Hispanics, Infrequent Voters Won Nov 4 – And Could Be the Key to Congress in 2026

Hy and Christopher discussed the results from last Tuesday. It was a GOP slaughter, but Hy says the Democrats won in Democratic states, while Christopher offers a warning.
Democrats in Mississippi broke the G.O.P.’s State House supermajority last Tuesday after a special election was forced by a court-ordered redistricting to offer Black voters a chance for more representation in the State Capital. Two Public Service Commission seats changed party hands in Georgia. For the first time ever, Democrats seized the District Attorney’s office and all nine school board seats in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a Republican stronghold as late as 2022 and the swing county which helped elect Donald Trump. Democrats similarly notched commanding victories in county executive races in Erie, Lehigh, and Northampton counties, all bellwether counties in recent presidential elections.
A Democratic special election for an Iowa state Senate seat—in a district that had been held by Republicans—broke the GOP's supermajority in the 50-member Iowa Senate, giving Democrats 17 seats to 33, forcing Republicans to seek the support of at least one Democrat to confirm appointments to state agencies and commissions by Gov. Kim Reynolds. In a surprising upset in Virginia, Democrat Jay Jones defeated incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares despite a texting scandal where Jones made death threats against the Virginia House Speaker and subsequently lost 9 percent of the voters who cast a ballot for Abigail Spanberger, the victorious Democratic contender for Governor who was widely expected to win. Jones was still carried to victory by high Black turnout and thanks to Hispanics who voted for Donald Trump but switched back to the Democrats across the country.
National attention focused on the New York Mayor’s race, the gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia, and the California ballot initiative to gerrymander five more congressional seats for the Democrats, yet only a few media sources focused on how, in the down-ticket races in GOP-majority states, key Republican constituencies abandoned the party of Trump in favor of the Democrats. Hispanics, with whom the President made huge inroads in 2024, switched back to the Democrats en masse. African Americans went to their polling precincts in numbers not seen since Barack Obama’s first election in 2008.
“Is it any surprise that last night blue states voted blue?” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise quipped, claiming that last year’s presidential race was a better indication of the country’s political lean. Yet Trump’s former White House strategist Steve Bannon noted, “Modern politics now is about engaging low-propensity voters, and they clearly turned them out \[on Tuesday], and this is kind of the Trump model… This is very serious.”
Stacey Abrams’ efforts in 2020 swung Georgia for Biden and two Democratic Senate victories by convincing inconsistent voters to go to the polls. Over issues like affordability and inflation, which carried the day in so many places across the country, voters who often eschew going to the polls actually voted on November 4. Hispanics swung against Trump last Tuesday because more Hispanics in key districts cast a ballot than in 2024. Many of the victories in GOP strongholds came because African Americans, who normally do not go to the polls, decided to vote.
Turnout matters, Christopher concludes. The decision to vote can make all the difference, and as exit polls demonstrate, if voter turnout remains as high in the midterm congressional elections next year as it was on November 4, no amount of GOP gerrymandering will protect their U.S. House, or maybe even their Senate, majorities.
Hy and Christopher go on to talk about tariffs, the Supreme Court, and a story about how a Louisiana Manifesto of rights may have influenced the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Battles.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
The politicians addressed, the digitators and magicians trust to see
the money. Then you don't, there's nothing to fill the holes. Well,
then are filling their pockets by holes. The politicians bouncing
down the road every bideition to no moth corruption and itysfunction.

(00:30):
It's gonna take me, divide it invention.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Neil Gorsich on the Supreme Court to Donald Trump, you
know what about another president? And Trump gets his hat
handed to him across the country in a lot of
elections because Hispanics turn against the Republicans. And here in
Louisiana we push back the elections by one month in
the hope that the Supreme Court will turn around and
strike down African American majority districts and give nine seats

(00:57):
to counter california new five seat Democratic super majority. All
this and more on this edition of The Founder's.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Show, And God bless you all out there. You are
now listening to the founders. So the voice of the
founding fathers, You're Founding fathers coming to you deep within
the vowels of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of
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and high up on top of that old Liberty carpress

(01:26):
tree way out on the Eagles Branch covered in Spanish moss.
This is none other. Then you'll spend Gary Bubba All
the Republic Chaplain Hi mcgnry with.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Christopher Tidmore, you roving reporter, resident radical moderate and associate
editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot Net.
Lots to talk about, and I guessually an interesting historical
thing I talked on for the Darkness of the American Revolution.
We'll cover later in the show, but the we need
to start off. Obviously, a lot happened Tuesday night, none
of it good for the GOP around the country. But

(02:00):
before we get into that, I am I have a
terrible confession to make high, a really terrible confession. I
have an addiction. I have a problem. I listened to
Supreme Court hearings endlessly. I turn on c SPAN and
I listened for hours through the audio. There's no video
of the Supreme Court, but I listened to audio for

(02:21):
over and over. And you know, this is a real problem.
This is this is a problem. But it allows you
to occasionally have moments where there's great revelation and a lot.
One of the moments was when Justice Neil Gorsitch came
out and the Solicitor General the United States arguing for
the tariffs, for the Trump tariffs and the authority of
the president's unilaterally imposed tariffs based on a nineteen seventy

(02:44):
seven law that never mentions tariffs. It mentions emergency powers
just economical.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
List and whatever it takes to me in an emergency. Yeah,
but or clear and present.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
But it doesn't. No, it doesn't mention tariffs for an emergency.
It mentions economic problems.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Well, I mean, yes, well, but here's the thing, and
then brought the Constitution says that Congress has the power
of the levy taxes.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Correct, I mean, last time I checked that, it's Article
two section.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
But they've made an exception for the president in an emergency. Yeah,
clear and president.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Except that that was the essence, And so Neil Gorsicch
turned around and he said, okay. For those that know
Neil Gorsa is one of the conservatives on the court,
and he says, let me ask you a question. By
your logic, that means the next president, whoever he or
she may be, could turn around and declare the Climate
and Emergency carbon an emergency, and put one hundred percent

(03:37):
tariffs on every country that doesn't go along with Kyoto courts.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
That would bankrupt China. Well, they're the biggest carbon footprint
in the world.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
But here's the thing, it would also bankrupt the United States.
The fact is, the fact is he says this, and
this Solicitor General very honestly says, well, yeah, actually, by
the definition, the president can determine whatever an emergency is,
So we can determine. You know, any president could do
whatever the heck they wanted on whatever tariffs they wanted.

(04:06):
It's a hundred So for those that don't understand basic economics,
a tariff is one hundred percent. A tariff is a
sales tax. Period A tariff is a sales tax.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's all it is on the international level. But here's
what it affects the people.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Also, it affects the poorest people, just like every sales
tax does.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
All taxes does, well, well, not probably, but yes it
does because.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
The cor rents. All taxes affect people. But you, you
and I have observed this. Sales taxes when they when
they get raised disproportionately hurt the poorest people in our society.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Your kids, you know, stuff like that, of course, and
that's what especially inflation, like when Biden was then that
Hamburger's doubled and all that that was, you know, McDonald's
is unbelievable. The devastation the Biden economy caused the poor
people of a mariage.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
So let me ask you this, the overall aggregate. I'm
not going to relegislate the Biden economy, but the fact is,
inflation went up under Biden was two point six percent.
You know what inflation is today?

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yes, it was. Okay it folks, like, just check them.
So we disagree on this, we could okay, we could
go back and forth and back and what. Let's just
let people check.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I'm going I'm going by the Federal reserves inflation rate.
What are you going by? All right?

Speaker 1 (05:10):
On that note, I'm going by the top economists in
the country. But Christopher, look, we're not going to litigate
this way now because it takes so long.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
My point is in all of this, folks.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
We're on a timeline with this radio show, and we
have to watch out, Christopher. I'll be chasing all kinds
of rabbits all over the place we'll never get to talk.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
All right, hip Ckery, listen to this. It doesn't make
you uncomfortable that a future democratic president could put tariffs
on and declare an emergency because a country doesn't respect
transgender rights, or a country doesn't respect climate policy, or
a country doesn't respect I don't know, protecting the bow weavil,
I really don't know. This doesn't that a president unilaterally

(05:48):
having this absolute power, this power that was restricted was
restricted to kings.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
We'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean, we mean, we'll figure out how Trump isn't.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Every president throughout our free has put tariffs on, supported tariffs,
and another.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Every true No, that is not true. Prior prior to
nineteen seventy seven, Camly, Congress could put a tariff on
anybody period. That is ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
But other presidents supported, they promoted the tariffs, they encouraged
the tariffs. Okay, so this isn't the first time presidents
have got involved with tariffs. And the emergency here is
that our economic ship is being rapidly sunk because for
decades we've been letting all these other countries load us
down with their tariffs, making fortunes office and we don't.

(06:36):
We don't work.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
So for the first time, we have a president with
a backbone that's going you say, you tax you, tax
us tempercent. Okay, were going to tax you ten ten percent.
And look what's come out of it, except that trains
of dollars have now come to this country building factories.
They're realizing the way, Yes, trains of dollars come to
build factories.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Sold. Hi, do you do know that the tariffs have
been successful? But the amount that they've actually collected, according
to Trump, is one hundred and forty two billion.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I didn't say collected from tariffs. I said it has
motivated all these other businesses in foreign countries to come
not build their factories in America so they don't get
the tariffs. And it's going to raise tons of jobs.
It's bringing it's it's having a radically positive effect on
the account. Okay.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Let me first of all, we've got a higher inflation
rate according to the Fed because of the tariffs. And
more importantly, where have when has the Republican Party in
the modern era, not in the nineteenth century, in the
modern era not been the party of free trade? It
was Reagan. Trump got crazy because Reagan. He was, he

(07:39):
had the premiere of Ontario put forward a speech on Reagan,
and Trump responded with a massive tariff threat against Canada,
which it was not a reciprocal tariff. You said, he's
ten percent with theff he's putting on the tariffs because.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
He's they're attacking our tariffs because we have put tariffs on.
But but why we didn't before? How is how is
they put an ad from Reagan where he was saying
he didn't like tariffs, although he did support teriffs.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Except Reagan is the architect of the North American Free
Trade Agreement. He is literally the man who pushed through
the agreement for free trade with Canada and began the
process of free trade with Mexico that ultimately culminated under
George H. W. Bush and under this So, but this
is not my point. Look, I've gone this whole time.
I've asked you a basic question. But let me re articulated.

(08:31):
You're not scared on somebody like Gavin Newsom, or for
God's sake, Montdammie or some real leftist coming into the
White House in the future and putting tariffs on whatever
thing that offends them and calling it an emergency. That
doesn't scare you at all, Christopher.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
You know what, there's Congress, there's a Supreme Court, there're
checks and all of that exund we're gonna say, this
isn't resolved yet, Christopher, you're jumping the gun here. Wait,
you said by the end of the years, when it's
makes a decision on this, let's see what happens. You're
getting all hyped up for something we don't even really
know the full story yet.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, I'm hoping the Supreme Court overrules Trump for this. Yeah,
and not because not because I am not a Republican,
but because I am speaking of Republicans. You know, I'm
gonna say something you may or may not agree with,
but I think you were gon agree with this.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
What am I saying?

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Dick Cheney passed away. I had the privilege of meeting
Dick Cheney several times and George H. George W. Bush
and Dick Cheney. I remember being on the radio in
the early two thousands Croya and I was and I
was somewhat defensive protective of them, and I thought they
were good men. And during the Iraq War and during

(09:43):
the Afghani at the beginning of the Afghanistan conflict and
throughout the Iraq War. I said, look, you can disagree
with them on foreign policy, but they're not fundamentally evil men.
And I said, look, somebody could come into office one
day and you will have cried wolf. I'm telling you
this to the left, and you really will get somebody
who's crazy. And then in the early in the in

(10:04):
two thousand and eight, nine, ten eleven, when Obama was
in office, I said to the Republicans, I said, look,
Obama's passed a healthcare bill that basically is the Romney
Care for Massachusetts. Nationally, it's basically the same bill. It
is not far It is not a far left proposal.
You may not like all of it, but it's not
it's not a single payer medicare. Well, whether you're dirt

(10:26):
I don't agree with that, but whether you think it is.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
It double people's insurance. They had to take on mortgages
to pay for their insurance. They did it, doubled and
tripled their insurances. They couldn't keep their dye high.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Hi, can I talk? Can I say something? Please? Please?
Can I say something?

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Line around the block high, huge windfall profits he was
given the insurance comings could it have could.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
If President Bernie Sanders had been in office, this is
exactly what I'm getting at, and he had put it through,
he would have never put something as moderate as that
proposal with He would have moved on a single payer system,
a medicare for all, as he calls it. Now, my
question to this is when I tell Republicans that I said, look,
you may not agree with the policy, you may think
it's bad, but Obama carried on essentially the same foreign

(11:07):
policy as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. And I said,
he's not a bad man. He was a decent man.
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were good men. And
when you don't when you don't recognize that we have
a difference of opinion. But if people are fundamentally in office,
like saying they're from they were born in Kenya, that
kind of crap. The fact is, when people who are

(11:30):
in existential danger coming to office, you've cried wolf so
many times. I'm not saying you mean, I'm talking about
the universe. You never cried wolf about this, but the
universe has cried wolf. People out there have cried wolf
so much that you don't have anything left And Ultimately,
that's the lesson people. You know, Dick Cheney passed away,
and I've got liberal friends of mine saying, my god,

(11:51):
he actually wasn't a bad man. He supported gay marriage.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
He you know, was critical of Trumper.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Oh, Dick Cheney was a Rhino, Yes, he was, how.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
And he was a warmonger when they didn't need to
have wars. Of course, he was so tied into the
military industrial complex, working for you know, the big military
industrial firms. The contractors are big defense centers for contractors.
Makes sense he would support war, he would want war.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Oh my god, people go so far to the right
they end up on the left. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
No, that's not happened to me that it was utterly
to me at all.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
All Right, when we come back, folks, look, I.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
See our enemy as Big Brother government. And you can
be a leftist or a right on the right and
still be part of Big Brother government. And the enemy
is big Brother government controlled by Big Brother Corporation. That
is the enemy. And I don't care where you're on
the right or left. If you're part of that, you're
the enemy of America.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Okay, I'll give you the last word on that. That's fair.
I don't just I don't completely agree, but I think
it's a very fair viewpoint. On that note, Folks, when
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going to talk about here in Louisiana how the elections
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God bless you. This is Chappanheimick Henry with Christopher.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Before we go into the political results, I got to
give some thanks to the duughters of the American Revolution
Chapter in river Ridge and Metaie and very exciting Christmas,
and so I spoke before them, and what I spoke
about was how the Revolution of seventeen sixty eight here
in New Orleans, Yeah, actually helped lead to the Declaration
of Independence. Yes it did so for those that don't know,

(17:37):
we are celebrating this year the two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the Olive Branch Petition that the last element
by the Second Continental Congress as a country to try
to reconcile with King George the Third and the British government.
But just in a little thing we'll talk. We'll to
get dedicated show to this. You know, one of the

(17:58):
things a lot of the ladies did not know. And
these are very heradite group of women who knew quite
a lot of history and are fantastic. I was honored
to talk to them. But that in seventeen sixty eight.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
That's a great group. I know him folks are fine ladies.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
In seventeen sixty eight here in New Orleans, we were
transferred involuntarily to Spanish control.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
In the Spanish our voluntary.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
We were not asked whether we wanted to be Spanish.
We were French. We like parties. They're Spanish. They're like inquisitions.
No what the Spanish came in and they said for him,
they said, and.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Antonio, he was your family in a certain way, he said.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Antonioloa Loa Folks was one of the great naturalists and
sciences of his generations out there.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
He was a terrible government.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Well, he was like having Sheldon Cooper be governor of Louisiana.
He actually, this is a true story. He'd rather be
down at La Belize, which was the mouth of the river,
collecting specimens than ruling Louisiana.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Going through the Oyster Poal. Yeah, he was.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
He was but one of the things he did say
was that we could no longer trade with anybody the
British colonies, anybody else France, for that matter, only with
metropolitan Spain, which means just basically the peninsula in Spain,
not even the Spanish colonies, which cut off our supply
of food supplies and of course alcohol. He cut off
our boos and this led that.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Was a mistake. That was a mistake, That was a
straw that broke accounts back.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
The story's a little bit more elaborate, but the important
part of the story is that we sat down and
wrote a letter of the fifteen leaders of the colony
called the Memorial from the Planters and Traders as in
Merchants of New Orleans of October twenty ninth, seventeen sixty eight.
It would be known to history as the manifest or

(19:44):
the Memoir. And what it said was odd things like
under God, men had the right to form their own governments.
Natural law gave the right for men to govern themselves.
And what I explained was I'd spent several years tracking
how Oliver Pollock, who was one of the supporters of
Bloody O'Reilly, who put down the revolt along with one
Francisco Bulley. This inside joke that I was referring to

(20:04):
in my family, my wife's ancestor actually killed my ancestor
h and.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Wrote the DOCUMENTO was one of the co writers. There
was a book. I saw this on television. There was
a historian Opiney, and he told this story and pointed
out that there's a high probability it inspired Jefferson in
the decoration.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Well, and that's the whole thing. That's what the book
I've been writing on that. Oliver Pollock actually shared this
information with his friend Robert Morris. The two of them
were the financiers of the American Revolution. In fact, Oliver
Pollock's the one who comes up with the idea of
the dollar sign because he was having so much Spanish
money he was putting through he'd have to write a
dollar so many times. The Spanish national symbol was two

(20:44):
Corinthian columns with a ribbon between him to represent the
union of North Africa and Iberian Spain, essentially of Gibralton CenTra.
And he dilated, Yeah, the pillows perk is He simply
used two lines and then that created a dollar sign. Well, anyway,
the two of them, became an Apollock himself, became very
close friends with one Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who is

(21:07):
the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, the
last surviving signer of the Declaration and most important of God,
and most importantly one of the three members of the
committee that actually created the Declaration of Independence. Which that's
the unfair part of the movie seventeen seventy six. It

(21:28):
makes Franklin was an advisor to the committee, but he wasn't.
Charles Carroll was actually one of the authors. He was
Jefferson's editor, and so he had to really spent a
lot of time. Yes, they left him out of the movie.
He's in. He's in the movie, but he's not. He's
not the major character. He's an un and it's it's
unfair because he was a major, major, major player in

(21:50):
the revolution. The movie is not It's a brilliant musical,
it's just not a very good rendition of history.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
It gets into the minds and hearts of the founding
fault is what they would think and what they were
fighting for, except for one big mistake. They leave God out,
and that was the primary thing in their lives. Well,
there's just say it. It's Hollywood. You know, there was.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
One person when they put up Naure's God. But I
get what you're saying. The point I am getting at
all of this is this document that was written here
in New Orleans did make it into the hands of
Charles Carroll of Carrollton. And there's a compelling case that
we influenced because some of the language is very, very
similar to what ultimately happens.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
When he's saying Carleton, he's talking about Maryland. Carrollton, not here.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
That was named for General William Carroll.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Another Carolyn who is.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
At the Battle of New Orleans. It's not not the
same guy. But the fact of the matter is New
Orleans doesn't get its due, either there or during the Revolution,
where we're the place supplying all the money, guns, operations,
and everything to Washington's army. And so I've talked about that,
and I think in this as we approach the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, that it's worth

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pointing out that the city of New Orleans and the
Louis Louisiana played key roles in the Revolution, not just
as suppliers, but the battles of Baton Rouge Pensacola, without which, frankly,
the American South would never have been part of the
American Union. It would have remained part of Britain. There's
little doubt that. And nor did any founding fathers think
that essentially the US border would have been Virginia and

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the Appalachian Mountains as opposed to the Sea to signing
sheet we have today. So I just want I spoke
before this group and gave New Orleans it's due in
the Revolution, and they were very happy about it, especially
since many of them are descended from the Galvez expeditions
that took Batman.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
But I'm from both Virginia and exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
But I do want to go into politics, and speaking
of Virginia, Virginia is a good place of starting us.
It was not a very good night for Republicans, and
one of the places you could really see it was Virginia.
And I don't mean the Virginia governor's race. Abigail sprang
Berner was expected to win regardless the Democratic candidate, but

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in the attorney General's race, the Democratic candidate, I'm gonna
come out and say Jay Jones didn't deserve to win.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
He was he hasn't made a murderous man.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Well no, he he let's alwa, you can't make extreme comments.
So that's what he says, that's what that's what he
was doing.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
He said he wanted to murder his political opponents and
slaughter their children in front.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Of That is not I'll read exactly what he said,
and it's bad. But what he's saying is he's talking
about a member of the legislature's Virginia House Speaker Tom Gilbert,
and he said three people, two bullets, Gilbert Hitler put up,
and Paul Pott. He's basically comparing uh Todd Gilbert to

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Hitler and pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the
head and Jay Coyner, who is a member of the
Virginia House of Delegates, asked him to stop. And he
keeps going.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
It was not so he wanted to kill their children.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, he still won.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
And he's saying the guy has a murderous spirit.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
But here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
His man is and he's gonna be in charge of
law enforcement. This is incentive.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Except here's the thing, and this is what this is important.
From the exit polls, Trump won Hispanic men. That's part
of the reason he won the presidency Hispanic spreads. Hispanics
overwhelmingly shifted against the GOP, and not just in Virginia
New Jersey. New Jersey was the election. Everybody thought that
in the governorship cause Shelley might have a shot because

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he came within three points of defeating Governor Murphy four
years ago. He almost won. He lost by fifteen points
in the attorney general's race. That's a seven point loss
even though nine percent of Abigail Spangberg, the Democratic gubernatorial candidates,
nine percent of her Democratic voters shifted sides and voted

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for the Republican who was the incumbent. He's running as
an incumbent Republican. He still won. And you see this
trend around the country, and where it was most to
me and didn't get a lot of attention, is there
were two Democratic victories in the State House in Mississippi,
the special elections, and what happened was that the Republicans

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no longer have a supermajority in Mississippi. They can't overwhelm,
override any vetos, which is fine when you have a
Republican governor, but Mississippi often frequently elects Democratic governors in
that way, it's sort of like Massachusetts and reverse. They
elect Republicans on the federal level, but they elect Democrats
to the state level, and so this is not good
for Democrats. It's not good in Georgia, where there were

(26:28):
two public service commissioner races that went overwhelming the Democrats
in Republican districts. And of course the big one of
the night was the California redistricting that will create five
democratic districts to counter the nine Democratic districts nine Republican
districts that are being created from Texas across the Old
Confederacy and the Southern states basic North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,

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different states are redistricting in Louisiana could very well be
next because if you paid attention to what happened in
the Louisiana Special Session, I had a nice chat with
State Resented poly Thomas. Today we pushed back the qualifying
time for the congressional, US Senate and state races. So

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in the last legislative session, the governor of Louisiana created
closed primaries for federal elections and a couple of state
elections like Bessie Born and at the time the primary,
so the initial primary was going to be in April.
It's not in the fall. It's in April with a
runoff in May and then the general election in November.
For these elections now they came, they had a whole

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special session. We spent twenty nine million dollars to push
those back to the primary being in May, the runoff
for the party primary, the partisan primaries being me being
in June, and then the general election being November. Took
krudos to state Representative Michael Bayham who tried to do
something sensible like let's have September, October, November. Let's just

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do it like that like we do done every election
for the last fifty years. But nope, that got voted down.
And the reason is the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry,
is trying to control who's going to be in the
party primaries. He's trying to engineer it for his own
particular candidate. And ultimately it was also done because there's
a wide expectation. We talked about the tariff issue earlier

(28:27):
in the show. Well, the other issue that was before
the Supreme Court was on majority minority districts and if
the Supreme Court outlaws the sixth congressional district in Louisiana,
it will likely strike down the need to draw districts
based on race, and this will essentially allow most Southern

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states to draw more district GOP districts. It's how it works.
Blacks in the South tend to vote for Democrats, Whites
tend to vote for Republicans. It's not universal, but it's
pretty ubiquitous. And so in all of that, Louisiana thinks
that can pick up another Republican seat, maybe two. Because
the thing that hasn't been talked about in the media

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and as a real worry is they don't have to
just get rid of Cleiol Fields a seat. What if
that got rid of Troy Carter's. Is there a way
that all six seats could be jerry mandered to be
Republican seats. It would be tough, but it's theoretically possible,
depending upon how you draw the seats.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Well, that's what the Democrats are doing, and they've been
doing it for years, decades or way ahead of us
and doing this folks. So we're just trying to play
ketch up.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
I'm not playing off Democant ketchup.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
The whole the red states. Okay, we're playing ketchup so
that well, we won't just completely of the Democrats states.
I'm not playing off the Democrats. There haven't been Democrats
in states who've jerrymandered to a great extempanday, what states
in the last ten years are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (29:52):
You mean democratic states? What state? What democratic states? Obviously
not California, who just did it like this.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
This two had done it before, but they really went
after this time.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
No, they have not done it. Schwartzenaker was in office
because he actually designed a system that Republicans heavily supported,
that was nonpartisan, and that's why you have apportion the committee.
So what other states Democratic states? I'm not denying it happens.
Which ones are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Okay, well, I can think of Illinois right now, Massachusetts.
I saw a list of about a dozen of them,
and in every case you had like forty five percent
or whatever of Republicans. And yet the number of delegates,
the number of representatives in Congress are are just like
one or two. I mean, it's so heavily overloaded to

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the to the to the blue, to the Democrats, even
though they don't have the numbers for it, but they
did it through Jeriman, and I saw all those states.
I don't have the list in front of me. I
can't remember them. I remember Illinois, Massachusetts, I think New York.
I'm sorry, folks, I don't remember all the names, but
that you can get it on the internet.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Well, New York is interesting because Massachusetts has done it.
They don't have a Republican seat, even though about thirty
percent of the population of most Republican Illinois certainly does.
New York has actually not been one of them. And
that's why the New York Legislature maybe the next one
to go into session because New York, interestingly, Andrew Cuomo,
who just lost the New York mayors race, he was

(31:17):
being forced out of office by Democrats. His final thing
was to approve a redistricting proposal that was actually fair,
and so Republicans are actually somewhat reflective of the New York.
That's why you have so many Republicans of New York
like Leezelden and others that are elected there, Mark Molinaro
from Staten Island, others, and so that may be next.

(31:39):
But I'm looking at this and I'm the first one
to agree there's a lot of unfairness on both sides,
and there has been for a long time. My question is,
does any of this lead to a national redistricting commission
where we try to do something similar to what California
did with under Schwarzenegger, where basically we say no district
can be more than five percent either way. And I know,

(32:01):
I think everybody says it's fine, when who is going
to do it because either side wants to.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Trump doesn't want to.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
We're dealing with that. We're dealing with.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Trump has literally said he what he wants to do.
This was proposed to him. And by the way, Schumer
said the same thing in fairness when this proposed to him,
was like, no.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
That's just Washington politics is dirty, ruthless, and what more
can you expect. Okay, it's been going on for a
long time. No, I'm not very long time.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Here's the thing. You can start the past years. You
always you always act like everything that ever happens in
politics is some demon possessed person that comes through and
and and yet you always you always venerate the founding
fathers who are politicians. And this is the contradiction. Politicians
aren't all bad now they have to see a political
they have to see a political justification.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
They're doing in bad times. For for politicians, of course,
for they have been well.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
I mean I would point out a bad time. I
would point on Eldridge Jerry, who created this, who was
a signer of the declaration.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
They weren't perfect, you're right about. I know they were peliticians.
They were the same, but made their mistakes. They made
their mistakes, and they did some bad things. I know that.
I know it very well. Look everywhere you go in life,
I don't care what group it is. You're always gonna
find the good, the bad, and the ugly. Always the church, military, politicians,
wherever you go, when school will educate. It's everywhere you

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go throughout society, throughout life. And the idea though is
to hope to get and to work to get make
the good the largest group larger than the bad and
the ugly. But you're always going to find the good
and the bad and the ugly, and I don't care
where you are.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Suddenly this is subjective, but okay, I agree with that,
but it's totally true, and I can well, but I'm
going I'm going to say this right now here's the
result of last night. We haven't gotten to New York yet,
but let's here's the result of last night. If Hispanics
vote the way they voted, turnout was actually quite high.
It was not low in these states, right. It was

(33:51):
low in the South, It was low in Mississippi and Georgia,
but it was high. It was high turnout in Virginia,
high turnout in Jersey. You can't say that this was
low turnout and only Democrats that it didn't work out.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Those were Democrats strongholds too, remember that phone. Yeah, but
they were Democrats strongholds. But Trump didn't win any of them.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Trump came within six points of winning New Jersey, and
came within five points of winning Virginia.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
And when Chris those are Democrat strong.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
But wait, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
High Trump had the advantage of such a pathetic candidate
on the Democrat side, they were both of them was
so terrible Biden and then Kamala that he had a
much greater chance of winning because the Democrat candidates were
so bad.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Because New York is interesting. I want to give a
credit to the one guy in this entire race who
has not gotten any credit, and that's Curtis Swilla, the
republicand the guy the red by the guy who has
been you know, I was shot by the mob in
nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I was shot by like ten bullets.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
And this guy's this guy's had every major natural disaster
of mafia ever happened to him.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Like I got struck by lightning seven times.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Curtis Siloa was under intense pressure, amongst them from Donald Trump,
who came out and said, vote for Cuomo. And and it's.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Well, if he'd thrown his weight to Komo, we would
accept that mad communist. No wait, stop piloton Muslim Hi
and and and you know, going to be the mayor.
I mean he's going to destroy that.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
That's well, first of all, that's not true. I mean
about Mandami. I mean Swilla. This is what I'm giving
credit for. Swilla said all along, he said, if I'm
in this race, my margin will not make the difference
on electing Mandonmie. Guess what happened if you add up
so Cuomo made Yeah, it was he got about eight

(35:39):
and a half.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Such a bad you know, one of the problems was,
you know, whould have swung this vote? The elderly Jews
in New York. But they were they were between a
rock and a hard place. This is what was going on.
What they were thinking. If we vote for Mandamie, he's
going to put us on work camps and kill us all.
If we vote for Cuomo, he's gonna put us in
and old folks homes and kill us all. They don't
know which one.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Go a little hyperble.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
They probably just didn't vote. That's a joke, Christoph.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
I know, I know the Jewish vote did go for Cuomo,
but I think there was a lack of enthusiasm for it.
If there's anything that comes out of this election, it's
the fact that ultimately the Jewish vote might be in play.
I mean, I'm sorry, I'm pretty moderate, but the TikTok
Bolshevik is not somebody who says the river to the
sea that's going to inspire a huge amount of Jewish vote.

(36:27):
Mndamie being in office is going to find out that,
even in a city as liberal as New York, a
lot of what he wants to do will never make
it out of the New York City Council, which is
legislative body.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
And you know, he's got a big dilemma right now. Yeah,
for the first time in his life. He's getting scared
because he realizes he has to go to a job. Now.
He's been a lazy buma's spoil ron and richkin who
cares for the poor, police folks. He has stolen a
poor person's apartment, living in it right now with the
rents frozen. That's the kind of if you this man
has for the poor.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Have you ever had you've lived in Louisiana, you've lived elsewhere,
Have you ever had a rent stabilized apartment or anything.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Now or I've never heard of it for the New Louisiana.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
That I it happens here.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
It's it does.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, that's that's the affordable housing. It's basically what's used
to call it Section eight. Yeah, don't. What we don't
have is rent control. So what they have in New
York is that you if you're an owner and this
is rent stabilized, you cannot raise the rent, you can't
raise the amount, but you still get the Section eight dollars.
What happens in a place like Louisiana is if you're

(37:29):
in a section, if you're a rent stabilized thing, you're
incentivized to do it, but you're not required under the
law to do it. Sometimes it's a code like a
contractual code. If you take government loans to build a complex,
you have to give back by having affordable housing be
a third of it. But it's not required, so it
could happen. I mean people do it. I've never I've

(37:50):
never encountered. I've never done it personally, but I've lived places,
really nice complexes that had it. The dh Home's apartments
in the French Quarter were partially restored and built like
River Garden in the Lower Garden district. Remember that was
built on top of the old Saint Thomas housing projects.
The one thing it did, the one thing well he
had except and I actually think it revitalized the entire

(38:11):
Uptown area by being built. I think Press Kabakov did
a great job, and it was sincere about wanting to
get people that lived there previously there. But here's the facts.
Almost nobody that lived in that complex prior to it
being ripped down in nineteen nineteen back one. No we
really could afford to come back, and so it really
it displaced an entire neighborhood. That is actually a fact.

(38:34):
Some came back, some were tried and part of this
is not Kavakov's fault, really had there was another management
company that came into Joseph.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
That they they set up strict guidelines and discipline in
these in the new projects. And because of that, now
you go there and they look clean, and everything looks
safe and nice and friendly and all that. But the
ones that were there before, they don't like it because
of all the new rules and regulations like no drugs,
no guns, no gang bangers. They've told me this, my

(39:01):
kids tell me this, and they don't feel that they
belong there anymore. And they say, what a tragic testimony
on the youth of this city.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
And there's there's a there's another side to it too,
which is when a lot of they're called the Hope
six redevelopments when they happen. But one of the conditions
of the redevelopments is you can't have a criminal record
to be able to have the apartments and and and
it's very it's it's very hard to grow up in
New Orleans and grow up black and not be rested one.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Cross in a welfare state if they're no I know
too many bucks that are not wellfare they don't have
criminal problems. It's a welfare people have no fathers.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
That's father power, father power that and this is something
that should be more bipartisan when you don't have a
father a father image.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
And Washington has done a great job exposing that and
fighting for them.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Anyway, folks, you are listening to the Founder's Show with
Hi mckenry, and Christopher said more than going through the elections,
and I am very fascinated. Remember I spent a lot
of time growing up in New York City. My Anne
had a place in the West Village. I've spent I
follow it in fact money, How long were you there,
christ pretty much every summer a really age. Yeah, so
you have like over a year, a couple of months easily, yea,

(40:14):
easily easily easily easily. I mean it was never one
continuous period, but I would go she had she had
a month there, yeah, exactly exactly. And she had a
brownstone in the West Village, the back of one. Actually
my cousin still has it. It's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I spent two months up there in New York. Yet
I had an amazing time. That's fun.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
I remember at eighteen, this is this is how fears
this is years ago too. This is a nineteen ninety two,
ninety one, actually seventy.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Well that was I'll never forget. I walked out onto
Wall Street one morning and you know the stays when
you used to have newspapers and newspaper stands. Yeah, it's
early in the morning. I looked down there was a
newspaper stand. Guess what I saw, Elvis is dead. You
didn't see what experience that was to see that in
New York on Wall Street. That's quite an experience.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
All right, all right, Well, I'm going to say one thing,
speaking of experience, Well, I was going to say, finally,
with Mundami, when he takes off, as he's thirty six
years old, he is going to encounter a very serious
problem in New York, which is a lot of people
say they can do things and they really can't. Because
New York is less of a major city than you

(41:27):
think it is. The boroughs have a lot more authority
in the borough presidents than you think it is, and
it's going to encounter some problems for Mundami. It's not
as simple as people think. But ultimately I'm actually curious
about coming home back to New Orleans. The budget situation.
We're not only going to see people laid off. We
think Doze is a big thing. We're going to actually

(41:49):
see all the cultural budgets that help support our festivals.
We got word that all of them are going to
be canceled for twenty twenty six, and this is a
major economic development hit on the place. Without some of
the money. This is the money for folks who just like, well,
they won't get their dollars. I mean, it pays for police,
it pays for fire, it pays for sanitation. That's what

(42:10):
these grants do. It helps the city underwrite and cover
these festivals, which aren't for the most part, incredibly profitable.
In fact, most of them lose money. But they provide
careers and opportunities, paid gigs for artists and for vendors
and others, and they support our tourism. As some people know,
we're having to do the Opera Festival from March twenty

(42:31):
fourth to April first, but we're the first of several
jazz fest comes in French, French Quarterfest, jazz Fest all
the way through, and without city support to cover some
of these expenses, we're really affecting our tourism economy. And
that's how bad the fiscal situation is in New Orleans
right now, and a lot of people aren't paying attention
to it. So folks, we're gonna we're keep this monitor

(42:52):
and last, but not least, it looks like some kind
of deal has happened in Washington. Who knows. I've talked
to a couple friends of mine on the hill, and
what we may with is what Hi and I predicted
a month ago. Basically, a few bills just fund our
military and critical employees that are agreed to, and the
rest of it shut down for a while and we'll
see what happens. But that's the current negotiations as we

(43:15):
now are in the longest government shut down in American history.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
I'm hearing from the inside trust that there are some
moderate Democrats that are starting to come and they really
want to end it, and they're working hard to do that.
And the whole thing was they wanted to get through
the elections to use this to hurt the Republicans and
the elections. It's the main slign media is working very
hard to blame all this on the Republicans, and this

(43:40):
is a Democrat shutdown, no questions. Oh well, when it
comes from a shutdown, no question.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
But when it comes right down to it, the Democrats
got into this thing to extend the tax subsidies on
healthcare under the Affordable Care Act.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
And they want to add one point five trillion dollars
chrispher that's the big thing. Well, that plus we want
to get rid of Obamacare. It's such a terrible first
of all, First of all terrible.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
First of all, I know a lot of people who
are on the Affordable Care Act exchanges and this is
the first time they got healthcare. But second of all,
more importantly, and it comes down to this, I didn't
buy that argument when Democrats came in and said Republicans
want to add four trillion dollars to the deficit by
keeping tax cuts that were in force in force. If

(44:23):
you say Republicans weren't adding to the deficit because all
they were keeping is a tax credit in force, then
you can't come out and say Democrats are adding to
the deficit by keeping a tax credit in force. This
is what these things are on the Bomacare exchange. It's
the same logic. Hi, you can't say that it's contradictory.
So I leave it with that. We got to take
a quick commercial break, folks, We'll be back with the

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Speaker 1 (45:28):
So we're back and you are listening to the Founder's Show,
the Voice of the Finding Fathers, and I'm here to
tell you about as always our chaplain by by Patriotic Moment.
We'll just take a brief moment to remind you of
the biblical foundations of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence,
our spiritual origins, if you will, and today I have
a wonderful man named Roger Sherman. Always been one of

(45:49):
my favorites. It was said by the Finding Fathers that
he was the only man in their group that there
wasn't even a scintilla of foolishness to him. And he's
a real straight shooter. He was a really everything was
business to him. And he's the only Founding father that
signed all four documents. He signed the Continental Association, the

(46:14):
Decoration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.
He also signed the seventeen seventy four Petition of the King,
which Christopher mentioned earlier, similar document trying to bring peace
and save the union between the colonies in England. Roger
Sherman is really one of our most dynamic of the
Founding fathers, not known, not very well known. He assisted

(46:36):
Jefferson in the writing of the Decoration of Independence. Remember
we talked about how Carol was one of the ones
that was an important an assistant to Jefferson. Jefferson wrote that,
and he's a brilliant writer, but he had help, he
had people advising him. He had five other men advising
him and they were all very good and they it

(46:56):
meant a lot to the whole finished document. Anyway. Roger
Sherman said this, he said, without God, America has no hope.
He said if we ever want to make America great,
we first must make God great in our midst. Now, folks,
I think Roger Sherman wanted to keep God in the

(47:18):
middle of government. He was quite a remarkable founding father.
But what about you. Do you know that you could
be one of the greatest patriots, biblical patriots in America,
and yet you may still be missing something, something very
very important, because you see, God is not in you.
You believe in God, you say good things about him,

(47:38):
A lot of religious folks do that, but you're still
missing something so very important. You're missing Jesus. Because if
you don't have Jesus, you don't have God. And I'm
going to tell you how that works. God knew the
human race had a huge problem. It's called sin and death.
It was our big love problem, and he came up
with a love solution for our love pollution. He knew

(48:00):
we could never do this on our own. He knew
we could we would never measure up. I don't care
how great you were, you as great a man as
Roger Sherman, you still wouldn't be good enough for God.
You see, God has exceedingly high standards called perfection, and
none of us are there. Therefore, we cannot get the
job done. It's impossible. So God came up with a plan.
He loved us so much he warned us to go

(48:20):
to heaven, so Bailey, he wanted to save us from Hell.
Hell is a place where God is not. He had
to make a place for all the negative energy of
the universe, for sin, for death, for devils, and then
tragically for those who reject Him, and throughout their lives
to their final dying breath, they reject God and so
there's only one place for them to go. They have
to go where all the negative energy goes. It's called Hell,

(48:43):
a place where God is not. There's no love in hell.
Everything that's good is in heaven. God is love. Lots
of love in heaven, no love in hell. So, folks,
this was God's love solution for our love pollution. He
knew because he knew we could never make it, He
decided to make it for us. But to do that
he had to become a man. He did become a man.
That man's name is the Lord Jesus Christ, perfect God,
perfect man, all the way God, all the way Man.

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He came to this earth to take care of these
problems we have, and he did it on the cross
from the Bible says his blood washed away all of
our sins. He died for all of our sins, all
of your sins. Folks, from the day you're born to
the day you die, you tie us to the greatest sins.
They all went on Jesus. The Bible says, he was
turned into that sin, made into our sin, that then
we would be made into his righteousness. Takes all our

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sin to give us all his good Folks, you can't
get any better than that. But you know, it's a gift,
and a gift is not received till you take it.
You have to take the gift. It is a free gift.
A gift is something you don't work for. You can
earn it. You may not even deserve it, but nevertheless,
you can get a gift even if you don't deserve it. Well,
we don't deserve the gift of heaven. We don't. We

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don't deserve the gift of salvation. We don't deserve the
gift of the payment of our sins. We don't deserve that.
But God loves us so much he doesn't care what
we don't deserve. He wants us in so he gave
us his great gift. And the word for that word
gift and the Bible is called grace. Grace means free gift.
The Bible says, we've been saved by grace through faith,

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and even that is not of ourselves. It is a
gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
So you have to take it as a gift, and
the only way you can do that is by repentance.
Repentance is when you come to that place and your
heart in your mind where you understand fully and completely
you're not good enough for God. You're just a big, huge,
giant loser, destined to a burning hell without hope. When
you come to that point in your life, you just repented.

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It all takes place, and your heart in your mind
is not a work. It's not turning from your sins,
doing good works, this, that, whatever, saying special prayers, it's
none of that, because then you would get credit, and
you're not capable of that credit. Of getting that credit,
only God could get it, and he did, and he
gets all the glory. For we've been saved by grace,
free gift through faith, and even that is not of ourselves.
We're not even good enough to get up enough faith,

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but God gives it to us. So we will believe
that through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast. Folks,
if you've never done this before, we've never believe that
Jesus really did die for all your sins, was buried
and rose and the dead. Do it now? Believe right now,
this very day. Put faith alone in Christ alone. Believe
with all your heart. I means you can't trust anything else.
Get only trust in Jesus. Believe with all your heart

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that Jesus really did die for all your sins, was
buried and rose, that his blood watched them all the way.
If you do that, you get his full payment for sin,
a full pardon and resurrection, everlasting life where you will
walk the streets of gold with Jesus forever. Folks, some
people have done that, and they've shown they've done great
things that I know about. Because it's not time for

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us to go into our chaplain by bah testimony time,
we're going to tell you a story of a great
man or woman from the ancient world up until even
recent times. Christopher gave his story not too long ago.
It's a great story. One day I'm giving you mine.
But this is what the story is on this man.
His name was Wickliffe. He gave us the Wickliffe Bible.
He was a great Oxford scholar. He's a Duot Catholic.

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This is in the fourteenth century. But he knew this
people of England needed the Bible and their language. They
had never had that. All over Europe everything was in Latin.
Western Europe in Latin, and you know, the people didn't
speak Latin, so they really couldn't read the Bible. He
wanted everybody reading the Bible, so he did a translation.
It's called the Wickcliffe Translation. It's a great translation. And
he didn't just do that. He raised up evangelists called

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Lollard's and he sent them out across Mary Old England
to every nook and cranny, every highway and byway, preaching
the Gospel and handing out Bibles. Folks. It changed England.
It changed England. That is the real turning point for England,
going to God and going to the Bible. Wickliffe and

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it stuck with England up until I guess you could
say recent times. Because of that. Victor Hugo said about Shakespeare.
He said England made Shakespeare, and the Bible made England.
And so if you go to Shakespeare's quotes, many of
them are actually biblical quotes. We don't realize that what
they are. Well, folks, that doesn't have time for us.

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Close as we're close with the monstraint Martin singing a
creole goodbye and God bless all out there?

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Does this have to be the end of the nerd?

Speaker 6 (53:13):
You know I love you In the pamon land, I can.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
See across the million stars when I look.

Speaker 6 (53:25):
At we can mosey it's the sun time. I suppose
you couldn't call it a cray if we take just
a little little longer to

Speaker 1 (53:48):
See our good night, to call it creel good