September 8, 2026 • 30 mins
On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:
Levi Fuller is the Inspector General for Educator Misconduct for the Texas Education Agency. In addition to being an Army veteran, prior to this role, he served as the Chief of Staff for State Representative Andy Hopper, and as a special litigator and election fraud prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General under Ken Paxton.
Levi Fuller is the Inspector General for Educator Misconduct for the Texas Education Agency. In addition to being an Army veteran, prior to this role, he served as the Chief of Staff for State Representative Andy Hopper, and as a special litigator and election fraud prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General under Ken Paxton.
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I did not read to all of you. I read
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Clancy case, Lindsay Clancy and the killing of her three children.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
She killed them. Nobody is disputing that.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The defense is saying she suffers from a form of
postpartum depression, a postpartum psychosis, if you will. And many
believe that she has not met that rare, exceedingly rare diagnosis.
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is the nuclear family, kids. And that's why the left
relentlessly attacks the family. Point number nine I got into yesterday, folks,
on this article that I wrote, or didn't get into yesterday,
The destruction of the trust between mother and child is
part but a crucial component of the Democrats' attack on
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our unity, civility, and humanity. They call infanticide care. They
label eugenics as science. They call murder postpartum depression or
postpartum psychosis. They do this to normalize evil. And the
last point I made, if we are a people worth
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saving We must reject this culture of death, this phenomenology
of sin, this direct attack on mankind. And that is
courtesy of the American left.
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And I didn't get.
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Into the preamble, what led to all of that analysis.
And when I wrote the article, it was based on,
if you were listening to yesterday's podcast, based on a
conversation that I had with a woman, medical professional and
a mother. Conversation started with, a clinical evaluation from my
trusted source. She said that it was clear to anyone
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who kept track of the revelations that came out of
the case that America's Obamacare medical system failed Lindsay Clancy
and by extension, her three murdered children. Even hopelessly left-wing
biased news sources I wrote can't ignore the precipitous decline
of healthcare under the Democrats' socialized medicine model, Obamacare. A
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2025 article from NPR noted that far from making health
care affordable, Obamacare has only resulted in more money coming
out of the pockets of Americans.
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Than ever before.
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And for all the extra expense, health insurance has only
gotten worse, as has the quality of health care in America.
Suicide rates and the prevalence of depression and anxiety did
not improve in and in several measures worsened through the
2010s and early 2020s. But as much of a predictable
basket case our health care system has devolved into under
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the tender mercies of Marxists, the next comments that came
from my source shot to pieces the notion peddled by
the same cancerous left, the idea that society shoulders the
blame and not the criminals. After acknowledging the failures of
the medical system we Americans are burdened with because of
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Democrat malfeasance and GOP timidity, my source said, two things
can be true. Our medical system can be a disgrace
and a woman who murdered her children can be held accountable.
The fact that the system and society missed her proverbial
cries for help did not, nor should it not, be
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me to look at our societal situation from 30,000 feet up.
And then I detailed my ex post. And this is
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fact we are debating whether or not to hold Lindsay
Clancy accountable for the murder of her three children is
a sign of America's decline and the Democrats' victories. Indeed,
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the case has allegedly inspired a copycat incident in Illinois.
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Without further ado, let's bring on our guest. His name
is Levi Fuller. He is the Inspector General for Educator
Misconduct for the Texas Education Agency. In addition to being
an Army veteran, prior to this role, he served as
Chief of Staff for State Representative Andy Hopper and as
a Special Litigator and Election Fraud Prosecutor in the Office
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of the Attorney General under the great Ken Paxton. Sir, welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Doing great, sir. It's good to have you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Look, I am saddened that your position had to be created,
but I'm glad it's you who's filling this position. The
governor created your position. What is it that you were
hired to do in Texas?
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Well, essentially, so this was something that came up during
our last legislative session down here, and we've identified that
we have a problem with kids being hurt and abused
in schools. There were a lot of bills that were
pushed up in Texas. They didn't make it across the
finish line. But then the commissioner kind of identified, well,
we maybe we need someone to come in here and
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handle this directly. So he set up this office and then,
you know, reached out to me, kind of found me
from another project I was doing. And then, you know,
it was interesting. I asked him, I was like, what
are you what are you what are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Right.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Because I'm not an education lawyer. I don't have a
background in education. And he says, I need a crusader.
who's going to go through our schools and protect our kids. And,
you know, that was, that was the sales pitch. So
from there, you know, applied for the position and I've
been here about six months. But what created the position was,
was really just, you know, we got to go through
our schools and we've got to protect our kids and
make sure they can learn.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
You're a father, yes?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So I can imagine, and you served your country in uniform.
I can imagine the combination of the law background, being
a father and being a protector that a lot of
our military personnel have. They're just wired that way that
when they said, hey, we need you to come in
and protect our kids inside of GovEd, you said, yeah, yeah,
sign me up. Right. I'm going to give some headlines
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and I want you to address them because I think
this is the reason why your position was created and
probably what drove you to take the job. Headline number one,
Texas faces educator sexual misconduct crisis. Folks, it's a crisis
in the state of Texas. Alarming reports, this is number two,
alarming report exposes state-sponsored child abuse in Texas schools.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
That's heavy.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
This report, state-sponsored child abuse. And the last one, inappropriate
educator relationship investigations in Texas up more than 150% according
to the Texas Education Agency. And I want to address
that last headline and what they've classified it, Mr. Fuller,
as inappropriate educator relationship. That's what they have called child abuse.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Right.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Well, so we have multiple codes, but essentially, you know,
inappropriate educator relationships, we've kind of expanded that to include boundaries.
And part of that reason, so, you know, the relationship is,
thing is kind of a little bit broad, but the
reason why is because it's so hard to catch grooming
before the essential act. And so, you know, things like
isolating students, providing them gifts, giving them, you know, rides,
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you know, so really what we've kind of done with
these definitions is we want to stop the problem before
it becomes a problem. So essentially catching these predators before
they get the child alone. Overall, going through some of
the numbers, we had about 16,000 active complaints during the
last fiscal year, 9,000 investigations.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
That's triple what we had before.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Right now, we have 6,500 pending investigations into violence in
schools to an educator and a student, and we have 2,100
total cases that would consist of inappropriate relationship and sex
between an educator and a student. And if it's sex
between an educator and a student, that'd be 595 roughly.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Good numbers?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
The good numbers is what we've done, we've retold a
lot of the processes since I came on. And a
lot of these things were kind of things that people
knew there was a need for, but we're averaging about
112 bad actors being kicked out of school. So essentially,
we have what's called the Do Not Hire Registry. And
that's sort of, you know, it's like the do not
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pass go, do not collect $ 100. If you end up
on the registry, whatever happens else, you're out of school,
you can't have direct access to Texas kids. And so
my team is adjudicating about 112 a month. And I
think that number is going to keep going up because
we're going to keep going after it.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Good grief. Levi Fuller is our guest right now, folks.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
He's the Inspector General for Educator misconduct for the Texas
Education Agency. And if it's happening in Texas, kids, imagine
what it's like in California. Imagine what it's like in Illinois.
Imagine what it's like.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So I was talking to Erin Anderson. She is a
she's an investigative reporter for the Texas Scorecard. But it
seems there is so much malfeasance inside of GovEd and
abuse of children inside of GovEd. Basically, it's turned into
a full-time beat for her. And we were discussing, you know,
once you do your job and you prosecute these individuals,
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judges out there are letting... There was one woman who
was a teacher who was accused and convicted of abuse
of a special needs child. I believe hanging him upside down, right?
She got zero punishment for that. Zero jail time.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
So.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
What have you determined is responsible? And, you know, I
know you've only been on the job for six months.
What is responsible for this massive increase in child predation
inside of Texas GovEd?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Well, what I'll tell you is that, you know, this
is the scary part to me. I mean, but it's
just the way it is. I don't know if it
is an increase. I think what we've found is that
we now know about it. I think that this has
been going on. These numbers of this abuse and these
horrible malfeasance things, some of it can be an increase
based on socioeconomic factors or the media and whatever the
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world's going through. Honestly, I think something to think about
is what if this has been the way it's always been?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Now we have increased reporting, so now we're aware of it.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
To your point about To your point about that, one
of the things that I've stressed and that we're going
to change is essentially we've got to change the culture.
We've got to say, this right here is unacceptable behavior.
And I know that's putting it lightly, right? But this
right here is unacceptable behavior. This is a line you
will not cross. From now on, this will be a
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strict penalty. This will be a strict punishment. And one
thing that we've done, I want to highlight some things
that we're doing to really get that point across, is
last week we partnered with the Northern District of the
DOJ for Project Safe Schools. So that's United States Attorney
Ryan Raybould, a hard-charging crusade. great man. And we partnered
with him. And so, you know, that brings an extra
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player into this game that, you know, previously these districts
and these schools didn't have to deal with. You know,
and I can tell you that one of the two
things that my office has really prioritized, really prioritized, is
sexual offenses against children and failures to report. Failures to
report are essentially whenever a school administrator or even a teacher,
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they don't report a known act of misconduct against a child.
And I'm telling you, do not be in my court
with that.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
That'll be the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
You've either got a child in your orbit or a dog. Okay.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
That's my dog. Both my kids went off to, or
my kids are already off to school. That's my, that's my,
my business partner, Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
There you go. He probably got a little, little scratch.
He's got to get behind the ear. And I, yeah,
I heard the color folks. We're talking to, to Levi Fuller.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
He's the inspector general for educator misconduct for the Texas
education agency. And so I, and I've got to, I
love the fact that all, all levers of, of good
people in government are being brought down to bring a
government agency accountable. And gov ed is, is, is a
government agency. How have you been received? Because I would
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imagine there are some teachers who were relieved to know
that you are there and trying to set up these
guardrails and trying to ferret out, really, these child predators
who have had a buffet teed up for them by,
in my opinion, poor vetting in the GovEd system. What
has been your reception from the education community?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
It's been unusual.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
I can say that, like, for the most part, I
think a lot of people are glad that I'm here. And,
you know, I mean, because I do want to point
out one thing I need to be fair about is
we have, you know, Texas has 1,200 school districts. And,
you know, we have 18,000 complaints and only 2,100 of
those are sex related. So, you know, on the scale
of the entire state of Texas, you know, this is not,
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you know, it's not a 99% problem. But as you
are well aware, just one of these cases can completely
upend ruin an entire community. And so we want to
get that number, like just one's too many. But to
answer how I've been received, I was having a conversation
with someone not too long ago where it gets brought
up that I don't have a background in education. And
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kind of my retort to that is no, but I
do have a background in sexual assault prosecutions. And so
what does that tell you about where this is headed?
I would say it's interesting because it seems like.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I would like to meet the person who you were
brought in to safeguard children and to prosecute wrongdoing from
adults against children. And the response is, well, you don't
have a background in education. And the supposition is that
part of good education is abuse of children.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I mean, what an.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Insane thing to say, yes?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
It was it was it was definitely unusual.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
You know, is it you know, I was like, well,
I don't think any of the things that we're going
after are part of the Texas essential knowledge and skills.
So a very unusual thing to bring up. And, you know,
they're not they're not wrong. You know, as far as
a school finance law, you know, I'll worry when I
need to.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
But.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Yeah, it was kind of very it was very interesting
to hear that. It's like, no.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Well, I was on a space last night. I'm going
somewhere with this.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I was on a space last night articulating how our
own government seemed to have facilitated some bad things happening
because some well moneyed interests.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Uh, made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So to correct the mistake, they ended up hurting a
whole bunch of other small individuals, uh, just normal everyday
Joe's veterans and all that kind of stuff. We're going
to be bringing that in the coming days and months
on the South Sado show, but we're seeing this attitude
inside of, of government education because they are just like
every other government entity. They are invested in their own
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their own expansion and their own existence. So we saw
it in Loudoun County, Virginia, where they had an example
of the rape of a young girl by a young
man who claimed he was pretty that day. He claimed
he was a female. So he got access and he
raped a girl. And then instead of reporting the crime,
Loudoun County basically sent this kid past the trash, sent
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him to another district where he raped another little girl.
They tried to keep it under wraps so that authorities
wouldn't be brought in and tarnish government education. We saw
it in the state of Texas as well. A bus
driver who was abusing two little girls for a year.
Systemic abuse and the district sought to bury the revelations
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of this instead of exposing it. What is your message
to bad actors inside of GovEd who know of a
crime and then seek to bury it so as to
not tarnish GovEd's so-called good reputations?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Well, you know, for whatever reason, these people, these cases
get buried. What I would say is that you're going
to get found out. You know, I made that message
pretty clear and we're very adamant about it. You know,
like I said, when we partnered with the DOJ, you're
talking about the Texas Education Agency. You're talking about the
Texas Rangers. You're talking about local DAs, the FBI and
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the Department of Justice.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
There was the GSA agency.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Was even there regarding grants, you know, and then, and
then Homeland Security. So, I mean, the, the, the bottom
line is the situation has significantly changed. If it's out
there and you're, and you're concealing, we're going to find
it out. But, but I do want to point out,
I want to point out something real quick, because I
don't think a lot of people know this, but like
probably the best investigators in the entire state of Texas,
whenever it comes to this, at the very least are
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the moms. And this is something I've made clear, you know, to,
to a lot of people, is that I'm going to
know everything that did or did not happen in that district,
and I'm going to know it within the first couple
of hours. Because the moms are going to reach out
to us directly. They're going to know everything. They're going
to know what you did in relation to this event.
They're going to know what you did in whatever you
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took that vacation in 24. They're going to know where
you went, and they're going to know with.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Who you went.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
So that's one of the things that has been very
interesting to me. And so we have no shortage of information,
and we just parse that through and then see what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I know this is the kind of question we folks
in media ask, and I don't ask it to be morbid.
I ask it to give the audience a sense of
just how bad it's gotten. I'm sure you've only been
at it six months, but does one case, and don't
give me names or specifics, especially if it's still being adjudicated,
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but what is the worst case that you've run across
so far of this type of malfeasance, the predation against
our children inside of GovEd?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
That's a tough one. I mean, we have, we have
a lot, you know, I think it's, it is kind
of a mix on one end.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
I have, I have some pending cases, think things that,
you know, that, that they kind of all have the same.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Fact pattern and they're all going, they're all going now.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Because I've said, this is going to be a, this
is when we're going to go get, we're going to
get this one, this one, and this one. But I
can say, you know, one thing that, that I, so
I won't, I can't talk about any specific fact pattern.
I think they're all pretty horrible, but you know, it
was funny. Someone asked me some time ago, If, you know,
if I was just kind of, am I just a
manager or do I actually get in the cases? And honestly,
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I'd never thought about, I'd never, you know, thought about
that question. I never thought like, you know, what am
I doing? Am I just telling people what to do
or am I actually involved? And then, but, you know,
I read hundreds of these cases every day, every week. And,
you know, whenever it's a non-certified individual, so not a teacher,
that's a commissioner's role.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
So I have the authority to review that case.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And if it meets the elemental requirements and I sign
off on that myself, So I read all those. But
then also my team, whenever they go to the state
office administrative hearings, they go to trial and they present
these cases. I read the PFDs, excuse me, the final order. So,
you know, it is interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I do.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I'm reading hundreds of these cases a week.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Well, I wanted to get your sense for the last
question here. Mike Morath hired you. He, of course, serves
at the pleasure of the governor and And the governor
is very invested in this, and he's actually talked about
making Texas schools safe.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Do you feel like the government of Texas writ.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Large has got your back and is now committed to
making sure our children are safe inside of GovEd? Do
you have the full backing of the Texas government?
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I can say, you know, this is the thing, you know,
I can say right now I feel like the war
drums are pounding. Um, I, you know, and, and, you know, and,
and really I can't say enough about the commissioner, um, because, um,
you know, like, like I work better really kind of,
I'm the kind of guy you put me in a
spot and I figured out whenever I was working for
Ken Paxton, uh, he, you know, I would go up
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and down the border, litigating cases, going across the state, just,
you know, fixing the problem. Uh, and, and the commissioner
has essentially said, you know, this is what I want.
And this is your direction. And he's let me run free.
And so right now, I very much do feel the
support of the entire state. I can tell you that
the entire state's curious about it. They're very interested. They
want to fix this problem. And I think but I
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think a lot of people are trying to figure out
how can we do it. And, you know, fortunately and unfortunately,
we actually have a roadmap.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Right.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Because, you know, Texas Ed is not the first. you know,
entity that's gone through a major sexual assault issue. And
so we have, you know, essentially one thing that I'm
trying to do is taking my previous experience, you know,
in the army and elsewhere, let's do all the things
that worked. Let's not waste time doing the things that
didn't work. And let's try to get this number down
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to zero.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Amen to that.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Folks, if your state doesn't have a Levi Fuller as
inspector general for educator misconduct, your state is doing it wrong.
Your state isn't committed to protecting children inside of gov
ed Levi Fuller folks. He has a vast experience. As
you heard, he has served members of the Texas legislature.
He has served in the United States army. He has
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served the Attorney General, probably the greatest Attorney General in
the United States, Ken Paxton, and he's currently serving the
kids of Texas and keeping them safe as the Inspector
General for Educator Misconduct for the Texas Education Agency. Sir,
appreciate the service to the country and you're doing God's
work right now.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I hope you know.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Thank you, sir. I appreciate it very much.
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allegedly in charge. So that leads me to a to
a court case, folks. And I I haven't said much
about this. And we touched base on it in the
show behind the show with Sean Chastain yesterday on Monday.
But I wanted to get a little deeper into something
(02:44):
I did not read to all of you. I read
you the post, most of the post anyway, that I
had put up on X as to where this all
leads us to and where this all stems from. This
Clancy case, Lindsay Clancy and the killing of her three children.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
She killed them. Nobody is disputing that.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The defense is saying she suffers from a form of
postpartum depression, a postpartum psychosis, if you will. And many
believe that she has not met that rare, exceedingly rare diagnosis.
But here's where I left off yesterday in my article
about this. I think I left off on number eight,
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which read, the evil left has undertaken relentless attacks on
American culture for over 100 years. They have been aided
in their attacks by filthy communist socialists and totalitarian enemy states.
They've adopted the callous disregard for human life demonstrated by
the jihad and their violent supporters. Their target is our strength,
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the foundation of Western civilization. The foundation of Western civilization
is the nuclear family, kids. And that's why the left
relentlessly attacks the family. Point number nine I got into yesterday, folks,
on this article that I wrote, or didn't get into yesterday,
The destruction of the trust between mother and child is
part but a crucial component of the Democrats' attack on
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our unity, civility, and humanity. They call infanticide care. They
label eugenics as science. They call murder postpartum depression or
postpartum psychosis. They do this to normalize evil. And the
last point I made, if we are a people worth
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saving We must reject this culture of death, this phenomenology
of sin, this direct attack on mankind. And that is
courtesy of the American left.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And I didn't get.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Into the preamble, what led to all of that analysis.
And when I wrote the article, it was based on,
if you were listening to yesterday's podcast, based on a
conversation that I had with a woman, medical professional and
a mother. Conversation started with, a clinical evaluation from my
trusted source. She said that it was clear to anyone
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who kept track of the revelations that came out of
the case that America's Obamacare medical system failed Lindsay Clancy
and by extension, her three murdered children. Even hopelessly left-wing
biased news sources I wrote can't ignore the precipitous decline
of healthcare under the Democrats' socialized medicine model, Obamacare. A
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2025 article from NPR noted that far from making health
care affordable, Obamacare has only resulted in more money coming
out of the pockets of Americans.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Than ever before.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And for all the extra expense, health insurance has only
gotten worse, as has the quality of health care in America.
Suicide rates and the prevalence of depression and anxiety did
not improve in and in several measures worsened through the
2010s and early 2020s. But as much of a predictable
basket case our health care system has devolved into under
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the tender mercies of Marxists, the next comments that came
from my source shot to pieces the notion peddled by
the same cancerous left, the idea that society shoulders the
blame and not the criminals. After acknowledging the failures of
the medical system we Americans are burdened with because of
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Democrat malfeasance and GOP timidity, my source said, two things
can be true. Our medical system can be a disgrace
and a woman who murdered her children can be held accountable.
The fact that the system and society missed her proverbial
cries for help did not, nor should it not, be
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a get out of jail free card. The left's devotion
to criminals at the expense and exclusion of their victims
has been a Democrat staple for decades. They lionize killers
like the person who shot and killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare,
Brian Thompson. They glorify violence exhibited by Elias Rodriguez, a
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man charged in the 2025 killing of two Israeli embassy
staffers in Washington. The left characterized the murders as, quote, brave.
Can we forget the celebration of the man accused of
killing Charlie Kirk? Should we dismiss leftist jubilation over the
multiple attempts on President Trump's life? All of this led
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me to look at our societal situation from 30,000 feet up.
And then I detailed my ex post. And this is
how I concluded the article, kids. In my mind, the
fact we are debating whether or not to hold Lindsay
Clancy accountable for the murder of her three children is
a sign of America's decline and the Democrats' victories. Indeed,
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the case has allegedly inspired a copycat incident in Illinois.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
It's clear to me that our.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Nation has turned away from our Christian underpinnings. As the
political left secures its stranglehold over government and the culture,
our society suffers in direct proportion to the left's successes. Sadly,
those charged with defending our way of life, the sanctity
of life itself, and providing real and tangible opposition to
leftists have instead surrendered our culture, and by extension our people,
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name of bipartisanship. Given that, it will be up to we,
the people, to make the societal changes required to reverse
direction on a truly calamitous course charted by Marxists in
our midst.
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And I believe that, kids.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I believe that it is going to be up to
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put at risk because of leftists, this time in GovEd.
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Speaker 1 (12:46):
Without further ado, let's bring on our guest. His name
is Levi Fuller. He is the Inspector General for Educator
Misconduct for the Texas Education Agency. In addition to being
an Army veteran, prior to this role, he served as
Chief of Staff for State Representative Andy Hopper and as
a Special Litigator and Election Fraud Prosecutor in the Office
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of the Attorney General under the great Ken Paxton. Sir, welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Welcome.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Doing great, sir. It's good to have you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Look, I am saddened that your position had to be created,
but I'm glad it's you who's filling this position. The
governor created your position. What is it that you were
hired to do in Texas?
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Well, essentially, so this was something that came up during
our last legislative session down here, and we've identified that
we have a problem with kids being hurt and abused
in schools. There were a lot of bills that were
pushed up in Texas. They didn't make it across the
finish line. But then the commissioner kind of identified, well,
we maybe we need someone to come in here and
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handle this directly. So he set up this office and then,
you know, reached out to me, kind of found me
from another project I was doing. And then, you know,
it was interesting. I asked him, I was like, what
are you what are you what are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Right.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Because I'm not an education lawyer. I don't have a
background in education. And he says, I need a crusader.
who's going to go through our schools and protect our kids. And,
you know, that was, that was the sales pitch. So
from there, you know, applied for the position and I've
been here about six months. But what created the position was,
was really just, you know, we got to go through
our schools and we've got to protect our kids and
make sure they can learn.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
You're a father, yes?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So I can imagine, and you served your country in uniform.
I can imagine the combination of the law background, being
a father and being a protector that a lot of
our military personnel have. They're just wired that way that
when they said, hey, we need you to come in
and protect our kids inside of GovEd, you said, yeah, yeah,
sign me up. Right. I'm going to give some headlines
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and I want you to address them because I think
this is the reason why your position was created and
probably what drove you to take the job. Headline number one,
Texas faces educator sexual misconduct crisis. Folks, it's a crisis
in the state of Texas. Alarming reports, this is number two,
alarming report exposes state-sponsored child abuse in Texas schools.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
That's heavy.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
This report, state-sponsored child abuse. And the last one, inappropriate
educator relationship investigations in Texas up more than 150% according
to the Texas Education Agency. And I want to address
that last headline and what they've classified it, Mr. Fuller,
as inappropriate educator relationship. That's what they have called child abuse.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Right.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Well, so we have multiple codes, but essentially, you know,
inappropriate educator relationships, we've kind of expanded that to include boundaries.
And part of that reason, so, you know, the relationship is,
thing is kind of a little bit broad, but the
reason why is because it's so hard to catch grooming
before the essential act. And so, you know, things like
isolating students, providing them gifts, giving them, you know, rides,
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you know, so really what we've kind of done with
these definitions is we want to stop the problem before
it becomes a problem. So essentially catching these predators before
they get the child alone. Overall, going through some of
the numbers, we had about 16,000 active complaints during the
last fiscal year, 9,000 investigations.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
That's triple what we had before.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Right now, we have 6,500 pending investigations into violence in
schools to an educator and a student, and we have 2,100
total cases that would consist of inappropriate relationship and sex
between an educator and a student. And if it's sex
between an educator and a student, that'd be 595 roughly.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Good numbers?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
The good numbers is what we've done, we've retold a
lot of the processes since I came on. And a
lot of these things were kind of things that people
knew there was a need for, but we're averaging about
112 bad actors being kicked out of school. So essentially,
we have what's called the Do Not Hire Registry. And
that's sort of, you know, it's like the do not
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pass go, do not collect $ 100. If you end up
on the registry, whatever happens else, you're out of school,
you can't have direct access to Texas kids. And so
my team is adjudicating about 112 a month. And I
think that number is going to keep going up because
we're going to keep going after it.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Good grief. Levi Fuller is our guest right now, folks.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
He's the Inspector General for Educator misconduct for the Texas
Education Agency. And if it's happening in Texas, kids, imagine
what it's like in California. Imagine what it's like in Illinois.
Imagine what it's like.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So I was talking to Erin Anderson. She is a
she's an investigative reporter for the Texas Scorecard. But it
seems there is so much malfeasance inside of GovEd and
abuse of children inside of GovEd. Basically, it's turned into
a full-time beat for her. And we were discussing, you know,
once you do your job and you prosecute these individuals,
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judges out there are letting... There was one woman who
was a teacher who was accused and convicted of abuse
of a special needs child. I believe hanging him upside down, right?
She got zero punishment for that. Zero jail time.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
So.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
What have you determined is responsible? And, you know, I
know you've only been on the job for six months.
What is responsible for this massive increase in child predation
inside of Texas GovEd?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Well, what I'll tell you is that, you know, this
is the scary part to me. I mean, but it's
just the way it is. I don't know if it
is an increase. I think what we've found is that
we now know about it. I think that this has
been going on. These numbers of this abuse and these
horrible malfeasance things, some of it can be an increase
based on socioeconomic factors or the media and whatever the
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world's going through. Honestly, I think something to think about
is what if this has been the way it's always been?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Now we have increased reporting, so now we're aware of it.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
To your point about To your point about that, one
of the things that I've stressed and that we're going
to change is essentially we've got to change the culture.
We've got to say, this right here is unacceptable behavior.
And I know that's putting it lightly, right? But this
right here is unacceptable behavior. This is a line you
will not cross. From now on, this will be a
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strict penalty. This will be a strict punishment. And one
thing that we've done, I want to highlight some things
that we're doing to really get that point across, is
last week we partnered with the Northern District of the
DOJ for Project Safe Schools. So that's United States Attorney
Ryan Raybould, a hard-charging crusade. great man. And we partnered
with him. And so, you know, that brings an extra
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player into this game that, you know, previously these districts
and these schools didn't have to deal with. You know,
and I can tell you that one of the two
things that my office has really prioritized, really prioritized, is
sexual offenses against children and failures to report. Failures to
report are essentially whenever a school administrator or even a teacher,
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they don't report a known act of misconduct against a child.
And I'm telling you, do not be in my court
with that.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
That'll be the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
You've either got a child in your orbit or a dog. Okay.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
That's my dog. Both my kids went off to, or
my kids are already off to school. That's my, that's my,
my business partner, Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
There you go. He probably got a little, little scratch.
He's got to get behind the ear. And I, yeah,
I heard the color folks. We're talking to, to Levi Fuller.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
He's the inspector general for educator misconduct for the Texas
education agency. And so I, and I've got to, I
love the fact that all, all levers of, of good
people in government are being brought down to bring a
government agency accountable. And gov ed is, is, is a
government agency. How have you been received? Because I would
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imagine there are some teachers who were relieved to know
that you are there and trying to set up these
guardrails and trying to ferret out, really, these child predators
who have had a buffet teed up for them by,
in my opinion, poor vetting in the GovEd system. What
has been your reception from the education community?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
It's been unusual.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
I can say that, like, for the most part, I
think a lot of people are glad that I'm here. And,
you know, I mean, because I do want to point
out one thing I need to be fair about is
we have, you know, Texas has 1,200 school districts. And,
you know, we have 18,000 complaints and only 2,100 of
those are sex related. So, you know, on the scale
of the entire state of Texas, you know, this is not,
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you know, it's not a 99% problem. But as you
are well aware, just one of these cases can completely
upend ruin an entire community. And so we want to
get that number, like just one's too many. But to
answer how I've been received, I was having a conversation
with someone not too long ago where it gets brought
up that I don't have a background in education. And
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kind of my retort to that is no, but I
do have a background in sexual assault prosecutions. And so
what does that tell you about where this is headed?
I would say it's interesting because it seems like.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I would like to meet the person who you were
brought in to safeguard children and to prosecute wrongdoing from
adults against children. And the response is, well, you don't
have a background in education. And the supposition is that
part of good education is abuse of children.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I mean, what an.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Insane thing to say, yes?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
It was it was it was definitely unusual.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
You know, is it you know, I was like, well,
I don't think any of the things that we're going
after are part of the Texas essential knowledge and skills.
So a very unusual thing to bring up. And, you know,
they're not they're not wrong. You know, as far as
a school finance law, you know, I'll worry when I
need to.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
But.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Yeah, it was kind of very it was very interesting
to hear that. It's like, no.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Well, I was on a space last night. I'm going
somewhere with this.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I was on a space last night articulating how our
own government seemed to have facilitated some bad things happening
because some well moneyed interests.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Uh, made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
So to correct the mistake, they ended up hurting a
whole bunch of other small individuals, uh, just normal everyday
Joe's veterans and all that kind of stuff. We're going
to be bringing that in the coming days and months
on the South Sado show, but we're seeing this attitude
inside of, of government education because they are just like
every other government entity. They are invested in their own
(23:53):
their own expansion and their own existence. So we saw
it in Loudoun County, Virginia, where they had an example
of the rape of a young girl by a young
man who claimed he was pretty that day. He claimed
he was a female. So he got access and he
raped a girl. And then instead of reporting the crime,
Loudoun County basically sent this kid past the trash, sent
(24:15):
him to another district where he raped another little girl.
They tried to keep it under wraps so that authorities
wouldn't be brought in and tarnish government education. We saw
it in the state of Texas as well. A bus
driver who was abusing two little girls for a year.
Systemic abuse and the district sought to bury the revelations
(24:38):
of this instead of exposing it. What is your message
to bad actors inside of GovEd who know of a
crime and then seek to bury it so as to
not tarnish GovEd's so-called good reputations?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Well, you know, for whatever reason, these people, these cases
get buried. What I would say is that you're going
to get found out. You know, I made that message
pretty clear and we're very adamant about it. You know,
like I said, when we partnered with the DOJ, you're
talking about the Texas Education Agency. You're talking about the
Texas Rangers. You're talking about local DAs, the FBI and
(25:13):
the Department of Justice.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
There was the GSA agency.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Was even there regarding grants, you know, and then, and
then Homeland Security. So, I mean, the, the, the bottom
line is the situation has significantly changed. If it's out
there and you're, and you're concealing, we're going to find
it out. But, but I do want to point out,
I want to point out something real quick, because I
don't think a lot of people know this, but like
probably the best investigators in the entire state of Texas,
whenever it comes to this, at the very least are
(25:39):
the moms. And this is something I've made clear, you know, to,
to a lot of people, is that I'm going to
know everything that did or did not happen in that district,
and I'm going to know it within the first couple
of hours. Because the moms are going to reach out
to us directly. They're going to know everything. They're going
to know what you did in relation to this event.
They're going to know what you did in whatever you
(26:00):
took that vacation in 24. They're going to know where
you went, and they're going to know with.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Who you went.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
So that's one of the things that has been very
interesting to me. And so we have no shortage of information,
and we just parse that through and then see what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I know this is the kind of question we folks
in media ask, and I don't ask it to be morbid.
I ask it to give the audience a sense of
just how bad it's gotten. I'm sure you've only been
at it six months, but does one case, and don't
give me names or specifics, especially if it's still being adjudicated,
(26:33):
but what is the worst case that you've run across
so far of this type of malfeasance, the predation against
our children inside of GovEd?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
That's a tough one. I mean, we have, we have
a lot, you know, I think it's, it is kind
of a mix on one end.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
I have, I have some pending cases, think things that,
you know, that, that they kind of all have the same.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Fact pattern and they're all going, they're all going now.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Because I've said, this is going to be a, this
is when we're going to go get, we're going to
get this one, this one, and this one. But I
can say, you know, one thing that, that I, so
I won't, I can't talk about any specific fact pattern.
I think they're all pretty horrible, but you know, it
was funny. Someone asked me some time ago, If, you know,
if I was just kind of, am I just a
manager or do I actually get in the cases? And honestly,
(27:18):
I'd never thought about, I'd never, you know, thought about
that question. I never thought like, you know, what am
I doing? Am I just telling people what to do
or am I actually involved? And then, but, you know,
I read hundreds of these cases every day, every week. And,
you know, whenever it's a non-certified individual, so not a teacher,
that's a commissioner's role.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
So I have the authority to review that case.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And if it meets the elemental requirements and I sign
off on that myself, So I read all those. But
then also my team, whenever they go to the state
office administrative hearings, they go to trial and they present
these cases. I read the PFDs, excuse me, the final order. So,
you know, it is interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I do.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I'm reading hundreds of these cases a week.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Well, I wanted to get your sense for the last
question here. Mike Morath hired you. He, of course, serves
at the pleasure of the governor and And the governor
is very invested in this, and he's actually talked about
making Texas schools safe.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Do you feel like the government of Texas writ.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Large has got your back and is now committed to
making sure our children are safe inside of GovEd? Do
you have the full backing of the Texas government?
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I can say, you know, this is the thing, you know,
I can say right now I feel like the war
drums are pounding. Um, I, you know, and, and, you know, and,
and really I can't say enough about the commissioner, um, because, um,
you know, like, like I work better really kind of,
I'm the kind of guy you put me in a
spot and I figured out whenever I was working for
Ken Paxton, uh, he, you know, I would go up
(28:48):
and down the border, litigating cases, going across the state, just,
you know, fixing the problem. Uh, and, and the commissioner
has essentially said, you know, this is what I want.
And this is your direction. And he's let me run free.
And so right now, I very much do feel the
support of the entire state. I can tell you that
the entire state's curious about it. They're very interested. They
want to fix this problem. And I think but I
(29:09):
think a lot of people are trying to figure out
how can we do it. And, you know, fortunately and unfortunately,
we actually have a roadmap.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Right.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Because, you know, Texas Ed is not the first. you know,
entity that's gone through a major sexual assault issue. And
so we have, you know, essentially one thing that I'm
trying to do is taking my previous experience, you know,
in the army and elsewhere, let's do all the things
that worked. Let's not waste time doing the things that
didn't work. And let's try to get this number down
(29:37):
to zero.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Amen to that.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Folks, if your state doesn't have a Levi Fuller as
inspector general for educator misconduct, your state is doing it wrong.
Your state isn't committed to protecting children inside of gov
ed Levi Fuller folks. He has a vast experience. As
you heard, he has served members of the Texas legislature.
He has served in the United States army. He has
(29:59):
served the Attorney General, probably the greatest Attorney General in
the United States, Ken Paxton, and he's currently serving the
kids of Texas and keeping them safe as the Inspector
General for Educator Misconduct for the Texas Education Agency. Sir,
appreciate the service to the country and you're doing God's
work right now.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I hope you know.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Thank you, sir. I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
That's going to put an end to this Salcedo Storm podcast.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Do me a favor, kids. Remember a couple of things. First,
pick up the new book, The Rise of.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
The Liberty-Loving Latino, A New American Revolution, available in audiobook
form and in hard copy at Amazon.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
And also remember this.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
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.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Is reserved for you and me. We, the people.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You keep fighting to save your country, my friends, because
it's worth it.
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