Do you trust Hollywood with your kids?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Denis Bell from Moms for Liberty and Congressman Wesley Hunt. ( @KennethRWebster )

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm Kenny Webster.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's gonna be a fun afternoon here on KPRC Radio. Obviously,
I'm gonna be here. That'll be fun. You're gonna be here.
That's gonna be fun. Denise is gonna be here from
the uh Moms for Liberty. She's fantastic. I'll love hearing
from her. And in case you missed it, this morning,
Wesley Hunt running for senator of the state of Texas.
We're gonna have some audio from that interview coming up
in just a little bit. But first we begin with

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this news from the National Review. Usually I don't start
a story with political news from the state of Virginia,
but this is unique. Back on August eighth of twenty
twenty two, a Republican state legislature legislator, excuse me, did
I say late.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Legislator, a lawmaker in the Republican Party in Virginia, got
this disturbing string of early morning text messages. He got
it from a former colleague, a guy named Jay Jones.
If you don't know who Jay Jones is, he's this
year's Democrat Party nominee for Virginia's Attorney General.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Jones at the time had recently resigned from the State
House because of a brief stint representing Norfolk. He had
strong feelings about how the political class was eulogizing the
recently deceased former state legislator Joe John Johnson, the junior
Joe John Johnson Junior obviously, who by way is a

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moderate Democrat. He is a long tenure in Virginia politics,
and the Republican legislators, like House Speaker Todd Gilbert, had
begun making public statements honoring Johnson's memory and political legacy,
and some of those statements were making headlines. Obviously, they
were getting some attention at the time. It was an
important thing to talk about it, I think because in

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the state of Virginia, a lot of people knew this
guy and he died, and that was sad. So we
like to remember people when they pass away. That's a
normal regardless of what party they're in. Believe it or not,
a lot of Republicans don't just judge and hate people
because of what party that they're in right now. Democrats,
on the other end, are a little bit different. Round

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eight am. At that day, Jones shared his feelings with
former state legislative colleague, Republican House Delegate Kerry Coynier. In
a series of text messages, Jones derided Johnson's political centrism
and scoffed at the glowing tributes that were being made
in his honor by Republicans in the wake of his death.
He said, damn that was for Mark. He wrote to Coiner,

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suggesting he'd meant to send the text to someone else,
and yet that realization didn't stop Jones from joking about
what a pos Gilbert would say about if he had died.
Guess what I'm trying to stay here is he started
sending these blood thirsty texts, celebrating or perhaps fantasizing about
the murdering of Republicans and their children, even urinating on

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their graves. We only know that Jones text to one
State lawmaker existed because it's surfaced online, So we don't
know the breadth of the folks he would like to
kill and exactly what sort of children he wants to suffer.
But we didn't know about this one thing. Shocking is
the word some newspapers use to describe Jones's texts. Look,

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a lot of people were appalled and repulsed by the text.
But what's even weirder is the way the media reported
on this. A CNN headline, I don't have in front
of me, I'm paraphrasing here said something like text messages
by Virginia Attorney General candidate called into question, And then
you click the link and read the article, and they
don't really explain that he fantasized about killing a Republican

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lawmaker and his children until paragraph nine.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Now, Jones.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Was caught going one hundred and sixteen miles per hour
in a sixty mile per hour zone.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Back in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Someone's driving ninety and seventy five, that person's probably going
to get a ticket. If someone's going ninety in a sixty,
that's even worse. Someone's going one hundred in his sixty.
That person's showing what our legal system calls depraved indifference.
He may not be trying to kill other people, but
he clearly simply didn't care if he killed other people,
didn't care about their safety. Jones was driving pretty fast,

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and he famused almost no consequences for his actions. He
served community service, to which he was sentenced to volunteering
for the NAACP. Jones is a man who simply doesn't
value human life. He wants his political opponents and their
children dead because he thinks Conservatives are fascist who breed
little fascists. According to him, he demonstratably doesn't care if

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his behavior kills other people.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Look at how he drives. It would be it's ptty
dangerous to give.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Such a depraved man the prosecutorial power of state, but
that's exactly what democrats want. They want this guy to
be the attorney general. So people were pretty alarmed about this.
Jones continued his barrage of text messages, saying he was
just asking questions. Coinner dismissed his excuse via text and

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chastised Jones for hoping another colleagues's children would die. Rather
than deny that he had wished death on the children,
Jones responded by saying, yes, I've told you this before.
Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.
Faced with more pushback from his frazzled former colleague, Jones
somehow took the conversation a step further. He said, I

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mean I do think Todd and Jennifer are evil question Mark,
and that they're breeding little fascist question Mark. Yes, for
some reason, when you're on the left, it's okay to
to humanize, vilify, mock another wise, just disrespect your political opponents.
But when Republicans go so far as to just criticize

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a journalist like Donald Trump often does, they're accused of
endangering their lives. To suggest that there's two sets of
roles in this country for both political parties would be
an understatement. That's a lot of I look, you just
such a pie hole and keep working.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Back to the pursuit of happiness radio, If disfus a
happy mesda oh hi.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Apparently over the weekend, Bad Bunny hosted Saturday Night Live.
They claim hosting the show, they took a dig at
Donald Trump. This is kind of one of those if
a bear poops in the woods moments. You know you're
not really being insulted if you're not watching right like
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel insults you. If nobody watches Jimmy
Kimmell insult you. He didn't really insult you, did he.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (06:51):
You know, last night we had a lot of great
patriots gathered together at Bad Astronaut Brewing Company raised a
lot of money for disabled military veterans.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
And there were a lot lot of people there.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
People from Don Huffein's team, A lot of Michael Berry
listeners are there, what Wesley Hunt supporters were there?

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Ken Paxton supporters were.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
There, and a lot of people that we met a
couple weeks ago when we were doing a rally for
the Stratford High School kids. And for those that don't
know the story, I'll tell it very quickly. A bunch
of teenagers inspired by Charlie Kirk's death decided to go
start a Turning Point USA chapter at Stratford High School,
and a Democrat Party member from Spring Branch decided to

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docks a bunch of high school kids. This became a
national news story blew up overnight. The Attorney General got
involved in a rally, myself, Michael Berry, thousands of people participated.
It was huge, but the whole thing started when some
really concerned parents from a group called Mom's for Liberty
called attention to it. It all starts at the grassroots movement,

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and frankly, I think this interview is long overdue. One
of the people that was instrumental in making this into
a national news story was Denise Bell. Denise Bell's the
chapter chair of Moms for Liberty in Harris County.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Is that correct?

Speaker 5 (08:04):
That is correct, Kenny. Thank you so much for having
me on.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's really awesome having you here today. Moms for Liberty,
for those that don't know, started in January twenty twenty
one in Florida when a mom named Tina. Two moms,
Tina and Tiffany, started in response to COVID nineteen school policies.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Isn't that correct?

Speaker 5 (08:20):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
These are two former school board members, Tina Deskovitch and
Tiffany Justice, who are seeing all kinds of infringements on
prontal rights, and so they banded together started the organization.
The first two chapters were in Florida and their respective counties,
and then it mushroomed over one hundred chapters across the
United States. In that first year and today we have
over three hundred chapters of Moms for Liberty.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
We're so proud of that.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
So much has happened over the last four years involving
education and parents and politics. We really saw a shift
from the left to the right when it came to
voting about education.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yes, back in the.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Late twentieth century, if there was an election that was
affected by education, it almost all always benefited the Democrats, right,
And then the pandemic happened, and we all know twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Was a weird year.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
But almost immediately after that, Glenn Youngkin ran for Virginia
governor and he was talking about all the same stuff
you guys are talking about, trans ideology, critical race theory,
and doctrination, shaming, lining up all the fifth graders and
based on their skin color and having the white kids
apologize to the indigenous kids. None of this is helping

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anybody get a job or get prepared for life. It's
mark system doctrination, and that's the whole point of Moms
for Liberty.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
That's right, And actually this has been going on for decades.
I think it's just been in the past few years
that parents realized where we were and how bad this was,
and so if there was any silver lining from the pandemic,
I think it just helped to expose a lot of
these issues in education, and once parents saw it, they
were upset as and rightly so. And we have to

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continue to push back against this agenda. We cannot be
complacent because it has been going on for so long.
There's so much to unravel and fix within the public
education system.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
We are live streaming this interview while we're on the
radio in KPRC nine to fifty. We're also live streaming
on the internet, and someone just informed us there was
an issue with the sound. I hope I fix that,
but just to get everybody caught up here, Denise spells
from Moms for Liberty, and they're pretty upset about the
fact that there are Marxists and doctrinating kids in public education,
which is very frustrating. I mean, I think, so, so,

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what exactly are you guys doing here in Houston right now?
Since the Stratford High School thing? A lot's happened with.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Your group, right, that's right. So Moms for Liberty and
Harris County is almost two years old. I and some
other ladies launched the chapter a couple of years ago,
and I'm really proud of the work that we have
been able to do since then. We focused in a
lot of different areas, but overall, we just want to
raise awareness to the printal rights infringements happening locally here
in Harris County and across Texas. And actually there are

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quite a lot Some of your listeners may have heard
about us last February when I spoke at an HSD school.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Board meeting when there was a parent.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
That asked us to speak on behalf of them to
inform the board that their child was being socially transitioned
in HISD without the parents' knowledge or consent. And so
that was one of the bigger stories that people may
be aware of, you know, our chapter.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
But there's a lot of different things that we do.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
We've spoken at lots of different school board meetings across
the county. There's twenty five school districts in Harris County
and we try to pay attention to all of those.
We have members and more of some of them more
than others.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
But some of the.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
Issues are inappropriate content in the schools, you know, sexually
explicit books, Marxist propaganda and then the whole child movement,
which is whole school, whole community, whole child, or RISK
is the acronym that people may be familiar with, and
that includes things like social emotional learning health centers on campus,
which goes above and beyond just having a nurse. That's

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like having an actual doctor on campus, either through telemedicine
or in person, whether it's for mental or physical health.
And those are big, big infringements on prontal right right there.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right, there's something coming up here called Banned Books Week,
and I'm always confused by this.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
I live in America. There are no banned books.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
There are books that we restrict from having children access,
like pornography for example. Correct, And I know, you know
there's the left will tell you the comic books about
how to have gay sex, it's a biology book or whatever,
but I feel like it's not.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
And why does a five year old need to look
at that?

Speaker 5 (12:25):
That's right, and you know there is no such thing.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
I'm so glad you said that there is no such
thing as a banned book in the United States. You
can buy or borrow any book that you wish. Nothing
is banned. But when we're talking about the removal or
when we're talking about schools, schools have a right and
responsibility to remove books that are not number one educationally
suitable or if they are pervasively vulgar, and those decisions

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were handed down by the Supreme Court in a court
case called the Pico Supreme Court case, and all schools
have that right and responsibility. We have to make sure
books are age appropriate for children. The book, ever written,
is not appropriate in a school right.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
One of the examples they often give about a so
called banned book is the Diary of Ann Frank. They'll
tell you like a Florida, they say they banned the
Diary of Ann Frank and they didn't.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
No, there was a graphic novel.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Version of the Diary of Anne Frank that included a
lot of sex stuff that was unrelated to the Holocaust,
unrelated to the war, hiding or anything. And it's my
understanding that that specific book, that version of Ann Frank's
diary was removed from elementary school libraries, but that they
could still access the normal An Frank Diary. Why do

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they need an animated version of Ann Frank's sexual fantasies
in a five year old's library? What's the point of that, right.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
We actually see this issue with a lot of different books.
There's Anne of Green Gables has actually a graphic novel
that is a same sex storyline, so oftentimes.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Wait, I'm confused, what did that have to do with
the original story.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Nothing, but this is what being pushed into the schools.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
There's I believe another one, Louisa may Alcott one of
her but I think Little Women actually has a graphic
novel with the same sex storyline as well. So graphic
novels are a big issue. Graphic novels are being introduced
into the schools as a way to get kids interested
in reading, supposedly, but a lot of other concepts are
brought into these stories. Stories are rewritten, and so you're

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absolutely right. The graphic novel that had to do with
Anne Frank was the book that was removed from the school,
not the original work.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
All right.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
In the meantime, it's not just about public education. Netflix.
I think almost everybody I know as a Netflix account,
at least a lot of people do. And apparently there's
a show on Netflix called dead End Paranormal Park. It's
animated fantasy about a transgender person and it's for pre teens,
they say, kids age seven, seven years old, What have

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you looked at this at all?

Speaker 5 (14:55):
I have heard about this.

Speaker 7 (14:57):
You know.

Speaker 6 (14:57):
The Marxist agenda includes family abolition and to abolish the family. Well,
abolishing the family is important to them because that's the
only way that you can usher in a new form
of government. Is if you have weak families, you're going
to have a weak society, right, and so family abolition
includes things like destroying the gender binary and destroying gender roles,

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and so these ideas are fed to even very young
children to try to change the social fabric that we
have in this country. And it's really disgusting how this
plays out in entertainment, in gaming, you know, online gaming,
and also in books, you know, music, movies, everything.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
It's terrible, all right.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I feel like there was about five years, you know,
from the late part of Trump's first term right up
until I don't know, probably twenty twenty three where this
was just normal.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Un question.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
If you brought it up at all, people looked at
you like you were a fascist, any crazyism or igot
or whatever term they wanted to use to describe you
would get bigots and transphobes and whatever. Kind of fobe
you are, and then the angelum switched. I feel like,
is it getting better?

Speaker 5 (16:02):
I think it is getting better.

Speaker 6 (16:04):
But what I want parents to understand is that, you know,
Trump being in office is wonderful.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
The executive orders are wonderful.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
The laws that have been passed this past year, like
SB twelve, the printal Rights Bill SB thirteen, which helps
with getting inappropriate content out of our schools, those are
all great things. But we can't sit back and just go, oh,
it's all fixed, because it's not. Parents have to stay
engaged and change happens at the local level. It's very
important that parents in their individual school districts are paying

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attention to bored agendas, board elections, what's going on in
the classroom. I can't tell you how many times I
have found issues in my own children's classrooms.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
And I can give you some examples of that.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, just give us a clip notes Ry now, just
to view that.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
Okay, So, my oldest child when she was in APUs
history and this is something I've talked extensively about online
in different podcasts, but she was in this class that
taught the difference between socialists, capitalism and communism. Socialism and
communism are both Marxist systems obviously, but communism has a
negative connotation, right, and the Marxists know that, So socialism

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sounds nicer, and socialism has actually gone up in terms
of popularity.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
More democrats view.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
Socialism in a positive way than capitalism even today. But
in this class, there was a chart that compared the
three systems and socialism came out as the winner, not capitalism.
And the examples from this chart that I can give
you that students learned that the treatment of the poor
and needy under capitalism was that the poor were exploited

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with help from some That's what students learned about capitalism
and classes. Students learned about capitalism that there is strict
classes are strict with limited mobility. And of course socialism
for both of those categories, talking about classes or talking
about the treatment of the poor looked good like it
created the middle class.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
The treatment of the poor, you know, poor were treated well.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
So these are just seats that are being planted small
ones want at a time that over time create big
shifts in ideology for future generations of Americans.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
And it's a problem.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Socialism was as most of our listeners probably not invented
by the Marxists as a means to an end. It
was supposed to get you to communism. It was never
supposed to be a permanent system. It was supposed to
be a way to go from one system to the other.
But really, socialism is I like to say, when you
have nothing and you want to share.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
It with the world.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Right, that's absolutely right.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
The means of production changed to a very few, centralized
group of people that have all of the power and
the wealth. Socialism is never going to provide the utopia
that they claim it will. In history has proven that
over and over again.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Capitalism, on the other hand, is provided us with iPhones, airplanes, helicopters,
life saving medication, prosthetic limbs, running water, electricity. I can't
really other than the AK forty seven, what is communism?

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Give it us that has any value? Right?

Speaker 6 (18:58):
Nothing, nothing, It's a road to nowhere. And unfortunately our
children are being misled. And there's generations of Americans older
than Gen Z and Generation ALPHA that's in school right now.
Obviously that are pro socialism. I don't understand it at all,
but we need to recognize that our tax dollars are
paying for children to learn the pros of socialism, and

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it's happening across the country.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
I did a little research on you using AI. I
don't know if you've ever done this, but in April
of twenty twenty four, you went to a Harris County
School Board meeting and you talked about what girls are
made of. You called it pornographic and it was available
in our public school libraries. Yes, February twenty twenty five
you went to a Houston Independent School Board meeting and
you talked about people what was it, social transitioning at

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bel Air High School. April twenty twenty five you address
Paarland ISD School Board about sexually explicit books in the libraries.
We talked about how Texas house built nine hundred passed
in twenty twenty three, but there was still pervasive, I
mean perverted, vulgar material in the school. And then March
twenty twenty four you were at a fundraiser for Kirk

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Cameron in Brave Books and you are out there doing
this all the time. Is this the kind of thing
you encourage other parents to do?

Speaker 5 (20:14):
Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (20:15):
I really felt compelled and called around the time of
the pandemic to speak up. I could no longer be silent.
And the issue that brought me there was my own
I have four children and at the time, one of
my children was ten and he was assigned a book
to read in school called Dragon Wings, which is actually
not a bad book, but it's just not appropriate for

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ten year olds.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
This was not a library book. He was assigned to
read it.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
In the book, the book talked about brothels, prostitution, opium
dens and referred to White's as demons.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
So from a young age, my children have had.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
The suppressor versus oppressed, you know, framework that they're being
taught in school and sexually explicit material and it's just
really sad. It's taking their innocence away, breaking down barriers,
it's putting topics in front of kids that they're not
ready to handle, nor do they understand, and it's really
breaking people down. And I think, you know, part of this,

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we see mental health issues. Certainly, this isn't the only
reason for mental health issues skyrocketing, but it's not helping
our kids.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
It certainly isn't.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Now Democrats and liberals will often say that their political
party is the Party of science, and then they'll tell
you that a two year old or a five year
old's ready to have a conversation about sex. I feel
like science has already answered this question for us. There's
a time and a place to talk about this, right,
and that time is right as you're beginning puberty. That
seems really in the late twentieth century when I was
growing up, that wasn't controversial, right. I would imagine you

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don't need to teach a prepubescent kid about gay sex.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Right on the end, it's a fine line.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I mean, a high school kid, maybe a college kid
certainly could learn about that because they may have some
exposure to it. But I think this is common sense stuff, Denise,
I can't believe it's even controversial.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
It is common sense.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
And when I was in school, it was really more
of a biology lesson, right and kind of factual information. Today,
what's happened is we have comprehensive sex ed In the
state of Texas, we have more abstinence plus. But I
think some schools are really pushing the boundaries of this.
But certainly across the United States we have comprehensive sex
d and what that does is it brings in a

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lot of discussions around pleasure. It could include things like kink,
alternative lifestyles, gender ideology. There's no reason that a child
needs to learn I hope I don't. I won't get
in trouble for saying this, but what anal beads are
or I hate saying it, but you know, there's no
reason a child needs to know what anal beads are

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or a butt plug or something like that. And these
are actually things that are being introduced into conversations with
children by adults. And of course we've all heard the
news reports of very young children having lessons on pronouns
and gender and whatnot.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
And it's very it's it's awful.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
I mean, this is a travesty that we're allowing this
to happen to our kids.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, if there's an aid or and I year old
with a fetish, I thank you. That's just a bad parent, right,
there's no two way like a terrible parent. If people
want to join Moms for Liberty, if they want to
get involved in the work that you do, what do
they do?

Speaker 6 (23:09):
So you can go find us online? Just the easiest
ways to search us on Google. If you put in
Harris or Moms for Liberty Harris County, you'll hit our portal,
and from there we try to always keep the most
current information up there. I just posted our October chapter meeting,
which is going to be on October twenty ninth at
twelve pm. Anyone's welcome to join us, even those that

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might disagree, as long as you're respectful. But we do
have a limited space, so I encourage everyone to RSP
quickly if they're going to do that, and then you
can keep up with us from that website, and then
Moms Moms for Liberty's big website, momsterreliberty dot.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
Org has lots of great resources for parents.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
You can learn about all kinds of different topics, the
ones that we've discussed today.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
And many more.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I love that, Denise Spell Moms for Liberty, thanks so
much for being here. To everybody watching us on social media,
share this video if you don't mind coming up in
a little bit. Congressman Wesley Hunt is running for senator.
If you missed our interview with him this morning, stick around.
We're going to have it in just a little bit.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Woe indeed, the woe level is at full effector right now?

Speaker 4 (24:26):
What is up, dude?

Speaker 3 (24:26):
I got a little rowdy in here during the break.
Y'all probably miss most of that because we didn't turn
the microphones on for a good reason. But we have
a special guest in the studio.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
This is probably going to be the biggest story today
in Texas political news.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Maybe in the country.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Wesley Hunt, probably the most maga lawmaker in the state
of Texas, has just made a huge announcement this morning.
And if you hadn't already heard it, why don't we
let him make the announcement.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Hey, First of all, thank you el so much for
having me today.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
We announced that my team and I are going to
officially run for the United States Senate for the next election.
Very excited, very proud of what we've been able to
put together and looking forward to taking this thing home
for Texas.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Brother, and this is something people have been talking about
for months, so obviously this is a huge announcement.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Let's start out with this, What made you decide to
pull the trigger?

Speaker 3 (25:13):
No pun intended.

Speaker 7 (25:15):
At the end of the day, this cannot be about
a blood feud between Ken Paxson and John Cornyn. This
cannot be about personal animis amongst men. This has got
to be about the issues that matter most to Texans.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
This has got to be about the border.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
This has got to be about safety, This has got
to be about preserving the oil and gas industry, which
is this state's engine. And last I checked, for the
past few months, no one is talking about that. We
have a current senator that's been around for over twenty years.
She's a twenty four year in company. The first time
he got in the office, I was actually two years old.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Two years old, so you didn't vote for him.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
I was two years old.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
And the first time he became the Attorney General of
the of the Estate of the State of Texas was
in nineteen ninety two, like the Dream Team years like
I was, I was playing Little League soccer and Little
League football, drinking Ecto cooler and eating orange slices. Is
how long he's been in office. And at some point
we have got to see a changing of the guard.
We've got to see some new leadership. And that's exactly

(26:22):
what we represent. And I'm sorry we five the fifty
four percent liberty score. I'm sorry if you voted for
gun control legislation in the Great State of Texas, if
you said that it was time to move on from
Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
And support Nikki Haley.

Speaker 7 (26:35):
I think there's some issues there that need to be
pointed out, and we intend on elucidating the voter here
in Texas so we can make the right choice. Let's
stop this exercise in futility and let's get down the
brass tax. Let's talk about Texas. I'm talking about you
had me at Acto Cooler Man right.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Days.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
ACTI coler is delicious into Cooler.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
You know, that's the last time. I can't find it
anywhere anymore. All Right, so this is big news. Look,
obviously this is really upsets some people. We put this
out on social media this morning. It got a huge response,
probably just as many people were thrilled about it as
we're pissed about it. Why would anybody be upset because
there's people out there that like Cornyn or likely is
the right to challenge him.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
They don't like vote for the other guy.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Paxton aside, I gotta think that Cornyn is about the
worst person in the Republican Party with an elected position.
I mean, there are worse people running for office right now,
but as far as rhinos, I mean, Cornyn is the
definitive other than maybe Lindsey Graham or I don't know, Timis.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Scott, Texas.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
You know, how is it that both How is it
both of the senators from South Carolina or creepy weirdos?

Speaker 4 (27:43):
That's a lot.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
I mean both of them are are Statistically, that's like
having three trams kids.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
It's very unlikely. But that one lady says she did.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
All right, So Congressman Wesley Hunt here, I guess the
other question everybody would want to know.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
And Megan Fox is out of your tap. She has
three all of our kids are trans now she should
be buying she should be buying a lottery ticket right now?
What are the odds of that?

Speaker 7 (28:06):
All right?

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Like that's true.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Let's see, we got one or three eight of us
in here.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
At least two of.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Us must be trained.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
That's not true. That's not true. I can assure you.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Well on that topic. Before we get to Paxton. You're
you know, you're a dad, You've got kids in public school.
I was weird things happening all the time. We were
just talking about an HISD story today. There was a
bus driver in South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Just what.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
They just shut down.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
A public school in Houston because they said they didn't
have enough illegal immigrants to attend the school. Oh boy,
And I can't even believe that's a real news story.
But that's your city. Imagine how you have kids in
public schools. Why do resources need to go towards that.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
This is exactly the reason why we're running for Senate
because they shouldn't and there needs to be not a no,
but a hell no to policies just like this. And
when you are detached from the community, where you spend
all of your time up in the swamp, when you
don't come back home, when you spend twenty plus years
amongst the establishment, that you forget about about bread and butter.
Things like this that impact every day Texans and everyday

(29:10):
Houstonians that we have got to we have to ordinently
fight against.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
That's literally the reason why I'm sitting here.

Speaker 7 (29:16):
I'm a guy that flew on one hundred and thirty
eight flights last year back and forth because I have
a six of four and a two year old in
my house. I do that so that these children know
who their father is. But most importantly I do it
because I have to be back in the community. I
have to keep my finger on the pulse. I know
what people are thinking, and quite frankly, That's the reason
why I'm getting in this race as well, because I've

(29:36):
heard enough people tell me, Wesley, we really need someone
like you to take this energy forward. We need some
MAGA type legislators that can carry on the banner after
President Trump is gone. I'm in my early forties. I
am not going to be an occagenarian by the time
I finish up this last race, and I can tell
you I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
I guess the obvious question here would be, with Coronat
in office for as long long as he's been, why
are there so many issues? The guy's trying to market
himself as the MAGA candidate, and I can't help but
notice all this globalism happened under his watch. I mean
that should be the obvious takeaway not to vote for him,
right of.

Speaker 7 (30:12):
Course, And let's let's be honest here, Like the United
States Senate is not a retirement community. No, unfortunately, unfortunately
is getting treated that way. And I think when Texans
have the option of someone like me, a young MAGA
guy who was the first person in the country to
endorse President Trump on his second run, the guy that

(30:33):
did that, juxtaposed to the person that said it was
time to move on from President Trump and did not
endorse him attil after he got shot in the head.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Let me tell you some Texas are going to see
right through that.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
I saw a commercial for that guy y'all are talking
about that you're running against. Only are actually his name,
but according to the commercial, he pretty much single handedly
has taken all of the illegals out of the state
of Texas. I don't think he did, though it said
he And of course he was pictured there with Trump
with his arm around him or something, which was probably photoshop,

(31:05):
and he said, yeah, I, with the help of the President,
single handedly did this and that, and he didn't do
none of that.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
So I've seen that ad too.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
John Corning's staff, this guy named Matt mccoyac, who does
some really weird stuff with his Venmo account. I don't
know if you've heard about that, deceptively edited a political
ad so that it would sound like Trump endorsed him. Now, Wesley,
you actually know Donald Trump. Did Trump ever endorse him?

Speaker 7 (31:30):
Last I checked in this race, President Trump has not
endorsed anyone in this race.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
And that's pretty I mean, the no news is actually
pretty big news because I think there's a lot of
people out there that think Trump did endorse someone.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
He has not.

Speaker 7 (31:44):
President Trump's endorsement needs to be earned, needs to be
earned by someone who is loyal, and at the end
of the day, Trump's endorsement will be very helpful should
he weigh in this race. I would love to have it,
but this again, at the end of the day, it's
about Texas, not about a blood feud between two men,
and no one is talking about the Texas issues the period.

(32:06):
And John Corden has now spent over twenty million dollars
in the last two and a half months. I have
free that's money that's not being spent in North Carolina.
This maye not being spent in Michigan. That's Maney not
being spent in Georgia. Twenty million dollars and apparently he's
closing the gap. How a twenty year incumbent that' spend

(32:27):
twenty million dollars in a primary and you're not up
by thirty forty to fifty points, you're not polling at
sixty seventy percent, It's tough for you to move on.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
There's an ad that he's running on TV where it's
a it's a hit piece on Packston and in it.
I don't even remember how it goes because I usually
roll my eyes when I see it. But he talks
about six some alleged six million dollars scandal. But it's
my understanding that Cornate is spending three million dollars a
week running ads against Ken Paxton.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
If that, if the scandal is that bad, why is
Corny why is he spitting that much money.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
I've also for people in Austin and DC that Corny
is starting to slip, that he's become like Joe Biden,
that he's he wanders around.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
He says things that doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
He sends text messages that don't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Have you guys heard anything like that.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
I have never heard anything like that.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
But I will tell you with the with the one
exception of Donald John Trump and that person, he is
a very special guy. Let me tell you he could
run circles around me as seventy nine years old. He
is the exception, not the rule. We all are going
to get there at some point. We all are going
to be seventy four, seventy five, seventy six years old.
We're all going to lose our fastball at some point,
and we have to acknowledge that we have to recognize

(33:33):
that and note that this is a young man's game,
This is a young man's sport. I say again, this
is not the United States Senate and that's his Congress
is not a retirement community.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
All right, we got to keep talking about this is
big news. Congressman Wesley Hunters in the studio right now,
age six to six. I love WJ. Can you hang
with us a little longer? We want to talk to
you about Paxton.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
And a lot more. Don't go anywhere, sorry, folks, Parks closed,
Walton L. Johnson.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
I gotta say, I am enjoying the military theme here
this morning, and rightfully so, since we have a man
amongst men in the room with us, and I'm not
talking about you, Ukenny.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
No I know obviously Congressman Wesley Hunt in studio right now.
Maybe Senator Wesley Hunt, who knows he is taking on
incumbent John Cornyan who has been in office since I
think the Korean War. And Ken Paxton is also in
the race the Attorney General of Texas. People are going
to ask you about this, so I might as well
ask before they get to. Thoughts on Ken Paxton. Obviously,

(34:28):
nobody likes Cornyn. I don't think John Cornyn's wife wants
John Cornyn to be senator. But how do you feel
about Attorney General Ken Paxton. He's your other challenge.

Speaker 7 (34:36):
I Ken Paxton has been my humble opinion, probably the
best turney general in the entire country. He's done a
heck of a job here in Texas. But the issue
is that I've seen over the course of the past
few months, we have been pulling this thing. We have
been looking at it, We've been watching it very very closely,
lots of polls from lots of different sources, lots of
different people. What we realize is that John corn is
closing the gap, but not in last part because he

(34:57):
did spend twenty million dollars against him. But Ken hasn't
spent a dime and he's not hitting back. He's not
fighting back. And we are now in campaign season. The
filing deadline is in two months from now. Somebody has
to get in this race and fight back. That's literally
why I'm running. I can assure you that if King

(35:17):
were fighting back, there wouldn't be a closing up the
gap at all.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
But the fact of the matter is is that he's not.

Speaker 7 (35:23):
And so again, I have nothing bad really to say
about about Ken. I think he's one hell of ag.
But it's time for somebody to get in this race
and do the work and run for Senate.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
If you're looking for something bad to say about him,
Kenny can whip up a few things.

Speaker 7 (35:36):
Look, what we want in Texas is somebody that's going
to go to DC and vote like Texans. That's it,
and that's what I intend on doing. I would be
confident that Ken would do the same thing. But at
the end of the day, right now, nobody's running a
counter a counteroffensive against John Cornyn.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Is somebody that get in this fight and do it.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
As a professional politician, how good are you at dodging
controversial issues? For example, very what's your favorite college football team?

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Oh no, Billy, I don't do that today.

Speaker 7 (36:04):
My favor today it is the fight Naggies Texas A
and then fight Naggies.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
I'm a west Point guy. I'm a west Point guy,
tried and true.

Speaker 7 (36:13):
But at the end of the day, when I look
at public schools that still hold the line, they still
do a pretty good job of producing excellent young people
that still have a good conservative based on campus. That
is Texas, that is now right number six in the country.
I gotta go with the fight naggies, especially with him
haircuts and that could that's a good look on them.
I kind of agree.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
I think I think Ken pactions matched attorney general in America.
I don't think most the thing that they're probably gonna
hammer you on is probably going to be your voting record.
They're gonna say you missed some votes, and I'll just
go and ask before someone else does.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
How do you address that one?

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Yeah, it's really simple.

Speaker 7 (36:46):
And when I first got into office, my son was
actually in the nick you and I was flying back
and forth for that speaker race. I don't know if
you recall that a couple of years ago, when it
took Key McCarthy a lot of votes to get good
across finish line, and my son was was premature miss
a large lunch of votes then. And then also I
was campaigning with the President to get him reelected. I
was one of his top serrogates in the country. I

(37:08):
was in Iowa eleven times. I traveled with him to
Chicago and to Nevada, and to Coachella in California, and
to Allentown, Pennsylvania. I got to fly with him a
lot on Trump Force one, and with doing that, I
lost and missed some votes. And I think the people
of Texas are less concerned with the votes that I've
missed and more concerned with the votes that I've made

(37:30):
and the votes that I'm going to make. I am
the most conservative a lawmaker from Texas at the federal level.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
I'm very proud of that.

Speaker 7 (37:38):
And when I am a Senator, the first piece of
legislation that I'm going to pass is to repeal the
gun control bill that John Cornon offered with Colin Allread
that he was acknowledged for in the Rose Garden by
Joe Biden.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
So at the end of the.

Speaker 7 (37:52):
Day, you could talk about how many votes I've missed
all you want, I have a good reason for that.
The people of Texas understand that. And about the votes
you miss is about the vote you take. Well, you
know you brought up Colin all right. I think wasn't
Corning endorsed by Jasmine Crockett. That's the only tackles endorsement
of a sitting member of Congress. He got a bunch
of old guys to endorse them. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
that way up. Aggie's number five, no Noble five, number

(38:15):
five BULTI. Yeah, as this morning I stand corrected. What's
all this about a chili fest?

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Apparently that's a pretty big deal at college station they
do a chili even know someone's shaking their head.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
No at me.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yesterday at dinners everywhere I was with a bunch of aggies.
They said, they're excited about chili fest. That's not a thing. Okay,
I don't know. No, I never did do it. I
have no idea I'll eat at chili.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
No.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
We were, you know, we were.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
At nine fus last night with a bunch of aggies
and they were asking me if I knew it that
it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
I don't want to waste time on this. They've you
got a girl major it now or major drum read
band leader that makes the stick go up now. Yeah,
it's called the baton billy. There you go one hundred
and forty nine years and they finally got around to
getting them more woman. All right, So.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
That just to read the band so so military and immigrant.
You're a lawmaker in the state of Texas. Obviously this
is ground zero for the immigration crisis. We can't send
the National Guardian to protect ice facilities. Is there anything
Congress can do about that? Is there anything the Senate
can do about it?

Speaker 7 (39:13):
I think the Federal Garment's number one role again is
to keep the people of Texas safe, and of course
there's something that we could do about it. The President
is fighting tooth and nail, obviously with some of these
judges that are repealing some of the federal mandates that
he has signed via executive fiat. But at the end
of the day, Trump's gonna win all these battles. But
I do want to point out this. The border is
far more secure now than it was this time a

(39:35):
year ago. And again, you know, we didn't need any
new laws. The only thing we needed was a new
president and we got that. Yes, sure, so with the
stroke of a pen. With the stroke of a pen,
the border, and my estimation, is in a far better place.
I would even call it fixed, especially compared to what
we saw for the past four years.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
We have twenty million people enter this country illegally.

Speaker 7 (39:55):
That's the complete travesty, mostly through our Texas southern border.
I think Greg Abbey did the best job that he
could at using state funds to try to secure our border.
And then now he has some some overarching help from
the from the President, and I think we're going to
be just fine. We have to get through through these
legal battles. But President Trump has a cracked team. That's that,
that's actually all over it.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
I think Hunter Biden had a cracked team too. I
think he did.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
I think you said that first crack and.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Everybody is everybody did well.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Speaking of people close to Biden, John Corning's got a
liberty score of f if you go to the website
where they value Conservative Review, uh, fifty percent. Clearly not
popular with Conservative's score another Yeah, I think it's one
hundred or ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Or I'm just throwing it out there. You can do
it back. I'm just going out there, you know, just
saying it's vastly better.

Speaker 7 (40:46):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Like you're your Uber score? You're right there on top. Yeah,
how do you get up?

Speaker 4 (40:51):
What do you gotta do to get a bad uber score?

Speaker 2 (40:53):
I never understood that anyway, the point of this question,
What was the point of this question? So you're gonna
get accused of splitting the vote between you and packs,
I mean people are going to accuse you of that
whether they're right or wrong, what do you say to them?

Speaker 7 (41:04):
I just want people to go out and vote and
choose the best candidate that has had President Trump's back
from day one, that was the first person in the
country to endorse them, that is a true conservative born
and raised here in Texas. Having the opportunity to represent
my state in the halls of the Senate will be
my greatest honor.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
And just let the cake bake.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
Let's look at everyone's record, Let's look at what we
vote for. Let's look at what we want to do
and what our vision is for Texas. I'm going to
stay on the issues. If they want to have a
dog fighting, fighting slop, that's on them. I am sticking
to what's most important in Texas. And I think once
the voter, the primary voter, sees that we're going to
be just fond brother.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
I like that, all right.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
So there's this woman named Juliet Caberrera who apparently John
Cornyn's comm director paid to do deck projects with his
Venmo account and backyard work.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
How would you win her vote over.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Because he paid her with his Venmo count.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
I don't know what kind of yard work she did.
I'll tell you what she's not. She's not working on my.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Hey, I know you got to run soon. We've had
you here for almost forty five minutes. You were in
the military. We love talking about stripes and full metal
jacket and Hacksaw Ridge And what's your favorite military movie?

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Apocalyst? Now, oh good, I gotta go with Apocalyst.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Now, ye, sir, for by any chance, I.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
Can't finish the residence.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
I mean, you were, you were in war.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
That scene in the movie is so surreal, but there's
a lot of surreal moments when you're at war.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Was there a moment where like bombs.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Were going off the background and you guys are playing
Mario Kard because you're just trying to live in normal
life for a few minutes.

Speaker 7 (42:39):
We did We didn't have water attack, and I was
fast asleep and and I remember there was some water
around that hit probably about fifty yards away from my hooch,
and it was it was uh stirring to say to
say the least probably woke you up.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
It woke everybody up.

Speaker 7 (42:52):
And then the protocol was you you, you hop up,
you put on your your your bulletproof vest, and then
you head to the bunker.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
And I mean, it was, it was coming down. But
it's those kinds of moments that I experienced.

Speaker 7 (43:03):
It I experienced when I was twenty five years old
that really fortified who I am as a person. I'm
scared of nothing, I fear nothing but God himself. And
at the end of the day, those kinds of experiences
galvanized me. They made me a very strong person. They
helped me to put things in perspective. And that's exactly
what this race needs. This race needs focus and to

(43:24):
ignore all the rounds going off around us, ignore all
the flak, ignore all of the all of the attacks
that may come, and stick to what matters most, and
that is the issues that matter to Texans. It is
the border, It is gun control, it is energy and
oil and gas, and it is safety.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
And I'm going to be a dog on those things.
I promise you.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
I Alon forgot about this. Billy ed you came up
with a great name. Now that Lesley's in the race,
you came up with a great name for this election cycle.
I did yeah two and a half men.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. That is pretty good. I forgot.
I said that. Hey, not for nothing here, but look,
we hope the best man.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
He's a method not Cornt obviously, guy.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
And before we get out of here, you last night
we had our annual comedy show, Operation Comedy Therapy, to
raise money for military vets, and Wesley's team supported it
along with Don Hafines and Michael Barry.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
And so we just want to thank you guys for that.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
And we know you guys got to run any closing thoughts,
anything you want voters to understand before you get out
of here.

Speaker 7 (44:22):
God blessed Sexas. This is the greatest state in our Union.
As Texas goes, so does this great nation. So we
have to make sure that we keep her number one,
keep the priorities of Texans first, and they'll never forget
that and be unwavering and relentless in that task. And
that's why I'm going to be the next center from Texas.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Wow, it's going to be the biggest Senate race coming
up in the twenty twenty six primary.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Folks. We got to get out of here.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
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