#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Trump Pushes Voter Roll Purges. GOPer Andy Harris Melts Down. Black Women Mobilize Midterm Voters

Episode Date: October 15, 2026

10.14.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump Pushes Voter Roll Purges. GOPer Andy Harris Melts Down. Black Women Mobilize Midterm Voters An organization powered by Black women is on a mission ahead of th...e midterm elections to use their influence to bring others to the polls. The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation CEO and President will discuss their "Get Out the Vote" tour. Once again, the Trump administration is pushing to confuse voters and convince election officials to purge voter rolls by using a flimsy tactic that could possibly undermine elections. Center for American Progress joins us to discuss Trump's list-matching practices. Maryland Republican Representative Andy Harris loses his cool and lashes out at audience members and journalists during a congressional debate yesterday... we have the wild meltdown. Mississippi House Representative Democrat Jeffrey Hulum is on the ballot to represent a heavily Republican district. He joins us to discuss his plans to take down the GOP party.   A federal judge extends an order blocking Don "The Con" Trump from banning news networks from the White House as their lawsuit challenging restrictions proceeds. Black Star Network Partner: ChapterFor free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (724) 264-8281 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/roland Paid Partnership Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. ____ Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, 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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Starting point is 00:08:11 Bring your eyeballs home. You dig? It is October 14th, 2026 coming up of Rolla Martin on Filters streaming live on the Black Star Network. Get Out the Vote Tours are in full effect. We'll talk to Melanie Campbell, CEO and president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation about their power of the sister vote tour. Also, we hear from Bishop William Barber about the repairs of the breaches, 100 days of mobilization, and 1,000 marches to the polls. Once again, the Trump administration is pushing to confuse voters and convince election officials to purge voter rolls by using. a flimsy tactic that they could undermine elections.
Starting point is 00:14:59 We'll talk to a fellow with the Center for American Progress. Folks, it was a maga meltdown in Maryland. Congressman Andy Harris loses his cool and lashes out at audience members and journalists during a Tuesday congressional debate, even telling one journalist that she didn't have the right to record him without his permission. Yo, he's a nut. In Mississippi, Democrat Jeffrey Hulom wants to beat back a Republican in a Republican and a major Republican district. He'll join us as well. Pope Leo the 14th recovering from
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Starting point is 00:17:13 We are down last month of the election. And what we're seeing of folks hitting the ground, we're going to be hitting in the ground next week. I'm going to tell you where we're going to be. The National Coalition of Black Theory Participation and is Black Women's Roundtable in partnership with 40 black women-led national and state-based organizations launched the Uni-26 Power of the Sister Vote, get out the vote and Democracy Defense National Tour.
Starting point is 00:17:35 It's a long-ass name, Melanie. They launched it in Atlanta. The national tour will engage black with voters across generations in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. The goal, increase black voter participation, strengthen grassroots organizations, protect voting rights,
Starting point is 00:17:52 and ensure that black communities have the information and resources. Joining us now is Melanie Campbell, president and CEO, the National Coalition on, black participation. Melody, that's a long damn name. You know, the unity 26, the union 26 power of the sister vote, get out the vote and democracy defense national tour. That got to be on a front and a back of the shirt. I know, but we wanted to be very clear what we're doing. But thank you Roland. I just want to thank all the organizations for coming together. What we tap again to,
Starting point is 00:18:29 while we honed in on power to sister vote this time is because we're trying to channel the energy of black women are feeling when it comes to you know we're mad as hell but we also know that one of the ways to fight back against the attacks that we we endured from losing jobs and contracts and being you know overtly attacked by this regime we knew that black women needed to come together and fight back and so that's part of it as well. And also lift up the work that some of the organizations are doing. We did all we could to raise money to help seed the ground. It's late, but we said it's never too late. Okay. So there are numbers that you're looking at and obviously in those places,
Starting point is 00:19:17 you have significant black turnout. I've often talked about the need to have a micro to macro strategy. And so how are y'all focusing in these areas and what specifically are y'all doing on the ground? I'm going to start with Georgia. Yesterday we started in Georgia, partnering up with Georgia coalition for the people's agenda, Georgia stand up, Black voters matter, of the sororities and faith groups and all to come together, labor and others, to really focus in on early voting. What was really exciting in Georgia the increase was 36% higher than 2022. So there is energy and interest and people are showing up on that very first day. It went up 36% from 2022. So folks are tuned in. But we also want to provide information to our communities on not just making sure your vote
Starting point is 00:20:13 gets counted, but also being able to share and spread the word because we know that there's a threat to not only us voting, but actually having to vote counted. So election protection, making sure that we're focused on that, but not just in Metro Atlanta, but across the state of Georgia. So the tour, the Get Out to Vote tour is in Athens and Rome, and Macon and other parts of Georgia and supporting the work of each other. So that's the other part of it so that if Georgia's standing up and doing something, we're showing up. If black voters matter, we're showing up and sharing with each other strategies, but also
Starting point is 00:20:56 supporting each other in the work. So we felt we're stronger together. United, we win. That's our focus. That's good about panel. Rebecca Carrella is the president's CEO of Fair Election Center joining from DC. Member Patillo, Civil Rights Attorney, the Petitla law firm out of Atlanta, Dr. Derek Jackson, State Representative out of Georgia.
Starting point is 00:21:13 Rebecca, you first. Hey, Melanie, it's good to see you. I'm glad that Fair Election Center is in that number and supporting the work. work that's happening over the next 20 days. How can people listening do two things? One, join the effort, see how they could join the tour, and then two, donate. We know what it is. This money takes work.
Starting point is 00:21:35 This work takes money. They can go to unity, unity campaign.org. And they can find out the information about where we're going. And also they can donate. They can volunteer. And even if it's not in a state that we have, our coalition is made of folks that, and I know like your organization, many, many locations.
Starting point is 00:22:00 And so we can divert people to other organizations. If it's not in a state that we're in for this tour, we can try to share that information with other organizations who may have more states than ours. Robert. Thank you so much for all the work that you've done throughout the years and especially now. that we are on the forefront of this election.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Can you talk a bit about, to pick a ball on Rebecca's point, why it's so important for people to donate to causes and to groups such as this, particularly when we're seeing fundraiser report saying that the right wing is outspending progressive groups when it comes to voter registration and voter mobilization, in some cases, sits to one. You know, I think Elon Musk recently said he's donating
Starting point is 00:22:46 over $125 million to some of these conservative causes. So can we talk about the need for people that you put their money where their mouth is when it comes to supporting these organizations? Thank you. Thank you for that question. And we have to fund it. Roland, you talk about it and all of it on this very, very critical platform that you have. We have to fund our own freedom. We can't wait for other folks, progressive or whatever we want to call it, to fund our freedom. It has never worked.
Starting point is 00:23:17 What we have to be is more united. What we have to be in our community is making sure that we don't, people call it the scarcity model, where we take each other out so that I can get the money and you don't. I'm better than you. And that's a game that's been played on us for a number of you, as long as I can be doing this work. Right. So what I'm excited about over these. You've heard the chaos.
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Starting point is 00:28:24 to me and we did that, all roads leading to the side. We have been really collaborating, sharing resources, sharing strategy, finding ways to work more close to the other. So season organizations, it's been around a long time to those who are new and everything in between. And you know, for me, that's why my names are always so long and my logos are so many, because I try to bring all as many of us together as possible for, because we are just stronger together. And that has been a challenge.
Starting point is 00:28:51 And a lot of times progressive folks play games with our communities around who going to get the money. And I can remember our first move to D.C. I was like, what's that about? Because we weren't doing that in Georgia when I was living here full time, right? So that part of it is what we have to do better, support our own freedom, but also challenge those who need us to move their agenda. And so we have to call folks out a lot more of that. You know, I spoke out, you know, didn't know if it was going to push back on me. But when somebody asked me the question, I had to be honest.
Starting point is 00:29:22 No, we're not getting the resources that are required. And I think more, maybe more funding is moved, but we needed to be having more funding a year ago. This has been going on for, we know what's at stake. But also, our communities have to fund our own freedom. Derek Melody, it's always great seeing you and we're always in the same places and seeing the same faces. So that's where my question is.
Starting point is 00:29:51 How do we get outside of our normal, same spaces, same faces, and reach those 1.7 million black voters, right, that did not vote in right here in Georgia? How do we reach them? Because we keep going to the same places, right? Same churches. We use the same.
Starting point is 00:30:10 divine nine, I'm wearing my shirt, you know, represent the black vote, support the black vote. How do we get that 1.7 million black voters who are registered, but they don't turn out? I think that our table has to be much broader. And I think we're, I'm saying that we've been doing more of that, right? That's why I say organizations that's new to those that have been around and those in between. The organization that I that I shepherds is turning 50 years old. Well, how I try to stay relevant to have being a part of the solution, not just being around to be around, but to make sure that I'm always trying to reach out and bring and support other organization leaders who, who have new and fresh ideas. So until freedom with Tamika Mallory,
Starting point is 00:31:05 as an example. So, you know, we have Black Votless Matter. with what they're doing. And so, and then we've got, you know, the faith community. So really those who I always say like this is it, those who want to play in the sandbox together, right, and make sure that there is no five or six organizations that do it all. This existential threat requires us to utilize all those organizations.
Starting point is 00:31:35 What am I saying here? not just traditional media, right? Like we got to make sure we're on, you know, certain networks. This is the network to be right here if you want to get to black folks. And folks that have influences, if you will, podcast, opening up how we communicate and where do our people go? Young people get their information from YouTube. Bro, and I had to dust off my YouTube channel. The organization is like, hey, we've got to change some of what we're doing. I've been telling you all. Black men get information. information from TikTok. Now, I personally am not there yet, but my young people are.
Starting point is 00:32:11 So if we're going to reach folks, we've got to reach them where they are, and they're not just on these traditional ways of reaching. But some folks still go to church. Some people still go to the barbershops. It is not either or it's both in. Absolutely. All right then. Melody, if people want more information on the weather tours going, where can they go? UnityCampaign.org. And Rose, I want to find out where you're going to be because we're still locking in some of these states. A date. Monday, well, I can tell you right now, Monday we're going to be in Jackson, Mississippi.
Starting point is 00:32:44 We have not gotten the location yet in Jackson, Mississippi. Okay, let's see what Carol says we do. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Carol says we do. All right. Did you text in the middle of the group? Where is it? Okay, let's see here. All right. So Monday, Monday in Jackson, Mississippi. We're going to be at the Mississippi State Conference NAACP office, 1072 West Lynch. We'll be broadcasting the show live 5 to 7 p.m. Central, 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern. Tuesday, on Tuesday, we're going to be in Montgomery, Alabama. And we're going to be at Alabama State. Let me tell you exactly where.
Starting point is 00:33:26 We're going to be in the ballroom, in the ballroom of the John Hardy Student Center. That's going to be on Tuesday in Montgomery. Wednesday. We're going to be in Miami Gardens. I'm waiting for the location. Thursday, we're going to be in Riviera Beach, Florida. Friday, we're going to be in Tallahassee, Florida. So looking forward to that. And I've got folks, they're supposed to be letting me know. We made the following week, we may possibly be in Georgia, and then we may be in Texas that week as well. So we're waiting to see. Let me to be real clear. Part of this issue here that these folks have not been advertising, have not been spending money.
Starting point is 00:34:07 You know, Melanie, I got people hitting me asking me to show up. And, you know, people in North Carolina have called. And I keep saying, y'all, when we roll, we got six, seven people. Hell, diesel is high as hell. You got to fill the bus up. And I keep telling these folks, you want us to show up. And these campaigns are spending, you know, to collectively billions of dollars and black on media is getting a pittance.
Starting point is 00:34:32 And Melanie, I've made it clear to some people. No is a complete sentence. I've had to be real clear. So here's what I've said to a lot of these people. And let me be real, let me just be real clear, okay? We know who we reach. We know who we target. And in terms of DNC, nothing.
Starting point is 00:34:52 D-SCC, nothing. Have I talked to them? Yes. D-Triple-C, but talk to them, nothing. Democratic Gover Association, nothing. All these other progressive PACs, nothing. So the Congressional Black Caucus. They've stepped up. Black Voters Matter, they've stepped up.
Starting point is 00:35:09 We also have had campaigns that want to, that have been investing. So when you see these ads, you understand that. Right. But I've made it perfectly clear to these folks. You cannot ask us to bring this show on the road, because everybody who travels with me, they also have to get paid. And so if they're not going to sit here and by average, and buy advertising, where in the hell you think the money comes from?
Starting point is 00:35:37 And so I've made that perfectly clear. And totally get that. And so we should just connect offline and see what we can do. Absolutely. All right. Well, I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thank you.
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Starting point is 00:40:14 Jeffrey Osborne, hey, you've got one vote. Use it. Folks, this morning, Bishop William Barber was among the No Kings Vote Early Coalition and National Civil Rights and Voting Rights Groups, holding a news conference in of the Supreme Court. They announced historic early voting actions across the country, including repairs of the breaches,
Starting point is 00:40:52 100 days of mobilization, and 1,000 marches to the polls. Here's what the bishop said. We are here today in the front of the Supreme Court that gutted the Voting Rights Act, but did not gut our courage, our commitment, or our desire to not just have a vote the largest vote in early voting, but the largest expansion of voter participation in history. We stand together this morning to make it clear. There was a song sung some years ago out of Kentucky that said, which side are you on, my brother? Which side are you on?
Starting point is 00:41:38 And the refrain was, we're on the justice side. We all are doing different work, but make no mistake. We are all together and unified. This battle over the ballot didn't start with Trump. June 25th, 2013 is a day that should go down in infamy when the first attack on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. I know that date because when North Carolina legislature passed the worst voter suppression in law since Jim Crow, within 45 minutes, our coalition filed suit. And we ended up winning. winning in the Fifth Circuit, winning.
Starting point is 00:42:21 But when we filed that suit, as my dear sister reminded us, we didn't file it with just black plaintiffs. We had black plaintiffs. We had white plaintiffs. We had Latino plaintiffs. We had churches. We had synagogues. Because we were clear that an attack on voting rights,
Starting point is 00:42:39 even Section 5, creates an impoverished democracy. And it creates a democracy where You end up suppressing the vote, you end up engaging in what's called retrogression. What we're seeing that they didn't just start a year ago or two years ago. This is why we have to mobilize. And what we're talking about doing here is not just for this election, this midterm, we need to have this kind of effort for the next 10 elections. This is why we want to be clear.
Starting point is 00:43:11 Yes, we are mobilizing. The other than I made it clear to some folks the other day. There's no competition between voters in Virginia walking to the polls on the first day of early voting. What thousand mobilized marches being conspicuous, going through communities where people may not vote. That's why we're marching to give people courage, to say the folk join us, but also to do the 17th and then to do beyond. It has to take all of it. All of it. There's no competition between their people within the individuals.
Starting point is 00:43:44 Well, you see this dot right here. This shows in one city where they're doing 17 marches. They've already started, but they're also going to march on the 17th. And then they're going to come back on the 19th and the 20th. We are in a battle for civilization. And no matter what group has done anything, we all have to have a level of repentance. Because in the last election cycle, that Congress was decided by 7,000 votes and 90 million people did not. vote. We also must have a level we talk about affordability and we talk about working class but we must add poor to our language. Poor and low-wage folk. Folk that are working hard less than a living wage, 87 million of them, 30 million don't vote and the number one reason poor and low-wage people don't vote
Starting point is 00:44:39 according to a study that we did was nobody talks to them. Nobody talks to them. Nobody talks to them. Some people don't want to use the language poor. They don't want us to use the language working. We will not allow you to determine who we talk to or talk about or who encourage. We have to be united. It's not a separation of Latino versus black versus white versus women versus urban versus rule. The truth of the matter in this moment is battle for civilization. It requires all of us. Last thing I want to say, Ezra, is that In the 1960s, there was a plan. In fact, this business we're dealing with is older than 2013.
Starting point is 00:45:22 And they decided, something called the Southern Strategy, they said they would engage in positive polarization. Deliberate splitting of black and white voters, because this is what Dr. King said at the end of the Selma to Mount Montgomery March, I want the media to hear us. He said that whenever the man of poor people have a potential to come together and reshape the economic architecture of the nation the greedy oligarchs sold deliberate division
Starting point is 00:45:55 deliberate division he said the greatest fear of greedy oligarchs is for the masses of and at that time he used the word Negroes but it meant black folk and and whites and others and labor to come together and form a voting block that can then fundamentally shift the economic architecture of the nation. We are also voting, I believe, I get an amen here, to say to politicians, when folk turn out, if you get elected by the folk that turn out, you must turn up. There must be policy that reflect the voting of the people. This is not the time if you get elected to then get in office and say,
Starting point is 00:46:42 well, we got to wait a hundred days. We gotta wait 150 days. The people who are hurting in this country, who don't have health care, who are living in poverty, who feel like they're under assault by their own government, they're being chased and run underground, fearing being arrested, fearing being killed, have already waited too long.
Starting point is 00:47:02 The urgency of this vote is to say, we cannot wait anymore. And then finally, if you can't do the 17th, do any day. If you do the 17, organize even beyond. I said that to somebody the other day because they said, well, Reverend Bob, if we've already done a march, that's enough. Nothing is enough.
Starting point is 00:47:23 We have to run through the tape. Not to the tape, but through the tape. Every effort. Every effort. And my dear sister said something I want to reemphasize. One of the reasons we gather on No Kings Day on October 17th, one of the reasons tomorrow, early voting, marches all over North Carolina.
Starting point is 00:47:46 They already started in Virginia and other places. It's we're saying, in Salisbury, Maryland in a few weeks, is we're saying to people who've been harassed by this modern day Gestapo, come get in the middle of our march. If ICE wants to show up, let them show up and watch us protect one another. Let them show up and watch us nonviolently march together. If federal, if lawyers want to show up,
Starting point is 00:48:15 come show up and watch us march. vote like never before. The power of our conspicuous commitment, our conspicuous courage, and our conspicuous desire to ensure a future, not just for democracy, but for civilization itself, must be on display. On display like never before. I told the friends here, and I'll close with this. You know, Israel's got an interesting name. And I told him I was going to talk about it one day. In the Bible, the name Ezra is a prophet who, who, who, when people were depressed and down, he came along and said, it's time to bill.
Starting point is 00:49:07 And so folks said, you must be crazy. So he went out and found out whoever would come together. But then he did something. Every time they did something, he led the people in a shot of joy. When they laid the foundation, they had a joyful time and called more people to come back. People said, but all you have is a foundation. He said, we're not through yet. When they laid the standing, to put the standing team up, they said, you don't have the building yet.
Starting point is 00:49:37 He said, we're not through yet, but we're going to celebrate this. We will continue to say, we are not through yet until this is one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We are not through yet. until everybody's right the vote is protected. And not only do we have the right to vote to protect, but election season and election day becomes a holiday. So that everybody, we are not through yet.
Starting point is 00:50:02 Let me do this right here. Let me give you these deadlines, because again, we need you to understand. You see me rocking my shirt, my black job is voting, but you can't vote unless you are registered. So in Alabama, the deadline for these states right now is October 19th. That means we're talking five days. Alabama, California, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Dakota.
Starting point is 00:50:25 Guys, come on. October 16th is Connecticut. Let's go. Come on. Come on. Let's go. Thank you. The 16th is Connecticut.
Starting point is 00:50:34 All right. Let's go. 19th is Alabama, California, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Dakota. Got the 20th is Wyoming. 23rd, Idaho, Nebraska, Utah, Virginia. 24th. Massachusetts. In New York.
Starting point is 00:50:50 25th, okay, 26, Hawaii, Colorado, Washington. New Hampshire, they have voter registration, bears from 6 to 13 days before Election Day. Contact your local supervisors' office for the deadline. North Dakota, no registered voter registration. All you need is a valid ID showing in North Dakota residential address to vote. Vermont, you can register through Election Day. Let's go to early voting of critical days.
Starting point is 00:51:13 Alaska, October 19th, November 3rd, Arizona, October 7th through October 30th, Arkansas, October 19th through November 2nd, California, October 5th. California, October 5th through November 2nd, Colorado, October 19th through November 3rd, Connecticut is October 19th through November 1st, through November 1st, District of Columbia, October 26th through November 1st, Florida, October 24th through October 31st. Georgia, October 13th through October 13th through November 13th through November 3rd, Idaho, October 13th through October 30th, Illinois, September 24th through November 2nd, Indiana, October 6th through November 2nd, Iowa, October 14th through November 2nd, Kansas, October 3rd, October 3rd, is October 14th through November 2nd, Kentucky, October 20th through October 31st, Louisiana, October 20th through October 27th, Maine, October 4th through October 29th, Maryland, October 22nd through the 29th, Massachusetts, October 17th through 30th, Michigan, October 24th through November 1st, Minnesota, September 18th through November 2nd, Mississippi, no early voting. Missouri, October 20th, through November 2nd, Montana, October 5th, through November 2nd,
Starting point is 00:52:16 Nebraska, October 2nd, Nevada, October 17th, through November 30th, October 30th, October 30th, New Hampshire, none. New Jersey, October 24th through November 1st, New Mexico, October 6th, through October 31st, New York, October 24th through November 1st, North Dakota, it varies, North Carolina, again, the 19th through October 31st, Ohio, October 6th through November 1st, Oklahoma, October 28th through October 31st, Oregon, no early voting. Pennsylvania, Various through October 27th, Rhode Island, October 14th through November 2nd. South Carolina, October 19th through October 31st, South Dakota, September 18th, through November 2nd,
Starting point is 00:52:53 Tennessee, October 14th through October 29th, Texas, October 19th through October 30th, Utah, October 20th, through October 30th, Vermont, September 19th through November 2nd, Virginia, September 18th through October 31st, through October 31st, Washington, October 16th through November 3rd, West Virginia, October 21st through October 31st, Wisconsin, October 20th through November 1st, Wyoming, October 6th through November 2nd. Folks, that's it for all the early voting, and be sure to check your voter registration status, please, to make sure that you are registered. We'll be right back. Gone price of beef continuing to go up. You know, you have so many proteins to choose from.
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Starting point is 01:01:50 widespread non-citizen voting using flimsy evidence primarily based on half-baked list-matching efforts. The worst part of these extreme efforts flag eligible voters who may struggle to cast their ballots if they don't know their voting rights. Center for American Progress just published the article, the Trump administration's flawed list matching practices could disenfranchise voters and undermine confidence in U.S. elections. Ben Hovlin, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and former U.S. Election Assistance Commission member, co-authored article, he joined on this right now. Ben, this is no shock. They want to shave as many votes off as possible to make it easier to win. That's right, Roland, and thanks for having me. Yeah, again,
Starting point is 01:02:30 we're seeing an old playbook here, you know, maybe federalized, a different approach to it with the federal government being involved, but again, an old playbook here where you see outrageous numbers that are used to scare people, used to undermine competence in the election process, and ultimately often used for voter suppression efforts. All right. So, you know, Can they be stopped? Courts have been weighing in. What do we do? Yeah, I think there's a couple good things that we've seen. One, the courts have obviously stepped in and protected some of the lists or states that are not looking to turn over lists. Two, you do have a fail safe with election officials.
Starting point is 01:03:07 You know, DHS has been sending these lists to states. You know, they make these bold claims like in Nevada. They said there were 16, you know, roughly 16,000 non-citizens on the rules. The Secretary of State there pushed them on it. They said, okay, there's 185. They turned over those 185 names. His office painstakingly investigated those, looked into those, zero non-citizens out of that list of 185.
Starting point is 01:03:35 And so, again, it is important that we have election officials there fighting for us, making sure to protect people's rights to vote. DHS can't just take you off the list. But nonetheless, you know, again, this is, This is obviously a concerted effort to undermine confidence in the elections. And certainly there's the potential for people to be unwittingly removed from the roles if people are not stepping up and doing that work like we saw in Nevada. Yeah, one of the things that we perfectly make clear to people, and I keep saying,
Starting point is 01:04:06 check your registration status, make sure I don't want people having to fill out a provisional ballot because those don't count. And again, be on the lookout. These people are going to cheat. they are going to try to have election monitors there. I wouldn't be surprised if they try to have federal agents at every voting location. This is what they're going to do.
Starting point is 01:04:30 You know, one of the things that I think is so important, you hear the make a plan to vote. And obviously in the previous segment, you were just rolling through, you know, obviously people getting registered to vote and then talking about the early voting dates that are out there. You know, I think obviously it's so important
Starting point is 01:04:47 that people participate at the It's so important that people get out there and vote. And one of the great things about having voting options is you can do it in the way that you're most comfortable with. And so if you have particular concerns, in my case, I've already voted. You know, I got a mail ballot. I took it to a drop box. I'm already done, you know, and it's still October.
Starting point is 01:05:08 So certainly making that plan to vote, thinking about what works well for you, provides resilience to the process and can help you make sure that your voice is heard and your vote is counted. Questions from the panel? Robert, your first. So on this, can you talk about a little bit about what some of these outside conservative groups are doing to attack the vote nationwide? We've seen everything from Talking Point USA, the massive amount of the money that conservative donors and big tech are putting in. What are some things people need to be on the lookout for when it comes to understanding the table of election misinformation we'll be seeing out there and also attention to the voter suppression we'll see? Yeah, I mean, I think you hit on a lot of big things. right there. The information environment, obviously there's a lot of bad information out there.
Starting point is 01:05:53 So, you know, making sure that you're getting trusted source information about how to cast or how you can participate. Your state or local election officials are always a great source on that. Again, because the rules and the laws vary state to state, as Roland was talking about. And again, I think, you know, you're seeing so many efforts out there. And why are you seeing all those things? You know, again, it's because the vote is valuable, because people's voice is valuable. and because certainly the administration is worried about accountability if the election doesn't go their way. Rebecca. Ben, it's good having you on the show tonight.
Starting point is 01:06:30 So federal law says that federal law enforcement officers are not allowed at polling locations. Despite federal law, the president is saying that he is going to deploy various law enforcement officers that are federal to polling locations. What can I'm going to ask, what can voters do about this? What can state and local officials do about this? Yeah, so that's a great question. I think you hit on a couple things there that are really important. First, it is absolutely against the law. There are specific laws on the books about armed federal officers at polling places,
Starting point is 01:07:07 and so that should not be happening. You know, I think the administration has been, you know, they've been unwilling, obviously, to just shut down that conversation. Part of that is to instill fear or to make people nervous about participating or just to make it all feel messy and people think about sitting out. Obviously, the best anecdote to that is participating. I mentioned earlier, when you're thinking about your plan to vote, you know, if this is a big concern for you, you know, vote early. Vote at a time when you think people aren't going to be there. You know, again, with mail, I like to vote that way, but there are challenges and there are deadlines and those are fast approaching.
Starting point is 01:07:46 So if that's what your plan looks like, I would do it quick. But again, looking into your options, knowing your options, and then voting the way that you're most comfortable is the best way to avoid those scenarios. Derek. Ben, thank you for the work that you all are doing. I truly believe that, you know, when we protect the ballot box, that should be a national security priority because our vote is sacred. And so my question to you is, you know, we got to respond in real time, right? I mean, like right now, our state election board here in Georgia implemented this new policy where our poll watchers and the average age of our poll watchers are mid-60s.
Starting point is 01:08:29 So they have to write our name down in their own penmanship, but they still electronically create a digital list too. And so my concern is what if the penmanship, list and electronic list mismatch. You know, Kadar, 65, 70 years of age. So how do we mitigate that? And is there a hotline where we can call lawyers to resolve this in real time? So I think you raise, again, a number of important things there. One, there's a great hotline. If folks needed, the 866-hour vote hotline is a great way to reach out and get help with voting if you have concerns. Another one that I'd mentioned, it may be too late for this election, but be a poll worker.
Starting point is 01:09:15 You know, if you've got concerns about folks in the polling place, you know, again, they're volunteering, they're out there taking a day out of their schedule, but I've done it a number of times, and it really is an awesome experience. But certainly, certainly we could use a few younger people out there being a part of that. You do get paid. It's not enough, but again, certainly a rewarding experience. And then again, I think, you know, thinking about this concept of voting early, making your plan to vote, you know, so many of the pieces that are also important about that, you know, if you've shown up early, you know, and there is an issue that comes up, you still have time to resolve it. I mean, you hear about, you know, election day being the last
Starting point is 01:09:55 day to vote. It's also the day where you have the least number of options. You know, ruling mentioned provisional ballots, obviously never a first choice. That's a fail safe and a last choice if you don't have another option. But if you go to early voting and there's an issue that comes up, you still may have a window to be able to correct that and make sure that you can cast a ballot that you know that will count. All right. Ben, if any resources that you want to give out folks, where they should be checking out to protect themselves? Well, you know, again, your state and local election official is your best source for trusted source information and accurate information about how to vote in your community. Again, because of the decentralized nature of
Starting point is 01:10:37 elections, you know, each state runs elections a little bit differently. So check that out. And again, the biggest thing, you know, make sure you're registered. Vote.gov can get you to all 50 states that way. And then making that plan to vote, knowing the options in your community and making sure you show up. All right then, Bill and Hufflin. I totally appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thanks for having me. Again, folks, we want you to protect yourself. because, again, they are going to do all they can to stop you from voting. I'm telling you, we play that video all the time of Paul Weirich from 1980, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and the moral majority where he literally said, we don't want everybody
Starting point is 01:11:18 voting. We don't want them voting. All right, let's talk about Maryland, folks, where there was a debate between Republican Congressman Andy Harris and his Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz, Dan Schwartz. Harris lashed out at the crowd after they laughed at his comments about gas prices following a question about the Trump-Puton diesel deal. Why did the United States make a deal with Russia for diesel when we have sanctions against their country? It seems we are playing both sides.
Starting point is 01:11:49 Please explain the logic. And we begin with Dan Schwartz. Well, I think we know why. It's because our president and a lot of members of the GOP are pretty buddy-buddy with Vladimir Putin and with dictators and authorities. across the world. My opponent, Congressman Andy Harris, has spent more time campaigning for his buddy, authoritarian leader Victor Orban, in Budapest Hungary on your taxpayer dollar than he has
Starting point is 01:12:14 talking to people before this event tonight in this election cycle. Making a deal with Russia to lift sanctions on their diesel when they are actively working with Iranian forces to kill our troops is not only wrong, it's disgusting. And it follows a pattern of this administration pardoning criminals, pardoning people of foreigners who are doing breaking laws in our country. It was my team of state money transmission regulators that got the CEO of the world's largest crypto firm, CZ, who ran Binance, to agree to never do business again in this country. We took away all of his state money transmission licenses because he was laundering money for Hamas and ISIS, for the Sonola cartel, and for sex trafficking rings.
Starting point is 01:12:59 These guys don't care. He went to federal prison. Have you heard of a billionaire doing prison time? Not often. The president came out with a full and complete pardon for Mr. CZ, invalidating the work that my team did, letting them come back into our finance system despite the fact that they broke laws that had been in place since 9-11 in the Patriot Act to keep us all safe. I haven't heard a peep about that from my opponent. Harris? You know, you're entitled to your opinion, but not your own set of facts. No tax pay a dollar paid for me to go campaign for Victor Orban. I'm sorry. Oh, by the way, it's all public
Starting point is 01:13:38 record. I think there are no signs being held up, but that's okay. You're a Democrat. Do whatever you want. Now, so, so, so let's get the facts straight. The facts are, is that diesel is, the facts are that diesel prices have gone up. There's no question about it. Why is it gone up? Because the Democrats, environmental regulations have not, ma'am, I got to tell you. They laughed at him. Y'all, it only got worse afterwards when this fool literally goes off on a reporter and he's incorrect with the law saying she could not record him without his permission
Starting point is 01:14:23 because in Maryland they have two-party consent. Watch this idiot. Sir. You do not have my permission to record. If you record, we will refer you to the prosecutor. Everyone in here is reporting. But you are not allowed to. We are in a two-party state.
Starting point is 01:14:39 You are not allowed to report. Why am I allowed to? Why am I not allowed to? Because I refuse to, I'll give you permission to do report. If everyone else in this room. It doesn't make it... Can you please hold my phone? Do you know the law?
Starting point is 01:14:51 What's your question? Which do you respect? This is a public law. This is a public law. This is a public law? I'm not. Yeah, actually, I'm a legislator. Yeah, I actually know the law well because we have to... You said that you wanted the...
Starting point is 01:15:03 You said that it could have gone smoother and it could have gone better. could have gone better what did you mean by that take her camera you're going to take her camera she is violating the law in fact get an officer in here she's violating the law on two-party two-party recording me and officer i thought that you're not going to respect you're not just a telephic communication i don't know the lot this recording video and audio and video have to have two-party approval in maryland now they may not have to have it in washington dc they have to have it in maryland She needs my approval to request. That's why when she did, we're in public.
Starting point is 01:15:39 That's, we're in public. It makes no difference whatsoever. We are in public. We are not in a public. Congressman, you said that you supported the First Amendment. What does they say about that? All right, guys. Congressman Harris, what are you ruining all your chances to get an answer about anything?
Starting point is 01:15:52 See y'all. Good night. Thank her. Thank her profusely. Let me give you all a reminder. Remember when Governor Westmore wanted them to do redistricting in Maryland and the Speaker of the Senate, in Maryland said no, it was to protect this Republican.
Starting point is 01:16:09 He's the only Republican representing in Maryland. Okay, so this is the only one. Now, of course, as Republicans did all the other stuff, now that president has finally woken up, it's going to be in the ballot. But here's, so I've never, Rebecca, I've never heard. Actually, I'm going to start with Robert. Robert, you're a lawyer.
Starting point is 01:16:25 I'm going to go to Rebecca. Robert, I've never heard a, well, I got you, but I'm saying. Robert, I've never heard in my life. I've never heard in my life. a politician go, you can't record me. I'm not going to tell your questions because I have to give you consent. Now I'm going to give him consent. I'm going to give her consent.
Starting point is 01:16:44 I'm not going to give you consent. What the hell is he talking about? This is what happens in the Trump era of media. This is what Trump does in the White House. This is what this generation has brought before us. I'm sorry, before you see a politician running away from reporters. saying, I'm not going to ask you a question. They were being rushed into a federal courthouse to make a plea agreement of some kind. But this is the contempt that the MAGA movement
Starting point is 01:17:12 has for the fourth estate. They don't think they owe you anything. They don't think they have to tell you anything. They think that between them and their crypto buddies and Vladimir Putin, etc., that they'll be able to get these things done. And I remind people, the question that was asked was a completely valid question. There was no reason for him to flip out like that. There's no reason to have some kind of a hissy fit about it because it's very clear what President Trump did in this situation. President Trump committed treason. If you go by the letter of the law, if words still have meanings, President Trump committed treason, what do I mean by that? America is currently in a armed conflict with Iran.
Starting point is 01:17:49 We're in a state of ceasefire currently, but we are still officially in a armed conflict. Russia does not have additional gas. Vladimir's in Lundon, announced this week, the Ukrainian. in the past six months has knocked out at least 50% of Russia's refining capacity. In addition to international sanctions, remember we were seizing their shadow fleet earlier this year, they actually do not have enough gas to export. We know this because last month they received massive influxes from North Korea of crude, oil and gas to supplement their domestic supply because we were seeing gas rationing and
Starting point is 01:18:27 lines at gas stations in Russia. So where exactly is this oil, diesel coming from? that President Trump is buying from Russia. Russia has a supply line through the Caspian Sea with Iran, which is immune to external sanctions because we don't have the ability to actually interdict there. A few months ago, we saw Ukraine launching drone strikes against the Iranian tankers going between Russia and Iran and the Caspian Sea, and Iran threaded ballistic missile strike against Kiev.
Starting point is 01:18:54 So we know that this pipeline exists. So in sum, President Trump is buying Iranians. oil using Russia as a proxy to bring down diesel prices that are caused by his war with Iran is one of the dumbest and most idiotic things that you could ever see. But in addition to that, it violates the 2002 law, which says America cannot buy oil from Russia. Also, it violates the terms of the Lindsey Graham Sanctions Act with Donald Trump signed into law a month ago. So when we're looking at this, not only is it dumb, not only will it only supply a
Starting point is 01:19:31 about a half-day supply of diesel for America. It also has no basis and long and enriches our enemy. The same enemies that are killing US troops. Now the estimates have been revised up to 21 service members have been killed by the Iranians during the course of this conflict. They're getting satellite imagery from Russia and China. They're saying China that Donald Trump rolled out
Starting point is 01:19:53 a red carpet for their president that had a full military parade for a month ago. So when we talk about providing aid and comfort to an enemy in the time the war, we are buying Iranian oil through the proxy of Russia. We're buying their drones. The Shahid drones are being used against American troops are the same as the Gron two drones being used against Ukraine and Russia.
Starting point is 01:20:13 They're in a military-lit and lease agreement where they're doing a technology exchange. Every pity that President Trump is spending will be used to kill Americans. And that's not treason. I'm not quite sure what the word even means and is not lost on anybody. that two weeks ago, President Trump meets with big tech CEOs and says, I'm going to allow AI to regulate itself. A week later, he talks of Vladimir Putin, says he's going to buy diesel from Russia, and that Ukraine needs to stop attacking Russian refinery capacity. Then Ukraine, because of what President Trump said, because he told Zelensky to resign,
Starting point is 01:20:50 attack the Yadets data center in Russia, knocking out nearly all Internet drone robot traffic from the Russians. Right-link accounts yesterday and today are down by much as 60% because Russian bots are knocked out. And as a result of that, Elon must cut off Starlink access to Ukraine today, making it more difficult for them to strike Russian refineries. These people are playing in our faces, and we don't understand what's going on geopolitically. All right, Robert, you can take a breath now. First of all, Rebecca, congratulations to the 10th Bay raise. Just saying.
Starting point is 01:21:27 I could go get a broom for your Yankees, just saying. Look, look, I'm only wearing the hat because of the color, not because of the team. Well, you wear a Yankees hat on here. I'm going to talk about you. All right, so first of all, Rebecca, this is the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. This is on their website. Maryland Reporter's Recording Guide, under Maryland's Wiretap Act, it is unlawful to record any private in-person conversation
Starting point is 01:21:59 or any telephone or electronic communication unless you are a party to the conversation and have the permission of all the other parties. Then it goes on to say, in-person conversations, the Maryland Wiretap Act permits a party to any private in-person conversation to record with consent of all parties to that conversation.
Starting point is 01:22:24 The consent requirement, however, only applies to a private conversation which the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, has held only includes conversations in which parties have a reasonable expectation of privacy. For example, where a person in the private apartment was speaking so loudly that residents of an adjoining apartment could hear without any sound enhancing device, recording without the speaker's consent did not violate. the wiretap law. Now, we go over here to recording laws. Again, this is in Maryland as of 2006. It makes perfectly clear here, in terms of all the different distinctions that you have when it comes to being able to record. But it also makes clear, Rebecca, that there are exceptions, and that is in public. Look, they were in public. There was no reasonable expectation or privacy
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Starting point is 01:28:30 And like to Robert's point, there's a lot of policy reasons. He doesn't like the questions that he's being asked. He didn't like the questions that he was being asked by his opponent. And look, November 3rd is coming up. Early voting is starting. You could get a melon ballot in the state of Maryland. If you live in that district and you don't like what you've seen, then you know what? you get to do something about it. Well, I still can't wait for the new jerrymandered that damn seat.
Starting point is 01:28:57 Derek, it's just, Derek, it's crazy to me that he would demand two-party consent and all the media's out there. He was like, oh, blame her because you can't ask your questions. That's like saying I'm going to demand two-party consent at the town hall. I mean, it's laughable. It's laughable, Roland. Think about this. And for disclosure, let me.
Starting point is 01:29:20 lean into the camera. I'm a legislator. I'm not a lawyer like my friend Robert, but I understand the law. And I would never quote the law. Rebecca, Rebecca keeps reminding us, she's a lawyer as well. Maybe it's a Yankee hat thrown us off. Listen, no disrespect. Rebecca, you know I got mad love for you. And, you know, I'm a native New Yorker. But listen, but he was quoting a law Roland and he got he got indignant he's talking to journalists so even if he did not you just did him a master class how you articulated Maryland's law but let's just say he didn't go that far the First Amendment Roland did he forget about the First Amendment that the media is protected under the First Amendment and he's in the public
Starting point is 01:30:17 Here's the other point. And I, this dude lost his cool well before that. He lost his cool because he could not answer the question with a straight face. Is diesel gas up? Yes. Why is it up? Because a year ago it was $3.75. Today is $6,020.
Starting point is 01:30:40 That's 65% increase, really? But he can't, but they, listen, they can't answer the question because they have been defending everything Donald Trump has done, and they've been lying. That's all. They are all liars. And I just, listen, I record my radio commentaries today, and I say point blank that this is real simple. If a Republican or someone from MAGA voted and supports Trump's policies that are destroyed the economy, vote them out.
Starting point is 01:31:09 These are the people responsible. Again, they can't, they are literally in town halls going, no, it's the Democrats. So one person went to one of these rallies, the guy said, Biden, dog, he's gone. Mike Collins. Like, like, they're blaming Biden. They're trying to blame Obama. They're trying to blame Bill Clinton. They're trying to go all the way back and blame Jimmy Carter.
Starting point is 01:31:32 I mean, that's where they are. No, I'm sorry, when you control the House and the Senate and the White House, it's on you. That's like in Texas. It is laughable. Why are the races in Texas so tight? because Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick are talking about Democrats, Republicans have controlled Texas for dead in their 30 years. Like literally, I'm talking about legislature, governor's mansion, everything.
Starting point is 01:31:59 They won all statewide offices, Texas Railroad Commission, Ag Commissioner, Secretary of State, Attorney General. How are you going to blame everybody else when y'all running the whole deal? That dog won't hunt, and they are afraid of a massive blue suit. tsunami that is coming. And what I am encouraging is a massive black tsunami to take all of them out on every level. I'm talking about I want to see black folks vote in such a way. We wipe out every Republican senator, every Republican member of Congress, every Republican governor, every Republican state legislator down to the local level because they have all been silent and complicit in watching Donald Trump destroy this country.
Starting point is 01:32:44 country, degrade people, target black people. Payback is a bitch, and I want that bitch showing up on November 3rd. Folks, they're going to go to break. We come back. We're going to talk about a candidate running for office in Mississippi. We're going to also show y'all, y'all, y'all, I got to show y'all this video out of Iowa. Oh, my God, this candidate had me just rolling. It's so hilarious. Sorry, y'all. Hey, do me a favorite. Be sure to get a copy. Pre-order my book right here black forward that's right black forward folks uh marching orders for the fight against jim crow 2.0 i lay out what we must be doing you i've heard me talk about it on the show i laid out all here in the book you want to get this right here you want to get this right here i'm telling you so
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Starting point is 01:37:00 He's running for Congress. And, of course, he's running against Mike Ezel. This battle is taking place like one of those. He joins us right now. Jeffrey, glad to have you on the show. Again, when you look at that seat, I think I checked, it was like a plus 36 Trump congressional seat. When I look at, I can't stand mostly in any of these prediction markets. But many of them say he has a 99% chance of winning.
Starting point is 01:37:25 How do you beat him? This is how we beat him, Roland. We have over 135,000 registered African Americans in the four congressional district. Then Mississippi on the coast, we have the largest concentration of military veterans. Over 180,000 veterans. So we are running to governize not just the black vote but the veteran vote. And we put all those votes together. That's enough votes to carry us over the top.
Starting point is 01:37:48 Because for far too long, the current congressmen have failed us on so many different levels that people are filling at the kitchen table. Okay, so you're talking about mobilizing them, but, but, you know, listen, when it comes to a congressional district like this here, you're not going to get support from the D-Triple-C. And so how's fundraising been? And when you say, you know, targeting those veterans, what are you saying to them? So one other, the things when they come to this race, we're running this race that costs, meaning everything we need to be successful in this race, we have had it.
Starting point is 01:38:23 I'm funding this race mostly with small donors and my military friends and families. Also, we have the veterans. We're talking about the Riggest Star Act. The veterans and things have been cut. The most important thing that resonating with all the veterans are this unpopular conflict over in Iran right now that got affordability through the roof. They continue to skirt and continue to put out African-American senior leaders, Caucasian female senior leaders, and they have eroded the more fibers of militaries as it is.
Starting point is 01:38:51 Right now, they're using this military as it is. Right now, they're used this military as a proxy. It's not the military that I served 22 years and since combat defending this country. This is military that we have not seen in a long time, Role. At then, questions from my panel. Derek, you first. Well, first off, Jeffrey, thank you for your service. And thank you for stepping up running for office.
Starting point is 01:39:14 I completely understand. When I say I understand, I did 22 years retired Navy commander. And so my question is how you break through. Right? Because Mississippi right now, every time we hear the word Mississippi, it's always negative. Lanching, Nolan Wells. And so I truly believe this is an opportunity for you to use some of these negativity that's been happening in Mississippi to propel you to victory. How are you engaged in and making sure that that message get out there? Because the numbers are there.
Starting point is 01:39:51 the message is there is just we keep coming up short on November, you know, during the election time. And this is how we engage in public, Colonel, because I'm going to stay legislator right now and I have been working inside of my district for far too long, ever since I retired to military. Also, we do these food insecurity events every weekend
Starting point is 01:40:13 because we are the most food and secure portion of the state of Mississippi on the Gulf Coast. So we meet people where they're at. We continue to go into the homes we continue to go into the neighborhoods and the communities. And what we do is the most important thing. We make people feel a whole and more enabling because, yes, but in an old and well situation, we know that's a very tragedy that should have been solved.
Starting point is 01:40:34 We got to continue to fight for that family and continue to hold people accountable. That's one of the things that's so disheartened about being a service member to understand that the current person who holds a seat, to not have the decency to email us give a condolence to the family. That's what we have to fight this fight. all fights will not be easy. The majority of the fights you've got to fight is a tough fight. And this fight is a fight I'm willing to take on.
Starting point is 01:40:56 And we're going to win this fight. The reason we're going to win this fight? Because people see how they have been let down. People see how they continue to be walked over and trample upon. And people see there's a record crisis, not just in the household, but also in their mental health at this time, Colonel. Rebecca. Thanks so much. Thank you for running because running is the first step in order to make change.
Starting point is 01:41:21 So you mentioned the seat that you currently hold. How large is that seed in comparison to the congressional district? Well, this, all state, see, all our state districts in Mississippi are 25,000. I'm in the second largest city, in the state of Mississippi, which is Gulfport. I'm running for the lower 12 counties in Mississippi.
Starting point is 01:41:45 Most of them are semi-rural. The epic center of our population, centers along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which are three coastal counties. And that's one of the things that a lot of people are not taking in account. Our numbers are through the roof right now, but a lot of people have moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Starting point is 01:41:58 Then they cut the census short. So they don't know how many votes are actually out there. And we get a lot of momentum and a lot of traction by meeting the people. Everywhere we go, we have touched every county and every city in this district, and we're going to continue to do that. And on November 3rd, we're going to be successful. Because right now, we do not have early voting Mississippi, but we have absentee voting.
Starting point is 01:42:18 And people are out voting every day right now, right now because if votes matter, a lot of people, when you talk to us in Mississippi, what we can't do, what we don't have, we stand to show you, but we do have what we can't do because it's about the heart of the people and we're going to continue to fight this fight. No fights are easy, but it's got to be fought. Robert? Kim, thank you so much for your service and also for putting yourself out there for public service.
Starting point is 01:42:44 Can talk about a little bit about how important is to have someone in office who's an advocate for veterans who actually has served, who under, understands the needs and who understands what goes into military service. We're seeing right now when you have a game show host as president and a talk show host to Secretary of Defense, what that can get us into. Talk about the importance of having people who have served making those decisions. One of the things that we think about, especially me as a SAR major, with six combat deployments, we know the importance of our allies.
Starting point is 01:43:15 We also know the importance of our adversaries. And right now, the people who are running this administration, the people who support this administration, they are rubbing shoulder with the axis of evil, which is Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea. How can you say you love America and you support America when you do a business with the same people who's killing our service members, giving imagery to the people who are attacking our service members abroad? How can you say you love America and you stand up for veterans when you're not protecting
Starting point is 01:43:42 the veterans back on the home front? We have so many veterans who are serving this country abroad and their families are in full pantry lines. They're looking for rent, utility, and all kind of assistance. Those things does not add up. America, when you support a veteran, like Richard Starr Act, making sure that a promise made is a promise kept, when you go and rent a service this country, your benefits is codified and forwards and fire you, not dangling by a carrot. And this administration, the way they're treating people, the way they're scurting the laws, where they're rubber-stamping, the Geneva Convention, the laws of all that out the window. That's how we win. We should,
Starting point is 01:44:17 show the veterans to go back to your oath, the oath that you took to protect and serve this nation against our enemies, both foreign and domestic. You bear a true face and allegiance to the same. All right then. Folks, more information on your campaign. Where did they go? To Jeffrey Hulling the Third for Congress. All right then. Jeffrey, I appreciate it, man.
Starting point is 01:44:41 Good luck. And I thank you, Roder, for having us. Thank you. I appreciate it, folks. Don't forget. We're going to be on the road next week. and we're going to be in Jackson, Mississippi on Monday. That's right, Jackson, Mississippi.
Starting point is 01:44:54 We're going to be at the Mississippi office of the NAACP. Cannot wait to be there. Let me give you all. We'll have it all on my address on the graphic, but let me go ahead and give that to you. So we're going to be, again, there on Monday, on Monday. And then, of course, we're going to be in Montgomery, Alabama, at Alabama State on Tuesday,
Starting point is 01:45:15 and Miami Gardens on Wednesday, Riviera Beach on Thursday, Tallahassee, Florida on Friday. All right, y'all, going to a quick break, we come back. I've seen a lot of crazy stuff out here. You know, final weeks of the campaign, you are seeing some insane ads out there as well. We're going to show you some of those.
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Starting point is 01:48:04 Hey, J. Nice to see, AJ. Nice to meet you, too. Look, I don't want to bore you with politics because I want to tell you something. all the places I've been, of all the opportunities I've had, I want to tell you about a single moment that changed my life. And it was the day I graduated from college. It wasn't about the celebration. It wasn't about the graduation. It wasn't about the piece of paper. It wasn't about the parties. You know what is about? That day I realized I just did something that nobody can ever
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Starting point is 01:49:03 when the powerful prey on their own people. When I stood up to corporations for screwing us, they tried to give me hell. I gave it right back. I've spent my career fighting crime and corruption. My opponent, he uses the Office of Attorney General to enrich himself and his friends, costing us,
Starting point is 01:49:19 money and we're sick of it. I'm Jose Javier Rodriguez. As Attorney General, I'll keep fighting for you. He's basketball Hall of Famer, Nancy Lieberman, and the Hall of Famer. Richard Dan, MVP, and you do have a vote. You have a vote. Use it.
Starting point is 01:49:40 Please. All right, campaign season is always crazy time, and we talk about all sort of wow ads. They show up. Check this. This is an ad. There were some Republicans put together targeting targeting Congressman Byron Donalds was running against David Jolly for Governor of Florida.
Starting point is 01:50:06 Byron Donalds has a lot of rich friends. None of them give a damn about Florida or you. Big insurance gave Byron over $2 million. Your rates keep going up. Funny how that works. The data center guys want our land, our water, and our electricity. Then they want you to hand them a tax break for taking it. The Silicon Valley AI weirdos want those data centers to build
Starting point is 01:50:31 AI to take your job. And the New York bankers and private equity bros, they love Byron too. You know they are. They're all buying the same thing. A puppet in Tallahassee, a governor who does what he's told,
Starting point is 01:50:46 who dances to their tune, who owes them big time. That's why Republicans, independents, and everybody in between are saying no to Byron Donald's, because he's been bought. and paid for All right, so in Texas,
Starting point is 01:51:07 John Rosenthal's running for Texas Railroad Commission against an absolute racist, Beau Frinched, and he dropped this ad, and let's just say, not subtle. Agenda would wreck the miracle that we have in producing more oil and gas than ever before. Bo Frinch in Texas attacked a bunch of kids who turn out
Starting point is 01:51:27 they're all American citizens. I denounce that. Republicans, and independents don't want Bo French. His agenda would wreck oil and gas. We can do better, Texas. Elect John Rosenthal. All right.
Starting point is 01:51:48 So that's that one. We've been running the Scott Cologne ad, and I've got to say, this is probably the best one of this season. That's it right there. That's it. That's it. Going price of beef continuing to go up.
Starting point is 01:52:06 You know, you have so many proteins to choose from. Pick another protein? Shit. I'd rather pick another senator instead. Pick another protein. She'd have lost her damn mind. I'd rather pick another senator. Pick another protein.
Starting point is 01:52:23 What the... Pick another senator instead. Oh, yeah, we got to run that one again. Run that back. ...go on price of beef continuing to go up. You know, you have so many proteins to choose from. Pick another protein? Shit.
Starting point is 01:52:42 I'd rather pick another senator instead. Pick another protein. She'd have lost her damn mind. I'd rather pick another senator. Pick another protein. What the... Pick another senator instead. My man really was channeling Isaiah Whitlock there, Robert.
Starting point is 01:53:09 Yeah, I was about to say, it sounded like he was in the wire or something, I think Democrats, after a few election cycles, have finally figured out to stop trying to play the two cute by half game with these magas. You know, for a long time, you had Donald Trump basically standing there doing stand-up comedy telling your mama jokes. And Democrats were, you know, still playing the respectability politics game. If you watch that, John Oswald versus... You've heard the chaos. Now you can see it. Hello!
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Starting point is 01:58:07 Listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Mike Collins debate last night in Atlanta, you saw that Democrats, the gloves have completely come off. John Osse, I would start with just literally talking to Mike Collins, like he was a special needs child. And he was just giving him breadcrumbs to help him try to least articulate some sort of policy. We saw something similar to Al Sayyad and Mike Rogers in Michigan. So when we're looking at what Democrats are doing, they're finally able to read the room and they no longer want to, they're no longer Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. They're generating a new generation. They're generating the type of talking points and the type of attention that's needed to take down this
Starting point is 01:58:50 fascist agenda. Derek? Yeah, I agree with Robert. But here's the thing, no, Roland. the establishment, like to pick and choose that message and the candidate. So, like, for example, I like how Angie Nixon, everything that she's doing online or social media feed, commercials, or things that nature, you know, it's just as strong as John Ossoff. Nothing against John Ossoff, but I like to, you know, make sure that we are promoting us, too.
Starting point is 01:59:28 Well, hold on, hold on, hold, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. First, Angie Nixon has not, oh, no, no, hold up. Angie Nixon has not debated Ashley Mootin. Ashley Moody. Robert was talking about the debate. So we're mixing things up here. First of all, I'm running spots that have been produced. Robert invoked the debate where Osoft was going after Collins on stage.
Starting point is 01:59:55 You're talking about something different. And so what Angie is doing, yes, what she's doing is being counterintuitive, being a lot more direct with her social media game because she hasn't had a debate. She hasn't stood across from Moody. And Moody is not going to debate her like Donald's is not going to debate Jolly. Yeah, no, no, I appreciate that. But the point I was about to make is that if you look at Judge Penny, her debate, she prosecuted her opponent.
Starting point is 02:00:27 Tanya Miller prosecuted her opponent. And so I'm just saying that we need to make sure when we're talking about these debates and the performance, those candidates that's typically not considered mainstream and the establishment. What are you talking about? Derek, Derek, we've had Penny on the show.
Starting point is 02:00:50 We've had Tanya on the show. So, I mean, I'm saying, just say it. Don't say like what we need to do. Just say, the point is, listen, it's all a part of the same thing. So at the end of the day, whether we're talking about what the black candidates are doing or the other candidates are doing, it's all the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, Roland, I'm with you. I'm not disagreeing with Robert or your point, neither.
Starting point is 02:01:16 I'm just talking about when, in terms of promoting black women, let me say it that way. We've had black women. I know, Roela. So I'm so, no, no, but you're making it sound like only show. It's not being done. So I don't care what the other white shows do. I know what we do. You're right, right.
Starting point is 02:01:37 Right. Right. No, you're the only show that's doing all of them. So yeah. So I'm like, no, we, we can, that was the point I was about to make MS now and CNN. I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit about them. They're all processed, okay?
Starting point is 02:01:53 They're not, they're not, they're not, they're not, they're not, they'll even cover elections the way you should cover them. but they get all the damn money. And so I don't give a shit what they do. It doesn't matter to me. At the end of the day, Rebecca, I want every single person running under the banner of MAGA to be crushed at the ballot box.
Starting point is 02:02:11 You know what's really interesting about watching this election cycle and using Angie Nixon as an example. When you go to her website and you see the type of merch that she has, it isn't just merch for the sake of so people can have T-shirts and whatnot, but she actually has her policy platform on her. t-shirts. Like there's a t-shirt that lists, I think, about 10 different policy, 10 policy goals that she has. So it's merch that is actually using a bit of pop culture, because when you look at some of the style of the the stallings of her merch, but also it's informative to voters. And so what I find
Starting point is 02:02:50 really interesting, and this is why I'm loving these candidates this year, is they know that they ought to be getting support from the national party to from their national party. They know that they are not getting the level of support that they ought to get, but they are still being creative and figuring out ways to break through understanding that voters, this year as voters are going to the polls, they're not voting because they support the National Democratic Party. That's not what's happening. And the National Democratic Party needs to understand that. They're voting in spite of the National Democratic Party. They're voting in opposition to some of the things that they are experiencing, some of the things that they're seeing from the Republican Party this year. Voter sentiment is really interesting, and the Democratic Party must not confuse that and think that they're supporting them.
Starting point is 02:03:42 But I'm seeing voters supporting candidates. And so the candidates that you're highlighting, they're breaking through, they're being extremely creative because they're on the ground talking to people. So it's, you know, looking at some of these early voting numbers, I've been tracking some of the early voting numbers in Georgia as an example and just seeing even some of the early voting, even some of the vote by mail numbers from states that haven't started early voting in person. It's going to be really interesting, Roland. And to be honest, the National Democratic Party is starting the show that is irrelevant when it
Starting point is 02:04:22 comes to targeting and mobilizing and moving voters. because voters are checked out from them because the National Party isn't being responsive to what voters are looking for during this midterms. Here's the thing that I, and anybody who watches this show, I've been saying this for the last 18 months. All of these national shows have been getting this wrong.
Starting point is 02:04:48 Every time that dude on CNN is doing the Democrats, their approval rating is at 21%. And I've been sitting there going, but if you pay attention to the ground and you look at the special elections that have been going on, Democrats been cleaning the clocks of Republicans. So every time I hear one of these radio hosts or one of these television hosts going on and on and on talking about Schumer and Jeffries, let me be real clear. The only people who are talking about Schumer and Jeffries are in D.C. and New York. I mean, I was on the phone with somebody yesterday, and the person said to me, Schumer and Jeffries, where are they? They've been missing. I was like, stay exactly where they are.
Starting point is 02:05:30 I said, because the right, this is the deal. Senate races are about that state. So I got these idiot Democrats who are mad because the, Annie Andrews in South Carolina, how she answered a trans question. And other people like, are y'all not aware she's running in South Carolina? See, folks need to understand. Bernie Sanders and AOC cannot campaign everywhere. They can't because their politics doesn't fly in all places. And so the reality is you are seeing different reactions.
Starting point is 02:06:09 What you are seeing are candidates who are running smart. And that is, I am running a race tailored to my state or tailored to my state. or tailored to my congressional district. I saw, the matter of fact, I was just sitting here, I almost pulled it, give me one second. When you talk about running, so there's a Republican, there's a Republican in,
Starting point is 02:06:32 there's Republican in North Carolina. And he is facing, you know, he is facing he's facing a Republican. I'm going to pull up his commercial, and he served in the military, North Carolina, huge military population.
Starting point is 02:06:57 Here's a candidate, oh my goodness, I almost had it. I'm going to pull in a second. It's a candidate in Wisconsin who's running for Paul Ryan's O.C. Again, how he runs is different. This is how you're supposed to run. You run campaigns that are tailored
Starting point is 02:07:15 to your district. And this is where you tell the national consultants, shut the hell up, you don't know my district, you don't know my state, this is how we run here. That's how you actually win. And these people are local. Yeah, I mean, it's just, I mean, I'm telling you.
Starting point is 02:07:38 But it kills me so many of these people who don't understand that. This is the ad, Richard O'Heda in North Carolina. Hello, Jenna. I served 24 years in the, United States military and deployed to places like Iraq and Afghanistan. For me, it's about America, not politics. But this place is a corrupt mess.
Starting point is 02:07:55 And the biggest recipient of big pharmaceutical dollars is none other than my opponent, Richard Hudson, who then voted to jack up your drug costs and double your health care premium. Richard Hudson and his friends will not take on the drug companies, but I will. And I approve this message because we must end corruption here to make things cheaper here. Again, that's an ad that he understands his target audience. Strong military base there in North Carolina. And his imagery is saying with the boots, with the airborne shirt, hey, don't try to sit me and don't you try to play me as being some, how they try, how J.D. Vance, this whole testosterone debate. I mean, you got Vivek Ramoswame who couldn't even lift up a kid with his little weakly weakly ass.
Starting point is 02:08:42 And so that's been the whole deal. You have to run your campaign because you know what, Robert, if you lose, the consultants are going to go to the next campaign and get paid and you're stuck with the loss. You know, this is the biggest issue. I think any of us who have had running campaigns in black districts, particularly black districts in the South, that you get your candidate all the way through the primary. You guys have momentum. And now the national party says we'll come in and we will help you out. But these are the things you're going to have to run on. And these are the national issues.
Starting point is 02:09:13 And the issues that play well in San Francisco, in New York, in L.A., in D.C., don't mean a damn thing in other parts of the country. I remember I was working on a race back in the 2004 election cycle. And they wanted us to campaign in Brunswick and Savannah, Georgia, on climate change. And I tried to explain to them, don't know why Savannah, Georgia good day about climate change in 2004, but they don't want to hear that. And this is why it's crucial, as we break free of the two-party states, I think the two-party system, as you see, is in its final days.
Starting point is 02:09:45 Mitt Romney and Donald Trump don't belong in the same party. Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin don't belong in the same party. But as we see these growing pains of the two-party system slowly dissolves, we're seeing more people take more independence and simply saying, this is what my people believe in. I'm elected to represent my constituents, not to represent a political party. Well, hell, Rebecca, you got the you got the head of South Dakota Democratic Party who resigned to support the independent candidate because they're like, yo, this is our best shot at taking it from the Republicans. Or in my home state of Nebraska.
Starting point is 02:10:22 Same thing. In my home state of Nebraska, the independent, I believe Dan Osborne is running. He is active in the labor movement. He is an active union member. He has organized different parts of Nebraska. And so you saw where you had the Democratic Senate candidate drop out. And you see that, wow, yes, I don't believe the Nebraska Democratic Party is formally endorsing Osborne, but you're seeing a lot of the Democratic elected officials across the state endorse and support Osborne.
Starting point is 02:10:54 So here's the thing. We understand that all politics is local. It has to be. That's what it is. And it should be. Because after all, politicians are supposed to represent their communities, their community of interest. They're not supposed to represent a national party. But what's going to happen, after the midterms is over is the Democratic Party is going to have to really figure out what it looks like going into 2028. Because as weak as the Democratic Party and the national brand appears to be now, as soon as November 3rd is over, then we immediately pivot to the presidential election cycle. So what's going to happen is whoever the candidates
Starting point is 02:11:41 are on the Democratic side, they're going to have to run based upon their personality, based upon who they are. They're not going to be able to just be able to run under the banner of the Democratic Party. And so once again, the Democratic Party nationally, they're going to go through another tough fundraising cycle because all of that money is going to be diverted to the presidential candidates. And so the Democratic Party is going to have to spend a lot of time during soul searching
Starting point is 02:12:06 to understand how it moves forward. And what's simply amazing is that. that this is the way we're still in the end. We're still at the height of the MAGA movement. And for the national Democratic party to not have a clear, concise answer against MAGA during this time. When you have so many people becoming nonpartisans and independents because they are no longer Republicans, or because they are, actual real moderates, don't want to go towards Republican Party because how outright, racist it is right now and how it's bad on foreign affairs, how it's bad in the economy,
Starting point is 02:12:47 all of the bread and butter issues that the Republican Party was known to be strong done. And then you look at the opposition party. And you see the opposition party isn't showing clear, concise answers. So it's going to be really interesting once we get past the midterms and we pivot. First of all right, I disagree. Here's what I mean. We spent nine months, 2025, what you just described. what happened in 2025, they couldn't figure out what to do.
Starting point is 02:13:16 And then shutdown happened. And what you saw, what you saw were Democrats finally getting their footing in terms of the shutdown. The so-called Big Beautiful Bill and all of that. Okay. You saw that happening. You then begin to see, and here's what happened. When the shutdown happened in D.C., you then begin to, you begin to see. see candidates across the country who then began to also take what was happening here and apply it locally.
Starting point is 02:13:51 That shutdown is really what then began to draw the affordability conversation. Because what happened was Democrats, they were still dealing with Gaza, Israel, but there was no longer becoming dominant. Elon Musk, Doge, all those things were happening. Your donors were like, oh my God, I'm not seeing this. See, this is what, the problem that I have with how we perceive this, there's this notion of this one message. I do believe Democrats have figured out how to fight MAGA, based upon their votes,
Starting point is 02:14:35 based on what they stand for. For instance, watch this ad right here. In rural Wisconsin, hunting and fishing. For us, it's a way of life, not just a hobby. Brian Stiles says he wants Wisconsin to be a great place for data centers. So that's why they've given them nearly $300,000. So where they get in return, $70 billion in special tax breaks. They use our water and our power, take our land, we get the bill.
Starting point is 02:15:01 Oh! I'm Mitchell Berman, and I approve this message because, Wisconsin isn't for sale. Now moments ago I was looking at in this graph and someone posted on and they said wow Democrats are flipping Republicans to their side over data centers. That is a hot touch point and I remember here in Virginia a lot of people early this year were rip criticizing uh criticizing uh of course um uh uh of course um uh uh uh Louise, Louise Lucas, Sarah Louise Lucas, because she was artly opposed to data centers. She was on the money because what we're now seeing, we're seeing rural folks, white conservative folks.
Starting point is 02:15:51 We are seeing this anger. Now, if you're a Democrat and you're championing data centers, baby, you're going to have some problems. I just think that I'm going to Derek here. my point is you cannot look to the DNC or dims the leadership in the House and the Senate because what that does is and I'm going to go back to what Ella Baker where she and Dr. King clashed. Dr. King believed in pulpit to Pew. Ella Baker believed in Pew to Popet. If Democrats win the House in November, what's going to happen is the Pew is going to drive the pulpit.
Starting point is 02:16:43 And again, I don't know who they're going to elect, obviously, but Congressman Hakeem Jeffries wants to be Speaker of the House. That ain't guaranteed he's going to be Speaker of the House. And so you're going to see the Pew make demands of the pulpit in terms of how you lead. and I don't believe Chuck Schumer is safe on the Senate side because the Pew, which is the grassroots, the ground, are going to be demanding a different type of leadership in 27 to lead into 2028. Derek?
Starting point is 02:17:24 So rolling, data centers is, they've been around for a long time. The reason why data centers is an issue is not because of the data center itself. Hear me out for a second. It's imminent domain. And so the infrastructure and the membrane to support a data center is now having local government and state government exercising eminent domain. No, I don't. Derek, I disagree. It's not just inmate domain.
Starting point is 02:17:54 It's, hold up, Derek. It's multiple things. It's sound. It's the size. It's water. It's also tax breaks and not getting things back. So it's multiple things that are dry. So in different parts of the country, it could be, it could be in the domain here.
Starting point is 02:18:17 It could be water usage here. It could be electric rates here. It could be size here. It can be sound here. But the two words, and this is perfect for, again, to opposition. It's just two words or four words. I hate data centers.
Starting point is 02:18:36 The campaign is so easy, so it don't matter where you come at it. Your whole deal is I oppose data centers. It is a powerful, powerful, mobilizing and organizing thing. And so if you're the, and my Republican candidates, as that ad said,
Starting point is 02:18:56 they down with data centers, and it's causing them a problem. Go ahead. Rowland, I mean, listen, you are doing speed data tonight, my dear brother. You're getting from A to Z. Well, you got to get to the point. You got to unpack it quickly. I know.
Starting point is 02:19:15 All right. So in my district, Roland, I have the largest data center in the United States. I had the largest data center in the United States in my district. It went up a few years ago. And so my constituents came out because when the eminent domain piece and these 200-foot antennas were in their yard to now they can hear the humming. So everything was fine until they put up that membrane. And Georgia Power had to cut some serious checks, hundreds of thousands of dollars. So yes, health concerns, noise, electricity.
Starting point is 02:20:00 electricity, utilities costs, water consumption. So all those things you're talking about. But the public did not come out until after the data center was built, and they're saying, we now got to put this membrane in the residential area. That's point number one. The final point is this, because you're right, Roland, but the incentives, $2.5 billion, that's what this Republican governor gave to data centers, $2.5 billion. And so that all came out after the conversation when folks realized this oversized million square foot building called a data center, the largest city of the United States.
Starting point is 02:20:43 It didn't become not in my backyard until that membrane was built. Yeah. I mean, look, these things, Robert, what is happening is right here. Here's a Republican who was running in Virginia where this is a huge issue. Listen to what he says. Data centers. Tenth district. Yes or not?
Starting point is 02:21:04 We definitely need data centers. Everybody here have a phone with them. I don't sound is holding by. If you're using a phone, you're pro-data center when you know it or not. So again, I like cleverification. Julie's a hard or no. You're a soft yes. I'm a soft yes.
Starting point is 02:21:24 Soft yes, Robert. That's going to be potent at the ballot box. And look, brother, I feel sorry for some of these elected officials because what happened was about two or three years ago before this was a big issue. A lot of you folks sold out to the data centers in the 2024 and some even the 2020 election cycle. We had crypto data centers, NFTs, just writing huge checks to political action committees. And these elected officials bless their hearts. Ain't all the hell these things were. And they said, look, free money.
Starting point is 02:21:55 I'm corrupt. I'll take it. And now they find themselves on the other. of an issue, which has become a hot but an issue. It's a bigger thing than just the environmental issue, just the water issue, just the electricity issue, you have to start asking yourself, why exactly do we need a hard drive the size of a city
Starting point is 02:22:16 outside of every town? How much information are these people taking in on us? Why do I have to do a face scan in order to rent a house now? Why do I need a fingerprint scan in order to open my phone? Why does it they have a map of everywhere I've been to in the last 10 years? When they're taking this much data, he combined that with the issues of flock cameras. He combined that with the issues of AI. This is not just a backlash against data centers.
Starting point is 02:22:42 This is a backlash against the beginning of the Terminator movie, where it seems that these big tech oligarchs now have complete control of the American economy at our entire society. As I mentioned earlier, President Trump, when people complained about data centers, had the big tech CEOs at the White House and said, I will not be regulating them at all. So we are in a position now where you have many politicians who have sold out, they sold their souls. They can't say anything about the flock cameras.
Starting point is 02:23:08 They can't say anything about the data centers. They can't say anything about the AI takeover, crypto, et cetera, because they're already corrupted. And the people are now in a position where we have to throw them out because they don't have the freedom or independence. You actually vote for what they believe in. They can only vote for what they sold their soul for. I believe, Rebecca, I believe. that if you see, Republicans of a very narrow majority, if Democrats, you've heard the chaos.
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Starting point is 02:26:09 I'm former U.S. Women's National Soccer team player, Carly Lloyd. I'm Fox Sports reporter, Jenny Taft. And on our new podcast, whatever it takes, we're talking motherhood, marriages, careers, and figuring out how to balance it all. And we'll discuss the game that brought us together, because nothing is off limits. Do you remember your initial reaction when Fox called you to be a part of the World Cup? I was like, no, I don't want to do it. You said no?
Starting point is 02:26:33 I played with players that didn't, I don't think that they really, truly love the game. I found the love with the ball at my foot. But in my head, it was the long game. It was like, I don't care what I'm being asked to do at Fox. I'm going to go get some reps, and I'm going to learn it and love it and embrace it. He said, this group of people will never. be in the same room as part of the same team ever again in your life. And it is your job to make sure that you enjoy the moment. You're proud of what you accomplish together. Listen to whatever it
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Starting point is 02:27:43 And I think the answer is yes. You know, the best part about stuff, buds is parents have come up to me. Thank you. You helped my relationship with my daughter so much. It goes a lot further than you, would think every time you underestimate a Yukon player comes at your own peril. You know, when you talk about women's sports, it's like Prego spaghetti sauce. It's in there. You know that commercial? Like, it's in there. You name it. It's in there. Want to know what's
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Starting point is 02:29:02 Party is it's very easy to be a Republican, okay? They don't have to worry about any moderates. They don't exist. They have no liberal Republicans. They don't exist. You either can you right or hard right, okay? Now, Democrats, they're different, okay? You got moderates, You got center right. You got center left. You got progressives, liberals, far left. I mean, you have a much larger tent on the Democratic side. But you do need the numbers on the Democratic side where if you've got 20 or 25 or 30 folks
Starting point is 02:29:41 and you're going to need their votes to pass bills, they can actually force some real change than what you're seeing from the leadership. and I think what we are seeing on the ground, and that this tsunami actually comes about. And even if I would go to the Senate, before I came on the show, I was talking to your brother who's asking me about the United States Senate.
Starting point is 02:30:03 I said, listen, right now, 53-47 Republicans. Democrats need to hold the seat in Michigan and hold the seat in Georgia. Okay, they're going to pick up North Carolina. So now you have 5248 Republican. Now all of a sudden, you now start looking at, all right, Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Ohio. Those four places right there, all right, crypto is pouring money into Ohio to beat Sherrod Brown over John Hustead. And I keep saying the Sherrod Brown's campaign.
Starting point is 02:30:39 If Sherrod Brown's campaign had taken black folks seriously and made an investment earlier, and frankly, he got, he had a black problem. in 2004, so I don't know how he'd think of black problem in 2006. I think he would be up even bigger in Ohio had they put some money in. And so other interests are putting money in Ohio for black folks, but the shared Brown campaign and his white consultants are too stupid to actually do it. Okay, but let's say they win Ohio. Now you're at, okay, you're going to pick up North Carolina, 5247.
Starting point is 02:31:09 Let's say Brown wins in Ohio, 5149. Now all of a sudden, Alaska, Iowa, Maine comes in a play. Now, let me throw in Florida, Texas, long shots, going to be real hard possibilities. Long, long shot, Scott Colomond, Memphis and Mississippi, running a hell of a race. But let's just, let's just say, again, out of those six seats, Democrats pick up four out of the six. Now all of a sudden, it's 53 Dems, 47 Republicans, and you already know John Federman is damn near a Republican, so we know how he's. going to vote, that's going to be 52 Democratic votes. Same thing. I don't think. If you're those senators and you get elected, I don't think you support Schumer because I'm telling you right now,
Starting point is 02:31:58 I don't believe for a second that Schumer has the fight in him that he needs to have. And he is not what people looking for. And I just believe, and this is why I also don't believe Kamala Harris is going to run for president. It's because what Democratic voters are going to be saying is after two terms of Trump, they're going to be looking for a different type of leader. So they're going to want a different type of leader in the House, in the Senate, at the DNC, the candidates are running. So you're going to see a real battle over the next year or two
Starting point is 02:32:35 in the Democratic Party, Rebecca. So I made no secret. My personal politics align more with the Ella Bakers of the world. My personal politics align more with Jesse Jackson. especially as 88 run. And during that 88 run, during that 88 DNC, Chuck Schumer stood up and he talked about how he was the anti-Jesse Jackson and that Democrats shouldn't be run
Starting point is 02:33:01 by those Jesse Jackson types. He was talking about a lot of Jesse Jackson's policies where Jesse Jackson supported Medicare for all. Jesse Jackson supported a lot of progressive politics. He supported making sure that housing affordability was a thing. He supported fair wages. He really supported the people.
Starting point is 02:33:22 He supported making sure that we actually invested in adequate healthcare and research. He supported doing more and also even calling out the AIDS epidemic. The reason why I raised this is that we saw that the DLC, we saw the corporatists, the centralists in the Democratic Party, end up winning and beating out Jesse's wing of the party. And so just as much as you're talking about Chuck Schumer, we also have to acknowledge that Hakeem Jeffries is not a progressive. He's more aligned with Chuck Schumer than that 88
Starting point is 02:33:57 Jesse Jackson. And so even when it comes time, if the Democrats do win back the house and it comes time to seek a speaker, just understand that if it's Hakeem Jeffries, it's not going to be progressive. He doesn't support Medicare for all. Well, we know the majority of this country supports health care at that level because how unaffordable premiums I've gotten when we've seen the MAGA movement destroy and attempt to destroy the rest of the Affordable Care Act. So the other day on your show, you talked about not to supporting black folks because they're black, but supporting black policy agenda. We also have to understand that what Democrats are going to face if they win the House back,
Starting point is 02:34:40 that there has to be leaders that are put forth. actually have a black agenda. And just because they're black, like Hakeem Jeffries, doesn't mean that it's a black agenda. Absolutely. So it is going to be, I'm telling you, listen, if you are Democratic leaders, man, y'all better buckle up because the voters are going to be sent.
Starting point is 02:35:07 I believe that Democratic voters are going to send a serious message. I know Republicans are feeling good about Florida. I'm telling you right now, I believe Florida is going to be very close. It's going to be tough for Angie Nixon to win, but she is doing stuff on the ground. She beat Vindman. I'll raise her at 16 to 1, and I'm telling y'all, listen, if that black tsunami comes through, and I'm telling y'all, again, and this is why I want y'all to invest in black folks, because, see, when we invest in black organizations and you're not waiting on a candidate or a party,
Starting point is 02:35:43 Now, we understand when it comes to running as Republican and Democrat. But the bottom line is this here. If we are investing in our people on the ground, I'm telling y'all, if you look at Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, even Arkansas, that congressional race of Chris Jones, you talk about that Justin Pearson. I need Memphis. Memphis, y'all, listen, 85% of all eligible black people voted for Harold Washington and. In 1983, he became the first black mayor. Memphis, y'all need to punish Governor Bill Lee. Punish the Republicans for what they did to the congressional district in Memphis. And there should be a massive black turnout for Justin Pearson to bury that Republican running against them who said he didn't give a damn about Memphis.
Starting point is 02:36:36 And so that needs to happen. Before we go, y'all saw this here. And my Lord, this was just too good not to play. was Iowa this woman is running for the Fayette County Council District 4 in Indiana y'all they had a live canons form last week and Lord this is just manner from heaven and that's what I have to say about that okay and our last question of the night is if elected what is one decision that you expect to make that may be unpopular with some voters but you believe ultimately would be in the best interest of Fayette County I wouldn't raise your town
Starting point is 02:37:15 X's. What is the one decision that I would make? Hmm. Repeat that again. What is the one decision that I would make that might not be popular for fake gun? Right, that may be unpopular with some voters. But is in the best interest of the county. Mm. All Republicans.
Starting point is 02:37:39 I wouldn't let them, I mean, I don't even talk to them. I don't like them. I mean, they voted against our own state representative voted against, to her own party. I mean, what do you want me to say? I don't like being around them.
Starting point is 02:37:58 I mean, y'all did this to us. You all voted for us. You made this happen, this ice coming into our communities, stealing people's jobs. I mean, I've been threatened so many times to my face by MAGA, we'll call them, because there's Republicans actually get it. You know?
Starting point is 02:38:28 There are good Republicans out there. They didn't understand these maggots. Who are just racist and aren't very intelligent at all? They call you names. They, I, my, you know, sheriff's nephew, trying to blow my head off. But, you know, what are you gonna do? Well, that brings us to your opportunity to say just a few last words
Starting point is 02:38:53 to the voters. Hmm. We have guns to. All right. The first minute of the debate of this. That I want to go to you, Jamie. How are you today? I'm good.
Starting point is 02:39:20 How are you? Good. Would you like to share with us a little bit about yourself and read your opening statement? Okay, I didn't write one. So I'm just going to not read it, just say it out vowel. Perfect. For my heart, okay. My name is Jimmy West.
Starting point is 02:39:36 I'm a mother of three. They're all grown children. They're all pretty successful. I'm proud of them. I own a cleaning business called Queen Bee's Cleaning LLC because I am an environmentalist. I do, that's why I named it that. And I am a gig worker. I deliver a lot of groceries and packages for my community.
Starting point is 02:39:57 So if you trust me, you know, delivering your groceries, you should trust me with your vote. You know? You know? I'm going on. But I'm here because I'm here because I'm I have been going to the State House for years fighting this legislation that goes through Senate Bill 1 Dale Strong mentioned that and how much it hurts our communities it doubled so many people's property taxes only about one or
Starting point is 02:40:29 two percent of all of your Hoosiers benefited from it and it harmed our communities our rural communities especially our schools And our, I love the schools, I'm total supporter of the schools and the teachers, but our emergency services are the ones that we really need to worry about. And I spoke to the Connersville Chief of Police, or I'm sorry, fireman, the fire chief today, Scott Jones. And he is also very worried about what will happen to the fire stations. I might need to get a clean X out, man. It makes me sad what the Republicans in the statehouse have done to our rural communities. And he told me that if we don't do something different,
Starting point is 02:41:26 which means, to me it means, voting for Democrats that we will lose one of our firehouses. He doesn't know which one yet by 2029. We're going to lose it. Are you okay with that? I'm not. And Kay Payton, who is just here, she was at a town hall meeting with her and lieutenant governor Beckworth and she groveled to him for emergency service money and And he looked at her and he's like, oh, I'll look into it. And two minutes later said, we don't have enough money for your emergency services. But we have enough money to do the redistricting, which we fought in one.
Starting point is 02:42:16 And, you know, so I've been fighting at the stay house for years for our community on my own dime. Yo, folks will talk about James, listen, I'm telling you all right now. uh, uh, Carol, all y'all control. Write this damn race down. I'm checking November 3rd to see if Jamie Wiss win. I mean, Rebecca, they were like saying, oh,
Starting point is 02:42:39 that she's drunk. She had something. I mean, she killed. We got guns too. Look, she said that, um, we got guns too. And Robert, you'll be proud of me. I went to the range. Oh, you know Robert was like, hell yeah.
Starting point is 02:42:55 You know Robert was hyped. Look, I found a black old. I found a black-owned company that trains, especially black people in gun safety. So Robert, thank you so much for encouraging black folks to understand that the First Amendment is not the only amendment. Look, this lady, I can't wait to see whether or not she's going to win come election night. And this is what she said. She said, if you trust her to deliver your food and your packages, then you ought to trust her to be an office of represent you. Rob, I know you got a gun someone around you right now.
Starting point is 02:43:33 That don't ain't shocked me. So I know you just love what Jamie had to say. I know you got, I know the Flamethroy got a gun at his feet right now. Look, Roland, there's a thing. We have a rule in the South, the outcast rule. Andre 3,000 bombs over bad act said, don't pull the thing out unless you plan the bang. So that's a new leaf I'm pulling, turning over for the new year.
Starting point is 02:43:57 Is there a case somewhere in this room? Absolutely. But that doesn't matter. But look, one of the thing I think people also need to keep in mind, since we brought the subject up, this week the ATF changed the NFT, that's the National Firearms Act, to loosen federal regulations on firearm accessories. If you're a Second Amendment advocate, this is great. If not, you might want to look into this. There are 15 states to still have these laws on the books, but now silencers are completely legal federally. Assault of shotguns, short-barrel rifle.
Starting point is 02:44:29 vertical grips on your firearms, manufacturing your own serial rifles at home. So if you're an enthusiast, find out if your state laws apply. If not, you might want to watch out what people have under the coats because the, no, Wild Wild Wild West. So might want to take a look for that. Well, as Rebecca was talking, I went ahead and saw this on Twitter. So this is here for Rebecca right here.
Starting point is 02:44:53 Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh, Derek, boy, just, you know, Oh, boy, Jamie was on fire that, Derek. Yeah, listen, Roland, you know, it's something where an individual that's running for office to say flat out, I have a gun to. Listen, I'm a Second Amendment Democrat, right? I'm a retired neighbor officer.
Starting point is 02:45:21 Why wouldn't I have a gun as well? But here's the point. We're at this point in our society that our citizens, citizens are so afraid to leave their homes, Roland, to go to the grocery store. They had the cameras out today at a polling precinct, and people were like, hey, you can just say my first name, but don't say my last name. And so the person's like, well, you know, is everything all right? And the guy said, if this dude in the White House sent the federal law enforcement to a duly elected sister, Representative Omar, He so people are afraid.
Starting point is 02:46:02 So that's the reason why you seeing folks like Rebecca saying, hey, Robert, hey y'all. I went to a gun range, right? I mean, come on, Roland. I mean, I get it for self-defense. I get it for personal safety. But she says she was threatened. This woman was, she's threatened. Right.
Starting point is 02:46:22 And so it's just sad that we're here we are in our society that a person running for office was threatened. Yeah, well. I mean, that's why a lot of people are reconsider. People are considering running the office. So Carol said, apparently she's running unopposed, so she's going to win. Hey, Senator Chris Murphy, who went down to, he went down to Florida, stay on Angie Nixon. I love this interview.
Starting point is 02:46:47 This is what Angie asked to sit on CNN, y'all. Come on, God. Turn the audio up. We are spreading, like, a lot of disinformation and lies on commercials about me, saying things, like, I want to abolish prisons, and I want to defund the police, why would I want to do that when I want her locked up and punished in jail for what she has done? And so, you know, we are going to continue to stump on this campaign trail all across the state from the panhandle to the keys, and we're looking forward to them calling me Senator on November 3rd. You want your Republican opponent locked up?
Starting point is 02:47:24 You know, she, yeah, basically, yes, because of what she did. Yes, I absolutely would want that to happen. Yes. Do you have... I've been perfectly clear. I've been perfectly clear. Now, she was campaigned. She was campaigning with Joanne Reed. Give me one second, y'all. And somebody asked this question right here.
Starting point is 02:47:44 Hold on one second. I thought this was hilarious. Give me one second. I'm going to set this thing up. All right, here we go. All right, now it gets a little bit tougher. Five words that best describe your opponent. Oh, ho.
Starting point is 02:48:01 Lying. She and I'm in church. I can't say the other one. What's the other one, Michelle? I said it got harder, not easier. I'm just saying, hey, do what you got to do. All right, y'all, that is it for us. Let me thank Derek.
Starting point is 02:48:35 Let me thank the flamethrower, Robert Patillo. Let me thank the, let's congratulate the Tampa Bay Rays for sweeping the New York Yankees. Rebecca Havelin there to wear that. Rebecca, you know, you know you can get a damn hat that color without the Yankees logo. It's the only hat I had in my house that was this color. Duh.
Starting point is 02:48:59 So I had to pick what I needed. That's that bullshit right there. I'm telling you right now. I'm just telling you right now. If you come on this show with a Longhorn hat, which is similar to that color, your ass will not be on the show that day. I don't know.
Starting point is 02:49:13 I would never do. that I'm from Nebraska. And as a lifelong courthusker, I can never wear a U-THA. I'm just saying, you're talking about the damn colors. I'm just saying, all right, all right. We appreciate it, folks. That is it for us. Let me remind y'all, we are hitting the road.
Starting point is 02:49:31 We are going to be in Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi. First of all, hold up before we even go there. My goodness, let me go ahead and do this here. I'm hitting the road actually even earlier than that. I am going to be, so let me get y'all a sense where I am going to be this weekend. So beginning Saturday, Saturday, y'all can give me one second. Let me find it. If y'all are in Indianapolis, Indianapolis, I'm going to see y'all on Saturday.
Starting point is 02:50:05 That's right, on Saturday. You know, the Stewart brothers, speakers, they have their, okay, got it. going to be, first of all, that's, it can't see that. So I'm going to be in Indianapolis on Saturday at the Madam C.J. Walker Theater. Two panel conversations taking place, two panel conversations. So let me zoom in right here. So Stewart Speaker Series, you see it right here. I'll come on my iPad. 10 a.m. 430, Madam C. Madam Walker Legacy Center, 617 Indiana Avenue, a day of critical conversation, civic engagement, and action. So we're going to be there. That's a going to be again on Saturday. So I will see y'all in Indianapolis on Saturday
Starting point is 02:50:48 beginning at 10 a.m. Okay. All right. Then of course, then I'm going then I'm going to travel that night. I will see I will be in Atlanta. We had Pastor Cody Dees on the show and we had him of course he's talked about these white evangelicals and all the craziness that they're doing. I send him my book White fear. He said, hey, I would love to have you at my church. So on Sunday morning, 11 a.m., I'm going to be there, folks, at Vining's Lake, Vining's Lake at 11 a.m. It's in the Atlanta area on Sunday. Sunday morning, 11 a.m. So I will see y'all there. I will be signing. We do them to Q&A with him, and I will be signing copies of my book, White Fear, there as well. So, y'all, y'all. So, y'all
Starting point is 02:51:42 So if you have your book, I'll sign up there, come on out. If you want your book, come on out there as well. Monday, Jackson, Mississippi. We're going to be at the NAACP office there in Jackson, Mississippi, broadcasting live. Scott Colom is going to be joining us. Look forward to that conversation. Tuesday, we're traveling to Montgomery, Alabama. We're going to be at the campus of Alabama State in the Student Center Ballroom.
Starting point is 02:52:07 I'm going to previously, I'm going to interview, and we're going to run an interview of Congressman Shemari Figures who is running, so we're going to be there. Mayor Stephen Reed is going to be joining us there. We want y'all to pack it out in Montgomery. Wednesday, we're locking down the venues, but we're going to be in Miami Gardens on Wednesday. We're going to be in Riviera Beach, Florida on Thursday. And then on Friday, we're going to be in Tallahassee, Florida.
Starting point is 02:52:30 Apparently, homecoming, the same thing. So we're going to be broadcasting from Tallahassee. We're trying to lock down location as well. And then next Saturday, I'm going to be on the road seven days. week y'all next saturday going to pull it up i'm going to be in toledo ohio speaking to the nblacp in toledo ohio you can get your tickets as well you see the cure our code right there so i will see y'all in tlito so again indianappas on saturday uh in alana area on sunday jacksing mississippi on monday mcumary on tuesday miami miami gardens on wednesday on thursday tallyacson
Starting point is 02:53:05 friday on the friday tledo ohio on saturday we will see y'all all there so looking forward to to it. So again, thanks to our panel, and I'm going to see y'all on the road. So come on out, get your books, and we look forward to some great conversation as well. Hey, support the work that we do. Your donations allow us to be able to travel. We're going to have a team of eight folks are going to be hitting the road, traveling to all these places. And so when you contribute to our show, allows us to be able to do what we do every single day. And so if you want to contribute via cash app, use a Stripe QR Code. You see it right here. That's a credit code's also for credit cards. If you're listening, go to blackstartnetnetwork.com for all the ways to give, support
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