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The Texas DEI Program Shutdown marks a major turning point, and Brian Harrison told WarRoom the only reason it happened is because grassroots conservatives forced the establishment to fold.

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This clip aired on WarRoom’s evening show on December 2, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).

 

STEVE BANNON (HOST): I want to turn to Texas though. Brian Harrison. Brian, after all the hard work of the grassroots and folks like yourselves down there, we are starting to see some wins. We had a big win today. What do you have for us?

BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): This is a huge win and one of just a long string of huge conservative, massive conservative victories. The grassroots patriots, very much including the posse, have forced a change. So I have got some breaking news down here.

Steve, I do not know how many times I have been on your show this year talking about how Texas, despite the fact that we have this reputation for being a bold conservative Republican MAGA state, our government is actually very blue even though the Texas voters are very red. Well, the Texas government has been one of, if not the biggest funders, as crazy as this sounds, of DEI, perhaps in all of the country.

And in fact, just one program, the biggest DEI program in Texas, is called our HUBS program, Historically Underutilized Businesses. And what it is is the comptroller of the state of Texas has been requiring every single state agency, when they issue any kind of contract, to use minimum DEI criteria. Here, and I will give you just a couple examples. For every construction contract in Texas, a minimum of 21 percent had to be awarded on the basis of race or gender. For any special trade construction contracts, 30.

Well guys, I think we put the fear of God into the comptroller, into the governor in Texas. And as of today, that program has effectively been ended. So I have got some very good historic news. The biggest DEI program in the state of Texas. The posse, hardworking patriotic Texans and Americans all across the country, forced a massive defeat against the liberal establishment Austin Uni Party.

And now let me make no mistake about this. There is zero chance this would ever have happened through the normal legislative process. Every bill I filed to end these DEI programs in Texas died a unceremonial death, were not even allowed to be debated. But just by going on social media, going on War Room, going on media, and going straight to the people over the heads of the Texas establishment, we delivered the single biggest defeat against DEI, the biggest victory for people against discriminatory DEI in Texas history.

And just to make it clear, at risk of putting too fine a point on it, guys, our social media, I call them the LibertyBots, the people that follow me on X, guys, we have done more for conservatism just in the past few months than the governor, lieutenant governor, entire Texas House, entire Texas Senate combined. Just in the last few months we forced out the leftist president of Texas A&M who was pushing DEI and transgender indoctrination. We forced the Texas DMV to stop issuing vehicle registrations to illegal aliens. I announced that on your shows too, Steve. And then here today, we have killed the single biggest DEI program in the Texas government.

And I just want to come on and say thank you to everybody who had a hand in that.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): But Brian, here is the question. Why is it that the voters do not want this and they are adamant about it? Guys like you have been fighting. But the political class in Texas that is voted into office and empowered by these same voters, what is the logic? Why do they make it so difficult? Why are they adamant about not ending all these programs unless absolutely humiliated, embarrassed, forced to? A forcing function, something like this. What is the mentality that makes them just sit there and say we do not care what our voters want, sir?

BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): Yeah, no, absolutely. I say this all the time. Transparency is like kryptonite in the liberal Austin swamp. And I will say this too. I would actually think, Steve, it is like the biggest form of voter fraud.

Okay, voters gave Republicans the governor’s mansion, lieutenant governor’s office, massive majorities in the Texas House, the Texas Senate. Republicans have every single statewide office in the state of Texas. But you know what happens? These so called Republicans, many of them are actually Democrats. They just know they cannot get elected if they were honest.

They campaign for office saying, vote for me, I will stand up to those radical Democrats who are going to indoctrinate the next generations. Vote for me, I will fight the radical leftists who are going to bankrupt the future of our state and our country. But the second they get elected and they go under that corrupt pink dome down in Austin, they vote to put those very Democrats in power. And they collude with them to pass a Marxist, leftist, progressive agenda, and they do it all under the guise, the sham, pride of secrecy.

And that is why even though it is the most hated Twitter feed in the state of Texas, it has now become the most powerful Twitter feed, for those of you who follow me on X, because we are delivering more and doing more for the voters of Texas than the entire Austin establishment combined.

And make no mistake about this. Every single one of these conservative victories only happened because they were shamed and forced at the point of public humiliation into doing the right thing. It should not be this hard. You know, when I called for the president of Texas A and M to be fired, this former Barack Obama official who was this leftist DEI indoctrinator, not one other Republican in the Texas government joined me in that fight. But going on War Room, the posse, patriots across the state and the country, we delivered.

And it should not be this hard. But you know what? If this is what it takes to preserve Texas and therefore preserve America and therefore the world. Because as you know, Steve, we are in a fight for nothing less than the future of Western civilization. Texas is on a front line. We are a battleground state. We are the line in the sand for the future of liberty.

It should not be this hard. I should not have to work with you and the Posse and pressure and shame the elected Republican establishment in Texas into doing the right thing for voters and the future. But you know what, Steve? If that is what it takes, if it is that amount of work and that amount of effort, if we can do our part to preserve the blessings of liberty and freedom and prosperity for my kids, your kids, grandkids, and the next generation of Texans and Americans, you know what, Steve? It should not be this hard, but it is. But you know what? It is worth it and we are making a difference.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): You know, talk about making a difference. We just had a report from the Heritage Action guys, and of course I had Turning Point on this morning about a rally. This is all about Indiana, about the 9 to 0 versus the House just voted it out at the first reading, and it is going to have to go through a couple more, but they said today they had seven hours of Democratic activists, people around the nation coming in, and they all referred back to Texas.

Texas was the railhead, and I remember having the meeting with you and Glenn Story down there. It seems like decades ago, but it was really back, I guess, in July, when you helped lead us and forced the hand on Abbott to come back.

Has anybody, they keep using Texas as an example. Has anybody been penalized at all, held accountable for the Democrats leaving and going to Illinois? Remember all the threats that were there, and the way you stop this is to hold people accountable. Make sure that, has a parking spot been taken? Has any seniority been taken? Has anybody’s office been moved? Please tell me something happened about that fiasco with the Democrats.

BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): It is funny you say that. I just pulled out my phone here because I just tweeted out this morning. I did the math, Steve. It has been 121 days since the radical Marxist leftists abandoned their post and broke quorum to stop our redistricting efforts.

And here are the statistics. Because remember the governor said, if any Democrat does not show up at 3 o clock on Monday, their seats are going to be, our rhino speaker signed arrest warrants. I guess they were ceremonial arrest warrants.

Here are the statistics. In 121 days since they broke quorum, the number of seats vacated: zero. The number of arrests: zero. The number of chairmanships, yes Democrats chair committees in the Texas House, and vice chairmanships. The number taken away: zero. The number of fines, one dollar of fines they will have to pay: zero. The number of them that have had their seniority stripped: zero. The committees they have been removed from: zero. Their offices defunded: zero. And you ask the big one, Steve, if we wanted to be serious and take away their parking spots: nope. They have all got their parking spots.

But do not worry, the Republican House caucus did meet and they did vote to not punish the Democrats. So zero consequences for the Democrats who broke quorum. And as of this morning, if my math is right, that was 121 days ago.

Let me tell you, Steve, we can joke about this, but it is actually not a laughing matter. I know you know that. I am sick and tired of Democrats and leftists and Marxists and progressives fighting harder for the future of our state and nation than so called Republicans. And that is embarrassing as hell. Nowhere is that more true than in the great state of Texas.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): This is why it is so important. You are right. It is funny when you go through there how shocking it is. But we need to revisit that. And here is the reason. You have had California break their constitution. You have the folks up in Illinois now at 173. I think they are going to take a couple of my beloved Commonwealth of Virginia, which is 6 to 5 because it is kind of evenly split between Democrats or Republicans. They are going to put forward an amendment, legislation, or referendum in April to go 10 to 1.

The Democrats are on fire and playing smash mouth. And we are up in Indiana fighting. We have got Turning Point, we have got Heritage Action, we have got all the tribes that come together. It is a throwdown. And you have got these Democrats, and the Democrats understand how to use something like Indiana as an example. And I go back to Texas, which they turned into a fiasco. We have let them off the hook. There is no penalty for these guys playing smash mouth. And it has to be. We have got to do that. And we have got to turn to Texas and use that as an example, sir.

BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): Well, and you always talk about this. Stephen, you are exactly right. Like I said, why are the Democrats always the party fighting as hard as possible for the future? Why are not the Republicans fighting that hard?

And you talk about having a maximalist strategy. How many times, Steve, was I on with you here on WarRoom during the Democrat quorum break talking about what we call the Harrison Proposal? Play hardball. Every week the Democrats walk out, that is one more seat.

My question is, why the hell did we not pass a map that gave Texas five more seats? Because California, probably unconstitutionally by the way, is about to go and erase the gains from Texas. And the left is going to fight the Texas redistricting with every bit as much fervor whether we added five seats or six seats or seven seats or eight seats. So why did we only go for five?

The author of the bill said we could have done more than five. We should have done more than five. And by the way, we do not know if they are going to count because we have got these judicial activist judges down here, this three judge federal panel that slapped our maps down. So we do not even know how that is going to play out.

And as best I can tell, there is no contingency from the governor or the leadership of the Texas House or the Texas Senate to bring us back to draw another map in the event that our maps do not survive judicial scrutiny. As far as I am concerned, we should be working on another map right now that adds five, six, seven, eight, nine seats.

We need to be fighting as hard for the future as the Democrats. And we should have passed a map that had more than five seats. As you know, as razor thin as these margins are, the redistricting battle here in the state of Texas may well be the definitive variable in whether the United States Congress stays in Republican hands.

It is not the Republican Party and it is past time for that to change. And I want Texas actually to be leading the fight against that.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Brian, where do people go to get all your information, sir?

BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): The most hated, but as it turns out, I guess the most powerful Twitter feed in the state of Texas. At Brian E Harrison. At Brian E Harrison on X. Do your civic duty today. Piss off a RINO, go follow me on X.

At Brian E Harrison. And Steve, I would be remiss if I did not end here by just saying it one more time. Thank you to the posse. If you posted on social media, if you followed me, if you called the governor, lieutenant governor, the speaker. If you sent an email, if you posted on social media to stop DEI, to fire the Texas A and M president, for the DMV to stop giving vehicle registrations to illegal. These victories, big victories, would never have happened without you. So thank you from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of 30 million Texans to everybody who participated in delivering these big wins.

Thank you very much. Force multiply.

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The Ukraine Collapse Reality Check begins with Steve Bannon reading Putin’s warning to Europe, and Tej Gill laying out why the war has turned into a losing meat grinder the media refuses to show.

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This clip aired on WarRoom’s evening show on December 2, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).

 

STEVE BANNON (HOST): So, Tej Gill, I just want to read a couple of quotes here. I just gave you this specific, and he said even for Putin, this is hard.

President Vladimir Putin warned European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia, then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would be so absolute that there would be no one left to even negotiate with. Almost four years into the war in Ukraine, the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, Russia has failed to conquer the country, a much smaller neighbor, which has been supported by European powers and the United States.

Ukraine and European powers have repeatedly warned that if Putin wins the Ukraine war, then he would attack a NATO member, a claim which Putin has repeatedly dismissed as nonsense. Asked by a reporter about remarks in the Russian media that Hungarian foreign minister Peter Zlerato had cautioned that Europe was preparing a war against Russia, Putin said that Russia did not want a war with Europe.

This is a quote from Putin. If Europe suddenly wants to start a war with us and starts it, Putin said, then it would end so swiftly for Europe that Russia would have no one left to negotiate with.

Putin used media on my GETTR account with Putin that showed the introductory meetings. I just said, hey, finally we are sitting down with the guys who won. They won on the ground without massive United States weapons sales, or actually giving them weapons on many occasions, without huge infusions of cash. The Ukrainian people would not be where they are today on the battlefield. The thing would be long over. But they have almost two million casualties, dead and wounded, and the country looks like Dresden in 1945.

Somebody has to become a realist there. And I am most disturbed by senior personnel. And you should note, Marco Rubio was not in Russia today. Just saying. It was Kushner and Witkoff who were there with Putin across the table.

And any of this loose talk, and it is loose talk, about us giving sovereignty guarantees to countries that have guys like Yermak running it. He is now virtually in hiding, if not under arrest, or heading to the front. Because they now caught him red handed with stealing. They say 100 million dollars, but we know it is billions.

So, Tej, you have dedicated a big part of your life to being a patriot and going to serve your country on foreign battlefields. Your assessment of Ukraine, particularly the situation where we are talking about security guarantees given the sovereignty, and you saw on Saturday the president and Holman and the guys finally decided to go into New York City. I knew they went in first at the very first days of the administration. But to have a show of force with ICE now that Mandami, the Ugandan Marxist, jihadist, is going to take over, they had an ICE.

And it was not one of these ones they plan on. It was just kind of ICE guys going down into New York City on a Saturday during the holiday season, during the Christmas season, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. And man, it was a riot. You had people throwing garbage cans at them. They freaked out. And I have to give a hat tip to the ICE agents for keeping their cool and just getting the job done.

But we do not have, this proves we do not have sovereignty. Nation, and now we do not control it.

Tej Gill, your thoughts and observations.

TEJ GILL (GUEST): All right. Where do I start? I will start with Putin. Putin is, he has basically crushed the Ukrainian military now for the last couple years. No matter how much money, how much technology, how much manpower Ukraine throws at this, Russia just keeps grinding them down. It is a meat grinder. It is a battle of attrition and Ukraine is losing.

Short range ballistic missiles that have conventional warheads on them, and there is no way we can shoot them down. There is no way Ukraine can shoot them down. And Europe just wants to keep this fight going and going and going.

Every time there is about to be a peace deal or peace negotiations, Zelensky does a crazy stunt. They bomb the Russian strategic bomber fleet. They send sea drones into the Russian tankers. They do something to sabotage it. They do not want peace no matter what. Because if there is peace, the spigot, the money spigot, gets turned off.

And you talk about ICE raids. Europe needs ICE raids. Europe needs to close their borders. If Europe wants to fight Russia, maybe they should start recruiting all these Muslim immigrants on the streets.

Europe has lost everything. There is no more Europe anymore. Europe is now an extension of Russia. That is where they live. They live in the meat grinder. They are going to just wear down the European troops.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): This is the tragedy of Ukraine. We said this on the eve of the war three years ago, almost three and a half, almost four years ago, I guess, that it is not about the courage and the valor of the Ukrainian people and their dedication. They know it is a meat grinder. It is one of the reasons the mothers and fathers have worked so hard to keep the young men out of it. It is the reason they now have 300 thousand deserters that they are now searching through the European capitals on. It is a meat grinder.

The Russian way of war when you go to the bloodlands is not fancy. It is not fancy. They have armor, they have artillery, and they have infantry. And they are indifferent to how much the infantry gets chewed up. The Ukrainians have seen that. And that is what is so amazing about them as a people.

But the reality is, you are just not going to beat the Russian army. And what is happening here is that more and more Ukrainians, I think the president said the other day, 25 thousand casualties between both sides a month. One of the bloodiest years of the war has been this year. It is not reported by the mainstream media. You do not see BBC and MSNBC. Remember the first six months of this war, every night they were there, you were seeing all kinds of footage. They do not show it anymore because the Ukrainians are getting pounded.

It is time to bring it to a close. But the Russians are going to dictate some terms here because they won on the battlefield. And if you do not believe it, they will keep going. They will keep pounding.

And like I said, they have not taken Odessa. Their performance has not exactly been, you know, startling. I do not see back when I was in the service and in the Pentagon, we had all the concern about the Red Army coming across the Fulda Gap and, of course, the North German Plain. I do not see that happening now with this army. Hell, they could not even take parts of Ukraine. I do not see them blowing through Poland and into Germany.

But the Europeans have to know they have to defend themselves. The point is, we cannot be giving security guarantees and sovereignty guarantees in a part of the world where you have guys like Yermak in these governments and Zelensky making decisions. That is an obligation of the American people.

That is an obligation of, look at these kids 10 years old today. In 7, 8, 9, 10 years, we could be backing some kind of corrupt Ukrainian government with these guys in Brussels that have basically turned their countries over to the Arabs and to the Muslims. And they are our partners.

Brussels is 30 percent Muslim. The Fifth Republic in France is about to fall because of finances. The UK has got nothing. They are going to have a civil war in the UK. Those are supposed to be our partners. They would be giving guarantees we depend upon. It will all be the United States. It will be our blood, our treasure.

And that is why it is outrageous. General Patton, General MacArthur, General Eisenhower, Field Marshal Montgomery. Everybody said even as crazy as Winston Churchill got about the Balkans, nobody would ever get involved in a war in World War II in the bloodlands. That was for the Russians and the Germans to pound it out. And trust me, it is the bloodiest battles in world history all took place in that general area. And the leaders of the American and allied forces kept us out.

We cannot be giving sovereignty guarantees to a bunch of crooks. That is what they are. Yermak is one of the great crooks out there.

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During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that there isn’t any evidence of fentanyl coming from Venezuela and said that we do know fentanyl comes up from Mexico, “but since

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During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) argued that President Donald Trump’s pardon of former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández reflects a contradictory and nonsensical policy where “if they label

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Republican Matt Van Epps triumphed in Tuesday’s House special election in Tennessee, stifling talk of a possible Democrat upset in a reliably red district.

As of Tuesday evening, the Associated Press projexted Van Epps as the winner, defeating his Democrat opponent, Tennessee state Rep. Aftyn Behn.

Epps will fill the seat of former Rep. Mark Green, a Republican who resigned from Congress in July to work in the private sector.

With 95% of the vote counted, Van Epps was beating Behn by about 9 percentage points, 53.9% to 45%. In 2024, President Donald Trump won the district by 22 percentage points.

Going into the election, there were signs that the race in a solidly red district could produce an uncomfortably close outcome for Republicans with an election year right around the corner.

A recent survey from Emerson College Polling and The Hill showed the race could be close, with Van Epps leading at 48% support against Behn’s 46%.

The GOP Push for Van Epps

Van Epps got a boost from Trump, who stepped in to encourage Republican turnout.

“To the Great People of Tennessee’s 7th District, who gave me Record Setting Wins in each of three Elections, I am asking you to get out and VOTE FOR MATT VAN EPPS,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Sunday.

Trump also heaped scorn on Behn, the Democrat Tennessee state representative seeking an upset in a district where Republicans have won comfortably in the past.

“Matt is fighting against a woman who hates Christianity, will take away your guns, wants Open Borders, Transgender for everybody, men in women’s sports, and openly disdains Country music,” Trump wrote.

House leadership and prominent Tennessee Republicans also stepped in to rally Republicans behind Van Epps.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., joined Van Epps at rallies in the leadup to the election, at one of which he had Trump via a speaker phone call say, “Matt Van Epps is a winner and will be great…The Democrats are spending a fortune, and we don’t want people that want to raise your taxes. [Behn] wants to raise your taxes on top of everything else.”

Tennessee Republican Reps. Tim Burchett and Andy Ogles, as well as Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, rallied for Van Epps as well.

Behn Attacked for Previous Comments About Nashville

In the run up to the election, Republicans highlighted Behn’s online footprint, including a podcast appearance in which she said of Nashville, “I hate this city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music.”

“I hate all of the things that make Nashville, apparently, an ‘it’ city to the rest of the country, but I hate it,” Behn said.

“Number one, she hates Christianity. Number two, she hates country music. How the hell can you elect a person like that?” Trump said, calling into a Van Epps rally that featured the speaker.

Nashville is the largest city in the district Behn hoped to represent.

In response to the resurfaced audio, Behn said on CNN, that she “was a private citizen.”

“Nashville’s my home,” Behn added. “Do I roll my eyes at the bachelorette parties and the pedal taverns that are blocking my access to my house? Yeah. Every Nashvillian does, but this race has always been about something bigger.”

In 2020, Behn expressed support on social media for calls to defund the police, in addition to writing, “Good morning, especially to the 54% of Americans that believe burning down a police station is justified.”

Pressed for clarification on those remarks, Behn said on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, “I don’t remember these tweets” and “I’m here to talk about my race, which is in literally nine days.

On Monday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., presented the surprisingly positive polls for Democrats in Tennessee as a bad sign for Republicans nationwide.

“Republicans have already lost,” Jeffries said. “The fact that they are spending millions of dollars to hold a seat that Donald Trump just won by 22 points is extraordinary.”

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The Indiana redistricting battle 2026 is now the center of the national political map, and Heritage Action’s Paul Lagemann explains why the fight in Indianapolis will shape control of Congress. The committee’s 9 to 0 map, the push for second reading, and the Senate resistance are turning Indiana into the first major test of the 2026 landscape.

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW:

This clip aired on WarRoom’s evening show on December 2, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).

 

STEVE BANNON (HOST): I love Jake Sherman and the Katie Turr, and whether they now, they are not MSNBC, it is MSW, ShamWow, over at ShamWow of the new network, Katie Turr. They do not talk about 45 percent of folks in a 40 million persons in state in California. You are going to have four seats, and they want to have none, 52 to 0.

Paul Lagerman joins me from Heritage Action. Paul, this is kind of your beat over at Heritage Action. Tiffany Justice and the team over there tell me you are the absolute killer on this. We just, despite MSNBC, we just had very good news come out of Indiana, and that is the committee, I think, voted 8 to 5 to put forward a map that is 9 to 0. Can you walk us through the process, sir?

PAUL LAGEMANN (GUEST): Absolutely. So this began, you know, months ago. The fact that we talk about this happening overnight in Indiana is absolutely incorrect. This conversation has been ongoing for months, talking about redistricting, talking about these maps, talking about the inequity that we have in Indiana, where we have the 7 to 2 majority within our congressional delegation in a state that is deep red. Every statewide elected official in the state is a Republican and has been for the last few cycles. And we have not had a Democrat here in quite some time. The numbers just bear this out.

So today what happened, the exciting part of today is this was the first actual legislative step. The House came in early. This is special session light in that it is not the exact special session. This is an early start to the actual session. So the House came in. The bill was introduced yesterday on the floor of the House. Committee hearing lasted all day today. I can say that Heritage Action, we were about the only folks that testified in favor of this bill, and it was just, it was person after person from about 9.30 in the morning until about 3 o’clock in the afternoon that did not like to see, that did not want redistricting.

And as you said, the vote came out favorably in the committee. Now it moves on to second reading. Second reading will happen tomorrow. On second reading in Indiana, there is the opportunity to amend the bill, to discuss the bill, to debate the bill. This is sort of the big hit, right? And you are going to see tomorrow just everything in the kitchen sink come at this bill in the form of amendments trying to tear it apart, adding poison pills. Those are all going to be defeated tomorrow because we know going into this that the House numbers are there. The votes are there in the Republican caucus. Remember, in Indiana, it is a 70 to 30 House. Quite literally, there are 100 members, 70 Republicans, 30 Democrats. The House can conduct business without the Democrats showing up. They do not have to worry about quorum or that sort of thing.

So tomorrow is the big day for all the amendments and then third reading on Friday. At the same time as Turning Point will be hosting a very large rally in the State House right next door to the House of Representatives on one floor down. So it is a big beautiful granite building. You are going to hear this pro redistricting echoing through the halls. So it is going to be pretty exciting.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Paul, you are a Hoosier, correct?

PAUL LAGEMANN (GUEST): Yes sir, born and raised.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): I mean this is a very, look, it just turns out that the Hoosier state is very red. It has been conservative a long time. It is quite, it is MAGA. There have been some of the Pence conservatives teaming up with the Democrats to do this. But when you said you had witnesses all day, the Democrats, because they are very smart, they understand the fight is just simply not here in Indiana. They need to send a message to their other troops because they are trying to force one in Virginia. They are trying to force something in Maryland. They think they got another bite at the apple in Illinois. They are going to go full on to even gerrymander worse than the gerrymandered states like California and Illinois right now.

So it is imperative. That is where this fight, this fight is not simply about an 8 to 1 map versus a 9 to 0 map. It is about, this is a war. This redistricting sets the predicate for the 2026 election. If Alast de Gras had not come to War Room in 2021 and we got revved up with him and others, we would have never picked up those eight seats in 2021 that are really the balance of what is in the House today.

Do the grassroots and the Republicans in Indiana understand the national importance and the national scale of this fight?

PAUL LAGEMANN (GUEST): I think that is the real struggle that we are running into, and it is not in the House. It is in the Senate. And in the Senate today, that is where we are seeing the pushback. That is where the vote count is in difficult territory. We have to move five more votes over to make sure that we can be successful in the Indiana Senate. So in the Senate, the body is 50. It is 40 to 10 Democrats. But you have to remember, you have Republicans teaming up with Democrats to kill redistricting in the Indiana Senate.

So this is the real difficulty. Now, a couple of weeks ago in what we call Organization Day, this is the day when the committees are assigned, when the rules are adopted, all the things for the upcoming session are happening, an unscheduled vote occurred in the Senate, and that was to not do a special session and not deal with redistricting. And it passed, okay? So now that was Democrats and Republicans, Republicans light, maybe I guess we should say, teaming up to say we do not want to deal with the process.

Well, the House countered that. And when Speaker Houston opened up this session early, the amount of pressure from the grassroots, from the base, the conservative base across the state, so folks from every district are calling their legislator. In Indiana it is a part time legislature, so they are not there all the time. They have a real job at home in most cases, unless they are retired or a teacher. And so those folks come home. They see their constituents in the grocery store. It is not like Congress. There is not a barrier of staff. There is not a lot of those people.

So they have been bombarded with calls and text messages, and people stopping by their house, and their friends are really kind of hitting them up. So we feel this momentum building. We feel the momentum building for the vote. We feel like we are in a good place. We have seen a couple of folks break from a no to a yes. And like I said, we still have five votes to go right now in the Senate. And so I think this House pressure is really making a difference in a very positive way.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Paul, where do people go to get information on this at Heritage Action? And what is your personal coordinates as far as your social media? As you know, the War Room Posse wants to keep up to speed on this 24 hours a day.

PAUL LAGEMANN (GUEST): Yeah, we are right on top of this. Heritage Action, that is where you are going to find the War Room moment to moment activity. Keep an eye on our Heritage Action website. Keep an eye on our Heritage Action socials. That is where we are going to hit it. It is going to be coming out pretty much on a daily basis. You are going to see a lot more flying today.

And I happen to also be a locally elected official, so you will see me here. And you will see me on Friday too. We will be speaking at the Turning Point event on behalf of Heritage, and we are super excited about that. So if we can put it, it is, I think it is going to be terrific. And you are going to see members from the congressional delegation represented there. I know at least our Senator Jim Banks, who has been a stalwart conservative in the state, I know he is going to have some folks on site there. He is dealing with the defense budget, so I do not know that he will be able to be there in person. But it is going to be, I think, a really terrific thing.

Now the one thing I do have to mention is the onslaught of folks today and the hits that we took. The questions that came from the Democrat side of the aisle were pretty intense. And it was great. Representative Ben Smaltz of Auburn, Indiana, handled it with grace and charisma. He did a fantastic job of getting 70 or 80 of the same question repeatedly hit at him. He did not lose his temper. He handled it very well and just kept saying, look, this is a response to a political. And the Democrats kept saying, but Texas, but Texas. And the reality is in Indiana that California made the move, and if we do not respond, then we lose the House up the escalatory ladder.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Paul Lagemann, a Hoosier. Look forward to coming back to you, sir. Thank you.

PAUL LAGEMANN (GUEST): Thank you so much. A real pleasure to be here. Thank you, brother.

Contact Paul Lagemann here.

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Republican Matt Van Epps won a Tennessee House special election on Tuesday defeating Democrat Aftyn Behn. CD07 covers portions of heavily Democrat Nashville which gave democrats hope to make a flip of this House seat. (VIA AP) – […] A military veteran and former state general services commissioner from Nashville, Van Epps defeated Democratic state […]

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As the final stretch of Medicare’s open enrollment period begins, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz is requesting America’s seniors to take immediate action to avoid missing out on potentially significant healthcare savings and coverage improvements.

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Tuesday on MS NOW's "All In," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called President Donald Trump's whole life "a scam."

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Tuesday on MS NOW's "All In," Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth "is the most unqualified secretary of defense we've ever had in the history of our country, by far."

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race was triggered after former Republican Tennessee Rep. Mark Green resigned

A survey of likely Republican primary voters in Texas shows U.S. Sen. John Cornyn trailing both of his major challengers ahead of the 2026 GOP Senate primary, with the longtime incumbent now polling in third place.

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Matt Van Epps, the Republican candidate for Congress in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, defeated his Democrat opponent, Aftyn Behn, in a special election on Tuesday night.

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