00:00:00.000Breaking just moments ago, southern states are moving at breakneck speed to redraw their congressional maps after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act this week.
00:00:11.340Tennessee's Republican Governor Bill Lee has just announced he's convening the state legislature for a special session on Tuesday, specifically to gerrymander the state's map.
00:00:20.260That follows an announcement one hour earlier from Alabama's Republican Governor Kay Ivey, who announced that state legislature will hold its own special session on Monday to withdraw its map.
00:00:31.580I find it absolutely amazing and galling that the party that claims to be the heritage of Lincoln that advocated for civil rights and civil liberties that helped get past the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act now stand as the party that wants to tear that legacy up.
00:00:54.880It is amazing to me that you have the Speaker of the House bragging about how, you know, we're going to pick up some seats at the expense of black and brown voters in his state.
00:01:08.640Mike Johnson's district only has 20 percent black folks in it to begin with.
00:01:14.880And so when you look at this evisceration of Section 5, now Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and we are led to believe, Congresswoman, that the reason the Supreme Court has given us is that if you draw a district that empowers black people to elect someone who advocates for them that looks like them, that that's discrimination now?
00:01:41.220is that is that where the country is that if you draw a line that that says this group of
00:01:50.480people who are black brown gay whatever that in this community they can't be represented because
00:01:58.740that's discrimination saw thousands tens of thousands of people gather for mayday protests0.67
00:02:03.440across the country today from los angeles chicago new york city raleigh north carolina as well as
00:02:09.200Minnesota's Twin Cities. It's the latest of a series of nationwide rallies against Trump's
00:02:13.640policies we've seen since he took office last year that have brought millions of people out
00:02:17.920into the streets. And that movement continues to build. Trump is losing supporters, people who are
00:02:24.860holding on grudgingly, who are now falling away. These aren't the sort of hardcore folks. These
00:02:29.500are people who maybe voted for him, feel ambivalent, but are now really pretty frustrated,
00:02:34.460as represented in this New York Times focus group this week.
00:02:37.980It's the recipe for the collapse and support for Trump
00:02:40.320that right now doesn't show any signs of stopping.
00:03:04.460All right, so I'm pretty sure I'm in danger
00:04:14.440to stop these sorts of things from happening, or is this a new America that we're in now,
00:04:23.220and nothing can be done about it? Well, thanks for having me, Jonathan. It's great to go back
00:04:28.420to 2013 and really think about the impact of Shelby County versus Boulder. That was the case
00:04:33.160that basically dismantled the Voting Rights Act's preclearance system. That was a system that
00:04:37.940required states with a history of suppressive voter laws to first preclear any changes to their
00:04:42.900voting policies and procedures with the Department of Justice or three-judge court. The chief
00:04:47.780justice, in that opinion, said that racism was a thing of the past and we needed to move
00:04:52.780on. Justice Ginsburg famously said throwing out the Voting Rights Act is like throwing
00:04:57.500out your umbrella because you're not getting wet and it's still raining. She predicted
00:05:02.740that this would happen. It's really especially worth noting that in that opinion in Shelby
00:05:07.200County v. Holder, the chief justice who wrote for the court was in great pains to emphasize
00:05:12.180that although they were getting rid of the preclearance regime, they still had Section
00:05:16.5002, which allowed individuals a cause of action to sue against suppressive voter laws in court.
00:05:23.180Now the court has finally leveled Section 2. There's nothing left of the Voting Rights
00:05:29.220Act. And I think that has to be made very clear to your audience. Justice Alito said
00:05:34.080they were preserving Section 2. That is a lie. Full stop. The shards of Section 2 no
00:05:39.520longer remain. The Voting Rights Act is a dead letter. What remains to be done? Well, one,
00:05:44.360it would be great if Congress could get off the couch and do something about this. In 1965,
00:05:49.300they passed this landmark law. They have reauthorized it at various points in our history.
00:05:54.320They can do something again. We had voter rights laws that were pending, did not get through both
00:05:59.420chambers of Congress. If we could shape and reshape this Congress, that could be a possibility.
00:06:04.620And then there's still the question, whatever Congress does, it's still going to go back
00:06:08.160through these courts. So that has to be addressed as well. Right now, it seems like most of the
00:06:14.000civil rights organizations are preparing to sue in those states that are getting rid of their
00:06:17.580primaries and implementing these laws in response to the court's decision on Wednesday. Some of
00:06:23.920these cases are proceeding in federal court. That's always worrying. Some of them, however,
00:06:27.820are proceeding in state courts. And we have to emphasize that state courts and state
00:06:31.440constitutionalism may be an avenue here forward. If state constitutions have provisions that
00:06:37.360prohibits certain kinds of moves in the redistricting process, that can be a way forward.
00:06:42.640So there's not a lot of room on the table to move, but people are doing the best thing that they can.
00:06:47.380And the most important thing the audience can do is to remember to get out and vote and to basically
00:06:51.920bring everyone who is an eligible voter with you. You have to overwhelm in terms of voter turnout
00:06:58.320in order to counteract the distortion that this court and the state legislatures have created in
00:07:04.120the electoral landscape. You guys seem like you're relatively young guys. You ever come out
00:07:08.240to a protest like this before? Oh, no, it's my first time here. So today's Friday. You're probably
00:07:12.480in school normally. Well, I decided to come into the protest because I wanted to have a voice in
00:07:20.300the community. What's your name? Kevin. Kevin, my colleague, Nicole, was asking me, you know,
00:07:24.440it's sort of it's an act of sort of collective courage. Is it hard for you to be out here?
00:07:28.960Are you worried about it? What does it feel like for you to be out here with so many people today?
00:07:32.020Um, I mean, like, it's not that scary, but there are some worries of, like, maybe, like, something happening here, or, like, I'm not really that worried.
00:08:00.700OK, man, I wish. Yeah, play. Go ahead. They want to play something. I'll let them play, Nicole.
00:08:05.640But you can see Kevin's out here. I don't want to put him on the spot to say what school he's taken off from today.
00:08:10.520But that's the idea. Folks are walking out of work, are walking out of school.
00:08:14.180Careful right behind you, Sam, to be here in community with their with their fellow Angelenos.
00:08:20.360We thought that they need to be changed. Congress should be the one to change it, not a court trying to change it on their own.
00:08:27.700And I do think that this is judicial overreach and and is a sad day for our country.
00:08:34.800We need to make sure that we are upholding the incredible accomplishments of the Voting Rights Act.
00:08:40.880We need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to continue to to move forward and continue to make sure we have fair representation all across the country.
00:08:51.100But let's be clear. They know what they want to do. Republicans are losing.
00:08:55.080They're losing across the country, so they want to rig the system so they have a chance
00:13:37.260The fight for your country is between all the traditions of the West that we've gotten that's been handed down to us from Athens and Jerusalem and Rome that form Western civilization versus the godless atheist demons.0.94
00:13:57.820Somebody texted me, one of the engine room said, these people sound like demons.0.99
00:19:06.320and then baby did they deliver and MSNBC couldn't get enough of it from Portland to Austin to DC
00:19:15.560to particularly Los Angeles they had reporters in there and they were just loving it all day
00:19:20.780and particularly if you notice we played a couple of clips my team pulled great clips
00:19:25.340they were so focused on going to young people on going to and particularly young men teenage
00:19:32.740young men and say, why are you out here? This is so great. This is the poison. This is what our
00:19:38.100fight's about. And if you don't want to be in this fight, that's fine. There's plenty of other
00:19:43.300things you can do in life. I got that. But we're in this fight. We're in this fight to finish what
00:19:48.900we started. And this audience is in this fight to finish what it started. And what I mean by that
00:19:56.480is to drive, crush these people, crush them as a political movement, crush them as a social and0.77
00:20:03.360cultural movement, and rid our republic of these people. Yes, they're demonic, atheistic,1.00
00:20:12.740Marxist, and jihadist. And I've seen it up close and personal. Dr. Thayer, did they represent0.99
00:20:21.300yesterday in their Mayday orgy of Marxism and jihadism and anti-Americanism, sir?
00:20:31.720Yes, they did, right? It was a neo-Bolshevik rally. Americans have a holiday to celebrate
00:20:37.860labor. That's called Labor Day. We don't have an international working men's day. That's a
00:20:44.980that's a Marxist term, intentionally. So these events are caused and they're intended to have
00:20:51.260a desired effect. So we need to explore who's organizing them, right? This is not spontaneous
00:20:58.640by any stretch of the imagination. These are caused events. They're organized not by the
00:21:04.960Chicago Teachers Union, right? That's nominally, for example, Chicago, Los Angeles, Twin Cities,
00:21:11.620et cetera, yesterday. Who's organizing them? Who's funding them? And when you look at that,
00:21:19.620you're going to find, begin to really understand the scope of the problem. Who's generating it?
00:21:26.160It's going to be the usual suspects. You're going to find Soros. You're going to find Singham.
00:21:31.680You're going to find the tech billionaires. You're going to find the CCP behind him.
00:21:36.160Secondly, we need to understand that this is a display of muscle, right? They're attempting to show that they've got power, that there is some type of movement behind these mayday protests.
00:21:52.220and it's their attempt to show that they can actually get folks out on the street and dominate
00:22:00.680the streets right this again a very leninist idea a concept which allows us to understand
00:22:07.540really what's what's happening here thirdly it's not a coincidence right that they're trying to
00:22:14.660tout mayday a communist holiday to try to make that an event in the united states just as
00:22:21.040Lenin's birthday. Vladimir Lenin's birthday is April 22nd. It just so happens that became,
00:22:28.000by coincidence, Earth Day, in an effort to get Americans to celebrate Lenin's birthday by
00:22:34.780celebrating Earth Day. So we need to understand, taking a step back, really what's going on here.
00:22:41.620You have powerful anti-American forces, right? Bolshevik, now neo-Bolshevik forces,
00:22:49.000doing their utmost to attack with the intent to destroy American identity and the country itself.0.88
00:22:57.160And so we see that, again, consistently. The protests are one medium by which they do that.
00:23:04.600It's not the only, of course, medium that they have, but it's one that allows them to demonstrate purportedly a popular outpouring of support for International Workingmen's Day.
00:23:19.000It really allows us to understand that these individuals are a direction, they're intent, strong motivation, and they have an end goal, right?
00:23:53.540They're literally just stealing money by putting up these ridiculous ads on cable TV.
00:23:58.800And they can put $80 million or $100 million now to destroy Ken Paxton in Texas and fail to do that.
00:24:07.920Because voter engagement in an age of just media and screens and overwhelmed by white noise, people just dial that out.
00:24:16.620And, of course, by going on cable, you're going on to a delivery methodologist gets to essentially old folks.
00:24:28.620The power of their movement, and you can see this from Texas to Mamdani to Minneapolis, is the Working Family Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.0.61
00:24:43.260Those are the those are the shock troops. They go door to door.
00:24:47.860When we were talking about Zoran winning and beating Cuomo back in last summer, we told people that in the summer of 25 that he was canvassing and turning out thousands of canvassers from Working Family Party and DSA, which are neo-Marxist organizations.
00:25:10.040and they're proud of it. They don't hide it. When you saw what happened in Senate District 9 in
00:25:15.660Texas, in the freezing cold and sub-zero temperatures, they're knocking doors. They're
00:25:21.520knocking doors and they're having voter contact and voter engagement. This Marxist movement that
00:25:28.740you see on May Day, and particularly their focus is on, what did they do yesterday? It was teachers
00:25:35.380and people in high school and junior high school the the folks they talked to on camera some of
00:25:40.940those were just out of junior high school or freshman in high you know eighth grade to uh
00:25:46.280to freshman in high school and they and their reporters went naturally that because that's0.98
00:25:51.560the formation of these people this is kind of uh the children of the damned model and they are0.95
00:25:58.920perfecting it that's what this fight is about and you see this redistricting which is totally0.97
00:26:06.140unconstitutional but plays right into their sweet spot because it's dei right and victimology
00:26:13.140and the response to it if it was not for this if it was not for caroline wren alex degrasse
00:26:19.640in this audience the the country club republicans the country club republicans don't want to deal
00:26:25.640with this. They want to deal with this. It's too down in the trenches. It's too, they, because
00:26:33.640they're cowards. They'd rather just, oh, you know, we can't deal with that and kick the can down the0.99
00:26:39.160road. The country is in the shape it is in because you had prior to Trump, a Republican party. And
00:26:49.240you see it and look at these people on Capitol Hill. You think that you think these people are
00:26:53.680for a fight think mike johnson's gonna fight for anything you think john thune's gonna fight for
00:26:57.240anything john thune won't even do the easy things of saver people running around save america and
00:27:02.540come to me you gotta get saved i said guys uh war room and real america's voice did save america act
00:27:09.520for three solid weeks with the great mike lee and eric schmidt and a handful of others to you know
00:27:16.20011 o'clock 12 o'clock every night and then thune just said no we're out of here we're gonna go on
00:27:20.760for a couple of weeks. They do not want to confront anything. They'd rather just keep the
00:27:28.360system the way it's going, have their donors on the margin, make sure the donors get plenty of
00:27:33.560tax cuts and plenty of regulatory relief so they can make more money and mortgage the country's
00:27:40.840future by not engaging in political warfare, which is what you need to do. This has happened before
00:27:49.420in history. Read the history of the Russian Revolution. Read the history of the French
00:27:54.640Revolution. Read the history of the aristocracy and the elites in those countries on the conservative
00:28:01.420side that were too gutless, either too stupid or too lazy or too big of cowards to confront1.00
00:28:10.380the demon in front of them. That ain't going to be us. If we go down, folks, we're going to go1.00
00:28:17.000and fighting okay that's the fight and i don't want to hear people trump this trump that yet
00:28:21.840trump ain't perfect long way from perfect but he's changed the course of american history
00:28:29.580changed the course do you owe back taxes or you haven't filed your taxes in years
00:28:35.560now is the time to resolve your tax matters with the national conversation around abolishing the
00:28:42.860income tax, the IRS is fighting back and proving it's here to stay by becoming more aggressive
00:28:49.220than ever before. They're sending out more collection notices, filing more tax liens,
00:28:54.780and collecting billions more in recent years. If you owe, the IRS can garnish your wages,
00:29:02.280levy your bank accounts, seize your retirement, and even your home. If you owe or haven't filed,
00:29:08.940it's not a question of if the IRS will act.
00:46:26.560was heard for the second time on October 15th, uh, last year, 2025. We knew that this was going
00:46:33.880to come out as a majority decision. Uh, it was pretty clear then everybody predicted it. We,
00:46:38.660you know, most people did assume it was a six, three decision, the liberals on the court and
00:46:43.240no one has disputed what I reported. And I broke a couple of weeks back. We're slow rolling the
00:46:48.120descent to minimize the number of States. Just, you know, again, for your audience to fully grasp
00:46:53.080this the liberals on the court kagan sotomayor katanji john brown jackson literally held back
00:46:59.940their dissent to minimize states from being able to redistrict that would benefit republicans from
00:47:04.960holding a majority so they knew that legislative sessions hang on hang on hang on hang on i want
00:47:10.020to put into double debt to reinforce this kagan's who's kind of the lead of dissent 30 pages of her
00:47:19.320is just a liberal it's just a primal scream it's not like this is she's felix it's not like she's
00:47:24.820felix frankfurter and she needed this time to write this incredibly complicated response that
00:47:32.020we're going to set up for other court cases in fact their dissent was nothing there they could
00:47:37.940have really written that over the weekend in october correct i mean now that you've seen it
00:47:41.960you realize your reporting was not only correct it actually exposed this scam that they wanted to
00:47:48.080dragged this past the primary season, sir. Okay. But, but also for your audience to understand
00:47:52.500this, you and I both have dealt with this for years on various issues. If a story is wrong,
00:47:58.320Steve Bannon, whether it's about you or something, a policy, what's the first thing you do? You pick
00:48:03.020up the phone, you go, this is BS. That's not true. Maybe off the record, even, Hey, this is not
00:48:07.300what's happening. Somebody broke their leg and they can't write or they broke their arm and they
00:48:11.380can't get to, I mean, whatever. No one to this day has pushed back on what I scooped, right?
00:48:17.660Which is that they were holding this thing back to minimize state legislatures from being able to redistrict in accordance with their ruling.
00:50:36.240But the court knew what they were doing.
00:50:37.720By limiting the exposure and the time that states had to grapple with their decision, they were ensuring that most states could not redistrict in time for the 2020 elections and increasing the chance that Democrats would take over the House of Representatives.
00:50:54.060This is – and also, like the governor of Alabama, this took a prodding of the war and posse in Trump because she – at first she's saying, well, you know, I want to wait to the 2030 redistricting, even to get to the 6 to 1, sir.
00:51:06.520yes but this should have been a layup why are we in alabama a republican governor a republican
00:51:12.320legislature saying we need we knew this decision was coming right and then what's kiv's first
00:51:18.140initial response that she put out publicly you know we've got to deal with the court we don't
00:51:22.820think we can pull this off like i'm sorry none of this stuff should be a shock they should have had
00:51:27.520a plan in place and it's a shame that president trump and his team is going to have to waste
00:51:31.420political capital calling a republican governor with a republican legislature to tell her to do
00:51:35.740the right thing. He's already having to waste a lot of political capital going against these
00:51:40.620state senators in Indiana. But after Virginia voted, Steve, why are we even having a conversation
00:51:46.820about this? Every Republican should understand. Think about what happened in Virginia. They blew
00:51:51.840through the legislative guidelines as to how to pass a constitutional amendment. They didn't abide
00:51:57.200by the fair language in the amendment, which is a Virginia law. Again, this isn't subjective. This
00:52:03.020is the law in Virginia. And then they didn't put 90 days from when the legislature voted a second
00:52:07.740time to when it was, quote, presented to Virginia as stated by the law in Virginia. They don't care
00:52:13.040about the law. They care about power. And the thing is, is that at some point, the memo needs0.95
00:52:17.980to go around to these Republican leaders that you've got to either get in the game or get out
00:52:22.500and allow someone who does get the game to get in for you. Because Kay Ivey shouldn't need a memo0.90