December 8, 2025 • 40 mins
Indiana’s redistricting battle is turning into a real time civics lesson. Todd recaps his speech at the Indiana Statehouse during a Turning Point USA event, the hostile protesters chanting from the balcony, and why his 16 year old son was worried about safety after recent attacks on conservatives. He breaks down what a constitutional republic actually is, why redrawing congressional maps is a political but constitutional process, and how the Left misuses words like “cheating” and “democracy” to shut down debate. Todd explains how population shifts, the census, and congressional seats really work, and why Republicans in Indiana should stop being afraid to use the legitimate power they’ve been given.
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Well, my friends, this thing is playing out like a
real life, real time civics lesson. For those who thought
that we lived in a democracy, turns out we were
right all along. We live in a constitutional republic. I
want to talk about that today. I want to give
you basically my thoughts on what happened if you didn't
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join us. Last week. I had been invited to speak
at a Turning Point USA Turning Point Action, the sister
organization a Turning Point USA, the five oh one C four,
the lobbying arm of the organization. I was invited to
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speak at the Indiana State House on Friday, and it
was quite the experience, and I want to talk with
you about that. As we had as we had some
it was interesting, it was a very interesting environment and
I'll share that with you and I want to continue. Listen.
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So on Friday, I went to the State House, had
a couple of friends, and even my son, sixteen year
old son joined me. You know, I will tell you
here off the top too. I wasn't gonna say this Friday,
you know. He he knew who Charlie Kirk was, obviously,
and was quite aware of what happened there. And one
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of his first questions or concerns was when he found
out it was a turning point event and that I
was going to be speaking. He immediately was concerned about safety. Now,
I just want you to keep that in mind, number one.
Forget about how it impacts my family, my children, which
is important to me. I'm not trying to say that
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that's the only bad thing happening here, but it was
first and four almost horrific and tragic for Charlie Kirk's
family and his children. But you think about the impact
that that terrible event earlier this fall had on our
American our American youth, my friends. So he was a
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little bit uncertain. He wanted to go, but he also
was a little bit uncomfortable. It was in the State
House rotunda, which of course you have to go past
security to get in there, so we felt it was
going to be a reasonably safe environment. Even though I expected,
I didn't know what to expect, to be quite honest.
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So when we get there, first of all, I want
to think I had some friends who volunteered, one being
my sister in law and two being ladies that have
helped behind the scenes with this program. One has been
a dear friend of mine for years who's prayed with
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us and just supported us in a lot of ways.
The other has recently helped us try to find more interviews,
more guests for this program. It's something that we haven't
proactively done. But as this program changes and as we
get into doing more things like speaking and just trying
to get trying to get this information, this content out
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in front of the people that I think need to
hear it, she has helped us as well. They've both
been blessings. They both headed on up to the State
House with us on Friday, Well and my sister in
law met us there, and I will tell you there
were a few hundred people there from the turning point crowd,
and then there was on the second. There's three layers
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in the Indiana State House and they all kind of
you know, you can look down to see the floor.
The state houses are often like this. In fact, by
son and I when we went to Austin for a
day trip. He loves flying, he wants to be a pilot.
Took a day trip to Austin. I don't know, maybe
maybe back in July. Great time to go to Austin.
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By the way, it's hotter than heck. But anyway, we
went to It's a great I enjoyed the city. I love,
of course spending the time with him. But we went
to the Texas State House and we's similar sort of setup.
I mean, the buildings are, of course different, but they're
similar in some ways. And you could look over the edges.
I think they had more stories than ours did, or
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maybe the floors were you know, spaced further apart something.
But you can look down, you know, to the to
the rotunda ground level, and there were protesters up there.
Now it didn't shock me, but I didn't know who
was going to be there, and there were some raucous protesters.
Now there weren't many. I'm going to guess around twenty
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five ish. I could be wrong, but they were rowdy,
and you know I I had, of course doing this show.
There are people who I hear from who you know, hate,
hate me, hate what I have to say. Listen I respectfully,
I don't. I don't care. I really, I don't care anymore.
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It makes zero difference to me. I don't know why
you wouldn't like little old me, but if that's what
you have to do to hate me to feel good
about your life or whatever, then have at it. It
is of no consequence to me whatsoever. But it's a
little bit different in an environment like that, because not
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not more not in some way of of I don't know, intimidation,
as I think that they hoped that it was. But
it's just different because here people can be screaming all
they want as they listen to what I'm saying, but
they can't interfere with you hearing it. They could in
that environment. And so the twenty five people were chanting. First.
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First off, they were holding up signs. They were holding
up signs that were all over the place as far
as what the sign said, and most of them didn't
really mean a whole lot. They were misrepresenting reality. I
saw one of them, one of them talked about ponscious Pilot, who,
of course, if you know your Bible, Pilot was the
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Roman governor, who was the one who was ultimately responsible
for whether or not Jesus was crucified. Now, spiritually that
decision had been made. Jesus had came for that very purpose,
so there really wasn't anything Pilot was going to do
about it. But he was the individual in the story,
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the Roman authority who tried to actually reason with the
people at some point to not have Jesus sacrificed, but
have you know, to have him beaten and released, or
anything to avoid actually crucifying him because he realized that
he had not broken any Roman law. Of course, we
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all know that Jesus was crucified for claiming to be
the son of God. That's what it's well, the king
of the Jews actually, which is what they hung on
the cross where Jesus was sacrificed. But ponscious Pilot is
the one who tried to prevent it but ultimately didn't
and he washed his hands, right, I washed my hands
of this, saying I'm not the one responsible for what
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you all are about to do, but I'm also not
going to stop it. Well, there was a sign up
there that said something about how those of us who
want redistricting, I guess were like conscious pilot. I don't
even understand the reference, but there you have it. But
these folks were yelling and screaming the whole time. In fact,
I've probably I was probably called, let's see, cheater, I
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don't know, liar was one of them, probably, but definitely
fascist and nazi. I was called those things dozens of times.
In fact, my son said the entire time, the entire
time I spoke, they were chanting cheat or cheat, cheater.
And that's where I want to start today. Well, I'm
want to tell you one other story first. We're going
to pick up here, but there was a I'm telling you, listen,
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you don't have to be hear me say this. A
lot of what we're fighting about today in America is
truly beyond politics. It's right and wrong. It's rooted in truth,
it's rooted in you know, whether or not you're on
the side of good and evil. We have ventured into
that category that area in this country However, the issue
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of redistricting is one that is truly political. Now, I
would tell you that if we do not redistrict Indiana,
I think we're empowering the people who have completely abandoned
trying to govern or legislate with any moral compass whatsoever.
So I think refusing to readistrict actually empowers the people
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too well to further tear this country apart, and to
tear apart Western civilization as we know it. Are judae
and Christian foundations. But the vote to redistrict in and
of itself is not one that's good or bad, right
or wrong, you know, good versus evil. However, I will
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tell you as I was down there on the stage,
I mean I looked up, I engaged with these folks.
In fact, the one of the turning point folks told
me that for him, the highlight was when I called
these jokers, these jokers out, which I did a little
bit during my short talk on the from the State
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House rotunda floor. In fact, we'll put if you're a
subscriber to the email, I'll make sure today i'll get
the video. It's I don't know, seven eight minutes. I
was given five minutes, you know, That's what I realized.
What I had remarks prepared, because you know, when you
have a few minutes, I want to do my best
to stay on topic. And you know it's when i've
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got a full hour of a podcast, I've got room
to insert stories and things as I'm you know, moving
us in a direction. When I'm given five minutes on
the on the floor, I write that out because I
want to make sure that I say what I want
to say and that I yield when it's time to yield.
But in that environment, with all the screaming, I realize,
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this isn't this isn't the environment for this. So I
kind of changed what I was going to say completely
and kind of spoke extemporaneously. But of course I talk
about the stuff all the time, so it wasn't like
I was, you know, unprepared. It's just that it went
a little bit longer. I think it went maybe eight
minutes or some such thing. I don't know. But the
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turning puh point folks enjoyed when we called out the
behavior of these folks up there, because they again it's
they can protest. I get. The idea is they don't
want Our idea is to be to be heard. They
don't want the reasons for doing this and the rational
for doing this to be heard. They want to shout
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it out and silence it. And it's just pathetic, it
really is. It's truly pathetic. And I found this when
I asked them why is this cheating? Which I'll share
some of that today as we get into this, why
is this cheating? It's not cheating. You don't have to
like it politically. I get that you don't like it politically,
but why is it cheating? That's an open invitation for
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you to tell me why redistricting in Indiana is cheating.
Articulate it to me, Explain it to me like I'm five,
Like you say that I'm stupid. If you oppose me,
just assume that I'm an idiot, and you can write
it in like you're telling a five year old. And
if you can't do it, which I suspect you can't,
then the problem lies when you look into the mirror.
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My friends, But here we are, this is what we have.
I want to tell you. As I was on that stage,
I looked up and there were two women. I think again.
Second floor was kind of hot. The floors are pretty
wide or spread apart now that I'm thinking about this,
but I look up and they're holding signs and channing
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who knows what? And I kid you not. Before on
Friday's episode, before I went and spoke, I would have
said to you, I've never been hissed at by an
adult woman. However, however, after Friday, I can no longer
say I've not been hissed at by another human being,
because I was. I was hissed. I'm literally telling you
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hissed at. She I don't know if she was trying
to cast a spell on me. Good luck, lady. I'm
washed and sealed by the spirit of God. But she
puts her fingers off the side of the hanging over
the edge, and I kid you not. I'm even embarrassed
to do what I'm about to do on this show,
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but I'm telling you the truth. She leans over kind
of bends her fingers. As I think about it, she
kind of looks like the Emperor in Return of the Jedi,
the way he holds his fingers when he electrocutes Luke
with the powers from his you know, the dark side
and all this, And she hangs over the edge and
she goes. I kid you not. This is what they've got.
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I'm telling you, this is what they've got. And right now,
if you're against redistricting, these are the folks that are
speaking for you. And they're not even speaking. They're not
even using words. If they do use words, it's the
same word over and over. It's used superficially. There is
no substance there. Tell me, please tell me why are
you against this? Please tell me in sentences, Please tell
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me in complete thoughts. Why this is cheating? Why you
oppose this? Tell me, I understand it's political. I understand
you want Democrats to have as many seats as possible.
I don't blame you for that. Tell me why you're
against it. I suspect that's why. I suspect that's why
it's not unconstant. We'll get into that. It's not cheating.
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We'll get into that. But use your words. And also,
you know, when I prepare this program, I don't just
tell you the initial reasons why I think something. I
think what would someone say in response to that? And
I try to even stay a step ahead or two
steps ahead, so that I give you as much information
about my viewpoint as I can. If you're against redistricting.
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Tell me, I am amazed at the cowardice of people
who have You know, they're keyboard warriors, and they'll say
things behind the keyboard, and nothing happens when I say,
explain this, tell me why it's cheating. I'll get to
that here, my friends, in just a moment. But let
me take a little breather. No hissing will be done here,
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through this. Explain to me why it's cheating. Explain to
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me what my why redistricting in Indiana or any state
is cheating. It's political. And again, as I've said from
the very beginning, it has been, it's always a political activity.
You know, I have been remarkably consistent on this. I
have said that from the beginning, this is a politic
this is a political exercise. This is a constitutional protected
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political activity. It's what it is. And Indiana Republicans, conservatives
like me, like many of you, have said enough. We've
said enough of what's happening, enough of the erosion of
our culture, enough of the law fair, enough of having
Democrats go to Washington, d c. To you know, it's
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not just it's interesting to me. People hate conservatives for
not wanting to use government to fund people's fantasies and
lifestyles and choices, and to reduce the government and to
say we're not getting involved in those sorts of things.
They get mad at me and you for not wanting
to be enablers, or do not want to be taxed
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to provide whatever it is for somebody else that they
can go out and get on their own. They don't
want to do that. They're upset at us, I should say,
for that. But yet, if you think about the reasons
we have to be upset when a leftist is in office,
there's a lot more reasons. They're mad because the goody
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train is running out. They're mad because the adults in
the room are saying no. We're upset that they want
to control every aspect of our lives. We're upset because
they want to tell our children that they must accept
a biological male, that a biological male, I should say,
is somehow female in some perverse distortion of reality. They
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want us to accept that socialism is the way to go.
They want us to accept that free speech is hate
speech if you are standing in favor of certain conservative
principles or values or whatnot. This is they They want
to control the church. They want to tax the church.
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They want to silence debate and free speech. That's why
they cheer from the balcony. Not cheer, but they chant,
and they moan, and they hissed from the balcony as
I speak, from the floor of the rotunda. Did the
same thing. When Governor Braun was up there, did the
same thing. When Lieutenant Governor Michah Beckwood was up there,
did the same thing. When several state senators took to
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the floor, representatives took to the floor, they did the
same exact behavior. And it was listen. I mean, I've
come to expect it, but it's certainly not engaging in
free and open discourse. So so the question remains, how
is this cheating? And I've so I've asked this question lots.
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I've gone to lot of places and these I'll give
you some examples of suverbatim responses I've gotten. Here's a
guy named Russ on Facebook who said to me, you
don't care about either the state or the United States Constitution,
not even a little, and you don't understand any of it,
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not even the Second Amendment. Conservatives are incapable of learning.
That again, was in response to my question. Now, there's
a couple questions I've been asking. One of them is
how is it cheating? The other one is this question.
I asked, how does redistricting violate the state Constitution. How
does it. I'm going to go through that in a moment,
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and we're again going to talk about both of these
things kind of simultaneously. A guy named Robert jumps in redistricting,
He said, is done every ten years. Not when ever,
not whenever a political party decides to try to change
the seats that represents the people. It is in the
Indiana Constitution. So they are in violation of our constitution.
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This is factually false, my friends. The state constitution in Indiana,
it says that the state shall redistrict after the census.
My question is this, Did Indiana redistrict after the census?
The answer, by the way, is yes, So the state
followed the constitution unless there is language specifically prohibiting it
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from doing it at any other time. These things are
not directly related. There is no reason given in the constitution,
no explicit prohibition of this happening. And the US Constitution,
the US Constitution, gives this authority to the state legislatures.
They are factually wrong, my friends. But they heard it somewhere,
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read it somewhere in a tweet. Heard somebody say it.
Who's out at a rally channing to you know? Two
words sentences at a time, and so that's what they think.
The truth is. I got to take a quick time out.
My friends said tight listening to conservative not better talking.
I'm your host, Tod Huff back in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. How is it cheating? By the way,
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welcome back to the full suite Wealth Studios. I really
want you to tell me how is this cheating? How
is this a violation of the Indiana State Constitution. It isn't.
I am openly challenging you. Tell me. Tell me how
it is. Tell me how it's a violation of the constitution,
or more importantly, tell me how it is cheating. It
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is not cheating again, listen, it is. It is one
the prerogative of the Indiana State Legislature to draw the maps,
to draw the maps constitutionally in the state, per our
state constitution. We have to do this. We have to
do this after a census is taken. And the reason
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for this again, I'll explain it. You know this, But
I'm just telling you so that you can tell your
self righteous leftist coworker, neighbor, someone you run into in
downtown Indianapolis. You can just tell them redistricting is done
every ten years after the census. It has to be
done then because when Congress gets the updated state numbers
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or national numbers, they then say, okay, here's our total population.
We have four hundred and thirty five representatives to assign
to each state. And so they do the math and
they say, California is x percent, so we're going to
allocate that number of representatives to their particular state. And again,
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this is where the illegal immigration issue becomes a major problem,
because illegal immigrants are counted in our census, and so
the number of representatives California gets is higher because they
have a high number of illegal aliens because they're a
sanctuary state thanks to radical lunatics like Gavin Newsom. So
this is layered. There are so many reasons to be
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against this, and there are so many reasons to be
against how the census is being manipulated to begin with,
and how they've been using it to dilute conservative voices.
But you should be in favor. There are so many
reasons to be in favor of redistricting here in Indiana
and against the nonsense has been happening for decades behind
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the scenes. This is all part of draining the swamp
and so and so. Once Congress looks at the population
of the country and then breaks that down by state,
determining how many representatives each state gets. By the way,
there used to be ten when I was a younger
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man in ten congressional districts in Indiana. We now have nine.
I remember that. In fact, the sea I believe what
was his name, I had congressional nominations to the United
States Naval Academy. Senator Coates was senator back in the time.
End of the day. I got one from him, and
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then I got I'm trying to John Myers. Congressman John
Myers was from a district that I think was vanished.
Must have been after the two thousand census, because I
would have gotten those in the late nineties, and I
believe that's what happened. I'd have to double check, but
I think we went from ten to nine districts, and
I believe his district was one that was absorbed by others. Anyway,
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that's why after every ten years you have to re
draw the lines because two reasons. One, you may have
fewer representatives number one. Number two, the population centers in
your state might have changed, and each each district hass
to have the same approximate number of people, and so
the lines might have to be changed. Even if you
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didn't add or lose a congressional seat. You needed to
then use use the new math to maybe adjust the
lines to reflect where the population is in your state,
how it's changed over the course of ten That's why
it has to has to be done every ten years
for those very reasons. By the way, the number of
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the number of electoral votes your state has is the
number of representatives you have plus the two senators, so
you have we have a lot of reason to be
against the way that the census has been weaponized against
the American people, and this is one way to push
back against that, to have Indiana's voice not be diluted.
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So that is why it has to be done every
ten years. But it doesn't. It does not anywhere say
it has to be done only every ten years. This
is the prerogative of our legislature. And why Republicans would
be against this is beyond me. I mean, why is it.
Why is it necessarily the case that Democrats should have
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two districts that favor them. Why tell me why? I
understand at some point point you say fairness, but what
does that mean? Why are there Is it fair that
there's only two districts that lean Democrat or that are
likely Democrat instead of three? Why not three? Why not four?
Why not one? Why not zero? Tell me why? These
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are all political calculations, my friends, These are political calculations.
Democrats want those numbers to be hired for Democrats. Republicans
want those numbers to be higher for Republicans. Now, by redistricting,
Indiana actually dilutes or spreads out its Republican voters over
all nine districts, which means that more of these districts
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in theory could be competitive. Democrats could actually go out
and win more of these. Now they could lose all
of them. They would be very unlikely to do that
under the current situation with the maps because of Marion County,
which again I asked, why do we want to make
sure that we keep Marion County intact? When you look
at how mismanaged everything is in our city? Why. Indianapolis
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is a city that is riddled with violent crime. It
is a city that law enforcement is at odds with
the mayor and then the prosecutor there. This is a
city that's mismanaged, and the people that are there continue
to vote for it, even though it is a absolute
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unmitigated disaster. Unfortunately and sadly in our city, in particular
the downtown area. I've shared with you. My wife we
were downtown when we went to the state House and
I said, look after twenty twenty and what happened in
the city with the Black Lives Matter. It's not a
rally or a protest. It was a riot. My wife said,
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I'm not going back down there. It was the place
was just destroyed. I remember walking in to a restaurant.
I probably shared this with you. I didn't know it
was open. I was downtown one day and it was
boarded up with plywood because they'd had everything. Well. I
didn't know what extent the damage was inside. I assumed
it was closed. I saw the door open. I walked
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inside and they normally have all sorts of things hanging
on the wall, televisions and you know, sports memorabilia, things
like that, and none of it was there, or very
little of it was there. And I said, what what
happened here? They said, well, we got basically looted after
the Black Lives Matter rally, right, is what it was.
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They busted out the windows, they took stuff down off
the walls, they stole. It happened in a lot of
places downtown. There was a fire, if I remember correctly,
that was started in one of the stores downtown. The folks,
those folks think that they're entitled to a district. And
I say, why you cannot, you're I have had people
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in law enforcement express some hesitation, who who have said,
you know, they've either worked there in indye or thought
about her no people that do or whatever, And they've said, look,
officers here don't think they've got the support of the
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mayor and the prosecutor. In fact, if something happens Heaven forbid,
and an officer has to get physical or draw his
or her weapon, they're worried that they're going to be supported.
They're going to they think that they're going to be
basically hung out to dry. And this has tremendous impacts
on how officers are doing their job. The risk that
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they're putting themselves in It is just an unmitigated disaster.
Why tell me, why, why should we make sure that
we keep that intact, make sure that this group of
people in Marion County that's made it blue. Let's make
sure that we let them have a representative in Washington,
DC so that they can ruin things there too, so
that they can talk about things like defunding the police
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and whatever else. Men in college sports, why why would
we make sure that we hold that together? Tell me
why I am all ears? Tell me why, and tell me,
if you're against it, why it's cheating to want to
see that sort of nonsense. End. This is a destructive tendency,
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a self destructive tendency that we have in this constitutional
republic to allow people they can still win elections in
these other districts. My friends. Of course, they're gonna have
to make some changes to their policies, their candidates and
so forth. But why tell me why it's cheating? What
principle is being broken? How is this unfair? How is
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this not just protecting the interests of Indiana, who has
watched itself get basically outshouted in our nation's capital for
reasons I've laid out in this program. My friends, tell
me why that's cheating. Tell me why that can't be done?
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civics lesson for people who have been told that we
live in a democracy, which of course we have democratic aspects.
That's the beauty of this happening is it's the type
of government we have is right there before our eyes.
We have a constitutional republic, we have a representative republic.
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That's why you're calling or emailing your senators, which I
encourage you to do that. If you're in Indiana, I'll
be sure to put that out in today's newsletter as well.
The people that are on the fence, potentially we need
to have about five more. I don't know what's going
to happen with this vote, but I do believe if
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you want to be a part of this, if you
want to see us redistrict I do believe that your
call can absolutely impact them. Your email can keep it respectful.
Of course, doesn't need to be threatening or angry or
anything like that. It doesn't need to be accusatory. It
just needs to be clear that you know that we
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to explain yourself. They're probably just interested in getting a tally.
Make sure they know that you're in their district. And
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hear things or even at other protests. This is what
democracy looks like. I am not here to deny that
there are democratic aspects to our society, and there should be.
A constitutional republic wants to get the input from from
its citizens, from its constituents, not those who are here illegally,
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but those who are legally allowed to cast a ballot.
They want to know. A constitutional republic is set up
so that it hears and tries. It's to reflect the
values of the people that it represents. Not interestingly, and
I know State Senate is different than US Senate, but interestingly,
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the House in Indiana passed the measure past the new
maps with only a couple of Republicans. Again, one my
Republican voted to know and I want to know why
she did that, Peggy Mayfield. But listen, the bottom line
here is that we're now onto onto the Senate, and
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this this is This shows you, shows me, shows the
rest of the world that this is how our process works.
You have representatives. Those representatives are free to vote as
they see fit, and they are It's it's sometimes it's
a lot more complicated than people let on. It's not
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just simply taking a poll and saying whatever my district wants.
True leadership demands that sometimes sometimes you say, listen, I
know that there's a lot of people, maybe even a
majority of people, that don't want me to do X.
But I'm going to do it, and I'm going to
explain why. And by the time you all hear what
I my reasons for this, you're either you're going to
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at least see where I'm coming from, or maybe even
change your mind altogether. Leadership requires that sometimes this is
not a pure democracy. Also, it's not a pure democracy
in the sense that we have to have proportional representation.
I don't know where these jokers and clowns come away
thinking this where if there's ten congressional districts in a state,
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that if the state is forty percent Democrat and sixty Republican,
that they should draw districts so that four of them
are Democrat and six of them are Republican. Who said
this this is preposterous. First of all, it assumes that
the founders framed a government with a two party system
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in mind. That's not the case at all. That's not
the case. Number one. Number two, That assumes that everybody
who votes for a Republican as president wants a Republican
in Congress or vice versa. That's not the way that
that works. There are some people who literally just vote
for president. There are some people that vote literally for
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just a local office where they might know a person.
There's a bazillion different possibilities with how people cast their ballots.
What are they talking about when they say that it
has to be proportionally favorable, you should draw the districts
so that it reflects this. This is wild, wild logic here,
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my friends. This is a political process and politicians are involved.
If you don't like the outcome, you can hold the
politicians who cast the ballots, who drew the maps, you
can or voted for the maps, you can hold them
accountable and vote them out, and likewise, if you like
what they did, you can support them either way. It's
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a civics lesson for those who refuse to learn what
this country is all about. I've got to go, though,
my friends, have a great day. STG.
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Well, my friends, this thing is playing out like a
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that we lived in a democracy, turns out we were
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want to talk about that today. I want to give
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join us. Last week. I had been invited to speak
at a Turning Point USA Turning Point Action, the sister
organization a Turning Point USA, the five oh one C four,
the lobbying arm of the organization. I was invited to
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speak at the Indiana State House on Friday, and it
was quite the experience, and I want to talk with
you about that. As we had as we had some
it was interesting, it was a very interesting environment and
I'll share that with you and I want to continue. Listen.
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So on Friday, I went to the State House, had
a couple of friends, and even my son, sixteen year
old son joined me. You know, I will tell you
here off the top too. I wasn't gonna say this Friday,
you know. He he knew who Charlie Kirk was, obviously,
and was quite aware of what happened there. And one
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of his first questions or concerns was when he found
out it was a turning point event and that I
was going to be speaking. He immediately was concerned about safety. Now,
I just want you to keep that in mind, number one.
Forget about how it impacts my family, my children, which
is important to me. I'm not trying to say that
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that's the only bad thing happening here, but it was
first and four almost horrific and tragic for Charlie Kirk's
family and his children. But you think about the impact
that that terrible event earlier this fall had on our
American our American youth, my friends. So he was a
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little bit uncertain. He wanted to go, but he also
was a little bit uncomfortable. It was in the State
House rotunda, which of course you have to go past
security to get in there, so we felt it was
going to be a reasonably safe environment. Even though I expected,
I didn't know what to expect, to be quite honest.
(04:38):
So when we get there, first of all, I want
to think I had some friends who volunteered, one being
my sister in law and two being ladies that have
helped behind the scenes with this program. One has been
a dear friend of mine for years who's prayed with
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us and just supported us in a lot of ways.
The other has recently helped us try to find more interviews,
more guests for this program. It's something that we haven't
proactively done. But as this program changes and as we
get into doing more things like speaking and just trying
to get trying to get this information, this content out
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in front of the people that I think need to
hear it, she has helped us as well. They've both
been blessings. They both headed on up to the State
House with us on Friday, Well and my sister in
law met us there, and I will tell you there
were a few hundred people there from the turning point crowd,
and then there was on the second. There's three layers
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in the Indiana State House and they all kind of
you know, you can look down to see the floor.
The state houses are often like this. In fact, by
son and I when we went to Austin for a
day trip. He loves flying, he wants to be a pilot.
Took a day trip to Austin. I don't know, maybe
maybe back in July. Great time to go to Austin.
(06:04):
By the way, it's hotter than heck. But anyway, we
went to It's a great I enjoyed the city. I love,
of course spending the time with him. But we went
to the Texas State House and we's similar sort of setup.
I mean, the buildings are, of course different, but they're
similar in some ways. And you could look over the edges.
I think they had more stories than ours did, or
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maybe the floors were you know, spaced further apart something.
But you can look down, you know, to the to
the rotunda ground level, and there were protesters up there.
Now it didn't shock me, but I didn't know who
was going to be there, and there were some raucous protesters.
Now there weren't many. I'm going to guess around twenty
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five ish. I could be wrong, but they were rowdy,
and you know I I had, of course doing this show.
There are people who I hear from who you know, hate,
hate me, hate what I have to say. Listen I respectfully,
I don't. I don't care. I really, I don't care anymore.
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It makes zero difference to me. I don't know why
you wouldn't like little old me, but if that's what
you have to do to hate me to feel good
about your life or whatever, then have at it. It
is of no consequence to me whatsoever. But it's a
little bit different in an environment like that, because not
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not more not in some way of of I don't know, intimidation,
as I think that they hoped that it was. But
it's just different because here people can be screaming all
they want as they listen to what I'm saying, but
they can't interfere with you hearing it. They could in
that environment. And so the twenty five people were chanting. First.
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First off, they were holding up signs. They were holding
up signs that were all over the place as far
as what the sign said, and most of them didn't
really mean a whole lot. They were misrepresenting reality. I
saw one of them, one of them talked about ponscious Pilot, who,
of course, if you know your Bible, Pilot was the
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Roman governor, who was the one who was ultimately responsible
for whether or not Jesus was crucified. Now, spiritually that
decision had been made. Jesus had came for that very purpose,
so there really wasn't anything Pilot was going to do
about it. But he was the individual in the story,
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the Roman authority who tried to actually reason with the
people at some point to not have Jesus sacrificed, but
have you know, to have him beaten and released, or
anything to avoid actually crucifying him because he realized that
he had not broken any Roman law. Of course, we
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all know that Jesus was crucified for claiming to be
the son of God. That's what it's well, the king
of the Jews actually, which is what they hung on
the cross where Jesus was sacrificed. But ponscious Pilot is
the one who tried to prevent it but ultimately didn't
and he washed his hands, right, I washed my hands
of this, saying I'm not the one responsible for what
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you all are about to do, but I'm also not
going to stop it. Well, there was a sign up
there that said something about how those of us who
want redistricting, I guess were like conscious pilot. I don't
even understand the reference, but there you have it. But
these folks were yelling and screaming the whole time. In fact,
I've probably I was probably called, let's see, cheater, I
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don't know, liar was one of them, probably, but definitely
fascist and nazi. I was called those things dozens of times.
In fact, my son said the entire time, the entire
time I spoke, they were chanting cheat or cheat, cheater.
And that's where I want to start today. Well, I'm
want to tell you one other story first. We're going
to pick up here, but there was a I'm telling you, listen,
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you don't have to be hear me say this. A
lot of what we're fighting about today in America is
truly beyond politics. It's right and wrong. It's rooted in truth,
it's rooted in you know, whether or not you're on
the side of good and evil. We have ventured into
that category that area in this country However, the issue
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of redistricting is one that is truly political. Now, I
would tell you that if we do not redistrict Indiana,
I think we're empowering the people who have completely abandoned
trying to govern or legislate with any moral compass whatsoever.
So I think refusing to readistrict actually empowers the people
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too well to further tear this country apart, and to
tear apart Western civilization as we know it. Are judae
and Christian foundations. But the vote to redistrict in and
of itself is not one that's good or bad, right
or wrong, you know, good versus evil. However, I will
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tell you as I was down there on the stage,
I mean I looked up, I engaged with these folks.
In fact, the one of the turning point folks told
me that for him, the highlight was when I called
these jokers, these jokers out, which I did a little
bit during my short talk on the from the State
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House rotunda floor. In fact, we'll put if you're a
subscriber to the email, I'll make sure today i'll get
the video. It's I don't know, seven eight minutes. I
was given five minutes, you know, That's what I realized.
What I had remarks prepared, because you know, when you
have a few minutes, I want to do my best
to stay on topic. And you know it's when i've
(12:03):
got a full hour of a podcast, I've got room
to insert stories and things as I'm you know, moving
us in a direction. When I'm given five minutes on
the on the floor, I write that out because I
want to make sure that I say what I want
to say and that I yield when it's time to yield.
But in that environment, with all the screaming, I realize,
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this isn't this isn't the environment for this. So I
kind of changed what I was going to say completely
and kind of spoke extemporaneously. But of course I talk
about the stuff all the time, so it wasn't like
I was, you know, unprepared. It's just that it went
a little bit longer. I think it went maybe eight
minutes or some such thing. I don't know. But the
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turning puh point folks enjoyed when we called out the
behavior of these folks up there, because they again it's
they can protest. I get. The idea is they don't
want Our idea is to be to be heard. They
don't want the reasons for doing this and the rational
for doing this to be heard. They want to shout
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it out and silence it. And it's just pathetic, it
really is. It's truly pathetic. And I found this when
I asked them why is this cheating? Which I'll share
some of that today as we get into this, why
is this cheating? It's not cheating. You don't have to
like it politically. I get that you don't like it politically,
but why is it cheating? That's an open invitation for
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you to tell me why redistricting in Indiana is cheating.
Articulate it to me, Explain it to me like I'm five,
Like you say that I'm stupid. If you oppose me,
just assume that I'm an idiot, and you can write
it in like you're telling a five year old. And
if you can't do it, which I suspect you can't,
then the problem lies when you look into the mirror.
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My friends, But here we are, this is what we have.
I want to tell you. As I was on that stage,
I looked up and there were two women. I think again.
Second floor was kind of hot. The floors are pretty
wide or spread apart now that I'm thinking about this,
but I look up and they're holding signs and channing
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who knows what? And I kid you not. Before on
Friday's episode, before I went and spoke, I would have
said to you, I've never been hissed at by an
adult woman. However, however, after Friday, I can no longer
say I've not been hissed at by another human being,
because I was. I was hissed. I'm literally telling you
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hissed at. She I don't know if she was trying
to cast a spell on me. Good luck, lady. I'm
washed and sealed by the spirit of God. But she
puts her fingers off the side of the hanging over
the edge, and I kid you not. I'm even embarrassed
to do what I'm about to do on this show,
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but I'm telling you the truth. She leans over kind
of bends her fingers. As I think about it, she
kind of looks like the Emperor in Return of the Jedi,
the way he holds his fingers when he electrocutes Luke
with the powers from his you know, the dark side
and all this, And she hangs over the edge and
she goes. I kid you not. This is what they've got.
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I'm telling you, this is what they've got. And right now,
if you're against redistricting, these are the folks that are
speaking for you. And they're not even speaking. They're not
even using words. If they do use words, it's the
same word over and over. It's used superficially. There is
no substance there. Tell me, please tell me why are
you against this? Please tell me in sentences, Please tell
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me in complete thoughts. Why this is cheating? Why you
oppose this? Tell me, I understand it's political. I understand
you want Democrats to have as many seats as possible.
I don't blame you for that. Tell me why you're
against it. I suspect that's why. I suspect that's why
it's not unconstant. We'll get into that. It's not cheating.
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We'll get into that. But use your words. And also,
you know, when I prepare this program, I don't just
tell you the initial reasons why I think something. I
think what would someone say in response to that? And
I try to even stay a step ahead or two
steps ahead, so that I give you as much information
about my viewpoint as I can. If you're against redistricting.
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Tell me, I am amazed at the cowardice of people
who have You know, they're keyboard warriors, and they'll say
things behind the keyboard, and nothing happens when I say,
explain this, tell me why it's cheating. I'll get to
that here, my friends, in just a moment. But let
me take a little breather. No hissing will be done here,
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through this. Explain to me why it's cheating. Explain to
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me what my why redistricting in Indiana or any state
is cheating. It's political. And again, as I've said from
the very beginning, it has been, it's always a political activity.
You know, I have been remarkably consistent on this. I
have said that from the beginning, this is a politic
this is a political exercise. This is a constitutional protected
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political activity. It's what it is. And Indiana Republicans, conservatives
like me, like many of you, have said enough. We've
said enough of what's happening, enough of the erosion of
our culture, enough of the law fair, enough of having
Democrats go to Washington, d c. To you know, it's
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not just it's interesting to me. People hate conservatives for
not wanting to use government to fund people's fantasies and
lifestyles and choices, and to reduce the government and to
say we're not getting involved in those sorts of things.
They get mad at me and you for not wanting
to be enablers, or do not want to be taxed
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to provide whatever it is for somebody else that they
can go out and get on their own. They don't
want to do that. They're upset at us, I should say,
for that. But yet, if you think about the reasons
we have to be upset when a leftist is in office,
there's a lot more reasons. They're mad because the goody
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train is running out. They're mad because the adults in
the room are saying no. We're upset that they want
to control every aspect of our lives. We're upset because
they want to tell our children that they must accept
a biological male, that a biological male, I should say,
is somehow female in some perverse distortion of reality. They
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want us to accept that socialism is the way to go.
They want us to accept that free speech is hate
speech if you are standing in favor of certain conservative
principles or values or whatnot. This is they They want
to control the church. They want to tax the church.
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They want to silence debate and free speech. That's why
they cheer from the balcony. Not cheer, but they chant,
and they moan, and they hissed from the balcony as
I speak, from the floor of the rotunda. Did the
same thing. When Governor Braun was up there, did the
same thing. When Lieutenant Governor Michah Beckwood was up there,
did the same thing. When several state senators took to
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the floor, representatives took to the floor, they did the
same exact behavior. And it was listen. I mean, I've
come to expect it, but it's certainly not engaging in
free and open discourse. So so the question remains, how
is this cheating? And I've so I've asked this question lots.
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I've gone to lot of places and these I'll give
you some examples of suverbatim responses I've gotten. Here's a
guy named Russ on Facebook who said to me, you
don't care about either the state or the United States Constitution,
not even a little, and you don't understand any of it,
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not even the Second Amendment. Conservatives are incapable of learning.
That again, was in response to my question. Now, there's
a couple questions I've been asking. One of them is
how is it cheating? The other one is this question.
I asked, how does redistricting violate the state Constitution. How
does it. I'm going to go through that in a moment,
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and we're again going to talk about both of these
things kind of simultaneously. A guy named Robert jumps in redistricting,
He said, is done every ten years. Not when ever,
not whenever a political party decides to try to change
the seats that represents the people. It is in the
Indiana Constitution. So they are in violation of our constitution.
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This is factually false, my friends. The state constitution in Indiana,
it says that the state shall redistrict after the census.
My question is this, Did Indiana redistrict after the census?
The answer, by the way, is yes, So the state
followed the constitution unless there is language specifically prohibiting it
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from doing it at any other time. These things are
not directly related. There is no reason given in the constitution,
no explicit prohibition of this happening. And the US Constitution,
the US Constitution, gives this authority to the state legislatures.
They are factually wrong, my friends. But they heard it somewhere,
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read it somewhere in a tweet. Heard somebody say it.
Who's out at a rally channing to you know? Two
words sentences at a time, and so that's what they think.
The truth is. I got to take a quick time out.
My friends said tight listening to conservative not better talking.
I'm your host, Tod Huff back in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. How is it cheating? By the way,
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welcome back to the full suite Wealth Studios. I really
want you to tell me how is this cheating? How
is this a violation of the Indiana State Constitution. It isn't.
I am openly challenging you. Tell me. Tell me how
it is. Tell me how it's a violation of the constitution,
or more importantly, tell me how it is cheating. It
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is not cheating again, listen, it is. It is one
the prerogative of the Indiana State Legislature to draw the maps,
to draw the maps constitutionally in the state, per our
state constitution. We have to do this. We have to
do this after a census is taken. And the reason
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for this again, I'll explain it. You know this, But
I'm just telling you so that you can tell your
self righteous leftist coworker, neighbor, someone you run into in
downtown Indianapolis. You can just tell them redistricting is done
every ten years after the census. It has to be
done then because when Congress gets the updated state numbers
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or national numbers, they then say, okay, here's our total population.
We have four hundred and thirty five representatives to assign
to each state. And so they do the math and
they say, California is x percent, so we're going to
allocate that number of representatives to their particular state. And again,
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this is where the illegal immigration issue becomes a major problem,
because illegal immigrants are counted in our census, and so
the number of representatives California gets is higher because they
have a high number of illegal aliens because they're a
sanctuary state thanks to radical lunatics like Gavin Newsom. So
this is layered. There are so many reasons to be
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against this, and there are so many reasons to be
against how the census is being manipulated to begin with,
and how they've been using it to dilute conservative voices.
But you should be in favor. There are so many
reasons to be in favor of redistricting here in Indiana
and against the nonsense has been happening for decades behind
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the scenes. This is all part of draining the swamp
and so and so. Once Congress looks at the population
of the country and then breaks that down by state,
determining how many representatives each state gets. By the way,
there used to be ten when I was a younger
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man in ten congressional districts in Indiana. We now have nine.
I remember that. In fact, the sea I believe what
was his name, I had congressional nominations to the United
States Naval Academy. Senator Coates was senator back in the time.
End of the day. I got one from him, and
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then I got I'm trying to John Myers. Congressman John
Myers was from a district that I think was vanished.
Must have been after the two thousand census, because I
would have gotten those in the late nineties, and I
believe that's what happened. I'd have to double check, but
I think we went from ten to nine districts, and
I believe his district was one that was absorbed by others. Anyway,
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that's why after every ten years you have to re
draw the lines because two reasons. One, you may have
fewer representatives number one. Number two, the population centers in
your state might have changed, and each each district hass
to have the same approximate number of people, and so
the lines might have to be changed. Even if you
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didn't add or lose a congressional seat. You needed to
then use use the new math to maybe adjust the
lines to reflect where the population is in your state,
how it's changed over the course of ten That's why
it has to has to be done every ten years
for those very reasons. By the way, the number of
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the number of electoral votes your state has is the
number of representatives you have plus the two senators, so
you have we have a lot of reason to be
against the way that the census has been weaponized against
the American people, and this is one way to push
back against that, to have Indiana's voice not be diluted.
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So that is why it has to be done every
ten years. But it doesn't. It does not anywhere say
it has to be done only every ten years. This
is the prerogative of our legislature. And why Republicans would
be against this is beyond me. I mean, why is it.
Why is it necessarily the case that Democrats should have
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two districts that favor them. Why tell me why? I
understand at some point point you say fairness, but what
does that mean? Why are there Is it fair that
there's only two districts that lean Democrat or that are
likely Democrat instead of three? Why not three? Why not four?
Why not one? Why not zero? Tell me why? These
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are all political calculations, my friends, These are political calculations.
Democrats want those numbers to be hired for Democrats. Republicans
want those numbers to be higher for Republicans. Now, by redistricting,
Indiana actually dilutes or spreads out its Republican voters over
all nine districts, which means that more of these districts
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in theory could be competitive. Democrats could actually go out
and win more of these. Now they could lose all
of them. They would be very unlikely to do that
under the current situation with the maps because of Marion County,
which again I asked, why do we want to make
sure that we keep Marion County intact? When you look
at how mismanaged everything is in our city? Why. Indianapolis
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is a city that is riddled with violent crime. It
is a city that law enforcement is at odds with
the mayor and then the prosecutor there. This is a
city that's mismanaged, and the people that are there continue
to vote for it, even though it is a absolute
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unmitigated disaster. Unfortunately and sadly in our city, in particular
the downtown area. I've shared with you. My wife we
were downtown when we went to the state House and
I said, look after twenty twenty and what happened in
the city with the Black Lives Matter. It's not a
rally or a protest. It was a riot. My wife said,
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I'm not going back down there. It was the place
was just destroyed. I remember walking in to a restaurant.
I probably shared this with you. I didn't know it
was open. I was downtown one day and it was
boarded up with plywood because they'd had everything. Well. I
didn't know what extent the damage was inside. I assumed
it was closed. I saw the door open. I walked
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inside and they normally have all sorts of things hanging
on the wall, televisions and you know, sports memorabilia, things
like that, and none of it was there, or very
little of it was there. And I said, what what
happened here? They said, well, we got basically looted after
the Black Lives Matter rally, right, is what it was.
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They busted out the windows, they took stuff down off
the walls, they stole. It happened in a lot of
places downtown. There was a fire, if I remember correctly,
that was started in one of the stores downtown. The folks,
those folks think that they're entitled to a district. And
I say, why you cannot, you're I have had people
(30:47):
in law enforcement express some hesitation, who who have said,
you know, they've either worked there in indye or thought
about her no people that do or whatever, And they've said, look,
officers here don't think they've got the support of the
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mayor and the prosecutor. In fact, if something happens Heaven forbid,
and an officer has to get physical or draw his
or her weapon, they're worried that they're going to be supported.
They're going to they think that they're going to be
basically hung out to dry. And this has tremendous impacts
on how officers are doing their job. The risk that
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they're putting themselves in It is just an unmitigated disaster.
Why tell me, why, why should we make sure that
we keep that intact, make sure that this group of
people in Marion County that's made it blue. Let's make
sure that we let them have a representative in Washington,
DC so that they can ruin things there too, so
that they can talk about things like defunding the police
(31:54):
and whatever else. Men in college sports, why why would
we make sure that we hold that together? Tell me
why I am all ears? Tell me why, and tell me,
if you're against it, why it's cheating to want to
see that sort of nonsense. End. This is a destructive tendency,
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a self destructive tendency that we have in this constitutional
republic to allow people they can still win elections in
these other districts. My friends. Of course, they're gonna have
to make some changes to their policies, their candidates and
so forth. But why tell me why it's cheating? What
principle is being broken? How is this unfair? How is
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this not just protecting the interests of Indiana, who has
watched itself get basically outshouted in our nation's capital for
reasons I've laid out in this program. My friends, tell
me why that's cheating. Tell me why that can't be done?
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the top of the program. This is a real time
civics lesson for people who have been told that we
live in a democracy, which of course we have democratic aspects.
That's the beauty of this happening is it's the type
of government we have is right there before our eyes.
We have a constitutional republic, we have a representative republic.
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That's why you're calling or emailing your senators, which I
encourage you to do that. If you're in Indiana, I'll
be sure to put that out in today's newsletter as well.
The people that are on the fence, potentially we need
to have about five more. I don't know what's going
to happen with this vote, but I do believe if
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you want to be a part of this, if you
want to see us redistrict I do believe that your
call can absolutely impact them. Your email can keep it respectful.
Of course, doesn't need to be threatening or angry or
anything like that. It doesn't need to be accusatory. It
just needs to be clear that you know that we
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want these districts to be redrawn. You don't even have
to explain yourself. They're probably just interested in getting a tally.
Make sure they know that you're in their district. And
again I'll put the I'll put a link of it.
I'll make sure we get it in the stack of stuff.
But I'll also make sure the best thing to do
is probably sign up for the free newsletter. It'll go
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lesson in real time time at the state House you'll
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hear things or even at other protests. This is what
democracy looks like. I am not here to deny that
there are democratic aspects to our society, and there should be.
A constitutional republic wants to get the input from from
its citizens, from its constituents, not those who are here illegally,
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but those who are legally allowed to cast a ballot.
They want to know. A constitutional republic is set up
so that it hears and tries. It's to reflect the
values of the people that it represents. Not interestingly, and
I know State Senate is different than US Senate, but interestingly,
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the House in Indiana passed the measure past the new
maps with only a couple of Republicans. Again, one my
Republican voted to know and I want to know why
she did that, Peggy Mayfield. But listen, the bottom line
here is that we're now onto onto the Senate, and
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this this is This shows you, shows me, shows the
rest of the world that this is how our process works.
You have representatives. Those representatives are free to vote as
they see fit, and they are It's it's sometimes it's
a lot more complicated than people let on. It's not
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just simply taking a poll and saying whatever my district wants.
True leadership demands that sometimes sometimes you say, listen, I
know that there's a lot of people, maybe even a
majority of people, that don't want me to do X.
But I'm going to do it, and I'm going to
explain why. And by the time you all hear what
I my reasons for this, you're either you're going to
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at least see where I'm coming from, or maybe even
change your mind altogether. Leadership requires that sometimes this is
not a pure democracy. Also, it's not a pure democracy
in the sense that we have to have proportional representation.
I don't know where these jokers and clowns come away
thinking this where if there's ten congressional districts in a state,
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that if the state is forty percent Democrat and sixty Republican,
that they should draw districts so that four of them
are Democrat and six of them are Republican. Who said
this this is preposterous. First of all, it assumes that
the founders framed a government with a two party system
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in mind. That's not the case at all. That's not
the case. Number one. Number two, That assumes that everybody
who votes for a Republican as president wants a Republican
in Congress or vice versa. That's not the way that
that works. There are some people who literally just vote
for president. There are some people that vote literally for
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just a local office where they might know a person.
There's a bazillion different possibilities with how people cast their ballots.
What are they talking about when they say that it
has to be proportionally favorable, you should draw the districts
so that it reflects this. This is wild, wild logic here,
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my friends. This is a political process and politicians are involved.
If you don't like the outcome, you can hold the
politicians who cast the ballots, who drew the maps, you
can or voted for the maps, you can hold them
accountable and vote them out, and likewise, if you like
what they did, you can support them either way. It's
(40:41):
a civics lesson for those who refuse to learn what
this country is all about. I've got to go, though,
my friends, have a great day. STG.
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