October 1, 2025 • 34 mins
On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:
Aaron Reitz (“rights”) is the Paxton-endorsed candidate for Texas Attorney General. He is formerly the Trump-appointed, Senate-confirmed head of the Office of Legal Policy at DOJ, Senator Cruz’s Chief of Staff, AG Paxton’s Deputy, and an active duty officer in the Marine Corps.
AND
Michael Quinn Sullivan is a graduate of Texas A&M, former newspaper reporter, one-time Capitol Hill staffer, a think tank vice-president, and Eagle Scout. He is also the publisher of Texas Scorecard.
Aaron Reitz (“rights”) is the Paxton-endorsed candidate for Texas Attorney General. He is formerly the Trump-appointed, Senate-confirmed head of the Office of Legal Policy at DOJ, Senator Cruz’s Chief of Staff, AG Paxton’s Deputy, and an active duty officer in the Marine Corps.
AND
Michael Quinn Sullivan is a graduate of Texas A&M, former newspaper reporter, one-time Capitol Hill staffer, a think tank vice-president, and Eagle Scout. He is also the publisher of Texas Scorecard.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:09):
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Speaker 5 (00:42):
On yesterday's podcast, we talked to a couple of kids, kids,
young people. They were kids to me, folks. That one
was a high school student and the other was a
girl in college, junior in college, if memory serves at
any rate, Folks, We've been talking about the impact that
(01:04):
the left wing is having on our young people, and
it is not good at all. And our institutions that
were once proud, once American, once Texan have been undermined
by left wingers with a decidedly cancerous and anti American,
anti conservative, anti constitutional agenda. These institutions, one of them,
(01:28):
I'm sad to report, has been Texas A and M. So, look,
I just want to be very very clear about my
understanding of A and M coming as being somebody who
comes from outside of the state. There is nothing that
is equivalent in the People's Republic of California. I'm a
San Diego State alum. I graduated as an Aztec there
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is nothing equivalent in California, an institution that is of
so called higher education that like Texas A and M,
doesn't exist. I was talking with an alum this weekend
and basically saying, hey, what do you think about what's
going on in Texas A and M. And telling him
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what I'm telling all of you, that it was something
that I couldn't relate to. He tells me the reason
why he has his current job is because he was
an aggie, because it was a choice between him and
somebody else, and the Aggie code is what put him
over the top. Because when somebody is making a hiring decision,
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in particular in the state of Texas, they say, wow,
the aggie lives by a code, swears an honor to
this code, honors this code, and that's going to be
a good worker. That's going to be somebody that's going
to do well for our company. I had never seen
the equivalent, never seen anything like it before I got
the Texas in two thousand and six. So it was
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an institution I began to immediately respect, and frankly, as
I'm as I hear this student body at Texas A
and M is still largely conservative sent there by conservative parents.
But what's happening with not only this latest president who's
stepping down Mark Wells, stepping down Obama's boy, what's happened
with him? But also the previous president of Texas A
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and M. They have introduced the cancer of woke, the
cancer of left wing extremism into the into this once
proud institution and is absolutely ruining it. And to the
point to where, folks, it was being speculated that the
laws of the Great State of Texas were being broken
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in service to left wing extremism and in service to
the diversity Inclusion equity de agenda, in service to the
LGBTQ ABC DFG cultural Marxist agenda. And Folks, I'm hearing
from Representative Brian Harrison that there are there are people
in the in the pipeline coming into an M and
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quote unquote leadership positions who are equally woke. They're just
continuing to funnel in wokeness, and I'm suggesting that perhaps
they ought to take a closer look. In violation of
Texas law, these people are being brought in with full
knowledge and maybe the expectation that they are going to
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find new and creative ways to break Texas law. The
law prohibits diversity inclusion equity. This nonsense. Inside of state institutions,
the idea is to crank out more leftists, like you know,
Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
The final thing that I'll say, because you've been gracious,
is this. When I first became a public defender, I
had no criminal defense experience and I walked in and
I told my boss Charlie. I said, listen, you should
hire me. He said why. I said, because I'm black.
Charlie looked at me like I was crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, diversity inclusion equity higher. The great doctor Martin Luther
King said we should be a colorblind society. Democrats are
rejecting doctor King. They are rejecting the colorblind society. You
know who was ahead of his time on all this,
on the diversity inclusion equity nonsense. It was the great
Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Listen, IHI, because I'm wearing these ribbons, I care more
than any of you about anything, and these ribbons say so.
I want you people sitting at home and you people
in the audience, look down at your lapel right now.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I want you to do this.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Put the camera back on me.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Do this.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
When you look down what do you see? You don't
see anything because you're not wearing any ribbons. It means
you're a bigot. It means you're a racist. It means
you're a sexist. It means you're a homophobe. It probably
means you're a white guy. It probably means you're a
European and you and you alone are responsible for all
the eels of America. But I'm not. Because I'm wearing
these ribbons.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I care more than you.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Diversity inclusion, equity in pokes. I guess what Rushes way
ahead of his time in saying, and what I'm telling
you right now is that all these conventions are created
by the left wing to advance their cancerous ideology, to
get you to give up willingly your rights and give
them up to government power so they can have power
over you. And all of these gimmicks, whether they call
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them the special colored ribbons for whatever cause you happen
to be talking about, or the diversity inclusion equity nonsense,
or the LGBTQ ABCDFG cultural Marxist agenda, it's all part
and parcel, and it's all being brought to you by
so called higher education. Even at Texas, a and m
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Speaker 1 (10:19):
Today, I want to bring on a couple of guys.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I wanted to have several conversations with these two men
because and I think that the topic of conversation that
we're all going to get into today, folks, has to
do with the themes that we have all been witnessing
across the country, not only with the Kirk assassination, the memorial,
but also the fight that we are having with the
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extremist left, with a violent left, and the need for
effective countermeasures that I don't believe the Republican Party writ
large is equipped to handle. So you've got to default
to conservatives. Conservatives of the core conservatives of the belief system.
Let me bring on Aaron Wrights. He's a Paxston endorsed
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candidate for Texas Attorney General, formerly Trump appointed Senate, confirmed
head of the Office of Legal Policy at DJ Senator
Cruise's chief of staff, A G. Paxson's deputy and an
active duty officer in the Marine Corps. And also Michael
Quinn Sullivan, graduate of Texas A and M, former newspaper
reporter and one time Capitol Hill staffer, think tank president
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Eagle Scout, and is the publisher of Texas Scorecard.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Gentlemen. Welcome to you.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Both, Hi, Grig, you happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Now the reason I invited you both, gentlemen, and we're
going to get into what's been going on at A
and M. In the broader context of this ongoing fight.
There seems to be an unrelenting habit of those who
claim to be Republicans to allow the left wing to
destroy our institutions. I want to get to that, but
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first I'm sure that both of you, like the rest
of the country, were glued to whatever viewing source you
had to watch the Kirk memorial over the weekend. I
just wanted to get your you know, thirty thousand feet takeaways,
mister Wright.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You first, yeah, sure, well thanks for having me on. Yes,
my whole family, my wife and our four children. We
had taped the memorial and we watched the overwhelming majority
of it. We were exceptionally moved.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I think a lot of conservative especially those of us
who have been very engaged in activist circles, were so
upset and really just hurt by what happened to Charlie
Kirk at the hands of a radicalized leftist who was
part of a left wing violent ecosystem that's nationwide and
has taken root here in Texas. But yesterday was really
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a time for deep reflection. I was so happy to
hear the gospel of Jesus Christ preached at virtually every
single speaker up to and including the President of the
United States. We were moved, we were encouraged, and we
went to sleep last night knowing that the zeal that
Charlie Kirk exhibited on college campuses all over the country
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is now going to multiply tenfold. I love the line
from the Secretary of War Pete Hegsteth in which he
said that the devil overplayed his hand. And I think
that's exactly right, because if you think that Charlie Kirk
at the left thinks that Charlie Kirk alone was a
force for good, a force for patriotism in this country,
well he just sparked a revival. His assassination sparked a
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revival of political activism, of conservative activism that I look
forward to being a part of. And we're going to
carry on Charlie Kirk's legacy in tremendous ways moving forward.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
And Michael, the memorials, they was shocking how many people
showed up in Arizona alone, but these memorials sprung up
all over the United States, around the world. And I
think that the left wing, as a matter of fact,
I was told by Andy Know last week that Antifa
is inly worried that Americans are uniting right now. They're
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incredibly worried about that. And they're not only uniting, they're
coming together in a common cause and they're rejecting what
the left has been teeing up for us.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Your thoughts, Yeah, I tell that they're that Antitha's concerns
and frustrations are well founded. And uh, you know, yesterday's
memorial service absolutely amazing, you know, getting one hundred thousand
people to go to Arizona alone, and and and then
the the the the just beautiful expression of both faith
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and patriotism around a young man who had devoted his
entire adult life to spreading his faith, and and that
sense of American exceptionalism absolutely amazing. However, and this is
this is my I'm usually the wet blanket, and every conversation,
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it would be very frustrating if, if all, if all
that comes out of this was a really nice, oversized
memorial service on a Sunday morning in Arizona. Charlie Kirk's
life does not, from from my outside perspective, does not
seem to be a guy who is overly concerned with
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monuments and memorials. He was much more concerned with with
with with being part of an inflection point for turning
our country to God, turning our country to higher and
better things. And I think that there is a great
tendency for us to sometimes, you know, we we get
so fixated on building uh statues two men that we
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forget what those men stood for and and and it
is frustrating to no end to me, Chris to see
what's happening at Texas A and M. What's happening at
the University of North Texas, What's happening at the University
of Texas Within two weeks, less than two weeks of
Charlie Kirk's assassination, we see these institutions turning a blind
eye to harassment of Turning Point USA students. We see
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them back in pushing the same kind of horrific ideology
that inspite this kid, this murderer raised in a Christian home,
who goes off to college and gets wildly indoctrinated and
emerges from that experience as an assassin, there should be
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some serious soul searching going on about our colleges and
universities and as only going to happen, Chris, if guys
like you and me and mister Wright and all of
us force that conversation.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Indeed, and you know what, if it's any solace to
take maybe dry out the wet blanket a little bit.
Charlie Kirk had a twenty thousand chapter Turning Point USA
goal for his entire life. There are now fifty four
thousand applications around this country. So it seems the American
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people have been shown the left way of political assassination
and political violence, and America is recoiling at the left's message,
as if they weren't recoiling at what the left wing
has been doing on these college campuses in the country
are at large. Folks were talking to Aaron Wright's and
Michael quinn Sullivan. They are both a and m alum
and that's why I wanted to bring them on to
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talk about this, because you heard Michael reference this Aaron
A and m is it is a shell of its
former self. It has been turned into I would liken
it to what Walt Disney when they turned into woke Disney,
what they did to that company in service to socialists
and Marxists and leftists and anti science, anti Western ideology
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that has now infected Texas A and M like a cancer.
And it was brought in by a guy who has
now resigned, mister Welsh. And this guy from the jump
was an Obama guy. And my question is how did
we get here?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, it's a great question. And as an Aggie proud
aggie who loved my time at Texas A and M
I went there several several years ago. You know, I
think the irony here is that. As any agu will
tell you, the student body at Texas A and M
is overwhelmingly conservative. It's it's a place where where patriotic
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young men and women love to go to join and
meet and socialize and learn and grow with other conservative
patriots who want to go to a university steeped in patriotism.
Texas A and M was founded as an all male
military academy and served our country tremendously for over a century.
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And something has happened over the past several years since
since I left, and it's it's hard to see. I
think it's it's it's the left has identified a treasured
institution of the right, and they have gone after it
with viciousness and infected it, and unfortunately, feckless conservatives, Republicans,
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gubernatorial appointees are asleep at the wheel and not paying
attention to what time it is. I think that too
often you see university administrations thinking that they're dealing with
their grandparents' Democratic Party, or that they're dealing with the
sort of flower children of the nineteen sixties that you
could sort of pat on the head and just sort
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of deal with. That's not the modern left. Modern left
is totalitarian. It is Marxist, communist, It is radically sexually
and racially deviant. It is obsessed with destroying the right
and our founding American principles. And I think that, sadly,
what's happened at my alma mater over the past decade
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or so is we really just haven't been paying attention
to the nature of the left that we've been dealing with.
I am hopeful, I'm hopeful and prayerful that after screwing
up not only just one university president with a former
four star general under Obama Wells as you pointed out,
but remember it was he was preceded by a radical
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left wing president who also was pressured to resign in
disgrace for her radical dei positions and hiring the head
of a journalism school that was a radical leftist. And
so I'm hopeful now that Texas A and M is
undergoing significant public scrutiny, that there is major political and
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grassroots concern over what's happening at Texas A and M,
that they are going to wake up out of the
slumber that they're in right now, that they're going to
understand the nature of the left that we're dealing with
and that we're going to get leadership in place as
the next president and a more fully engaged board of regents.
We have a new chancellor with Glenn Hager. I am
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hopeful that they're going to realize what time it is,
wake up out of whatever sort of gop in slumber
we've been in for too long, and make sure that
Texas A and M is not just at a bare
minimum following state law on DEI and LGBTQ matters, but
that it creates an environment and installs leadership in which
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the long history of Texas A and m's patriotism and
traditional values can really flourish from the top down and
the bottom up.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Michael, it got so bad at A and M with
Mark Welsh that here's a guy who was instituting and
many are suggesting that it was counter to Texas law
instituting this curriculum, which was in direct violation of state law.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And then he.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Proceeded once once this stuff started coming out, he proceeded
to offer up a professor as a sacrificial lamb that
didn't go and he continued to lie and lie, and
every single time he would lie about it. Brian Harrison
Representative Brian Harrison would drop another recorded conversation where Mark
Welsh was was saying the exact opposite, proving that he
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was a liar. The president of A I'm sorry the
uh yeah, the the the president of A and M
was a walking contradiction to the Aggie Code. He was
out there a direct violator of the Aggie Code that
that has been shredded because of left wing administration of
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that of the once proud university. And as mister Wrights
was pointing out, this is courtesy of air quotes Republicans
who are leading to the this this once proud institution
being a wreck.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
What say you?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Yeah? Look, I I hate being negative Nelly on a
Monday morning. But on the same day that President Welch
announced that he was resigning, resign under pressure the Board
of Regents, the chance of the Board of Regents, and
the chancellor announced the sole finalist for the new president
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at the newly inaugurated Texas A and M Victoria Campus. And
this new president at the newly inaugurated Texas and IN
Victoria campus is a hardcore pusher of DEI. As the
chancellor of the of A campus in Florida for most
recent push for her campus in Florida was they would
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continue pushing forward on de I. When she was working
at a university in Denver, she was awarded seven years
in a row, uh to you know, being the the
outstanding promoter of the I by a by a diversity magazine.
So you know, I you know, on the one hand,
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it's nice to see that there was pressure being pushed
against Welsh. On the at the end, the Board of
Regions don't seem to have gotten the message. All they
know is people, the donors were upset by Welsh. I
don't think they don't believe that they paid attention. But
people were upset by People were not upset by Mark
Welsh because they didn't like the way he combed his hair.
They weren't upset by Mark Welsh because you know, he
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drove the wrong kind of car. They were upset by
Mark Welsh because he's pushing left wing nonsense in at Texas,
A and M. And here goes the An Border Regions
hiring of the DEI person. I think this is where
all of us have to make sure we're speaking a
little more loudly. And even though I think we're all
of but we were speaking loudly. We have to make
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sure we're speaking even more loudly to get the message
through or they're just going to keep repeating these mistakes.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Well yeah, and it's not even a mistake.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I think it's kind of intent, and I think it's
it's going to have to come from the alum who
say this is not the an M that I was
part of.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You're leading to a degras and.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
We've Texas A and M is a joke, is a
national joke now when it was once the pride, the
crown jewel of Texas. And I think those who give
a damn about Texas A and M have got to
work towards getting it back to being that jewel at
once was. Aaron Wrights is our guest, folks. He is
a candidate for the Attorney General of the Great State
of Texas to step in the rather sizeable shoes of
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Attorney General Ken Paxton and Michael quinn Sullivan. He's the
publisher of Texas Scorecard. And that's my last subject matter
I want to approach with the two of you, gentlemen.
How important is it that we have individuals who are
committed to pushing back, not only with rhetoric, but in
real world tangible ways against a left wing that is
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now killing its political opposition, against a left wing that
is trying to destroy all oppositions to its dark designs.
Not only for our institutions like Texas, A and M,
but also for our country.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
How important is it, And mister.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Wrights, this is specifically geared to you in your pursuit
of the Attorney General's office, that we have somebody in
these positions of power and authority that who will defend
us from the out of control left.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's massively important. And look, our conservatism is certainly a
movement comprised of a massive individuals. But what we have
seen not only an hour the three of our sort
of you know, political experience over the past several decades,
but we've seen this with Charlie Kirk, the importance of
having key leaders in key positions to demonstrate courage and
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tenacity and energy and fearlessness in the face of a
truly demonic and well entrenched left. And I think A
and M this provides an important, you know, an important
reflection point where you've got to have. This is a
huge reason why I'm running for Texas Attorney General. Because
I look at the field of candidates and I see
people who just have come up through the ranks of
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sort of GOP inc politics as usual, and I see
a total lack of fitness for leadership, courage, and tenacity
to deal with the with the issues that are in
front of us now, specifically on Texas A and M.
In the wake of State Representative Brian Harrison's exposure of
what's happening at A and M in the classrooms, I
put out a social media post and I said, I
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cannot wait to investigate and raid any public institution in
Texas that violates state law pushing trans insanity and DEI.
When I'm Attorney General, I'll shut it down everywhere and
I'll sue violators into oblivion. Now this was up and
posted for about five hours, and then five hours later
I got flagged for hate speech. I got a note
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saying that this was reported as hateful conduct on x
and I put out a statement on it. But look,
here's the deal. It's a first of all, I'm concerned
that that was flagged as hate speech, which is just
ridiculous in and of itself. But here's my point. When
I'm Attorney general, I am going to muster the full
scope of constitutional, statutory, and common law powers to ensure
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that our public institutions are not aggressively pushing state law.
It is illegal in the state of Tech for a
public institution to endorse and push gender and trans insanity.
There are only two biological sexes made in the image
of God. They are male and female. And when you
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have a state institution that is bullying students, pressuring them,
inviting them quote unquote to leave the classroom because they
don't endorse trans insanity, that is illegal. And you find
the mainstream left wing press in Texas saying, I mean,
you can read all these articles from the mainstream press saying, oh,
you know, there's no laws being violated here.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Nobody can point to a law that is not true.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It is illegal in.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Texas for a public institution to push, to propagandize the
false reality, the delusion that there is such a thing
as a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, twentieth gender. They are
a male and female. You cannot push DEI, you can't
push trans insanity. And when I'm Attorney General, I'm going
to muster the full powers of the state to ensure
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that things that happened at Texas A and M cannot happen.
I'm determined to do it, and frankly, I'm the only
person in this race who actually has a record litigating, investigating, suing, defending,
and appealing on these things. My opponents, sure they've made
statements to this effect, they may have even endorsed legislation
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to this effect, but that isn't good enough this state,
the state of Texas, needs a top lawyer to go
on the hunt to make sure that those flouting state
law are held accountable. That's exactly what I'm going to
do as Attorney General, and I'm going to do it
with the zeal, intensity and mission focus that Charlie Kirk
left this earth with and blessed us with his legacy.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Michael, you and I have been around this block so
many times, and we just recently saw it in the
US Congress where air quotes Republicans voted to save ilhan Omar.
We have a problem with fake Republicans in the Texas legislature,
thirty seve of them, thirty five because a couple of
them have taken themselves out of the running. And Matt
(30:05):
Shaheen pushed himself into that, into that realm of being
deserving of censure and of getting a primary opponent. How
important is it to those of us in the conservative
movement that those who call themselves Republicans are actual conservatives
and actually take their job of defending us from left
(30:25):
wing extremism seriously?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Yeah, I'm always excited when I hear men and women
like like Aaron Wright's talk about, you know, how they
are going to uphold the promises they make to us.
I want to remind you, though, and this is not
any of some of my friend Aaron right here, but
almost every person who runs as a Republican runs as
(30:49):
if they're the second coming of Ronald Reagan and Barry
Goldwater and everything. Noly campaigns as I'm a squish who's
going to sell you out. None of them campaign like that,
and and and and Chris. This is where it's on you,
and it's on me and all of our friends to
make sure that whoever is the next attorney general, whoever
(31:10):
is the next state representative, whoever is the next member
of Congress, all those kind of positions, you and I
have to make sure that we are constantly in their ear,
that we are reminding them of who they work for
and why and why we hired them. You know, that's
our job as the citizens, as the people in charge
of the republic. The politicians are supposed to be the servants.
(31:32):
And and and why do the servants go bad? Because
very often, Chris, guys like you and me and our
friends and our family and our neighbors, we just say
we've had them on the head, have them on the butt,
and say do a good job, and then we ignore them.
The other side does not ignore them. The other side
does not stop pressuring them. The other side and and
whatever you know, tendency them have had to be squishy
(31:54):
gets you know, get gets amplified when you and I
stop paying attention. This is where, you know, how does
a problem like Texas A and M happen? It happens
because far too many alumni now we became more concerned
with how A and M was doing on the football
field than what was happening in our in our classrooms
(32:15):
and inside our institution. The same is true in our republic.
You and I have to make sure that we keep
the main things the main thing, and we need to
make sure that we're electing people who say the right things,
and we need to make sure we re elect people
who have done the right things.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Exactly, folks, there's a difference between the rhetoric and actually
and this is gentlemen. Just so you know, mister Wrights
and Michael Quinn Sullivan, I have one metric going into
these midterms. How well have you defended me and mine
from left wing extremists who have now normalized gentlemen political assassination,
(32:49):
normalize the demonization dehumanization of their political opponents. How well
are you defending me from them, and you know what,
putting them in charge of our our educational institutions. That's
not defending me in mind, Aaron Wrights, Michael Quinn Suliman, gents,
I appreciate the conversation, mister writes, before I let you go.
(33:09):
If folks want to contribute to your efforts to be
the next Attorney General of the Great State of Texas,
where can they go?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, folks can go first and foremost to my website
Aaronrights dot com a A R O N R E
I t Z dot com. And then I'm very active
on social media. My ex handle is at Aaron Underscore Rights,
Aaron Underscore Rights are e I t Z. And you
can just search for my name anywhere I'm active on Facebook,
Instagram and the whole nine yards. And look, I will
(33:37):
just tell you this, Chris, You're exactly right, You're metric.
What have you done for me? There is only one
candidate in this AG race who actually has a record
in legal combat in a law fair environment, vindicating the
rights of Texans and Texas as a state. And it's
me and I look forward to earning Texans support as
the next Attorney General who was endorsed by Attorney General
(33:59):
Packson to succeed meet him on the campaign trip.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Gentlemen, thank you very much, appreciate the conversation.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Thanks Grit.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
That's going to put a wrap on this Salcedo Storm
podcast till we visit again. My friends, remember this, A
society's worth isn't measured by how much power is stolen
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power is reserved for you and me, We the people,
keep fighting for freedom out there, my friends,
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Speaker 5 (00:42):
On yesterday's podcast, we talked to a couple of kids, kids,
young people. They were kids to me, folks. That one
was a high school student and the other was a
girl in college, junior in college, if memory serves at
any rate, Folks, We've been talking about the impact that
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the left wing is having on our young people, and
it is not good at all. And our institutions that
were once proud, once American, once Texan have been undermined
by left wingers with a decidedly cancerous and anti American,
anti conservative, anti constitutional agenda. These institutions, one of them,
(01:28):
I'm sad to report, has been Texas A and M. So, look,
I just want to be very very clear about my
understanding of A and M coming as being somebody who
comes from outside of the state. There is nothing that
is equivalent in the People's Republic of California. I'm a
San Diego State alum. I graduated as an Aztec there
(01:50):
is nothing equivalent in California, an institution that is of
so called higher education that like Texas A and M,
doesn't exist. I was talking with an alum this weekend
and basically saying, hey, what do you think about what's
going on in Texas A and M. And telling him
(02:11):
what I'm telling all of you, that it was something
that I couldn't relate to. He tells me the reason
why he has his current job is because he was
an aggie, because it was a choice between him and
somebody else, and the Aggie code is what put him
over the top. Because when somebody is making a hiring decision,
(02:31):
in particular in the state of Texas, they say, wow,
the aggie lives by a code, swears an honor to
this code, honors this code, and that's going to be
a good worker. That's going to be somebody that's going
to do well for our company. I had never seen
the equivalent, never seen anything like it before I got
the Texas in two thousand and six. So it was
(02:52):
an institution I began to immediately respect, and frankly, as
I'm as I hear this student body at Texas A
and M is still largely conservative sent there by conservative parents.
But what's happening with not only this latest president who's
stepping down Mark Wells, stepping down Obama's boy, what's happened
with him? But also the previous president of Texas A
(03:16):
and M. They have introduced the cancer of woke, the
cancer of left wing extremism into the into this once
proud institution and is absolutely ruining it. And to the
point to where, folks, it was being speculated that the
laws of the Great State of Texas were being broken
(03:36):
in service to left wing extremism and in service to
the diversity Inclusion equity de agenda, in service to the
LGBTQ ABC DFG cultural Marxist agenda. And Folks, I'm hearing
from Representative Brian Harrison that there are there are people
in the in the pipeline coming into an M and
(03:58):
quote unquote leadership positions who are equally woke. They're just
continuing to funnel in wokeness, and I'm suggesting that perhaps
they ought to take a closer look. In violation of
Texas law, these people are being brought in with full
knowledge and maybe the expectation that they are going to
(04:20):
find new and creative ways to break Texas law. The
law prohibits diversity inclusion equity. This nonsense. Inside of state institutions,
the idea is to crank out more leftists, like you know,
Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
The final thing that I'll say, because you've been gracious,
is this. When I first became a public defender, I
had no criminal defense experience and I walked in and
I told my boss Charlie. I said, listen, you should
hire me. He said why. I said, because I'm black.
Charlie looked at me like I was crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, diversity inclusion equity higher. The great doctor Martin Luther
King said we should be a colorblind society. Democrats are
rejecting doctor King. They are rejecting the colorblind society. You
know who was ahead of his time on all this,
on the diversity inclusion equity nonsense. It was the great
Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
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than any of you about anything, and these ribbons say so.
I want you people sitting at home and you people
in the audience, look down at your lapel right now.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I want you to do this.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Put the camera back on me.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Do this.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
When you look down what do you see? You don't
see anything because you're not wearing any ribbons. It means
you're a bigot. It means you're a racist. It means
you're a sexist. It means you're a homophobe. It probably
means you're a white guy. It probably means you're a
European and you and you alone are responsible for all
the eels of America. But I'm not. Because I'm wearing
these ribbons.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I care more than you.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Diversity inclusion, equity in pokes. I guess what Rushes way
ahead of his time in saying, and what I'm telling
you right now is that all these conventions are created
by the left wing to advance their cancerous ideology, to
get you to give up willingly your rights and give
them up to government power so they can have power
over you. And all of these gimmicks, whether they call
(06:19):
them the special colored ribbons for whatever cause you happen
to be talking about, or the diversity inclusion equity nonsense,
or the LGBTQ ABCDFG cultural Marxist agenda, it's all part
and parcel, and it's all being brought to you by
so called higher education. Even at Texas, a and m
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Speaker 1 (10:19):
Today, I want to bring on a couple of guys.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I wanted to have several conversations with these two men
because and I think that the topic of conversation that
we're all going to get into today, folks, has to
do with the themes that we have all been witnessing
across the country, not only with the Kirk assassination, the memorial,
but also the fight that we are having with the
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extremist left, with a violent left, and the need for
effective countermeasures that I don't believe the Republican Party writ
large is equipped to handle. So you've got to default
to conservatives. Conservatives of the core conservatives of the belief system.
Let me bring on Aaron Wrights. He's a Paxston endorsed
(11:07):
candidate for Texas Attorney General, formerly Trump appointed Senate, confirmed
head of the Office of Legal Policy at DJ Senator
Cruise's chief of staff, A G. Paxson's deputy and an
active duty officer in the Marine Corps. And also Michael
Quinn Sullivan, graduate of Texas A and M, former newspaper
reporter and one time Capitol Hill staffer, think tank president
(11:28):
Eagle Scout, and is the publisher of Texas Scorecard.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Gentlemen. Welcome to you.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Both, Hi, Grig, you happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Now the reason I invited you both, gentlemen, and we're
going to get into what's been going on at A
and M. In the broader context of this ongoing fight.
There seems to be an unrelenting habit of those who
claim to be Republicans to allow the left wing to
destroy our institutions. I want to get to that, but
(11:56):
first I'm sure that both of you, like the rest
of the country, were glued to whatever viewing source you
had to watch the Kirk memorial over the weekend. I
just wanted to get your you know, thirty thousand feet takeaways,
mister Wright.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You first, yeah, sure, well thanks for having me on. Yes,
my whole family, my wife and our four children. We
had taped the memorial and we watched the overwhelming majority
of it. We were exceptionally moved.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I think a lot of conservative especially those of us
who have been very engaged in activist circles, were so
upset and really just hurt by what happened to Charlie
Kirk at the hands of a radicalized leftist who was
part of a left wing violent ecosystem that's nationwide and
has taken root here in Texas. But yesterday was really
(12:45):
a time for deep reflection. I was so happy to
hear the gospel of Jesus Christ preached at virtually every
single speaker up to and including the President of the
United States. We were moved, we were encouraged, and we
went to sleep last night knowing that the zeal that
Charlie Kirk exhibited on college campuses all over the country
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is now going to multiply tenfold. I love the line
from the Secretary of War Pete Hegsteth in which he
said that the devil overplayed his hand. And I think
that's exactly right, because if you think that Charlie Kirk
at the left thinks that Charlie Kirk alone was a
force for good, a force for patriotism in this country,
well he just sparked a revival. His assassination sparked a
(13:30):
revival of political activism, of conservative activism that I look
forward to being a part of. And we're going to
carry on Charlie Kirk's legacy in tremendous ways moving forward.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
And Michael, the memorials, they was shocking how many people
showed up in Arizona alone, but these memorials sprung up
all over the United States, around the world. And I
think that the left wing, as a matter of fact,
I was told by Andy Know last week that Antifa
is inly worried that Americans are uniting right now. They're
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incredibly worried about that. And they're not only uniting, they're
coming together in a common cause and they're rejecting what
the left has been teeing up for us.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Your thoughts, Yeah, I tell that they're that Antitha's concerns
and frustrations are well founded. And uh, you know, yesterday's
memorial service absolutely amazing, you know, getting one hundred thousand
people to go to Arizona alone, and and and then
the the the the just beautiful expression of both faith
(14:38):
and patriotism around a young man who had devoted his
entire adult life to spreading his faith, and and that
sense of American exceptionalism absolutely amazing. However, and this is
this is my I'm usually the wet blanket, and every conversation,
(14:58):
it would be very frustrating if, if all, if all
that comes out of this was a really nice, oversized
memorial service on a Sunday morning in Arizona. Charlie Kirk's
life does not, from from my outside perspective, does not
seem to be a guy who is overly concerned with
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monuments and memorials. He was much more concerned with with
with with being part of an inflection point for turning
our country to God, turning our country to higher and
better things. And I think that there is a great
tendency for us to sometimes, you know, we we get
so fixated on building uh statues two men that we
(15:42):
forget what those men stood for and and and it
is frustrating to no end to me, Chris to see
what's happening at Texas A and M. What's happening at
the University of North Texas, What's happening at the University
of Texas Within two weeks, less than two weeks of
Charlie Kirk's assassination, we see these institutions turning a blind
eye to harassment of Turning Point USA students. We see
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them back in pushing the same kind of horrific ideology
that inspite this kid, this murderer raised in a Christian home,
who goes off to college and gets wildly indoctrinated and
emerges from that experience as an assassin, there should be
(16:28):
some serious soul searching going on about our colleges and
universities and as only going to happen, Chris, if guys
like you and me and mister Wright and all of
us force that conversation.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Indeed, and you know what, if it's any solace to
take maybe dry out the wet blanket a little bit.
Charlie Kirk had a twenty thousand chapter Turning Point USA
goal for his entire life. There are now fifty four
thousand applications around this country. So it seems the American
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people have been shown the left way of political assassination
and political violence, and America is recoiling at the left's message,
as if they weren't recoiling at what the left wing
has been doing on these college campuses in the country
are at large. Folks were talking to Aaron Wright's and
Michael quinn Sullivan. They are both a and m alum
and that's why I wanted to bring them on to
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talk about this, because you heard Michael reference this Aaron
A and m is it is a shell of its
former self. It has been turned into I would liken
it to what Walt Disney when they turned into woke Disney,
what they did to that company in service to socialists
and Marxists and leftists and anti science, anti Western ideology
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that has now infected Texas A and M like a cancer.
And it was brought in by a guy who has
now resigned, mister Welsh. And this guy from the jump
was an Obama guy. And my question is how did
we get here?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, it's a great question. And as an Aggie proud
aggie who loved my time at Texas A and M
I went there several several years ago. You know, I
think the irony here is that. As any agu will
tell you, the student body at Texas A and M
is overwhelmingly conservative. It's it's a place where where patriotic
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young men and women love to go to join and
meet and socialize and learn and grow with other conservative
patriots who want to go to a university steeped in patriotism.
Texas A and M was founded as an all male
military academy and served our country tremendously for over a century.
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And something has happened over the past several years since
since I left, and it's it's hard to see. I
think it's it's it's the left has identified a treasured
institution of the right, and they have gone after it
with viciousness and infected it, and unfortunately, feckless conservatives, Republicans,
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gubernatorial appointees are asleep at the wheel and not paying
attention to what time it is. I think that too
often you see university administrations thinking that they're dealing with
their grandparents' Democratic Party, or that they're dealing with the
sort of flower children of the nineteen sixties that you
could sort of pat on the head and just sort
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of deal with. That's not the modern left. Modern left
is totalitarian. It is Marxist, communist, It is radically sexually
and racially deviant. It is obsessed with destroying the right
and our founding American principles. And I think that, sadly,
what's happened at my alma mater over the past decade
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or so is we really just haven't been paying attention
to the nature of the left that we've been dealing with.
I am hopeful, I'm hopeful and prayerful that after screwing
up not only just one university president with a former
four star general under Obama Wells as you pointed out,
but remember it was he was preceded by a radical
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left wing president who also was pressured to resign in
disgrace for her radical dei positions and hiring the head
of a journalism school that was a radical leftist. And
so I'm hopeful now that Texas A and M is
undergoing significant public scrutiny, that there is major political and
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grassroots concern over what's happening at Texas A and M,
that they are going to wake up out of the
slumber that they're in right now, that they're going to
understand the nature of the left that we're dealing with
and that we're going to get leadership in place as
the next president and a more fully engaged board of regents.
We have a new chancellor with Glenn Hager. I am
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hopeful that they're going to realize what time it is,
wake up out of whatever sort of gop in slumber
we've been in for too long, and make sure that
Texas A and M is not just at a bare
minimum following state law on DEI and LGBTQ matters, but
that it creates an environment and installs leadership in which
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the long history of Texas A and m's patriotism and
traditional values can really flourish from the top down and
the bottom up.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Michael, it got so bad at A and M with
Mark Welsh that here's a guy who was instituting and
many are suggesting that it was counter to Texas law
instituting this curriculum, which was in direct violation of state law.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And then he.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Proceeded once once this stuff started coming out, he proceeded
to offer up a professor as a sacrificial lamb that
didn't go and he continued to lie and lie, and
every single time he would lie about it. Brian Harrison
Representative Brian Harrison would drop another recorded conversation where Mark
Welsh was was saying the exact opposite, proving that he
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was a liar. The president of A I'm sorry the
uh yeah, the the the president of A and M
was a walking contradiction to the Aggie Code. He was
out there a direct violator of the Aggie Code that
that has been shredded because of left wing administration of
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that of the once proud university. And as mister Wrights
was pointing out, this is courtesy of air quotes Republicans
who are leading to the this this once proud institution
being a wreck.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
What say you?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Yeah? Look, I I hate being negative Nelly on a
Monday morning. But on the same day that President Welch
announced that he was resigning, resign under pressure the Board
of Regents, the chance of the Board of Regents, and
the chancellor announced the sole finalist for the new president
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at the newly inaugurated Texas A and M Victoria Campus. And
this new president at the newly inaugurated Texas and IN
Victoria campus is a hardcore pusher of DEI. As the
chancellor of the of A campus in Florida for most
recent push for her campus in Florida was they would
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continue pushing forward on de I. When she was working
at a university in Denver, she was awarded seven years
in a row, uh to you know, being the the
outstanding promoter of the I by a by a diversity magazine.
So you know, I you know, on the one hand,
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it's nice to see that there was pressure being pushed
against Welsh. On the at the end, the Board of
Regions don't seem to have gotten the message. All they
know is people, the donors were upset by Welsh. I
don't think they don't believe that they paid attention. But
people were upset by People were not upset by Mark
Welsh because they didn't like the way he combed his hair.
They weren't upset by Mark Welsh because you know, he
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drove the wrong kind of car. They were upset by
Mark Welsh because he's pushing left wing nonsense in at Texas,
A and M. And here goes the An Border Regions
hiring of the DEI person. I think this is where
all of us have to make sure we're speaking a
little more loudly. And even though I think we're all
of but we were speaking loudly. We have to make
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sure we're speaking even more loudly to get the message
through or they're just going to keep repeating these mistakes.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Well yeah, and it's not even a mistake.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
I think it's kind of intent, and I think it's
it's going to have to come from the alum who
say this is not the an M that I was
part of.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You're leading to a degras and.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
We've Texas A and M is a joke, is a
national joke now when it was once the pride, the
crown jewel of Texas. And I think those who give
a damn about Texas A and M have got to
work towards getting it back to being that jewel at
once was. Aaron Wrights is our guest, folks. He is
a candidate for the Attorney General of the Great State
of Texas to step in the rather sizeable shoes of
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Attorney General Ken Paxton and Michael quinn Sullivan. He's the
publisher of Texas Scorecard. And that's my last subject matter
I want to approach with the two of you, gentlemen.
How important is it that we have individuals who are
committed to pushing back, not only with rhetoric, but in
real world tangible ways against a left wing that is
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now killing its political opposition, against a left wing that
is trying to destroy all oppositions to its dark designs.
Not only for our institutions like Texas, A and M,
but also for our country.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
How important is it, And mister.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Wrights, this is specifically geared to you in your pursuit
of the Attorney General's office, that we have somebody in
these positions of power and authority that who will defend
us from the out of control left.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's massively important. And look, our conservatism is certainly a
movement comprised of a massive individuals. But what we have
seen not only an hour the three of our sort
of you know, political experience over the past several decades,
but we've seen this with Charlie Kirk, the importance of
having key leaders in key positions to demonstrate courage and
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tenacity and energy and fearlessness in the face of a
truly demonic and well entrenched left. And I think A
and M this provides an important, you know, an important
reflection point where you've got to have. This is a
huge reason why I'm running for Texas Attorney General. Because
I look at the field of candidates and I see
people who just have come up through the ranks of
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sort of GOP inc politics as usual, and I see
a total lack of fitness for leadership, courage, and tenacity
to deal with the with the issues that are in
front of us now, specifically on Texas A and M.
In the wake of State Representative Brian Harrison's exposure of
what's happening at A and M in the classrooms, I
put out a social media post and I said, I
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cannot wait to investigate and raid any public institution in
Texas that violates state law pushing trans insanity and DEI.
When I'm Attorney General, I'll shut it down everywhere and
I'll sue violators into oblivion. Now this was up and
posted for about five hours, and then five hours later
I got flagged for hate speech. I got a note
(27:29):
saying that this was reported as hateful conduct on x
and I put out a statement on it. But look,
here's the deal. It's a first of all, I'm concerned
that that was flagged as hate speech, which is just
ridiculous in and of itself. But here's my point. When
I'm Attorney general, I am going to muster the full
scope of constitutional, statutory, and common law powers to ensure
(27:52):
that our public institutions are not aggressively pushing state law.
It is illegal in the state of Tech for a
public institution to endorse and push gender and trans insanity.
There are only two biological sexes made in the image
of God. They are male and female. And when you
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have a state institution that is bullying students, pressuring them,
inviting them quote unquote to leave the classroom because they
don't endorse trans insanity, that is illegal. And you find
the mainstream left wing press in Texas saying, I mean,
you can read all these articles from the mainstream press saying, oh,
you know, there's no laws being violated here.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Nobody can point to a law that is not true.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It is illegal in.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Texas for a public institution to push, to propagandize the
false reality, the delusion that there is such a thing
as a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, twentieth gender. They are
a male and female. You cannot push DEI, you can't
push trans insanity. And when I'm Attorney General, I'm going
to muster the full powers of the state to ensure
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that things that happened at Texas A and M cannot happen.
I'm determined to do it, and frankly, I'm the only
person in this race who actually has a record litigating, investigating, suing, defending,
and appealing on these things. My opponents, sure they've made
statements to this effect, they may have even endorsed legislation
(29:19):
to this effect, but that isn't good enough this state,
the state of Texas, needs a top lawyer to go
on the hunt to make sure that those flouting state
law are held accountable. That's exactly what I'm going to
do as Attorney General, and I'm going to do it
with the zeal, intensity and mission focus that Charlie Kirk
left this earth with and blessed us with his legacy.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Michael, you and I have been around this block so
many times, and we just recently saw it in the
US Congress where air quotes Republicans voted to save ilhan Omar.
We have a problem with fake Republicans in the Texas legislature,
thirty seve of them, thirty five because a couple of
them have taken themselves out of the running. And Matt
(30:05):
Shaheen pushed himself into that, into that realm of being
deserving of censure and of getting a primary opponent. How
important is it to those of us in the conservative
movement that those who call themselves Republicans are actual conservatives
and actually take their job of defending us from left
(30:25):
wing extremism seriously?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Yeah, I'm always excited when I hear men and women
like like Aaron Wright's talk about, you know, how they
are going to uphold the promises they make to us.
I want to remind you, though, and this is not
any of some of my friend Aaron right here, but
almost every person who runs as a Republican runs as
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if they're the second coming of Ronald Reagan and Barry
Goldwater and everything. Noly campaigns as I'm a squish who's
going to sell you out. None of them campaign like that,
and and and and Chris. This is where it's on you,
and it's on me and all of our friends to
make sure that whoever is the next attorney general, whoever
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is the next state representative, whoever is the next member
of Congress, all those kind of positions, you and I
have to make sure that we are constantly in their ear,
that we are reminding them of who they work for
and why and why we hired them. You know, that's
our job as the citizens, as the people in charge
of the republic. The politicians are supposed to be the servants.
(31:32):
And and and why do the servants go bad? Because
very often, Chris, guys like you and me and our
friends and our family and our neighbors, we just say
we've had them on the head, have them on the butt,
and say do a good job, and then we ignore them.
The other side does not ignore them. The other side
does not stop pressuring them. The other side and and
whatever you know, tendency them have had to be squishy
(31:54):
gets you know, get gets amplified when you and I
stop paying attention. This is where, you know, how does
a problem like Texas A and M happen? It happens
because far too many alumni now we became more concerned
with how A and M was doing on the football
field than what was happening in our in our classrooms
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and inside our institution. The same is true in our republic.
You and I have to make sure that we keep
the main things the main thing, and we need to
make sure that we're electing people who say the right things,
and we need to make sure we re elect people
who have done the right things.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Exactly, folks, there's a difference between the rhetoric and actually
and this is gentlemen. Just so you know, mister Wrights
and Michael Quinn Sullivan, I have one metric going into
these midterms. How well have you defended me and mine
from left wing extremists who have now normalized gentlemen political assassination,
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normalize the demonization dehumanization of their political opponents. How well
are you defending me from them, and you know what,
putting them in charge of our our educational institutions. That's
not defending me in mind, Aaron Wrights, Michael Quinn Suliman, gents,
I appreciate the conversation, mister writes, before I let you go.
(33:09):
If folks want to contribute to your efforts to be
the next Attorney General of the Great State of Texas,
where can they go?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, folks can go first and foremost to my website
Aaronrights dot com a A R O N R E
I t Z dot com. And then I'm very active
on social media. My ex handle is at Aaron Underscore Rights,
Aaron Underscore Rights are e I t Z. And you
can just search for my name anywhere I'm active on Facebook,
Instagram and the whole nine yards. And look, I will
(33:37):
just tell you this, Chris, You're exactly right, You're metric.
What have you done for me? There is only one
candidate in this AG race who actually has a record
in legal combat in a law fair environment, vindicating the
rights of Texans and Texas as a state. And it's
me and I look forward to earning Texans support as
the next Attorney General who was endorsed by Attorney General
(33:59):
Packson to succeed meet him on the campaign trip.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Gentlemen, thank you very much, appreciate the conversation.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Thanks Grit.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
That's going to put a wrap on this Salcedo Storm
podcast till we visit again. My friends, remember this, A
society's worth isn't measured by how much power is stolen
by government. A society's worth is measured by how much
power is reserved for you and me, We the people,
keep fighting for freedom out there, my friends,
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