Taking Back D.C., Then Texas, Then America

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President Trump is federalizing D.C.

Also, the governor of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott, joins us about the redistricting fight.

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Joining us right out of the gate today, we will get to the federalization of DC News in a moment, but is the governor of the great state of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott.

Governor, welcome to the program, sir.

First time on the program, honored to have you.

What is the latest on the Democrats fleeing the state of Texas?

Your strategy, your plan to hold them accountable, and give us the latest update, sir.

So we are working on quorum today.

And to do that, everyone can understand in your audience.

And this is the problem in the Texas House.

The Texas House has 150 members.

It requires two-thirds of them or 100 of them to show up.

There are 88 republicans in the texas house which means we need 12 democrats to be able to have a quorum and what the texas department of public safety is doing as we speak right now they have stakeouts at dozens of locations across the state of texas where there's the possibility that there could be a texas house member there we have no confirmed information uh that we have at least 12 Democrats in the state to be able to arrest them and bring them to the capitol.

The way this works is when when the speaker put a House on the call and issued arrest warrants.

These are civil, not criminal arrest warrants, but it nevertheless authorizes the Texas Department of Public Safety to search, find, and to arrest and bring to the Capitol any Democrat who's in the state of Texas.

So for one, they are searching for those people.

For another, we're doing the math with regard to who may be out of state.

You may have seen the news over the past couple of days that the Texas Attorney General filed claims in courts in these other states seeking the apprehension of them in California, in Illinois, and other states to try to bring them home from there.

That said, let's go back to square one here, Charlie, because this is an issue that we've been through before.

We had a quorum break by these leftist Democrats four years ago.

We had another quorum break back in 2003 when we tried to pass mid-decade redistricting at that time.

And the same thing happens every time.

They're gone for one special session and then they come back for the next one.

And so let me provide that setting real quick.

So in Texas, we have a regular legislative session only every other year that ends at the end of May.

And then as governor, I can call a 30-day special session.

That 30-day special session is about to end here in about a week.

And so we will continue to search and find every Democrat that we can.

If we do not get a quorum, the nanosecond after the current special session gavels out, I will be calling another special session.

And then I will continue calling special sessions until they do come back.

We know this.

They are going to come back.

That's happened every single time.

And when they come back, we're going to pass these maps as well as address the other pressing needs and demands of the people of Texas.

So, so, Governor, when does this become criminal?

And I know that you're mentioning this.

I mean, aren't they, I mean, what's the phrase, subverting our democracy?

When do we start to ratchet this up?

Because they are fleeing the state, not representing the voters that elected them.

Governor Greg Abbott.

So under Texas law, this does not become criminal because that's not authorized as an action that can be taken by the House.

However, what we've done this time that we've never done before, we are seeking another pathway that I believe is valid.

I filed a lawsuit about this time last week in the Texas Supreme Court, bypassing the trial courts,

saying that we can get a writ of what's called quo rento from the Texas Supreme Court, saying that these offices have been vacated because they have been abandoned because we have texas house members who are not following the constitution the texas constitution specifically requires texas house members to quote act

on bills before them and when you're abandoning your your responsibility when you have abandoned the state you're not there to act on those bills and so i think uh the i filed this lawsuit in the supreme court the supreme court demanded a response last Friday.

They're considering it as we speak right now.

But, Charlie, the pathway that I'm seeking to go down is one that would allow the removal of these Texas legislators who have abandoned the state.

How is this playing out politically, domestically?

If you were to listen to the national media, they call this gerrymandering, terrible, you know, cowing to President Trump.

What are you hearing from Texas voters?

And what is the latest on the will and the fortitude of the Texas legislature on the Republican side to get this done?

So, first of all, what we're hearing on the ground, this is what we hear on the ground every single time this happens, and that is Texans do not like people who don't show up for work.

And Texans have to show up for work.

And if they didn't show up for work, they would get fired.

And so they get angry when they see Democrats flee the state, not show up to the job they were elected to do, and not get the job done.

And so this always works to the detriment of the Democrat House members who flee the state.

Second, this is a character flaw by these Democrats, because one thing that is anti-Texan is running from a fight.

You know, Texas kind of got its beginnings with the Battle of the Alamo, and that was a place where people chose not to run from a fight, but to stay and fight.

And, you know, the come and take it slogan, that was when Texans were willing to say to Mexico, if you want to take your cannon back, you got to come and take it from us.

And they were willing to stand and fight.

To the contrary of that, we have these Democrats who are running like scaredy cats off to some other state and they have refused to stand and fight.

So this is going to be very harmful to them back home.

And at the same time, I'm running TV advertisements and digital advertisements in districts of the missing Democrats pointing out how they're not showing up, not doing the job, not dealing with the flooding problems that we have in central Texas because of the horrific deadly floods.

And so this is going to hurt them a lot.

Your other question,

listen,

the legislature is fully committed to using every tool.

And I can explain it in this context.

The tools already used by the legislature to try to bring these Democrats back are far more, far stronger, far better than any House member that I've been involved with to try to bring runaway quorum-breaking Democrats back to the state of Texas.

So if the seats are declared vacant, vacant, just to make sure I understand, does that lower the quorum threshold or would we have to wait until another election?

Two things.

One is it does, it's my understanding that it does lower the quorum threshold.

However, it also does something else.

It triggers Article 3, Section 13 of the Texas Constitution that is as soon as we get a decision.

that they have abandoned their seat, a ruling in our favor in that lawsuit that I filed, I as governor am authorized to fill those vacancies.

And I do so by calling for an election that must take place within 20 days.

Got it.

So that's very interesting for our audience here because this can move quite quick.

What is your response then, Governor?

Governor Newsom is declaring war.

J.D.

Pritzker is declaring war.

Jasmine Crockett calls all of these maps racist.

Can you defend this move?

And of course, I'm with you 100%,

but talk about why you are doing this and the intent.

Governor Greg Gabbitt, why are you doing this and why does it matter?

What Texas is doing is 100% perfectly legal.

And this is not the first time that Texas has done mid-decade redistricting.

This time, we had the law and the facts change since we last did redistricting in 2021.

The law that changed is last year, pursuant to a lawsuit filed by Democrats.

Last year, the federal court of appeals came out and said that Texas is not required to maintain what are called coalition districts that were helping out Democrats.

And freed from that limitation, that opened up the possibility of creating all these new districts.

And then couple that with the facts, and the facts are that the racial minorities in the state of Texas are voting Republican now as opposed to Democrat.

You saw that with Trump's big win in the state of Texas.

The Hispanics in Texas, they don't want open border policies.

They don't want boys and girls force.

They support law enforcement as opposed to curtailing law enforcement and so what we are authorized legally to do and that is to draw districts for political purposes so that the people of these congressional districts are going to be able to vote for the candidate of their choice which they showed is republican because every seat that we are drawing is a seat that donald trump won and those candidates are trapped in a democrat congressional seat who is a member of congress hostile to the values of the people in that district so we are just trying to fulfill the will and the demand of the people of the state of Texas.

Governor Abbott, we have your back 100%.

Finally, our side is fighting.

Fight fire with fire.

Do not give an inch, especially to these Democrat extortionists.

Thank you so much, Governor Greg Abbott from the great state of Texas.

Thank you.

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President Donald Trump, major news today.

He is federalizing Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump took to the press briefing room early on a Monday morning to make the announcement saying that enough of this crime and the third worldification of Washington, D.C.

We're not going to put up with it.

Let's play cut 304.

Today we're declaring public safety emergency in the District of Columbia.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's fantastic, is taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department as of this moment.

And I'll be making the appropriate notifications to Congress.

Now, the 1973 Home Rule Act for D.C.

explicitly allows the President to take control of Washington, D.C.

police for 48 hours.

No questions asked.

As long as he believes that, quote, special conditions of an emergency nature exist.

President Trump says that's the case and that D.C.

has a public safety emergency.

Now, in addition, the president can keep D.C.

police federalized for up to 30 days as long as he notifies Congress and explains why.

Right now, 30 days days is the cap, unless Congress passes a new law that said it's not clear that anything that stops President Trump from controlling the police for 30 days, surrendering power for a day, and then federalizing them again.

But there may be other arguments.

Mike Davis was recently arguing that the D.C.

Home Rule Act itself is unconstitutional.

We'll have to wait and see what the arguments are there.

But the legal questions aside is: why is Trump doing this?

You could say quite reasonably he has a lot on his plate.

He's going to go, by the way, sit down with Vladimir Putin in Alaska this Friday.

He's trying to fix Gaza.

He's doing deportations and tariff negotiations and a lot more.

So why is he looking to micromanage the nation's capital?

Ronald Reagan ignored our nation's capital.

George W.

Bush ignored our nation's capital.

Bill Clinton ignored our nation's capital.

George W.

Bush ignored our nation's capital.

Barack Obama ignored our nation's capital.

And Joe Biden ignored our nation's capital.

Why?

Because it's easy to ignore our nation's capital.

Ah, just homeless people, slums being slums, and slumlords being slumlords.

And it's okay if it has a higher crime rate than Mexico City and Bogota and Islamabad.

No, it's actually not okay.

President Donald Trump has always been a person very aware of symbolism.

He's very visual.

He cares a lot about the trappings of the presidency.

That's why he liked putting on the military parade this summer, one that I supported.

It's why he wants to build a big ballroom on White House grounds.

A great nation should have a great presidential ballroom.

So it really impacts President Trump to see the reality of our nation's capital city.

We're supposed to be the world's greatest superpower, the leader of the free world.

So why is our capital a joke, a mess, a disgrace?

In 2023, Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

had 274 murders in a city with a population of only 700,000 people.

That's a murder rate of 39 per 100,000.

That's nearly the murder rate of South Africa, where we're now taking refugees from, just so we're clear.

And we should.

In 2024, murders were down, but the murder rate was still 27 per 100,000.

That's higher than the murder rate of Mexico.

And it's four times the U.S.

national average.

Even if crime is dropping, the lower rates are still a complete and total humiliation and disgrace.

Let's play Cut 307.

We're formally declaring a public safety emergency.

This is an emergency.

This is a tragic emergency.

And it's embarrassing for me to to be up here.

You know, I'm going to see Putin.

I'm going to Russia on Friday.

I don't like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was with graffiti all over the walls.

It's another part of it, by the way.

Because we're talking about safety, but we're also talking about beautification.

We have the most beautiful, potentially, capital in the world.

We always had.

But people come from Iowa, they come from Indiana, they come and then they get mugged.

Not going to happen.

Keep coming because within, by the time you get your trip set, it's going to be safe again and it's going to be clean very quickly.

Think of all the high schoolers that go to Washington, D.C.

for the first time.

What are we putting on display?

Why is it that Tokyo, New Delhi, Havana, Cuba are safer than Washington, D.C.?

Substantially safer.

You can walk the streets of Tokyo at night.

You can walk the streets of Seoul, South Korea at night.

You can walk the streets of Kuala Lumpur.

You can walk the streets of Singapore.

But the fact that you cannot walk the streets of Washington, D.C.

or New York City, or Chicago, is an indictment and a failure of our ruling class.

Our ruling class has cared more about sending javelins and missiles to Ukraine while they have to walk over drug-overdosed bodies on the way to go make a vote on the Senate floor.

D.C.

has long been ignored, and it is a perfect example of national decay, of collapse, of the lower morale.

Oh, it doesn't matter.

It does matter.

Roll in the tanks, bring in the drones, send in the Marines.

We're federalizing Washington, D.C.

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I want to play another piece of tape here of President Donald Trump announcing the takeover of Washington, D.C.

And understand this.

You get what you put up with.

There are political issues you can control, and there are political issues you cannot control.

And what is most frustrating about the current American moment is that we are overwhelmingly met with political issues that we can control.

Our failure is an act of the will or a lack of the will when it comes to crime.

We saw this on the southern border.

All you had to do was make a decision that you wanted a border.

We were told by James Lankford from Oklahoma, well, you know, we need to have some bipartisan bipartisan deal that allows 5,000 people a day to come across.

Wrong.

You need to have the willpower.

You need to dive deep and dig deep to have the fortitude, the wherewithal, the spine, the kahones,

the chutzpah to achieve what you want to achieve.

And we've just put up with crime for the last 40 years because we're afraid of being called racist.

Because, you know, youths are going to do youth things.

Crime is a choice.

Putting up with crime is a choice.

We don't have to live like this.

Let me repeat one of my core political philosophies.

This is not Republican or Democrat.

If

you cannot walk the great American cities at night safely without having to look over your shoulder,

then your political leaders should all be fired.

That ruling class has failed.

I don't care if they're Republican.

I don't care if they're Democrat.

Degradation is a choice.

And it's time for us to clean it up.

And the liberals, they have no idea how to respond to this.

Oh, Donald Trump's a racist.

Ant, that doesn't work anymore.

It's not 2016.

Oh, Donald Trump's a fascist.

Ant, that doesn't work anymore.

It's not 2020.

What new talking point do you have?

What is your objection to rolling in the tanks, bringing in the drones, sending the Marines?

What is your objection exactly?

Do you not want to live in a safer city?

Deep down, they're cheering for him, by the way.

Deep down, a lot of these libs actually want this to happen.

happen.

But on television, they're going to performatively say this is the wrong thing.

It's time for us to get aggressive on crime.

We need more people in jail.

Write that down.

We do not have enough people incarcerated in America.

We need mass incarceration.

People always say, Oh, we have a mass incarceration problem.

We have an under-incarceration problem.

We just happen to be a very violent country.

Get over it.

Put them in jail for life.

If you're going to start shooting up schoolyards, you're going to start getting kids caught in crossfire.

A job of a political leader must be the safety of their citizens.

If you're a mayor of a major city, your job is to police the streets, to fix the streets and clean up the homeless.

And since Maria Bowser

has not done her job of Washington, D.C., the tanks are going to be rolling.

Play cut 309.

We're going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can't walk on.

They've been very, they're very dirty, very,

got a lot of problems.

But we've already started that.

We're moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people,

getting rid of the people from underpasses and public spaces from all over the city.

There are many places that they can go, and we're going to help them as much as you can help, but they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland.

Washington, D.C., has become a dumping ground for the third world and a safe haven for criminals.

That is our nation's capital.

We're not talking about the liberation of Toledo, Ohio, of course, which we should try to liberate all American cities.

This is not the liberation of Portland, which we should do.

This is our nation's capital.

And do you know how disgusting it is?

When I drive the city, the streets of D.C.

and you pass the Saudi Embassy, for example, big, beautiful building.

And there's just homeless encampments all around it.

It's embarrassing.

So

basically, we have to accept that the sheiks of Qatar and the ruling class of Saudi Arabia and the prime minister of Japan, they see what we see, and it's humiliating.

They see this.

We're supposed to believe that these foreign leaders, you go down embassy

row in Georgetown.

You go down embassy row in Washington, D.C., and you got one after, you got Spain, you got Portugal, you got Croatia, one after the other, boom, boom, boom.

They see the graffiti.

It's not a good look for a superpower.

And we're just supposed to put up with it because we're afraid of being called the racist, that that dog doesn't hunt anymore.

This is President Donald Trump saying, once we liberate D.C., and by the way, I guarantee the crime is going to go, whoop, it's going to go way down.

And then the media will say, oh, it's only going down because he brought in the military.

Exactly.

We need full military occupation of these cities until the crime desists.

Period.

We need a desisting of crime in our cities.

We're not going to put up with it.

I want to be able to walk a magnificent mile in Chicago without having to look over my shoulder.

Do you know crime is so bad in Chicago that if you get a fender bender, there's a new thing that the youths are doing.

Remember, we have a big teenage problem of crime in our country, that teenagers will bang the back of your car as a fender bender.

You come out to go trade insurance, and then they steal your car.

In Chicago, the new guidance is that if you get a fender bender, drive to the nearest police station to trade insurance just in case they're there to steal your car.

It's a real thing.

It's happening all the time.

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I don't want to live in that country.

You shouldn't either.

Simple fix.

You steal a car, 25 years in prison.

I don't care if you're a teenager.

I don't care if, well, I was raised without a dad.

Well, you're going to go meet a new dad in jail.

We're done.

We're not putting up with it.

We need more prisons and we need more prisoners.

Enough of this.

And I honestly, you know, I was once part of this whole prison reform thing.

I look back at it and I just cringe at myself.

It's a totally wrong premise.

We are soft on crime in this country.

We need discipline.

We need,

honestly, we need the humiliation of criminals.

We need order.

You don't live in a nation if you can't walk the streets of San Francisco at night.

You don't live in a country when young teenage girls can't walk the streets of L.A.

How is that a free society?

You are appeasing the criminals.

Stop coddling criminals because they happen to be a protected class.

We don't believe in protected classes anymore, by the way.

We're done with that.

Game over.

No more protected classes.

We are all citizens made of the image of God.

Oh, you're a protected class because, you know, a different skin color.

Ain't wrong.

That regime was defeated back in November.

That whole worldview worldview was gone, over, done.

Kaput, Sayonara.

Instead, a new worldview has ascended, which is we're not going to make accommodations for criminals.

We're going to do mass deportations.

If you're black and you commit a crime, you go to jail.

If you're white and you commit a crime, you go to jail.

Human equality doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter your background.

We are all treated equal under the law, and that is a biblical principle.

So once we liberate Washington, D.C., and we will liberate it.

Now, again, I want to say, President Donald Trump, he's got to go play to win here.

The one piece of caution we'd have to say is that if we just kind of do this symbolically, we will lose.

The criminals will win.

We got to go hard.

We got to go big league.

We're talking National Guard, tanks, every street you need military.

And if people are afraid, oh, well, Donald Trump is a fascist because he's bringing in the military.

Well, you're an anarchist.

We're not fascist.

We're order.

Call them a name right back.

You're an anarchist.

You want the criminals, the thugs, the gang members, and the worst of society to run the streets of D.C.

We're not going to put up with it.

By the way, spare me the lecture.

You guys militarized Washington, D.C.

after January 6th, but you wouldn't move them a couple blocks north to the criminals because you acted as if, oh, all the people on January 6th

are the greatest threat ever because they went in with a pocket constitution to go say a prayer in the the U.S.

Capitol.

Once we liberate D.C., you better believe it.

Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, we got a big military.

We should be willing to use it.

Play Cut 316.

And we're going to have the same thing here.

But then I'm going to look at New York in a little while.

Let's do this.

Let's do this together.

Let's see.

It's going to go pretty quickly.

And if we need to, we're going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster.

We have a mayor there who's totally incompetent.

He's an incompetent man.

And

we have an incompetent governor there.

Pritzker's an incompetent.

His family threw him out of the business, and he ran for governor.

And now I understand he wants to be president.

But I noticed he lost a little weight, so maybe he has a chance.

You know, you never know what happens.

But Pritzker's a gross incompetent guy, thrown out of the family business.

J.B.

Pritzker was born on third and thought he hit a triple.

If your city is a third world hellhole, look at that.

He's a mile wide, J.B.

Pritzker.

I always lie, I'm going to run for president.

As I say commonly, I would love to see that.

The running part.

We need an El Salvadorian reset.

El Salvador went from the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere to one of the safest, if not the safest.

Crime is a choice.

We are deciding and choosing to put up with it.

We are deciding and choosing to allow our streets to be littered with criminals

and the worst of society.

And President Donald Trump is saying no more.

He is exercising his willpower.

And Brandon Johnson, Muriel Bowser, Karen Bass, Mom Donnie, if he's going to be the next mayor of New York City, watch out.

This is what we are elected to do.

Crime is a choice.

And we want the streets of America to be as clean as Tokyo.

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I get called a lot of things.

The one thing I wish people would call me more is an entrepreneur or a builder.

And I gotta give credit to this one young lady.

She is very annoying.

She follows me around the country.

She sends her little clowns and her trolls and her circus acts and her court jesters at all of our events from the UNF America thing.

But she is obsessed with me.

However, she has more so than most

accurately depicted what we've been able to do here because she does describe us as a builder.

Now, this is a former Bernie Sanders type.

She's got very crass language.

She's got quite a way to herself that is unappealing.

I mean, if you look at her, you're like, whoa, give me the American Eagle ad back.

Like, I don't want that.

Please.

More American Eagle.

Less this, please.

Like, that's not what I want.

I want the sorority videos, not this.

And,

but to her credit, she has accurately diagnosed the problem.

And she is a girl for the record.

I have no reason not to believe it.

Jesse was kind of playing with

words here.

So

Jesse Waters did a summary of this.

I wish we had more of this CNN interview, but this is some of the best parts.

Where CNN dispatched one of their reporters who looks like Ruben Gallego.

I don't know why Ruben Gallego is doing street interviews for CNN, but he's doing side work.

So,

you know, dollar store Ruben Gallego basically was doing interviews for CNN at our Student Action Summit.

And we knew that this whole story was going to populate, which is, oh, wow, Charlie's so successful and turning point's so successful.

And therefore, the left is trying to infiltrate.

We knew this story was coming.

And Jesse Waters caught on to it.

Play cut 258.

Crowds are leaderless.

Their new plan: create a transgender Charlie Kirk.

I think that, you know, as much as I disagree with Charlie Kirk, I believe that what he's doing has worked.

And that's why I'm here to replicate what he's doing.

I'm not here to, you know, disrupt Charlie Kirk's events.

I'm here to say that there are alternative ideas and that we need to build the same thing that he has because he is good at it.

Well, we are good at it and because we build.

You see, that's what people miss.

People think it's just the campus thing or just this program.

This is two hours my day.

And then I go to the day job of managing a thousand people, and we have to raise a hundred million dollars a year, and we have 500,000 donors.

People say, oh, you know, if I was just supported by wealthy people, that's part of it.

We're very thankful to our wealthy contributors and amazing donors, but it's also the 500,000 people that donate to us.

Jesse Waters continues, Play Cut 259.

The DNC, they're already trying to coup Trans Charlie.

Is the DNC supporting this?

No, not currently.

Why not?

If Ken Martin's watching this,

text me back.

But really, I mean, I think it's disappointing that we haven't been able to see the DNC really get off the ground since the election, because I think a lot of things have happened internally that have been distractions to the actual ground game that we need right now.

There are so many more clips from that CNN exchange that we could mine.

But I love this.

About time that the left realizes and wakes up that while you guys have been ridiculing us, we've been building.

As we like to say at Turning Point USA, we did not come up with this, but Sun Tzu did.

No, he didn't.

But that's okay.

It's wrongly attributed to Sun Tzu, but that's fine.

It's hilarious.

First, they ignore you.

Then they laugh at you.

Then they fight you.

And then you win.

I remember the ignoring phase.

Ah, it's nothing.

This is Charlie.

He's nothing.

Forget him.

And then I remember the laughter.

Oh, it's so funny.

Look at Turning Point.

What do I think they're doing?

Now, many of those people are applying for jobs from us, for the record.

And then the fighting.

Oh, we love the fighting.

And then the victory.

But look, it goes in cycles.

But for Z,

I think that's her name.

Is her name Z?

Prominently profiled on CNN.

She seems that she actually gets it more than most.

Where she's like, hey, guys, this guy's awful, but he's built something.

And again, I haven't built anything.

We have built it at Turning Point USA.

Z Cohen Sanchez for the record.

You will not be seeing her in American Eagle at any time soon.

But Z Cohen Sanchez,

she's onto something.

She's onto something very powerful, which is the left struggles to build anything.

And by the way, she had her own little counterfeit clown show back in the spring, and it fell apart.

Why?

Because they had a oppression Olympics woke falling apart because someone did microaggressions that they didn't like and the whole thing fell apart.

People like to talk about the platform we built, but they don't know about the chapters, the high school groups, the events.

A lot of people want to do the stuff we do, but they don't want to work as hard as we worked.

300 days of travel a year for a decade straight, 3,000 days on the road.

You can never really relax.

Well, at least when it's not on the Sabbath.

Good luck.

Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

Email us as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.

Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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