some of my field teams, I'm not going to pick those less. Populous counties. Right. I'm not going to all 154 counties. Okay, let's go south. Webb County.

I just pulled up. Towards Corpus Christi. No, no, I just did. I just put up Web County. I just pulled up Webb County. Webb County, Tela Rico, 15,369, Crockett, 7,500. That's in Webb County.

Here, hold on, scoot over. I'm looking at, I'm looking at the raw data. So I'm looking at, I'm looking at, I'm looking at, I'm looking at, I'm looking at, you take Willisie County, Telerico, 1099, Crockett, 836. If I go to, well, first of all,

we'll go to Bayer County, James Tala Rico, Bear County, which was the San Antonio Express News. You got San Antonio. No, no, one second. I'm about to tell you. Santone Express News was the only major daily newspaper in Texas that endorsed Crockett.

That's where Bear County is. Well, here are the numbers. James Tala Rico in Bear County, where San Antonio is, 108,838. Jasmine Crockett, 79,919. So he actually won a larger percentage of votes in Bayer County than she won a percentage of votes in Harris County. And so this is what I'm...

So right, so this is my point, Rowland. And once again, I'm not saying that she ran a great campaign. That's what I'm saying either. but I just want folks to really understand when we're talking about things. And I get there's a lot of people online, they're saying all social stuff, I'll probably do a video later to like do a full breakdown on this particular race. The reason why I raised that is I hear what you're saying about, you know, you didn't see yard signs.

I hear it, I understand that. Now, one thing I've told all my candidates, especially when time and money is limited, because she was outraised, I think it was like five to one, When time and money is limited, yard signs don't vote. However, to your point, this is one thing that I've also told candidates, yard signs, that type of visibility, we call it visibility. That type of visibility is an exercise of your organization's strength. So if you're able to organize the state, organize your staff in such a way

of where you're able to disseminate your information out, you're able to disseminate yard signs if your budget allows, that shows some organizational strength. But the mayor presence of having your size or not having your size, it isn't sufficient to prove strength. The other thing that's going out, hold on, Roland.

But we're rolling. Here's something very important that you also said. You mentioned on election day you didn't receive any text. Guess what? You shouldn't receive a text. You know why? Because you told us you voted on like February 20th, right? So what happens from a campaign perspective?

When early voting starts every single day, we get those voters, we get the results of who voted and what county. We get that from the state board or we get it from the county board. We then go into then. The voter of action, we go into then, and that's the primary tool they use the contact voters. And you remove those who voted early from the list. So we're doing an election day push and pushing out information. You remove all those who voted early. Teller Rico didn't.

I got text message from the campaign. Tala Rico should have. No, no, no, no, but, but, but, but, but, wait, wait, one second. That's a waste of resources. No, but here's, but here's a deal, though. Here's a deal, though. That's the reality, rolling. No, no, I got that, but I'm also looking at what you also didn't address when I talked about,

he had amassed more than 30,000, more than 30,000 volunteers, folks who were being trained. Oh, I'm getting there. And here's a deal. I'm getting there. Her volunteer numbers weren't even close to that. So again, when I talk about infatheal, And when I'm talking about infrastructure in terms of you're running, it's your paid staff, it's your volunteers, who are the folks out there who are driving your campaign. And so that was that was also an issue.

See, a lot of black folks, a lot of black folks. But I remember Roland, I'm not saying she ran a great campaign. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no. I'm saying for the analysis that you're providing, you have to have complete data. Right. First of all, oh, no, Rebecca, I have, Rebecca. I have complete data.

It's a whole lot of data I don't have I'm not talking about. What I'm saying here for black folks when we're talking about, oh, we got overlooked. No, we didn't. Harris County's turnout was actually higher than the previous primary.

What I'm, what folk got to recognize is this is a primary. And in a primary, when you're trying to run, when you look at who you're looking at, it's black, it's white, it's Latino,

it's Asian, it's Native American. You're looking at demos. There's a significant Asian American population in Houston. If you're a can't, if Vietnamese American, I'm telling you right now, there's a huge community there that gives and also votes. And so if you're targeting different groups, you're going to do that. And what I'm saying is when I looked at both campaigns, when I looked at their strategy, what I saw from Telarico's campaign was an extremely focused, large,

volunteer base that was driving his stuff on the ground, I didn't see the same on Crockett's campaign, and that shows up on election day when you start tabulating votes. And so, again, also, one of the things that we're talking about television and radio, I was sitting here, again, margins. Looking at the numbers, it was like, yo, she's got to drive huge black turnout in Dallas in Harris County. I was also looking at what was invested to do that black radio, newspapers, digital, I did not necessarily see that.

So as people sitting here... So the local black media infrastructure is very different than the Latino media infrastructure in Texas, full stop. I know. Now, where I can't... I ran three of them, I know. So, you know how they consolidated

and some of them bounce left, move their money, and they're just doing satellite there. It's no longer local. So here's my point. Do I think that there should have been a significant investment in Latino media?

Absolutely. Now, you have to remember, I'm positing this as, I'm not saying that she ran a great campaign. I also understand the numbers, and I understand what complete data looks like versus incomplete data. Yeah, well, see, here's a deal, though.

I'm not saying, I'm not saying great, I'm not saying great versus bad. What I'm laying out I'm not accusing you of that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is not for you. The reason I'm not saying great or great or bad for our audience.

The problem is, as I've listened to all a bunch of people, post videos and post comments, and I'm seeing these, I'm like, y'all aren't looking at what happened. People are responding with emotion. They're not responding with

what actually happened. How campaigns were constructed. where resources were placed, where time and energy was placed, what the focus was here and there. And so, I'm telling you right now, I had no problem saying it. I was extremely concerned with Crockett's campaign on February 1st. When I saw, I remember when the first poll dropped, there was a poll that dropped and showed him in the lead. And the reaction was, oh, outlier, low sample. I said, that's actually a shot across the bow.

If you're the opposite campaign, should be concerned about that. Listen, the Kamala Harris robocall. Me, I'm not dropping her robocall on the last day of early voting on Friday. I'm dropping her robocall the first day of the last week of early voting to allow it to gain traction

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So, again, when I just looked at how both campaigns, removing. Somebody has to explain to our people what happened. What I'm tired of are people responding with emotion and not even thinking through the dynamics of what happened. And again, it's the primary. I'm seeing a right now bunch of black people, damn this shit, I ain't voting in November. Well, that's stupid. I'm like, that's absolutely dumb because if you're black and you don't vote in November, you're actually allowing somebody else to control your fate.

Somebody needs to walk our people through the data so they understand what went on. There are going to be other post-mortems, but I just felt a lot of people being a hell of emotional today, which is natural. And I'm like, no, we got to walk folk through and actually what happened. Finish your comment, and then I'm going to go back another round. Okay. And then I'm a break down in North Carolina, too. Okay, Roland. So, because I see the time. So let's do a couple things here.

Leading up to the midterms in the fall, let's figure out if there are going to be a show where we can do a breakdown of what people should be watching for and looking for an election night. I'm more than willing to sit with you and your team and pull some of the specific data that's going to be the bellwether for determining what election night is going to look like. This is something that I've done in war rooms for years is how we're able to predict what's happening as we go into the actual election day. Something else, just to raise for your audience, I want people, I want to pull us back to 2013 for a second. What concerns me the most about last night, regardless of which candidate won the Texas Democratic Senate primary, is that this is not going to bode well for Democrats in the fall. And here's the reason why.

going back and understanding the early voting centers, when Cooney was mentioning this, but let's talk about the early voting centers. What happened? Next Monday, our 2026 IHeard podcast awards are happening live in South by Southwest. This is the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year

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If you all are registered to vote at the same residence, you all will be going to the same location in order to cast your ballot. What happened during election day, what happened during election seats in this year is that the Republican locations of the Democratic locations were different because the Republicans didn't sign the MOU saying that they were going to have joint polling locations. In Dallas and Williamson, in Dallas and Williamson County. Just those two. Yes. Now, now Republicans attempted to do this statewide. Yep.

The reason why they weren't able to do this statewide, because it's extremely expensive. Yes. You can ask any local election administrator, this is a dumb idea. This is not how you do elections. So I just want people to understand. Yes.

That was also some of the things that happened. Yeah, no, I mean. So to Roland's point, the Democratic Party failed. And this is the reason why I do not think the Democrats are going to be able to win the Texas Senate race this year. Dallas County specifically, I can show you that it's an example of a weak Democratic Party. How do I know that? And why does it matter if the party is weak in Dallas County?

We saw that there is a duly elected Democratic mayor of Dallas. He gets in his seat and then he flips and he becomes a Republican. That lets you know right now that the strength of the Dallas County Democratic Party is not strong and it's... Well, but here's the deal... But, but, but, but, but, Clay Jenkins, the county... And I want to get to my point

and why it matters. But, but Clay, okay, he's the mayor of Dallas, the city of Dallas. Clay Jenkins, who is the county judge, is a Democrat. Democrats actually control the commissioners court

in Dallas County. Go ahead. I'm talking about the parting apparatus. I'm not talking about the elected. No, no, I understand that. But you're talking to county apparatus, and what I'm saying is, Johnson is the mayor of the city of Dallas.

When you talk about the Dallas County, there are 34 cities that comprise Dallas County. So it's not just the city of Dallas. But it's what I'm saying is. But it's still the seat of the county. I understand the seat of the county. What I'm saying is you have Democrats that control the county commission. So here's what needs to be happening right now. So I want to get to the point of why it matters and why I'm making this.

No, no, I get why it matters. What I'm saying is what needs to happen right now is they've got to be driving the messaging. and it directly impacted black and Latino voters. I'm talking about my experience of what we had to do when that happened. I had to lean on the Democratic County Party to help push out information to make sure every registered Democrat was aware of the change. The reason why it matters, especially in the Dallas County, is because of 2013. In 2013 for your audience, Shelby B. Holder happened.

And what that means, the preclearance provision, which means before you make any changing to polling locations, it has to be pre-cleared by the Department of Justice, especially in suspect counties, which Dallas County is. Guess what? That is no longer the law of the land. But Rebecca, but Rebecca, but Rebecca, I'm going, that's 2013. In 2018. But I'm telling you. Rebecca, Rebecca, one second. Rebecca, I'm a Dallas County voter. In 2018, Rebecca, Rebecca, one second. But Rebecca, what I'm about to say is this here. In 2018, the legislature was pissed off

when all these Democrats kept getting elected in Dallas and Harris County by straight ticket. So in Austin, they got rid of straight ticket voting. So what then happened? The parties had to then readjust their strategy in order to with the new rules. So my whole deal is, I'm not for, focusing on what the worry is.

I'm looking at how do you, how do you challenge that? So this is what I'm saying to black people, to black churches, to black grassroots groups. Once we know what the rules are, if that stands, you're going to have,

you can't vote on election day countywide and only in your precinct, then the goal has to be driving the information. I'm not waiting on the county. I'm not waiting on the Dallas County Democratic Party. What I'm saying to black people in Dallas County and in Harris County and East Texas, this is where we also are driving the information. This is why I'm saying to us fund black voters.

Black voters matter. I ain't waiting on some white Democrat. We just had the state chair on the show Monday. He said on the show, only there are 20% of the counties in Texas that don't even have a Democratic chair. He said they only, he said of the precinct chairs, they only have 36% of the precinct Democratic chairs filled in the whole state. So what I'm saying for black people, damn the party, what is our organization and mobilization going to be in order to combat them? That's all I'm saying. We know, so we know how they change the rules.

Our job is to hurdle the rules and I need us mobilize. and organized to do so. I got to go to North Carolina. Perfect example. But 34 minutes ago, you said the party should have done it. No. No, no, no, no, no. No, no.

But Rebecca, you also missed when I said I was at Friendship West Baptist Church on MLK teaching on January 17th, where the black organizers were telling the people of the new rules. And two things can be right at the same time. We should be doing it, and the party should have been doing it as well, and the campaign should have been doing it. But what I'm saying is in the general election, the general election is six months away. It's in November.

We got March, we got April, we got all of March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October. We got eight months to get our shit together. And what I'm saying is I'm not waiting on a party. That's my point. But this isn't all on black folks. No, no, no. I'm talking to black people. I have black interest.

The party, they got to do what they're supposed to do. Tala Rico, got to do what he's supposed to do. Hena Hosa, running for governor, got to do what she's supposed to do. All the Democrats who are running statewide going to do what they're supposed to do. I'm saying to black people

in my state of Texas, we're going to do what we got to do to protect our interests. I ain't waiting on them. That's all I'm saying. And the same thing. I talk about North Carolina. What happened there?

I was talking to Bishop Barber last night. Here's what happened there. How did black folks mobilize? Perfect example. The brother you see right here, Gary McFadden, we've had him on the show. He was, he making clear. He wasn't dealing with ICE. The Republicans targeted him.

They tried to take him out. Boom, he won last night. Also, you see this sister right here, Carla Cunningham. She was Ados. She voted with the Republicans when it came to ICE. Yo, they took her out. She got blown out where Rodney's, Sadler, who's a part of Bishop Barber's Moral Mondays, 72% in the vote. He took her out.

You had a couple of other races as well. Let me pull up their results where you had three incumbents. There was another African American who ran. He often voted with Republicans to overrule the vetoes of the governor in that state. And give me one second. I think it's right here. Let me pull up his name. Well, guess what? That brother lost last night. as well. So what that means is what you saw last night of Winconing, that means you saw black, oh, here it is, Shelley Willingham of Edgecombe. This brother right here, he often voted again with Republicans. First of all, Roy Cooper, of course, we knew he was going to win. He got 92% to vote for the U.S. Senate. But Shelby, Winningham, he often voted to overrule Democratic vetoes. You got

Democratic governor there. You got Democratic governor for him. They got him out of there as well. That happened when Cooney, because black people organized and mobilized and said, you ain't represent us, you got to go. Absolutely, absolutely. And I thought that was a spirit of debate, y'all. I really admire the discourse about Texas before we moved to North Carolina. And I want to say that we're all very proud of the race that was run.

But I think it doesn't negate the facts, right? Like I think a lot of people look at Jasmine Crocker as a national figure. but the local race was what was missed. But moving on to North Carolina, I think it's so important that we pay attention to what's going to happen in the Senate. We see Roy Cooper going up against Michael Watley. This is going to be critical to see

who's going to control the Senate in November. So this is what we really want people to be paying attention to and have eyes to. We have a really big race ahead of us, obviously in Texas. Even though James Tilariko has won, we're still wondering to see if Texas is going to be able to flip that seat.

We have a realistic chance of being able to do that in North Carolina, and I need people to focus on what Roy Cooper is doing in North Carolina. I also need people to focus on the fact that there is some challenges going on within the Republican Party, as we're very well aware of. The reason why the incumbent Republican Tom Tillis is not running is because he's been constantly infighting with Donald Trump. And so not all is okay in paradise in North Carolina, and I think Democrats really need to take the opportunity to seize on that. that and make sure that we flip that blue come November. One of the things that we saw, this is the case, this is a congressional race. Incomit, Valerie Foucher. She ran against a Justice Democrat, Nita Allen, a huge thing.

APEC was a huge part of this, a lot of the discussion. She won 49.2 to 48.2. She won by a little bit, looks like about 12,100 or so, 1,200 and 2 votes. Zachary, this has been major because you've got CBC members who were complaining about Justice Democrats, Bernie Sanders, targeting CBC members. You've got people saying, well, CBC members shouldn't be accepting A PAC money. You've got, I've heard people saying, wait a minute, Valerie Foucher is a progressive. Is she as progressive as someone else? No, this now causes a discussion of, okay, how do you define a progressive?

How do you define who's more progressive? but guess what? At the end of the day, it also comes down to the voters, and the voters decided their Senate Valerie Foucher back to Congress. Roland Martin is determined to get me canceled tonight

because I have to speak the truth that the truth is, and Congresswoman Foucher completely to me represents exactly what needs to continue to happen for our CBC members. The black community sticks with our candidates. We support and we endorse those who fight for us,

and that's exactly what representative the Foucher has done throughout the entirety of her political career. And if people have an issue with our CBC candidates being funded and taking money from PACs, then they need to donate and fund them. The people who attacked her would not levy $1 for her, and if she had not won that seat soon, they wouldn't be even supporting her challenger. So let's tell, let's tell it real. Let's tell it real.

I am so thankful that she won, and I am hopeful. hopeful that every member of our CBC who currently sits in office will continue to win and continue to push through if they are able-bodied, if they are able-bodied. We are losing black representation. Sounds like you being shady about a certain race. Come on, if you're going to go there, go ahead and say it. Don't be trying to sit in a straggled offense. Are you talking about David Scott?

Dr. Zachary, Dr. Zachary Kirk has no problem saying that, I appreciate and I respect the service of Congressman David Scott, who represents Georgia's 13th congressional district, although he lives in Georgia's fighting fifth congressional district, where Congresswoman Aquima Williams is his actual congresswoman. I have no problem saying that, but this gentleman has not been able to vote in the last seven elections, and his health is in question. We cannot afford to lose a seat. We can't afford to have a reposte. We can't afford to have a possible Republican governor of Georgia replace him with the Republican in the Georgia

13th congressional district. If he is not able-bodied and if he is not well, he needs to step down because he has a full slate of very competent people running for that seat. That includes Dr. Heavenly Kimes, that includes educator Everton Blair,

that includes Georgia State Senator Emmanuel Jones, and that includes Georgia State Senator Representative Jasmine Clark. The slate is there. So again, we need black representation. We're losing Representative Crockett. We're losing VC. We're losing people that, you know,

we're losing a seat that's going to be held by Menafee or Representative Green. We can't afford to continue to lose black representation. We need every single person that can be there to represent our community. So I'm glad for She won, period. Very thankful. Also, before I go to Rebecca,

and this is a critical race, it's going to be a rematch incumbent Republican Democrat Don Davis is going to face the same person he beat last time. Laurie Buckout. This is in the first congressional district. The Republicans actually gerrymandered at this district. They made it more Trump.

It was a plus two Trump district. Now it's, I think it's like plus 10, plus 11. So that's going to be tough. And again, that's in East North Carolina. This is where we're going to have, this is what I keep just saying to our people. In races like this, he's, and I'm going to go back to Texas as well. We have to maximize our vote.

We can't be, we cannot win. Black people listen to me. We cannot win in places with 38, 40, 42, 45, 48, 58, 52% turnout. We've got to be targeting at a minimum 70% turnout. And so they've carved this district up. But if we hit our numbers, then, and we know how they may, how they're voting is stable. If they're voting is stable and we take our numbers, let's say from 50 to 70, y'all, that's the race. And so that's also what I need us to understand.

I'm going to go back to Texas. You cannot, Kyle, Carl Nile lost to Ted Cruz by 900,000 votes. 1.2 million eligible black people did not vote. I'm not saying it's all on us but if half of those black folks vote now of a sudden, now how do you now put together a winning coalition? That is going to be

Tala Rico's issue in the fall. Tala RICO cannot win in Texas without Latino voters, black voters, and white voters. Beto O'Rourke, ran for governor against Greg Abbott, 75% of people 30 and under did not vote. And so what I'm saying to black people,

I don't know what white folks going to do. I don't know what Latino's going to do. I don't know what Asian America is going to do. I know what we need to do in order to represent our interests. Rebecca, this race in North Carolina. Again, this race, listen, Republicans have a very narrow margin.

they want to steal this seat, Democrats are going to have a tough time holding onto this congressional seat in North Carolina. Yeah, so that's going to be a competitive race, but also there's something that's going on in North Carolina. I think it's the fifth congressional district that's Republican Virginia Fox. That's the district that she's the incumbent for.

I just want to point out with the primary last night. You had Kaya Creekmore running against someone. I'm going to shout out Kaya Creekmore because he's 24 years old. He's a North Carolina A&T Aggie, and he decided that he wanted to do something. And so I just want to throw that out there as we're talking about these crucial campaigns this year, I need listeners, especially if you don't like what's going on. Consider running for office.

You don't have to start at Congress. You can run in a state or local office. But, you know, even start now. There's going to be plenty of state and local offices that are open next year. So start thinking now of what it takes, the qualified. for the ballot and what it takes to put together a campaign. To your point, to your point here in the numbers, to the numbers, you said

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Making consumers see the value of the human voice and to have to have. have that guaranteed human promise behind it really makes it wise to the top. Listen to math and magic, stories from the frontiers of marketing starting March 19th on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. At 19,483, at 56.7 to 43.3. And again, first time. And so listen, listen, Congressman Jim Clyburn lost two or three times before he got elected. And so 43.3 coming out of the game, is good. Now, yo, you keep working at it. You keep working at it. And then you can be victorious. And he's 24 years old. He's a young black king. And one of the things that he really did was

Rowland mentioned this earlier about going into community. He really worked to unite a lot of the historic, a lot of the HBCUs, HBCU students. He worked, he worked the various black communities in the Greensboro area. And he over-indexed in certain counties where people didn't even think that he would clear even a thousand votes. So saying that, as we prepare for November, it's going to be tough

because we do not have a functional VRA. The reason why it's important to point that out, Roland mentioned that Colin Al-red in Texas, there was 1.2 million black folks who had registered the vote who didn't turn out, and Colin lost by 900,000 votes. Here's something to note here. If there was a VRA in place, it likely would have been probably upwards to 2.5 million eligible

black folks who could register the vote. So I do want people to understand what it means to vote during these times when there aren't protections. And yes, it impacts brown communities. Yes, it impacts both Asian communities and Latino communities as well. But this anti-voter laws, voter suppression, it's a disparate effect on black communities. I know we try to lump it together and say black and brown, or we even try to say people of color, but do know those rules are on the books because it was anti-black rules. So when we see how it plays out with black voters, it's going to have an extremely negative impact,

a greater negative impact on black people. Yeah, and when I'm saying to black people, we got eight months to get ready. And what I'm saying is to black people, I'm not waiting on a candidate. I'm not waiting on a party. And I'm saying right now that I keep saying, why should we donate to black voters matter? Why should we be donating to until freedom? Why should we be donating to repairs of the breach? Because we've got to ensure that we've got black organizations who are doing the work to drive black voter turnout.

A mistake that we have made, and I dare say really the last 20 or 30 years, is we have allowed the party apparatus to replace our black grassroots apparatus. And I'm saying we cannot depend on them. That's why when we raised, we win with black men, when we raised $1.5 million for Harris, I said, hey, I ain't said all the money back. We kept $450,000. And people criticize us, and I'm like, I don't know what you're going to say. I wasn't going to send $1.5 to the campaign to beg some white strategies. Can you send $100 back? No, we wasn't doing that.

And so what I'm saying is we have the capacity. If we raising that one night $1.5 million for the Harris campaign, you don't think we can raise another $1.5, $2 million in 2026 to fund a black male effort? Damn asking the DNC, the D-T-T-T-T-C, the D-T-T-E-S, the D-EFLO. SEC, a Democratic Governors Association, what's your black male initiative? Damn, that. I'm saying, no, what's our blackmail initiative? Okay?

And so who are the groups on the ground who are doing the work? That's what this thing is all about. And so that was my whole point earlier. I'm not waiting on them. If we know they're going to change rules in Dallas County, well, then soon as we know what the rules are, damn it, we got to be driving that sucker home every single day, every single day. here's the other deal, black people.

We ain't got to wait for a campaign to send text messages. We can actually send our own. This is all I'm saying. I need us to be thinking that way between now because our interests are at stake. Now, politics is a delivery mechanism for goods and services.

And if we know that the Republican Party don't give a damn about us, the only avenue we have is Democratic Party Well, then we say we're going to drive votes here, but we also going to hold your ass accountable when it comes to that. And so that's what I need our folks to be understanding. All right, y'all, let me thank Wincuney, Zachary, and Rebecca for being on today's show. Let me go to Brittany Noble for BlackSouth Network headlines.

In Cleveland, police say the bodies of two young black girls were found stuffed inside suitcases and buried in shallow graves on the east side of the city. The discovery was made by a dog walker, who stumbled across the first body in the area of East 162nd Street and Midland Avenue. The person notified police around 6 o'clock p.m. Monday. As investigators were searching the area, homicide detectives found a second shallow grave with a suitcase that contained another body. Cleveland Police Chief Dorothy Todd says the girls were in the area that does not receive a lot of foot traffic. And authorities believe one of the girls is between the age of 8 and 13 while the other was 10 to 14 years old.

So far, neither has been identified. The bodies are in the custody of the county medical examiner's office. The girls have not been linked to any active missing persons cases in the area. Todd says authorities have no leads or suspects and ask anyone with information to call Cleveland Police Department's homicide unit at 216, 623-5464. A group of 10 Chicagoans said they are stranded in Dubai after thousands of flights were canceled due to the conflict, causing one of the most severe disruptions to global aviation in years. The group said they went there to celebrate a birthday, but on the last day, they scrambled to book extra nights at a hotel and hunker down

after they heard and saw missiles. Yeah, no update still. Everything's the same, but we are getting some help from some people who are in decision-making positions, but there's nothing you can do when you can still hear, you know, the things that are going off the sirens and, everything that goes on in a war zone. And that was South Carolina women's basketball coach Don Staley,

giving an update to reporters after a game on Sunday. She's still working to get three former players out of Israel. Shortly after the joint United States Israeli strides on Iran on February 28th, Staley posted on X that Tiffany Mitchell, Mackay Herbert's, and Destiny Littleton are in a war zone in Israel. Writing, we are working on a plan to get home. Let us pray for our loved ones to return home safely ASAP. Thank you in advance.

Littleton is also keeping supporters in the loop posting videos to her Instagram account. In Howard University's College of Medicine has been placed on probationary accreditation status by liaison committee on medical education. It's the first time in the school's 158 year history. The LCME's public directory now lists the medical school as full on probation, meaning the program remains fully accreditation, meaning the program remains fully accreditation. but must address specific compliance concerns identified during the review process. University officials say the designation does not affect students' degrees or the school's ability to train and graduate future physicians. Howard says it's already begun addressing the issues by expanding faculty hiring, updating portions of the curriculum, and making targeted facility improvements.

The LCME directory also shows Howard University's College of Medicine's next full accreditation review is scheduled for the 2027 to 2028 cycle. The nonprofit organization, Baum and Gilead, will host the National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS. This group works to create, uplift, and empower faith communities. It is calling congregations across the country to observe the initiative of confronting HIV AIDS, which disproportionately impacts African Americans due to the erasure of funds by the federal government. In 2023, Black Americans accounted for 30,

39% of people living with HIV and 38% of new HIV diagnosis in the United States. Black men and black women had the highest rate of new HIV diagnosis among all races or ethnicities. Young black people between the ages of 13 and 24 accounted for almost half of all new HIV diagnosis in that group. The prayer week started March 1st and will continue until March 8th. All right, folks, that is it for us. Let me shout out Ashley Allison. So remember I went like the Route 100, they sent the award. It's a heavy-ass award.

So this is the Route 100, 2005, honoree. And so I certainly appreciate it. Like, this is literally heavy. All right, then. So let me tell it to the Route and Ashley for this award. All right, y'all, that's it for us tomorrow. I will be live from Chicago outside of Rainbow Push, where we will be, of course, covering the funeral services for Reverend Jesse Jackson,

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